“If it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” (Joshua 24:15) SHORTLY before he died, Joshua gave Israel some last words of counsel about serving the Lord. What he said was mighty good counsel. This verse speaks of the excuses for
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