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In today’s culture, it’s easy to prioritize comfort over calling. But the Bible shows us that when a generation chooses convenience over obedience, the cost is high—and it’s paid by the children who follow. In this episode of The Jaime Luce Podcast, Jaime issues a powerful call to action: don’t drop the spiritual baton.

Why This Message Is Burning in My Spirit

There’s a burden I’ve been carrying—and it’s this: we are being tested. Not just for our own sake, but for the generations that come after us. I believe this message is urgent because the choices we make right now are forming the spiritual foundation our children and grandchildren will walk on.

Today, I share from the depths of Scripture and my heart—because this isn’t theory. This is war. And it’s time we realize what’s truly at stake.

The Battle for the Next Generation Starts with Us

In Judges 2, we read about a generation that arose who did not know the Lord. That didn’t happen in a vacuum. It happened because the generation before them didn’t pass the test. They didn’t teach. They didn’t fight. And they didn’t obey.

I’m here to remind you: your obedience matters. The next generation is watching how you respond in your wilderness seasons. Are you quitting when it’s hard? Or are you pressing in, trusting God, and standing firm on His Word?

When God Leaves the Enemy, It’s Not to Punish You

One of the most sobering things I’ve seen in Judges 3 is this: God left the enemy there on purpose. Why? To test the Israelites. To teach them how to fight.

That shook me. So often we beg God to take the battle away, but what if the very thing we’re asking Him to remove is what He’s using to strengthen us?

We don’t grow by avoiding conflict—we grow by walking through it with Him.

Don’t Forget What God Has Done

In Joshua 24, there’s a moment where Joshua pleads with the people to serve the Lord and remember what He’s done. But within a generation, they forgot.

That’s the danger of spiritual amnesia. When we stop telling the stories, stop declaring God’s faithfulness, and stop honoring His Word—we leave our children unarmed in a battle they didn’t choose.

We have to be intentional. We have to disciple. And we have to remember.

Culture Is Discipling Our Kids. Will We?

Let me be real with you: the world is not going to disciple your kids in righteousness.

Culture is loud. It’s fast. It’s persuasive. If we’re not speaking truth daily—if we’re not praying, teaching, and modeling what it means to follow Jesus—we’re handing our kids over to the enemy without a fight.

Deuteronomy 6:6–7 tells us to impress the Word on our children. That’s not a suggestion—it’s a command.

And it’s one I’m taking seriously.

Freedom Requires Obedience

Galatians 5:1 says it’s for freedom that Christ set us free. But the verse goes on to say: stand firm.

Freedom doesn’t mean we do what we want. It means we submit to the One who bought our freedom with His blood. Obedience is how we keep that freedom.

I’ve learned that God isn’t asking me to obey so He can control me—He’s asking me to obey so I can live fully free, fully protected, and fully fruitful.

This Is More Than a Message—It’s a Call

If you’ve felt like you’re in a fight lately, you’re not alone. I believe many of us are being tested—not because God is far, but because He’s preparing us to carry more.

Let this episode stir you to take your position. Your obedience is shaping more than your future—it’s shaping someone else’s breakthrough.

Where To Dive In:

0:00:09) – Building Upon Foundations
(0:08:19) – Lessons for Passing Life’s Tests
(0:20:34) – Covenant to Serve the Lord
(0:30:38) – Generational Ignorance of God’s Works
(0:34:47) – Neglecting Generational Spiritual Education
(0:50:29) – Teaching Children to Fight Battles
(1:00:07) – Passing Generational Blessings Through Faith

Full Transcript

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0:00:09 – Jaime Luce
Welcome to the Jaime Luce podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in today. I have a question to ask you so that we can dive right in. Have you ever been?

I know that the tendency can be sometimes we want to buy something that we know like a piece of furniture and we want to get it for the best price. We know that if we go and buy it at the big fancy store and pay the extra white glove service, they’re going to come in, they’re going to set everything up and we’re going to go get something and we’re going to build it ourselves and take the time and it’s a project and we can get behind it and we’re all excited about it. We lay everything out, we start putting it together and at some point something isn’t working right and you realize that you’ve either put in a wrong piece or something’s backwards. This happened once to my poor husband. We were building a I guess you would call it a bookshelf of sorts, and it was something that had two bookshelves on either side and there was a top piece that went across. So there was a large space in between the bookcases and a real pretty top piece, and then in the middle section you could put a desk and so it was quite a large thing to build and he was determined he was going to build. And he was determined he was going to build that and he started going and he got about halfway into that project. Actually, he got more than halfway into that project and realized he’d been doing everything backwards. All the pieces were backwards. Then he had to take the time to literally undo all the work that he had done and start over again, completely start over again and do it the right way.

We see this in the saying that so many times people will get frustrated if you’re in business and you’re coming up with ideas, or if you’re someone who has come up with some type of invention I’ll use the word invention some type of item, something that maybe you’ve seen something like it before, but yours is better. And the idea is that you take what we already know and then improve on what we already know. But no one ever wants to reinvent the wheel. We know that term. We don’t want to have to reinvent the wheel. Take what we already know and let’s improve on it, and I’m sure you can think about this. This is a frustration that hits us in every part of life.

I was thinking about how a teacher if a teacher has to be out and can’t be in class and they need a substitute teacher to come in Well, the substitute coming in hopes that the teacher that they are replacing for the day or the week or however long that might be. They hope that the teacher has already trained that class to be a, as far as discipline goes, a good class Students who pay attention, who listen, who aren’t unruly, who don’t have a tendency to disrupt the class and make a problem for this interim teacher who’s coming in. And then, on top of that, you are hoping that the teacher has had enough time to prepare a lesson, that there are instructions for that substitute to follow, versus coming into a class cold, not knowing anything, and coming into an unruly class. You know that the day will go better and you know that much will be accomplished and you will feel good about what you’ve done. If the person before you has done a good job of the preparatory work necessary for you to build upon what they’ve already established. And I thought this is in everything in life. If you’re someone who loves to cook and bake, there are things that you probably should know about cooking and fire. And when it comes to baking, it’s very important that you follow instructions and the recipe exact, or it will not come out the way it’s supposed to come out. If you put in way too much salt, just thinking you know well, if a little is good, a lot is better, and not having an understanding of the things that have been learned before you, you’re going to have a tougher time. It’s going to take longer for you to understand and master what it is that you’re working on.

