They Knew Not God Judges

They Knew Not God Judges 2:10 In this chapter and text we have the children of Israel who have come in to the promised land, Joshua their great leader and warrior has died at the age 110 and been buried, also the generation that came up with him have been gathered unto their fathers, they have also died and been buried. In Verse 10 we have a chilling description of the reality of Israel after Joshua and his generation had passed on, the verse says “and there rose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel”. As a result of this generation not knowing the God of Israel the next verse says they did evil in the sight of the Lord and served Baalim. Therefore the whole book of Judges is about a people that do not know their God and God desiring to bring them back into communion with him. How sad it was for a people whose forefathers had seen so much glory and power, who experienced some of the greatest miracles of deliverance in the Bible, to come to a place of such ignorance with regards to knowing their God. The old timers had seen the works of God before their very eyes, they knew what it was to see Jericho come tumbling down, they knew what it was to cry out to God for deliverance and God showing up with great power and authority, they knew what the cloud of God’s glory looked like and the fire by night. But this generation that came after them knew not their God. I believe that today we are at risk of a generation rising up that does not know the God of the Bible, they do not know of the God of the great awakenings, the God of Azusa. I am not referring to the world, it is the church world that is at risk of this fact, for the church has gone so far from the Bible that everything under the sun is done that has nothing to do with God showing how far the church has gone from the experience that our forefathers had with a holy, righteous and glorious God. What hope is there for a world that is lost when a church that does not really know God or His works is all that we have to offer? I believe there is still hope but time is running out, we must get serious about a serious and holy God.

Consider the following? Will we raise up a generation that has never experienced the power of God? Will we raise up a generation that has not experienced the moving and operating of the Holy Spirit? Will we raise up a generation that when the Holy Spirit does move it is so foreign to them that they go ahead and quench the moving for fear of being to radical or upsetting someone?

Will we raise up a generation that relies more on human ability, talents, education, entertainment, buildings, money, conferences, the latest book than on the Anointing of the Holy Spirit? Will we raise up a generation that has never heard a preacher mention sin, repentance, holiness, the rapture, hell, etc? Will we raise up a generation that thinks preaching is when a preacher gets up and makes them laugh and feel good, and if that does not happen it was all negative or the preacher was being to fanatical? Will we raise up a generation that does not know their Bibles? Will we raise up a generation that does not know what praise and worship in spirit and in truth really is? Will we raise up a generation that think Revival is loud music, packed auditoriums, smoke bombs, coloured lights and excessive emotionalism? Will we raise up a generation that does not know how to touch the throne in prayer? Will we raise up a generation that believe the book of Acts is just a History book of a few radical people that is not relevant for today? Will we raise up a generation that think Christianity is one and a half hours on a Sunday morning with good music and a pep talk and then we have done our duty? Will we raise up a generation that thinks it is Ok for supposedly Christian singers to go on Australian Idol, and then think that winning that contest will bring glory to God? Consider this, “How far we have fallen” May God help this generation, what we need is to get on our faces and cry out to God and ask that He do it again. “Do what you did in the book of Acts, do what you have done in the great Revivals of yesterday”. If there is ever a generation that is at risk of not knowing this God, it is this generation. Church lets stand up for the holy standards of our God, He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Evangelist Esteban San Martin www.gospelofpowerministry.org