Introduction

• Job 1:8
• Luke 4:13

Sin tends to get worse until someone intervenes

• II Kings 17:7-13, 22-23
• Jeroboam set up idols in Dan and Bethel
  • I Kings 12:26-30
  • King after king followed these sinful ways. The altars stood for 300 years until Josiah tore them down.
  • Hosea 8:7
  • Strong leadership could have changed things, but none of the kings were willing to do anything.
  • Proverbs 22:6

So take the initiative to be righteous and teach the next generation!

• Judges 2:8-10
• The ugliness of sin
  • Hebrews 10:29
• Physical purity
  • Romans 13:12
• The importance of family
  • Titus 2:3-5