Joshua 24:15

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Joshua 2415

• And if it seem evil unto you to serve the
  LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve
  whether the gods which your fathers served that
  were on the other side of the flood, or the gods
  of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell but as
  for me and my house, we will serve the LORD

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Seems Evil Unto You To Serve The LORD

• Withdraw Fellowship 2 Thes. 36
• Divide Families Matt.
  1034
• Isolated From Other Religions 2 Jn. 9-11
• Sever Happy Marriages Matt. 199
• It is not evil, but is seems evil unto you
• Three options available to each of us

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Choose you this day whom ye will serve

• Free choice (God is not served by force)
• Served God over Egyptian gods 17
• Served God over Amorite gods 18
• This day time to re-evaluate your choice
• Consider the cost, benefits, and future
• You can stay with God or leave Him

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Choose Daily To Stay

• Luke 923 take up your cross daily
• Heb. 313 exhort one another daily
• Acts 1711 search the scriptures daily
• Acts 246 continued association daily
• Acts 247 converts added daily
• Each day we must decide to go or stay in the
  church of Christ

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We can always go Back

• The gods which your fathers served that were on
  the other side of the flood
• Flood (River Euphrates) 2-3
• Pull of Past heritage, fathers, tradition
• Heb. 1035-39 return to Judaism
• Put away former gods 14, 19-23

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We can always go Further

• gods of the Amorites, in land ye dwell
• Close enough to observe Deut. 1230-32
• New, exciting, different Eccl. 729
• Bored with same service Mal. 113
• Spirits willing, flesh is weak Matt. 2641
• Get on the liberal bandwagon

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Retreat, Advance, or Stay?

• but as for me and my house, we will serve the
  LORD
• Decision made for self and for family as the head
  (house rules settled)
• Current generation agreed, but failed to impress
  it upon their children