So the idea is that we are those who have to. So the idea is that we are those who have to, in our own lives, not only understand the Things that are important to you, things that it matters that those who come after you have that don’t have to deal with the frustration that you didn’t want to have to deal with, that we have left for them what they need. I’m talking about being those who keep the main thing, the main thing and those who are faithful to what is important, that we stand and are people of our word. We are people who are dedicated to the cause and the purpose that Christ has called us. You can translate these natural frustrations, ideas about how things should be and we can take what we learn in the natural realm, and so many times we can see how that plays out spiritually. So I want to take us, because this is. I want to encourage you today. If you’re in a battle today, if you are dealing with problems today, I want to tell you it’s a test. It’s a test. I know that we hate tests. As someone who went through school and had to take tests. I still don’t like taking tests, but let me at least encourage you in this.

If you’re getting ready to get on an airplane and flying maybe is something that you are a little nervous about you would take great consolation in knowing that the person who is flying that plane has passed incredible tests to prove that their ability is up to par to get you safely from point A to point B. So you hope that they’ve taken tests. You hope that those tests were actually difficult and stringent tests so that they pass that test, and that the amount of importance that they put on that test is now affecting you and your life in your safety. You feel like you can trust somebody you have never met. You’ve never seen them do this task before, yet you are trusting them. You’re trusting them because you understand the process that it has taken for that person to be able to sit in that seat and fly that plane. The same thing is true when you go to a doctor. You really hope that that doctor knows what they’re doing, that they have passed enough tests that they can accurately figure out how to help you in your time of need If I need an attorney, for whatever reason. I’m hoping and grateful that that person had to pass the bar, that they had a stringent test that they had to understand and learn so that they can accurately and with strength either be my defender or prosecute my enemy, right? I mean, you’re hoping they know what they’re doing.

There are several elements at play here. It is a test. It is a test Keep this in mind If you’re going through a situation right now. It’s a test. There’s a reason for the test, and the reason for the test is so that not only are you able to get victory yourself, but those that are relying on you your children, family members, co-workers, friends who are seeing you do this, who are following behind you they need you to pass those tests. They need to not reinvent the wheel when they come up against that trial and that test. They need to have seen you do it. They need to know how to do it. They need to have learned what you’ve learned.

You hope to God, if you’re a parent, that your kids don’t have to learn the exact same lessons you had to learn and go through what you had to go through. You are hoping that they have watched and listened and learned. The same way, a substitute teacher is hoping that the work and the groundwork was already done before they ever got there, so that that makes their life a whole lot easier. You know we talk about this when, if you talk to people who are coaches, life coaches and business coaches and these kind of people who are inspiring you to reach higher, reach farther, accomplish more, they always talk about that. They are wanting you to be the person that, whatever you build, the people who come next can stand on your shoulders and go further and farther than you ever did because of the work you did. We see this played out.

I would venture to say that this is more of a spiritual principle than it is a natural principle. It’s just that the world has understood its truth and capitalized on it. They just take God out of it. But I want to put God back in it today and I want to help you. If you are in a trial today, it is a test. It is a test and it is important that you pass this test, and I want to show you this in Scripture. I want you to start with me in Joshua. We’re going to be in Joshua and Judges today, but I want to start in Joshua, and this is Joshua at the end of his life. He knows everything that he has accomplished. He stood on Moses’s shoulders to do exactly this principle that we’re talking about and to go in and possess a promised land, something that he never actually saw Moses do. But Moses did all the preparatory work in order to bring them to this point, so they could go in and possess this land.

Joshua is now at the end of his life and God has not chosen somebody to take his place. Why? Because now they are going to be all living as tribes and families in a new place. They have never been living in the promise. This promise is hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years old. Abraham was given this promise.

Then you go through Abraham, through Isaac, and then Israel. Jacob becomes Israel, his family. Jacob’s name is changed to Israel. His children are 70. They go into Egypt. They are in Egypt, they prosper because of Joseph. But after Joseph dies, a new Pharaoh comes up who never knew Joseph. And now the people of God have multiplied into the millions and they are now looked down upon and become the slaves of Pharaoh. And they are enslaved for 400 years, take on an identity that is not what God had intended for them and this was all known. God told Abraham this was all going to happen, but that he would raise up a deliverer. That deliverer was Moses.

Moses takes them into the desert. What should be only a few days journey into a promised land ends up being 40 years, because they brought a bad report and did not obey God. They did not trust God. They did not trust that they could go in and that God would destroy this enemy, though God had already shown them he was on their side, how powerful he was. The plagues that he brought on Egypt, the great deliverance. He took them, delivered them from the enemy’s army. He took them through the Red Sea. He swallowed up the enemy. He provided for them in the wilderness fire by night, cloud by day, give them warmth and shadow and cooling protection. He brought darkness when he needed to put a space in between the enemy and them so they couldn’t see them to come and overtake them when their enemies came against them. God defeated the enemy. He provided water from a rock, manna from heaven. They were never supposed to have to eat manna for 40 years. They were never supposed to have to wander around the same issues for 40 years. But because they did not trust the one that called them out, who broke them free, because they did not decide to obey the promise and the instruction of the Lord Obey the promise and the instruction of the Lord.

