Fighting For The Good Land

Lesson Ten

Joshua's Final Charge To Israel:

Choose God And Serve Jehovah

MEMORY VERSE: Joshua 24:15 And if it seems wrong in your sight to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve, either the gods from across the River, whom your fathers served, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
VERSE FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN: Joshua 24: But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
BONUS VERSE: Joshua 24:14 Now therefore fear Jehovah, and serve Him in sincerity and faithfulness; and put away the gods whom your fathers served across the River and in E and serve Jehovah.
  1. Joshua spoke of Israel history, God's faithful acts, and gifts of the Good Land
    1. Joshua recited Israel's past history, to remind them of God's faithfiulness-Joshua 24:1-4
      1. Terah and Nahor, Abraham's father and grandfather dwelt on the East side of the Jordan river and they served other gods (idols)
      2. God brought Abraham into the land of Canaan and gave him Isaac and multiplied his descendants
      3. God gave Esau and Jacob to Isaac
      4. God gave the land of Canaan to Jacob, but he and his children went down to Egypt with the result that they were enslaved
    2. Joshua related the faithibl acts of God to save them, protect them, and establish them in the Promised Land- Joshua 24:5-8, I
      1. God sent Moses and Aaron to deliver them from Egypt
      2. He brought plagues upon Egypt
      3. At the Red Sea He put darkness between them and the Egyptians and drowned the Egyptians in the Sea
      4. He brought them through the wilderness for 40 years
      5. Israel crossed over the Jordan River and came to Jericho, and God gave all the evil people of Canaan into their hand
    3. Joshua told them of the good land that the faithilul God had given them-Joshua 24:13
      1. A land for which they did not labor
      2. Cities which they did not build
      3. Vineyards and olive groves which they did not plant
    4. Joshua's final charge to Israel was: "Now therefore fear Jehovah and serve Him in sincerity and faithtIulness....Choose for yourselves today whom you will serve."- Joshua 24:14-15

APPLICATION:

  1. Joshua made his choice: "But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
  2. We also must choose to serve God today, like Joshua and Israel did.