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Why We Must Honor Our Consecration to God
What proceeds out of your lips you shall keep and do, as you have vowed to the LORD your God voluntarily for He will surely require it from you
“If it is displeasing to you to serve the LORD, then choose today whom you will serve, if it should be the gods your fathers served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites’ land where you are now living. Yet as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” (Joshua 24:15)
“As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD”
This was Joshua’s consecration. As he prepared to send the people of Israel to possess their allotted inheritance, he reminded them of the covenant that God made with their fathers beginning with the calling of Abraham until their eventual entry into the land that was promised (Joshua 24:1–14).
Then he asked them, “…choose today whom you will serve.”
The people answered and said, “God forbid that we forsake the LORD and serve other gods! For it is the LORD our God who brought us and our fathers out from slavery in the land of Egypt and performed these great signs in our sight and guarded us all the way that we went and among all the peoples through whom we passed. The LORD drove out…