So there’s faith in action that was missing and the ability to put their stiff neck down and take instruction and obey instead of doing it themselves, and you can almost see where that would have come. I mean, I don’t want to put undo because we’re just like this we’re a stiff neck people. If you understand the children of Israel folks, they had a stiff neck against slavery, so their fear was that a new person even though this was now Moses instead of Pharaoh that once they’ve come out, can you imagine the fear of going back in. If you know anything about trauma and how that works on the brain and a way that they have lived and learned to survive. It’s not something that’s easily done. To undo that and now live in a new mentality, that’s a difficult thing to undo what you have learned to do, and it’s very possible that they struggled with thinking I can’t trust this leader because I got hurt last time when I had to do what this leader demanded I do.

They were enslaved before. They just didn’t understand that. The leader that they had now the one who brought them out, loved them. It was not out to harm them, wanted to bring them freedom, not slavery and bondage. They had not unlearned this yet and because of it they didn’t trust and they refused to obey. So in their freedom they were determined to hold on to their freedom. But in that freedom they made the choice not to obey God instead of obeying him. And if they would have obeyed him, that would have blossomed their freedom. But instead the stiff neck was that I cannot be moved, I will not be moved, I will not of my own free will submit and obey. So they were fighting that old demon of slavery being controlled and in there.

So many times this happens, people, you can grow up, maybe, with a parent who was domineering and didn’t allow you any choice in your life, or you had a teacher or a coach who so spoke against you with their words that you wanted nothing to do with somebody who had authority over your life, or you grew up in circumstances where anybody in authority wanted harm for you. They never produced anything good for you, and having that experience so many times can hinder somebody from, with their own free will, saying Lord, I submit myself to you, to your control. That’s a vulnerable place to put yourself in, to humble yourself under someone else’s control. It’s why in the church, every preacher hates to preach on the scriptures that say women wives not just women wives submit to your husbands. Any word of submission is like the F word it is a foul word, it is a distasteful thing, it is something to be rejected, it’s something to stand against.

As Americans, our culture wants to stand against obedience, because we think that that obedience we broke free from being told what we had to do and being bound to all these taxes and not being able to freely become and serve the God we wanted to serve and work the job we wanted to work and not have to give all of our money to something that we don’t believe in. We fight against that. We fight for freedom. But you have to understand that freedom comes from God. Even our forefathers of America understood this. That’s why they say that our inalienable rights come from God, not from some person. We are not indentured to some person, but we freely understand. We have a creator who created us for freedom. It is for freedom that he set us free.

But this first generation that came out of Egypt didn’t understand that. They didn’t understand that it was for freedom that he set them free, that if you will trust and obey and submit your life in obedience to what God has called you to, then promised land is on the other side. Victory over your enemies is on the other side. Provision for your need is on the other side of that. And so it took a 40-year generation of wandering around in the desert and that generation dying off for their children, that second generation, to have seen the struggle of the wilderness and see that they don’t want to live in that, that they want the promise of God, saw the correction that God brought and that it brought about a right result for their parents. So they were ready to go into the promised land. They were ready to obey God.

Let me show that to you in this scripture. So we’ve taken them in. They have conquered, they’ve been obedient, they’ve been taking out their enemies. They have conquered, they’ve been obedient, they’ve been taking out their enemies. They have followed God. God has been faithful to them to take their enemies out, to take the inheritance of the land that he promised them. But now Joshua is old Moses’ successor if I can get my tongue to work right has already done all of his work and now he’s getting ready to die. Has already done all of his work and now he’s getting ready to die.

Let’s look at Joshua 24, and we’re going to start in verse 14, and we’re going to read a very familiar passage of scripture here. Now, therefore, this is Joshua talking to this generation that has taken and is now living in their promised land. Now, therefore, fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. So the call immediately is make sure that you are serving God sincerely, not for what you think he can do for you, not because this is what you’re told to do and you know this is right. So you do it because it’s right, with your heart, with sincerity. Serve the Lord, fear the Lord sorry, and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Stay faithful to this. Do not turn back, put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the river. So he’s saying that first generation still was unfaithful. Your fathers beyond the river, on the other side, was still holding on to old things. They served Anything.

That is not God.

That you give your time, your talent, your money for is an idol. It’s a God. In your life, it is something that takes and usurps. That’s why the first commandment is that you will serve the Lord, your God alone, him alone. You will serve no other gods before him. It has to be the very first order of business in your life.

If you want things in your life to come into alignment and that you want them to be in order for God to bless you. If they’re in chaos and they need to be brought into order, the very first order of business is that you are to make sure you are serving the Lord faithfully first. There is no other thing before him, no God before him, no agenda before him. You could be called to something God may have called. Called to something. God may have called you to something, and that something means that there’s an agenda of purpose that you’re to accomplish.

But, folks, that agenda and that purpose does not come before your service to the Lord. You can’t let the demand of that call, the demand of that purpose, take over and not allow you time with the Lord, to hear from him, to be in relationship with him in his word, praying, interceding for others, making sure you’re hearing what he’s saying to you and receiving fresh instruction, that you receive manna every day, a fresh bread, fresh bread that you can eat. Jesus said I am the bread of life. We eat and partake of him, we take him in, we digest him. We understand what it is that we need to do and how we need to do it. We’ve taken our instructions for the day, the same way that Jesus would pull away regularly so he could hear what the father was saying and follow his instructions and know his timings. Jesus always knew what he was supposed to do, the route he was supposed to take to get there and the timing in which it was supposed to happen, always Because he was in that relationship with God, that submission, that coming into that humility, and submission that I do not run my life.

I take my orders from the Lord. He runs this order my steps, oh Lord, in your word, we have to be those who who want God to order our steps. The steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord. If you are in right standing with God, a righteous man, you have submitted yourself to God commanding your way to the path that you’re going to take. So he says put away the gods that your father served beyond the river and in Egypt and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve. This is why we know the scripture tells us that I would rather that you be cold. He doesn’t want hot or cold. He doesn’t want us lukewarm. He’ll spit us out of his mouth. He doesn’t want you riding the fence. The fence belongs to the devil. There is no fence in God. You choose a side and if you think you’re riding the fence, the fence is the devil’s property. You’re in the devil’s territory. You’re not in god’s territory. Choose this day whom you will serve.

