Determination- the name The Lord God appears 21 times
- God’s call on our lives unmerited
- God’s guidance towards His ultimate purpose
- God’s deliverance from mortal dangers
- God’s provision of good gifts to us
Decision – the word to serve appears 15 times
- Worship is inevitable
- Hypocrisy in serving God is not tolerable
- The deliberate choice to serve God alone
- Informed choice
Devotion
- They destroyed their idols
- They made a covenant
- Joshua wrote this statute in the book of the law
- Joshua erected a memorial stone for them
Direction
- As long as the elders lived the whole community served God
- As soon as they died out majority rebelled against God
- The elders did not teach but only commanded obedience
- The stories of the word must be known to all generations