Joshuas Retirement Message

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Joshuas Retirement Message

• Joshua 24, Part 1

April 6, 2008
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Two Messages

• The Historical Setting
• The Practical Application

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Hebrew History

• Is so much like your beginning.
• Their path is like your path.
• The promises are from the same God.
• The life of faith is the same.
• The dangers and temptations are similar.

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History

• Saturday Review History is a vast early warning
  system.
• Philosopher Those who cannot remember the past
  are condemned to repeat it.

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Gods Choices

• Make the earth like the moon.
• Judge the earth is some way similar to the flood.
• Seek to recover and redeem mankind.

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Your History

• Each of you have been called out of paganism.
• Called to serve and enjoy a relationship with
  God.
• God has done this on an individual basis with
  each of you.
• Some of you are the only believers in your entire
  family.

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Genesis 126-7

• And Abram passed through the land as far as the
  site of Shechem, Now the Canaanite was then in
  the land. And the LORD appeared to Abram and
  said, "To your descendants I will give this
  land." So he built an altar there to the LORD who
  had appeared to him.