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• Sin tends to continue (and get worse).

  • Judges 21:25

  • Unrighteousness is much easier, but it’s not good for the next generation. What one generation permits, the next embraces.

• Therefore, we need to take action.

  • Judges 2:8-10

  • If we love our kids and grandkids, we have to take action to stop the slide into sin!

  • Israel fell away in only one generation!

  • Eli was a priest and judge for 40 years, yet his sons were worthless! I Samuel 8:3 This is part of the reason Israel wanted a king.

  • We can’t deny the power of generational influence.

• What should we be teaching our kids and grandkids?

  • The importance of family.
    • Titus 2:3-5
  • The ugliness of sin.
    • Hebrews 10:26-29
  • Physical purity.
    • Romans 13:12-14; II Peter 2:7