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Joshua 24:24-27 – And the people said to Joshua, “The Lord our God we will serve, and his voice we will obey.” So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem. And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone and set it up there under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the Lord. And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.”

Jeremiah 42:6 – Whether it is good or bad, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the Lord our God.”

Exodus 24:8 – And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

Numbers 11:19-20 – You shall not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”

Application:

• ·         Though the Israelites twice declared their desire to do God’s will, they soon demonstrated that they decided to follow their own inclinations.
• ·         Only after the people agreed to obey the Lord could they participate in His covenant with them.
• ·         The principal issue was a failure to demonstrate proper gratitude to the Lord, who was in Israel’s midst and who was their constant source of good.

All Scripture verses taken from ESV