Had No Regard For

1 Samuel 2:11-12 – Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy ministered before the Lord under Eli the priest. Eli’s sons were scoundrels; they had no regard for the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:6 – You live in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:34 – No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

Application:

• ·         To know the Lord is to enter into fellowship with Him and acknowledge His claims on one’s life.
• ·         In Old Testament usage, to “know” the Lord was not just intellectual or theoretical recognition.
• ·         When the Lord has done His new work, the new covenant, there will no longer be among His people those who are ignorant of Him and His will for human lives. True knowledge of the Lord will be shared by all—young and old, the peasant and the powerful. They will know the Lord in the experiential, not the academic, sense.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV