1. Joshua’s Retirement Message Joshua 24, Part 1 April 6, 2008

2. Two Messages I. The Historical Setting II. The Practical Application

3. 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.

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

5. God’s Choices 1. Make the earth like the moon. 2. Judge the earth is some way similar to the flood. 3. Seek to recover and redeem mankind.

6. 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.

7. Genesis 12:6-7 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.