Whether the gods of your father served in the region beyond the river or the gods of the amorites in whose land you dwell, meaning you took over this land, they served a different God. Are you going to do what they used to do? Are you going to do the old family tradition? Are you going to go into a territory and serve their gods and take on their culture and heritage, or are you going to do what God has called you to do? This is Joshua, and here’s the famous one we all know. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Then the people answered. So this is important that you hear this. This was their reply when Joshua put forth this challenge to them. You’re now in the land. I’m going to die. You’re going to govern your own life, your own responsibility and relationship with the Lord, how you serve him, how you love him. There were no kings yet. This was nobody in authority over them complete and total freedom. And this is their reply. Then the people answered far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods, for it is the Lord, our God, who brought us out and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way that we went and among all the peoples through whom we passed. And the Lord drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites, who lived in the land. Therefore, we also will serve the Lord, for he is our God. That sounds great, right? That sounds wonderful. What a great response. Let’s read on. Let’s read on.

But Joshua said to the people you are not able to serve the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgressions or your sins. If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you, harm and consume you after having done you good. He is giving us the understanding that when you serve the Lord, there is a covenant relationship. It is an if-then relationship. He always stays faithful to the covenant, but if you break it, all bets are off. All bets are off Verse 21,.

And the people said to Joshua no, but we will serve the Lord, lord. Then Joshua said to the people you are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord to serve him. And they said we are witnesses. What they’re saying is we understand Joshua. We understand that if we don’t do this, then the enemies will have their way with us instead of us having our way with the enemies, that God will no longer be for us. We will now be in opposition to him. He says he resists the proud, but he exalts the humble, gives grace to the humble Verse 23,.

He said then put away. Which means that Joshua is aware that there are people in this group who are saying they serve God, but they really don’t. They’re still serving other gods before him and he sees the danger, he’s worried about him. He says you’re not able. You’re saying you’re going to. He says you’re not able. You’re saying you’re not able. And I know you’re not able because you still have those little gods hidden away in your tents, you still have those things that you’re putting before God, you still have those old habits, you still haven’t totally surrendered to the Lord. Do you hear the warning?

He said then put away the foreign gods that are among you, not who were among your fathers, who are among you, and incline your heart and to the Lord, the God of Israel. And the people said to Joshua the Lord, our God, we will serve and his voice we will obey. So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day and put in place a covenant and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem. And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and he took a large stone and set it up there under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the Lord. And Joshua said to the people behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us. Therefore, it shall be a witness against you lest you deal falsely with your God. So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance. So here it is. He’s now given them their freedom. Here you go After these things. Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of God of the Lord, died, being 110 years old. Okay, so Joshua has died. He sent them to their inheritance. He’s caused them to take their covenant oath again. He sets up a statute and laws for them to follow and a monument of this rock that says we have all agreed that we have stood as witnesses against ourselves. We have said we will serve the Lord and we will serve him only, and we will follow him and obey him. Okay, so that sounds great. That sounds wonderful. Now let’s go over to Judges.

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Okay, when Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his own inheritance to take possession of the land. So that’s basically a reiteration of what we heard as we finished the book of Joshua. And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua. So they heard, they obeyed what Joshua said. They had inclined their heart, not just their ears. They were going to serve and be faithful to God. They were going to serve and be faithful to God and the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days even after Joshua died, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua. I mean, that’s fantastic. That means that not only were they listening to Joshua, but Joshua, who always dealt with the elders, had done such a good job of leadership with the elders that the elders held firm even after Joshua died. And the people listened and obeyed the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the Lord had done for Israel. So all these elders and the people who went into Israel, they saw God fight for them. They saw how he helped them defeat their enemies. They were faithful to God. They did it. They held firm. They were able to do it.

This generation whose parents didn’t take the land and they came in and their generation did, they took it, they took it, came in and their generation did, they took it, they took it. And Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110 years and they buried him within the boundaries of this inheritance, in Timnah-Heras, if I’m saying that, right in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Geash. And I want you to hear this verse, verse 10. And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. So now this entire generation, not just its elders, the entire generation have all died. They’ve been gathered to their fathers. And this verse is so scary. It’s so scary.

And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel Boy. That sounds familiar when the children of Israel were in Egypt and they were blessed in Egypt because of Joseph. We read that there arose another Pharaoh who did not know Joseph or the people of Israel, and that led to their slavery, that led to their bondage. And what do we read? And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel. Now, what does that say to us? This verse is screaming something to us, and I hope that you are listening with your spiritual ears.

That means that this generation didn’t bother to teach this to their children. This generation did not bother to explain to their children what their parents did and how it affected them, nor what God did for them to correct it and bring them into the very land that they now live. Just like I explained a few broadcasts ago how the second generation ago, how the second generation, never knew slavery because their parents had come out of slavery so they had a completely different upbringing, a completely different experience of life than their parents had. Well, now, this third generation, they now no longer know wilderness. Third generation, they now no longer know wilderness and they don’t know battle. They don’t know about conquering their enemies, they don’t know that they’re supposed to take land and take territory and not be defeated by it, because their parents didn’t explain, their parents didn’t teach them what the battle was, who these enemies are, why they’re enemies, why they have to battle them, why they have to drive them out and not allow them to live amongst them.

A new generation after them has arose who don’t even know the Lord. How is that possible? How do you not know? Don’t even know the Lord? How is that possible? How do you not know? How do your children not know the Lord, when you yourselves were serving the Lord until you died? This is so confusing to me and infuriating to me, and do you know how many people to me? And do you know how many people I’m going to probably upset some listeners right now who? You know the Lord, you love the Lord. You actually hear him and obey him. You actually go to church. You occasionally read your Bible.

