The Foolishness of Forgetting God

The Foolishness of Forgetting God

Sermon by Pastor Brent Snook / July 2, 2023

Bible text: Judges 1

“Failure to rally around a set of values means that we are turning out highly skilled barbarians.  Society as a whole is turning out barbarians because of the discarding of the value system it was built on.  To restore its lost value system, America would have to return to its faith in God.”

– Dr. Steven Mueller

REBELLION

RETRIBUTION

REPENTENCE

RESCUE

RESTORATION

REBELLION

Read Joshua 24:15

Read Judges 1:1-2

I. THERE WAS A GLORIOUS TRIUMPH​

“It cannot be emphasized too much or repeated too strongly that America was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not upon religion but upon the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

– Patrick Henry

II. THERE WAS A GRADUAL TURNING​

Read Judges 2:1-4, Judges 2:7, Judges 2:10, Judges 17:6

Read Isaiah 5:20

A.  THERE WERE CERTAIN CANAANITES ​THAT THEY FEARED​

Read Judges 1:19, Judges 1:28-30

B.  THERE WERE CERTAIN CANAANITES ​THAT THEY FAVORED

C.  THERE WERE CERTAIN CANAANITES ​THAT THEY FELLOWSHIPPED WITH​

III. THERE WERE GRIM TROUBLES​

Read Judges 2:3-4

“In this day of gathering storms as moral deterioration of political power spreads its growing infections, it is essential that every spiritual force be mobilized to defend & preserve the religious base upon which this nation is founded; it has been that base which has been the motivating impulse to our moral & national growth.  History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political & economic decline. ” 

-Douglas MacArthur

Read Judges 2:16