Who Will You Serve? 

Part 1

     Americans choose who we will serve...not only at election time, but daily. Most serve our secular government and its promises. Many wish to serve a government which adheres to the Constitution, laws and practices upholding life and liberty. (You can add pursuit of happiness if that makes you happy.) 

     Christians and Jews, while required to obey secular laws, are first to love and serve the Lord, separated from the world. Take Joshua, who followed Moses as leader of the 12 tribes. 

     After Israel crossed the Jordan River into Canaan, the land God had promised, Joshua assembled the people for a covenant renewal before he died. 

     "But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served or the gods of the Ammonites. As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15 

     The people said, "We will serve the Lord." Not long after Joshua and the elders died, they forsook the Lord.  

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