But your kids, boy, they love sports and their coach needs them to play on the weekends and on Sundays. So you know, even if you go to church, you make sure they get to practice and they get to their games and they’re not going to church and they’ve got friends and they’re so busy with their sports that we don’t put them in a group of friends at church. We don’t make sure that they go to the youth services so that they’re poured into by Christian friends who they could help one another in their walk and be encouraged. More than once a month they make it, maybe with mom and dad, but if parents don’t cause the children, I mean we literally live in generations where we tell it is it is. You are shamed as a christian parent if you do not make, if you make your children go to church with you, you are shamed.

The culture we live in says that you should allow those children to decide for themselves, to figure it out for themselves. We now tell our, we shame parents. Now our culture does not a Christian culture, but our culture says you can’t even tell your child if they’re a male or a female. You have to allow that child to figure that out all by themselves, regardless of what they were born with, regardless of how their body works, regardless of what’s good for their health, and that you should even not be seeing a doctor. Who doesn’t agree with that. I mean, we are telling we live in a culture that is telling us do not teach your children what you know. Do not teach your children what you know. Do not teach your children what they should know about their life, about your life, about their grandparents’ life. What you know and what you have learned should not be passed on a generation and a culture that tries to tell you that your children, without any upbringing, know better and should decide for themselves to reinvent the wheel about everything. You shouldn’t know anything about science or biology. Forget everything that your generations that were before you knew, and you just figure it all out by yourself. Just reinvent the wheel and you just figure it all out by yourself. Just reinvent the wheel.

No wonder our children, like no other generation, are having mental problems, are depressed beyond measure, want to kill themselves more than any other generation, who feel unable. They’re unequipped. They go into the job market. They can’t do a job. They don’t know how to function. They can’t take orders. They can’t do a job. You even have Starbucks right now, a group of employees who is fighting against Starbucks. Starbucks is one of the most liberal businesses out there.

Who pushes these agendas that the culture is saying push they full-on, push them, push them. And yet the people who work for them, who are being told do whatever you want, we’re for you. You can be anything. You can be any gender. You can do anything you want to do. We welcome you to work here. That’s who we want working here. We resist the police. We don’t want to serve anybody who talks about authority, who has any ideas that can be pushed on you. We’re against them.

The same group of people, because they’ve taught them this, are now revolting, saying you shouldn’t be able to tell us what to wear. We shouldn’t have to wear that silly green apron. I should be able to wear to work whatever I’m comfortable wearing. Do you see how this whole ideology implodes? It destroys itself. It can’t stand.

It is imperative that we are living a life so that the generation behind us knows and has the ability to understand what caused you to succeed and, spiritually speaking, what causes you to succeed is obedience to what God tells you to do, living according to God’s laws, giving homage to the statutes and loving God’s ways and saying Lord, I understand that I will prosper and be free if I will do what you have called me to do, if I will live according to your ways, if I will submit myself to your authority, then I get to live in the freedom of everything you purchased for me. It is not bondage to submit yourself under the mighty hand of God. It is freedom. It is freedom. It is for freedom that he set you free. Freedom, it’s not bondage. That’s the world’s definition. That is a godless definition.

That is someone who doesn’t know God nor his ways, who would say that Don’t ever let the world tell you what biblical things mean. They don’t understand. They’ll twist it, they’ll use it from a mindset that is completely unable to understand and know. Somebody who is dead spiritually cannot tell someone who is spiritually alive what it means to be spiritually alive. You just can’t do it. That’s like me going into court saying I can try a case and I’ve never gone to law school. I can’t do that. I don’t know what the preceding laws were. I don’t know what is okay and not okay. I don’t know how to address the court properly. I don’t know what’s allowed and what’s not allowed. I don’t understand what’s precedent and what’s not. And it doesn’t have precedent. I can’t, I can’t defend myself properly without knowing, and you can’t allow the world to define those things for you either. Well, okay, we’ll get off of that tangent, but you need to understand how vitally important this is. Okay, now I want us to continue reading.

Let’s look at verses. Let’s jump to verse 16. So Joshua’s died. He warned him. I don’t think you’re fully serving the Lord. I don’t think you’re fully getting it. And obviously there was a degree. That was right, because the children were not being taught. The children grew up not knowing the Lord. I mean, they didn’t know him and nor did they know anything that he had done for the last two generations His power, his might, his love, his protection, his care, his provision. They knew none of it. Well, let’s read verse 11.

And the people of israel then did what was evil in the sight of the lord, and they served the bales. They served the other gods and they abandoned the lord, the god of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of egypt. Let’s go. Well, let’s just read it. Let’s keep going. They went after other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them and they bowed down to them and they provoked the Lord to anger. They abandoned the Lord and they served the Baals and the Ashtoreth. So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, which Joshua had told them. What happened If they would have told they didn’t even love their kids enough to tell them? This is what’s going to happen to you, right? They didn’t love their kids enough. Folks, we have to love our kids enough to tell them don’t behave like that, or this is going to happen.

I remember recently, back when I believe this was during COVID and there were a bunch of riots happening and no one in authority was doing anything about it. And there was on the news a group of people who were protesting and were acting terrible and causing destruction and mayhem and hurting people and one mother happened to see and recognize that was her kid on camera. Do you know? She went down there. It was a live thing. That was her kid on camera. Do you know? She went down there. It was a live thing that was being covered. She went down there, grabbed her son and began correcting him and I don’t know, spanking is the wrong word, but she was correcting him and immediately put him under subjection, under her authority, and drug him back home and told you are not going to act like this. This is crazy. She actually disciplined her son and folks. This is so important. She did what we should be doing.

You will not behave this way. If you behave this way, do you understand what’s going to happen? Do you want to end up throwing your life away and end up in prison? That’s just on a natural level. Folks in the spiritual realm, I won’t take my inheritance. I won’t be able to live in the provision that God has established for me, I won’t be able to defeat my enemies. When I have a battle, I instead will be defeated. My enemies will have their way with me. I will live under subjection of those who do not serve God. I will be subject to ungodly authority. It is imperative that we teach our children let’s continue reading.

