No Reserves No Retreat No Regrets

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(2) Challenge #2: Put away the gods that your fathers served, and serve the Lord, 14b.

(3) Challenge #3: Choose today whom you will serve, the Lord or other false gods ( this is the antidote for regret! ), 15a (notice Joshua’s refusal to follow anyone but the Lord, v. 15, Joshua – And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” )

c. The people’s response: “God is the one who rescued us, and we will serve the Lord!” vv. 16-18

d. Joshua’s warning: “You’re not going to be able to serve the LORD, because the Lord don’t play; if you forsake him he will turn on you and do you harm. You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD to serve him.”

4. Conclusion: Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem, writing these words in the Book of the Law of God, 24.25-28.

D. The end of Joshua’s ministry and journey, Josh. 24.29-33

1. Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died 110 years young, and Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and the elders who outlived Joshua and who knew the work that the LORD did for Israel, 24.29-31.

2. Joseph’s bones were buried at Shechem, and Eleazar, Aaron’s son, was buried at Gibeah, 24.32-33.