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Because You Say So I Will Choose to Serve the Lord                                    

 “Now, therefore, fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and truth; and do away with the gods which your fathers served beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served, which were beyond the Euphrates River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:14-15 NASB

The CHOICE

“choose for yourselves today whom you will serve”

The CHALLENGE

“choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served, which were beyond the Euphrates River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living;”

The COMMITMENT

“but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

  • David-Commitment (2 Samuel 8:15, 1 Samuel 13:14, Acts 13:22)
  • Solomon-Compromise (1 Kings 11)
  • Rehoboam-Corruption (1 Kings 14:21-31)

How is my house? (Ephesians 5:33-6:9)

  • How am I treating my spouse?

Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

  • Am I honoring my parents?

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise), so that it may turn out well for you, and that you may live long on the earth.

  • How am I treating my children?

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  • What kind of employee am I?

Slaves (Servants, employees) be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ; not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. With goodwill render service, as to the Lord, and not to people, knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive this back from the Lord, whether slave or free.

  • How am I doing as a employer, boss, or leader?

 And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.”  Ephesians 5:33-6:9 NASB

  • Am I loving the household of Christ?

“So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household,” Ephesians 2:19 NASB