And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies so that they could no longer withstand their enemies Whenever they marched out. They thought they could do it. They thought they could defeat their enemies. When their enemy came against them, the hand of the Lord was now against them for harm, as the Lord had warned them and as the Lord had sworn to them, and they were in terrible distress. Now you could sit there all day long and say how mean, how mean was God? No, that’s not mean, that’s discipline and correction. He knows you’re going to lose your life, your freedom, you will go right back into slavery. Everything that I have fought for to give you will be lost. So I’m going to discipline you so that you know and understand how this is harmful to you, so that you will turn everything.

You can see this from Genesis to Revelation, if you, the Lord, constantly says yes, I turned them over to their enemies. I let them be defeated. I stood against them. I didn’t help them. I was not a help, I was a wall, I was a hindrance. I didn’t listen to their cries. He told them this because he said if they will learn their lesson and turn around, I’ll then bless them, I’ll forgive them, I’ll make it like it never happened. I will take them back into their promise. I will love them, I will cover them, I will forgive them. I will bless them. This was never to be a permanent thing. This was to be a lesson. This was a test. Let’s keep reading Verse 16,.

Then the Lord raised up judges who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. God didn’t need to do that. He didn’t need to send a judge. What was a judge? Literally like how we have judges today in our American justice system. God literally raised up somebody who they could go to, the way Moses used to do in the desert, when they had disputes, they had issues, they didn’t know what to do. God would raise someone up who was godly, who hadn’t forgotten the Lord, who understood, who had done some studying and knew. Wait a minute, this isn’t what we’re supposed to be doing. There’s a monument over there. What does that monument mean? What did we do? What happened? God would raise up somebody, find somebody, and he would raise that person up and that person would then give just advice and judgments to help them, to cause them to know what to do. Let’s continue reading.

And the Lord did this. You can’t say that God completely deserted him. He didn’t. He was there. He raised somebody up to help them, even though he allowed their enemies to overtake them, as he said he would. Then the Lord raised up judges who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked. This is so like God, so the goodness of God. So if God could find one, one person who was willing to stand up, who was willing to do righteousness and stand for godly ways and make righteous judgments, then God would spare all the people for the sake of that one. Judge through the lifetime of that judge. Judge through the lifetime of that judge. For the lifetime of that judge. God would spare those people, for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them. He cares about us.

Even when a parent is disciplining their kid, it doesn’t mean you don’t love them and that you don’t care about what is happening to them and you care about, emotionally, what’s distressing to them. I mean, if you’ve ever experienced this, you could have a child who’s rebellious, who’s doing wrong. They’re doing things they shouldn’t be doing and they’re causing grief and you have to discipline them, you have to stand for what’s right, but you still care about them. You love them. You listen to their cries, you’re wanting to give them the right advice and give them a way forward if they’ll just listen, you don’t stop imparting love to them because they’re doing wrong. You don’t stop still being their parent being there, but whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods.

This is the tendency that we have to pay attention to that if we are not diligent in our homes to train up our children in the way they should go, if we do not take the time and make the effort to govern the lives of our children, to actually stand in the authority that God is expecting us to live in, to cover our children, to protect them and to order their steps as parents. Then, when they’re old, they won’t depart from it if we do our job. But if we don’t do our job, they get more corrupt than we ever were, than our parents ever were, than their grandparents ever were. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways. Okay, I want us to jump. Well, let’s continue. We’ll just finish through verse 22, I think so.

The anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel and he said because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice, I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died. Okay, verse 22,. This is really important. Verse 22. These people had left, and we talked about this in a previous broadcast. They didn’t drive out all the enemies. There were those that they compromised with so that they could put them in subjection to them. They would be workers for them. They weren’t slaves, but they had to do hard labor for them and they would tax them and take their money. Verse 22. Well, let’s read from 21 and 22. I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died in order. This is the reason this is I’m getting to the the. The end of this right here is this is a test in order to test Israel by them whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord, as their fathers did, or not. So the Lord left those nations, not driving them out quickly. Let’s jump down to chapter three Now. These are the nations that the Lord left to test Israel. So we’ve seen it twice. He’s saying they’re left there to test them, and I want to pose this question to you Are you dealing with a problem right now?

Is there an enemy in your life right now, a problem that you are facing right now? That is there as a test. Is it there as a test? Is it there as a test? Are you going to take this opportunity and teach your children that we win this test? We win this battle against our enemy if we submit ourself to the Lord, if we walk in obedience and faithfulness, if we do what God has asked us to do, if we get things put back in order, if we do it and line it up the way that God told us to do it. If we’ll get it in order and obey what God has said, then God will drive out this enemy from us. This problem will be driven away from us. We will have victory and freedom. It’s a test, folks.

We don’t want our kids not to learn from where we’re living. Be honest with them, tell them this is what we’re facing and this is why and I’ve got to we are today taking a stand. As for me and my house, we’re going to serve the Lord. We’re getting this right. We’re getting back into. We’re going to serve the Lord. We’re getting this right. We’re getting back into. We’re going to serve the Lord with all our heart, our soul, our mind, our strength. We’re going to church. We’re getting involved with the right people. We’re cutting off the things that we shouldn’t be involved in. We’re not serving other things over God. Our agenda, our time, our calendars. We’re not putting something before God. We are doing this right Now. These are the nations that the Lord left to test Israel by them, so that we can do and have what God wants us to have. That is all in Israel, who had not experienced all the wars of Canaan. It was only in order, the test was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war.

