Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Joshua 24:14-18
by: Leota Stevens.
Contained within these verses is enough teaching material to form a seminary class: Freedom from Bondage 101. Joshua laid out the challenge of living faithfully before God. He brought to the people’s attention their freedom to choose a religious preference. They had to decide whom, or what, they would dedicate themselves to serve. Would they cling to the gods of their ancestors, or the follow after the gods of the Amorites, or worship the one true God who had personally intervened in their lives and desired a relationship with them? Joshua’s adamant stand for the God who had delivered them from slavery and led them out of captivity was inspirational in leading others to affirm their belief in the Lord.