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<div class="SSN_title">"A WISE DECISION"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: "Now therefore" the aged Joshua has gathered the elders of Israel for the last</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">time. They now possess the land. He briefly rehearses their history in relation</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">to YAHWEH their God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE EXHORTATION OF COMMITMENT.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Fear YAHWEH "reverence, stand in awe of."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. This is the emotion whenever you truly see His power and greatness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Looking up into the night sky and contemplating the Universe.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Studying any form of life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Serve Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Yield your life to His control.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. How are we to serve Him?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. In sincerity (without wax).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. By putting away the other gods.<br>Many who by profession are mono-theistic are by practice polytheistic, many sub-gods.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE CALL TO DECISION "CHOOSE YE THIS DAY WHOM YE WILL SERVE."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The choice is not whether you will serve God or not, but which god you will serve.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He knew that every man has a god.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. That master passion by which his life is governed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Even the man who avows atheism is only avowing his disbelief of YAHWEH, while he bows his knee to his intellect.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. There are those who worship knowledge (Baal. Today.)</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. They have their little ritual of worship.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. They evangelize.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. In those days there were many choices of gods.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The gods that Terah, Abraham's father served (Baal).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The gods of the Egyptians; sun, ox, frog, flies, Nile, created things (Mammon).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. The gods of the Amorites.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Who lived for sensual excitement (Molech...)</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The power of choice is a sacred gift of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We should recognize it as such and use it discreetly.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Some exercise such poor judgment we must develop laws to restrict their choice.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. They choose to rob banks or beat up on weaker people, or destroy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Believing on God is a matter of choice.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. You can choose to believe.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. You will discover all you need to intellectually support that choice.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. You can choose not to believe.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. You will then develop arguments to support your position. The intellectual factors do not determine your choice but are developed after your choice is made.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Choice of God is a faculty of the Spirit not the intellect. Of the heart, not the mind.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Now if you choose to believe, look at all the benefits that are offered to you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. If you choose not to believe what hope do you have?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Your strongest hope is that Yahweh does not exist.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. A WISE DECISION "AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE WE WILL SERVE THE YAHWEH."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The wisest way to exercise this freedom of choice is to choose to submit your choices to one who is far wiser than any man.</div>
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