DAY 88 Read Joshua 22 through 24.
Today's reading: We come to the end of another dedicated man's life. Joshua's farewell address sounds a challenge down through the ages to our own time.
Memory gem: "Choose you this day whom ye will serve;...but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" (Joshua 24:15).
Thought for today:
What multitudes of people need to hear today is the call of Joshua, who said to the people of his time: "Choose you this day whom ye will serve;...but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" (Joshua 24:15).
It was a compromise with the state and with pagan practices that brought the church into the great apostasy of the Dark Ages. It was compromise that brought ecclesticism into the church and destroyed the life of faith. Apostate Christianity and the ancient pagan Roman state were united in adulterous union. The emperors claimed to be Christians and by force compelled acceptance of religious doctrines. Christianity was poured into the grooves of pagan thought, rites, images, idols, and ceremonies.
Let me put the question directly to you, friend: Are you willing to be separated to God, to Christ? Are you willing to be His child? It is not always easy from a human standpoint. It means something to be a Christian. It means a change of life. It means a turning away from sinful practices. It often means being different. But here is the word of Christ, the warning of Christ, "Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly" (Revelation 2:5).
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Difficult or obscure words:
Joshua 24:2, 14, 15. "Flood"--Hebrew word used here in reference to the Euphrates River--not to Noah's Flood.
Today's reading: We come to the end of another dedicated man's life. Joshua's farewell address sounds a challenge down through the ages to our own time.
Memory gem: "Choose you this day whom ye will serve;...but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" (Joshua 24:15).
Thought for today:
What multitudes of people need to hear today is the call of Joshua, who said to the people of his time: "Choose you this day whom ye will serve;...but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" (Joshua 24:15).
It was a compromise with the state and with pagan practices that brought the church into the great apostasy of the Dark Ages. It was compromise that brought ecclesticism into the church and destroyed the life of faith. Apostate Christianity and the ancient pagan Roman state were united in adulterous union. The emperors claimed to be Christians and by force compelled acceptance of religious doctrines. Christianity was poured into the grooves of pagan thought, rites, images, idols, and ceremonies.
Let me put the question directly to you, friend: Are you willing to be separated to God, to Christ? Are you willing to be His child? It is not always easy from a human standpoint. It means something to be a Christian. It means a change of life. It means a turning away from sinful practices. It often means being different. But here is the word of Christ, the warning of Christ, "Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly" (Revelation 2:5).
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Difficult or obscure words:
Joshua 24:2, 14, 15. "Flood"--Hebrew word used here in reference to the Euphrates River--not to Noah's Flood.
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