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Celebrate One More:
Joshua 24:14-29
Some of the ideas for this sermon came from listening to another preacher.
I have been listening to Joby Martin a lot and He did A sermon on One more.
Who is your one more.
What he meant by these words is who is The person you would most like see come to Christ.
It maybe your best friend, you spouse, your child, you aunt uncle, in-laws (ok maybe not your in-laws – Just joking I love mine.)
When I talked about your one more every one of you had somebody come to your mind.
That is who we are going to talk about today.
In baseball we are always stealing other coaches’ ideas.
In this sermon I am going to steal a good idea, because I think it really makes us think about what it means to celebrate in the kingdom of Christ.
I believe the phrase one more really lets us think about what our mind set should be as a Christian.
I used his scripture references, but I am going to preach it the way I lay out a sermon, but I want to make sure I give Joby credit.
Having a desire to see one more come to Christ is a great mindset if we are going to be celebratory church.
The reality is that everything in this world is one generation from going instinct.
Children are born without any understanding, If not for the generation before them, they would literally know nothing.
They would resort back to an earlier time in human development, which I am not sure is all bad these days, but that is a different story.
We need to understand that Understanding and knowledge have built off itself.
The people that came before us were not less intelligent, In fact there was some brilliant mind.
They just did not have the head start that we have had.
I think this is why our youth in this community are so important.
We are going to have a baptism today.
I am not sure why some of the churches are somber.
I see multiple areas in the Bible where they Celebrate.
If you would like to turn in you bibles to If you have not noticed the great commandments are the basis for these two weeks of sermons.
Like pastor bill said last week the Pharisees, the ever tricksters are trying to get Jesus to stumble and catch him a trap.
They wanted to test him.
I love how brilliant Jesus is.
He simplifies everything.
That is a great reason to celebrate.
37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
38 This is the great and first commandment.
39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Jesus take all these laws from the theocracy known as the nation of Israel and simplifies them to two laws.
These are what we should be celebrating.
These simple commandments are what we should be teaching our kids.
If these kids can grasp that they are supposed to love God and love those around them it would go a long way to revitalizing this world.
If we become complacent the Bible tells what will happen.
Turn with me to .
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua.
We have been teaching the younger youth how to navigate their Bible in youth group.
While we are turning there, let me set the scene.
We are going to see a common verse.
My guess is many of you have this written somewhere in their house, but do we understand the consequences if we do not hold strongly to what Joshua is trying to say.
Follow along as I read
14 “Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness.
Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.
15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell.
But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
This is the section of scripture that every Christ follower must ask themselves.
We tend to only have the last part in our houses, but we forget what that means.
We stall on “for me and my house, we sill serve the Lord.”
But what is the context of what we are trying to say,
What does serving the Lord look like?
Verse 14 says that we are to serve God with sincerity and faithfulness.
Sincerity literally mean to be free from hypocrisy, it means to be honest, genuine, trustworthy, open, We are to leave no doubt in the those around us who we serve.
What about faithfulness: Faithfulness is instilled over time.
It means to be constant, Loyal, stable, dependable, and devoted.
We are to resemble these qualities as we serve the lord.
This is what we are to put on, but what are we to put away.
Joshua tells us to put aside these other god’s in our lives.
Israel had been serving the god’s of Egypt and even though God had redeemed them from the land of Egypt they still had a tendency to fall back into their old habits.
Sounds a little familiar to me.
Joshua is telling us.
That we are to serve and obey God faithfully and sincerely
Jesus is telling us through the writing of the Matthew.
That we are to celebrate God, because he has earned our celebration.
We are not to serve the gods beyond the river.
The gods that we had before we turned our life to Christ.
We are not to serve the God of the Amorites who are around us.
Everyone of us still has gods in our lives that have hindered our full submission to God.
Even though we are Christ followers we still struggle in different areas.
Joshua is saying in this famous section of scripture, Israel or in our case.
Church it is time to make a choice.
Other gods are not just a nuisance,
Joshua says these other god’s in our life are evil.
He does not mess around.
Church it is time this day to decide who we are going to follow.
Joshua takes the lead.
Whether we like it or not this church has an obligation in this town to take the lead.
God has called us to lead this city.
We do not get to sit back and let others lead.
We are responsible to serve the lord.
It is not easy, and we always must be aware of what is going on around us.
We cannot become complacent.
Let me paraphrase verses 16 -18.
The people of Israel respond.
They know what God did.
They understand his power.
They are fired up.
They have seen God work.
They are ready to go.
They are energized to serve the lord, but Joshua understand who they are.
How familiar does this sound.
I can remember being fired up multiple times in my life.
God I will serve you, God if you get me out of this situation I will serve you.
God this pain is unbearable please relieve me from it.
God I will follow you if you keep me out of Jail, if you let me get this girl.
Things are going to be different.
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