To teach war to those who had not known it before. What was he saying? To teach our kids how to fight and win the battles we face in life, we have to drive out our enemies. We have to pursue until we overtake and we continue until we drive it out. We don’t stop halfway, we don’t fight the battle a little, we don’t pray once and stop. We pray and we push until the thing happens. We stay in a posture of prayer until we get the victory. We teach this to our children. We don’t give up territory to the enemy. We have to live this and teach this to our children. We have to know how to make war. Our kids have to know how to fight the battles that we face. It’s not good enough for me to fight all the battles and win, and I never teach my child how to fight and win a battle. They have to know how to fight and win the battle. They need to know you have to get on your face and pray.

This is going to cost you, I’m sorry, it is going to cost you. You’re going to have to fight. Blood sweat, blood sweat and tears. You’re going to have to pray. You’re going to have to seek God. You’re going to have to encourage yourself in the Lord, sometimes Even when people don’t stand with you and you’re alone. You’re going to have to touch your own head, lay your own hand on your own hand, anoint yourself with oil, shake yourself, strengthen yourself in the word of God. Say like David why am I downcast? Oh my soul, hope in God. I will again yet praise my God. I will give him victory again. I will not be like this forever. God will deliver. I am going to continue fighting.

If I have to, I go gather those around me who will pray with me, who will stand with me. I have to be somebody who understands. I have surrounded myself with the right people. Therefore, I have those who will stand with me in battle. If I don’t put my children and teach them to get with the right group of people who are who understand the same thing I’m teaching. Maybe that means I have a friend who did, who did this for his kids. He not only would teach his kids, but he decided you know what my kids need? A group of friends who know how to do this. And he took it on himself to start having youth group meetings at his own house. His kids would invite their friends over. They’d swim, he’d do barbecues, have fun with the kids, but then he’d bring a message of truth to them. He would teach them the Bible. He’d pray over them, earnestly praying. Teach them how to pray.

He made it his business not just to teach his kids but his kids’ friends. Why? Because he’s worried about the generation coming up after him, that they would know the Lord and know how to fight. They’d know how to win battles in their life. They’d know who they’re supposed to turn to. The practice was that you’d see, if you read this word so many times if they didn’t trust that they could fight the battle and that God was going to go with them into battle, they’d contact other kings and they’d say go into battle with me, help me fight this war. Folks, you have to have people you know you can fight the battle with who will be on your side. You can’t trust them to do it. You have to trust the Lord to do it. But you need those around you sometimes who will fight in the trenches with you, and you have to teach your kids how to do that.

I was in church Sunday morning, sunday night, wednesday night. Then our youth not only met on Wednesday night, but we’d have activities. We were together all the time. I was with my church friends. Far, I didn’t even bother with school friends. I was with my church friends. I was with those who were in the household of faith. Did they have issues too? Yeah, were they serving God with all their heart yet? No, but we were always in God’s house and always being taught the word of God. We still had to go through being teenagers, but we were in the house of God.

My parents would teach me. They would tell me. They would correct me If they knew what I was dealing with. They would correct me If they knew what was what I was dealing with. They would correct me. If they understood what was happening. They would come talk to me.

Now I understand as being that I was once a teenager and I am a parent that you don’t always know what your kid’s going through. You don’t know. The kids are quiet, they don’t always tell, but you do your best. You do your best to teach them what you know and how to do it. And if you got it wrong, don’t don’t think you’re you. You’ve missed your opportunity If you got it wrong with your kids, go after your grandkids, teach your grandkids. My goodness, if let’s, let’s do what we can. We’re not all going to get it all right.

It’s a test and you may not get a hundred your test, but you gotta be working at it. You gotta be working this test. You gotta know that those behind us are counting on us. That we don’t, it’s not good enough for me to to just have a good life, but it doesn’t matter what happens to my kids. I care about my kids, I care about my grandkids.

And the older you get, the more you care about the generations after you. You realize that your life is finite. And you get the more you care about the generations after you. You realize that your life is finite and you don’t want what you worked for to be wasted. You don’t want the battles that you fought, the territory you won, to ever be taken back over by the enemy. You don’t ever want to lose that ground. You care about who comes after you. Let’s teach our children. Let’s teach our children. Let’s win these battles, let’s pass these tests. Oh, praise the name of Jesus. Let’s continue reading.

I’m going to give you a real quick example. Jump to verse 4. They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses Three times. God says it was a test. Jump down to verse 7. Othniel I love Othniel. This is an example that I want to leave with you.

You remember Caleb? We’ve talked about Caleb. He had a more excellent spirit. He never once didn’t trust God. He said he was one of the two spies who said we can take this land, let’s obey God, let’s do it right now. We’re well able. Only he and Joshua said that we can do it. The other 10 didn’t do it, didn’t have the faith, had the stiff necks, had the old, old mentality in them, still had those old ways, those old trauma reactions acting up inside of them. But not Joshua and Caleb.

And Caleb, at 85 years old, goes to Joshua and said you know, the Lord said I could have the land that I walked on, that I spied out. It was mine and I’m just as able today as I was when I was 40 years old. My strength is still with me. Do you know why God allowed his strength to be the same at 85 as it was at 40? Because he believed God’s promise. He believed it so much that God had kept his strength so that he could fulfill that promise to him and give him the land and the territory he promised him. And if you believe God and have that same kind of faith and that same kind of trust and that same kind of obedience, you too will retain whatever strength and whatever things that you need, whatever resources you need to take that thing, god will make sure you have it, no matter how much time has passed, no matter how old you are, no matter what it looks like on the outside. If God promised it to you, it’s yours. But you’re going to have to fight your enemies, like Caleb did, and take your territory and take that promise that God gave to you and Caleb did.

And when Caleb was taking his territory, he put out a challenge, a test, to his tribe, to everybody who was a part of his tribe, and he said anybody who can take that hill. He gave a particular hill. He said anybody who can take that hill, I’m giving my daughter. He gave a particular hill. He said anybody who can take that hill, I’m giving my daughter which. This same concept King Saul, the first king followed. Whoever takes out Goliath, I’m going to prosper him and I’m going to give him my daughter. What he was saying is he understood. He was royalty, so to speak, in Israel. He knew the kind of clout he carried. The people trusted him. He was a man of god from day one. He served god with his whole strength and every resource. He had his whole life. And they trusted him. They under. They knew who he was and he’s saying I’ll give my daughter.

