Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord.Now therefore fear Jehovah, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve ye Jehovah.
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As a nation of free men, we must live through all time or die by suicide. Lincoln, amazing. Paraphrase, Joshua 24, verses 14 to 15. Joshua said, you guys want to goof off? You want to play marbles with God? Here's the deal. You guys are all messed up because you're worshiping the God of your fathers, all those pagan gods from the Amorites to the Hittites to all of those Babylonian deities. You want to worship those gods? Go do it. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. That's what Joshua said. Joshua, the leader. Joshua, the commander in chief. John Adams said this. The general principles on which, this is amazing, the fathers. You know, in his day, what's he talking about? The fathers, the pilgrim fathers. You know how we have John Adams and those dudes as our founding fathers? They had the pilgrim fathers as their founding fathers. And if you want to know what they thought, go read the Mayflower Compact. It's two paragraphs. You'll make it. It's amazing. …
… Joshua says, Now therefore fear the Lord, serve him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your father served on the other side of the river and in Egypt. Serve the Lord. And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your father served that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. And that's all to set up this amazing statement. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Let's pray. Father, we ask that you would use this time in truly a mighty way, Lord, that your word would land upon good soil in our hearts today. That you would make us more like you through your word, in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated. Now, before we just get into breaking down our text It is certainly never a bad decision To examine the context surrounding a passage of scripture And in fact, it is always a good idea to do so Because when we examine the context It serves to enhance our understanding of what is really being said and keep us on track in our theology. …
… that can become distractions. I'm blown away by the fact that he refers to the gods of the Amorites. Now, I got to help you with this because you know that I got my PhD last year, not bragging, just testifying. And one of the things they teach us in the program is that you oftentimes, while reading, will go down rabbit holes. And when you go down rabbit holes, you start chasing ideas and chasing thoughts and chasing things and topics. And y'all, the word Amorite, it grabbed me like it's never grabbed me before. And here's what blew my mind. The Amorites literally had an echo political system of gods that ran the area where they were as what was called a mountain dwelling people. They are a mountain dwelling people who dwell high up and they have fertility gods to ensure pregnancy and the perpetuation of families. They have, watch this, not just fertility gods, but they also have the gods of the weather. They have the gods of the rains. …