She must have been quite a prize that he said that people wanted his daughter. Who was his daughter? Who was his daughter? His daughter was Aksa. Aksa was taught by her father about God. How do I know that? Because she understood every concept that Caleb had done. And when she got married, she was given to Othniel. Othniel took the land.

Othniel was Caleb’s younger brother, so he watched what was going on. He watched his older brother’s example and he said I want Aksa. Yeah, I’ll take that, I’m not afraid to fight, I’ll do it. And he took it and he received Aksa. And what does Aksa do? Aksa, she must have been beautiful, because why else would that be a prize? She must have been something. And on top of that, she I don’t know what kind of dowry she had, but anyway she gets to.

She tells Othniel, go ask my dad for a blessing, not just, not just me. Go ask him for a blessing. And she doesn’t then wait on him to do it, she goes herself. Not just me. Go ask him for a blessing, and she doesn’t then wait on him to do it, she goes herself. So she gets on her donkey, she rides up to her father, says she alights herself off of her donkey, she hops off of that donkey and marches herself over to her dad and says yes, you’ve blessed us with this piece of land. This is wonderful, father, thank you for this. But if you’ve done this, I want you to give me a special blessing. I want more than this. I need more than this Lord, her father. I need more than this dad. She says you’ve given me all this land. How am I going to take care of all this land? I need water. I need lots of water. I need a blessing, lord. I need something that continually makes taking care of this easy. I need more resources. I need more from you. And what does Caleb say to her? Okay, he not only gives her water, he doesn’t just give her a spring. He gives her the upper springs and the lower springs. He gives her a double blessing. A double blessing on top of what she was already given, on top of all the land that she had already inherited. She received a double blessing on top of it.

Well, othniel is her husband and Othniel is the one who gets called to be a judge. Look at this. And the people of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord, their God, and served the Baals and the Ashtoreth. Therefore, the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel and he sold them into the hand of Cushon Rishathayim, king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushon Rishathayim eight years. So they’ve been in bondage to this man, serving him for eight years. They cry out to God and the people of Israel served Cushon eight years. But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer from the people of Israel who saved them, othniel, the son of Kenaz Caleb’s younger brother I’m sorry, it wasn’t his younger brother, it was his younger brother’s son, his younger brother’s son, his nephew. The spirit of the Lord was upon him, on Othniel, and he judged Israel. He went out to war and the Lord gave Cushon Rithayim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hand, and his hand prevailed over Cushon Rithayim. So the land had rest. They lived in the blessing and the peace of God for 40 years, an entire generation. Then Othniel, the son of Kines, died.

Folks, this is how this works. They passed this down from generation to generation. This is how it worked in Judges. God would raise up a deliverer, they’d go in, they’d finally get delivered. They would be free and live in that time for a lifetime. The one who comes after Othniel, ehud. They lived in peace for 80 years because of Ehud’s life.

Your life matters. It takes one and you need to be passing this generational blessing. Pass the test, drive out the enemies. Teach your children to fight for God, for righteousness, for the word. Teach your children how to pray, to attach and be surrounded by the right people, the right kinds of people, to live their lives aligned, serving God first. If you will do this, you will not only get victory over the battle you are facing, but your children will learn how to live in that same freedom. Your children will know how, and if you teach them that not only do they need to learn, teach them that they must teach. Tell them, you must teach this to your children. It’s not good enough for you to get free. You’ve got to get your kids free and they’ve got to get their kids free. Let’s take territory for God. That’s how the gospel has been spread for thousands of years. That’s how this thing works.

The reason that we even have the opportunity today to know who God is is because somebody stood up. Enough somebodies continued with holding the torch and passing the torch to their kids. Enough somebodies fought the battles and kept fighting until they won. Enough somebodies prayed their kids back into the kingdom of God, even though they were out living a life of being a prodigal son or prodigal daughter. Enough parents, enough grandparents, kept praying them in. If you’re a grandparent, it’s not too late.

Don’t you stop. You start teaching those grandbabies. You fight for them. You teach them. You make sure that this torch gets passed. You make sure that you pass the test. Don’t you give up. Don’t you give up. Don’t you put down your sword. You fight, you win, and you teach your babies how to win. And when we do, we’ll have peace. God will protect what belongs to us.

As long as we live, we have an opportunity. You’ve got a test. Let’s pass the test. Let me pray for you, father, we thank you so much for your word, for the truth of your word, for the power of your word, for your faithfulness to your people. Thank you that you discipline us so that we will do what’s good for us, that you love us enough to discipline us, that you love us enough to leave a test for us. You test us not because you’re angry with us. You test us because that way, those who are behind us can trust us. The same way we trust an airline pilot, the same way we want to trust a doctor and a lawyer or whoever we need. We trust that our military against actual physical enemies have been trained to fight for us and pass the test.

God, cause us to understand. Tests are what is our proving ground. We take those tests and we pass on those victories to our children, that we allow tests in their life to prove things to them. We don’t run to rescue our children. We allow them to learn. Help us to be good parents. To rescue our children, we allow them to learn. Help us to be good parents.

God, help us spiritually to be good parents. We might have spiritual children, whether we’ve got children, grandchildren, friends. Let’s pass this on to those who surround us. God, give us strength and wisdom, give us the abilities that we need. You are our provision, you are our strength, you are the one we turn to. We seek you first, seek ye first. The kingdom of God and his righteousness and all of these things will be added unto us. Let that be so. Father, we stand on your word today. We stand on your promises, we stand on your protection, we stand on the covenant and we know that we will receive everything that we are believing you for and we give glory to you. We give glory to you, god, and it’s in Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. Thank you for taking time to dig into the word today. Make him your priority, make his agenda your agenda and watch what God will do for you. Praise God.

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