Joshua 24

Joshua 24:15:
"And 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 of the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me an my house, we will serve the Lord."

If we fail to be faithful, God will raise up other peoples to carry on His triumphant conquest of the nations. If we are ashamed of our Lord and of Scriptures, God will be ashamed of us. If the man abdicates his calling as God’s covenental representative in the family, he lays the ground for the erosion of church, state, and the wider society. All the clean-up-culture campaigns in the world cannot compensate for a lack of men’s covenant government in the family. When men begin to order their own lives and their families according to the law-word of God, they sow the seeds of ecclesiastical and cultural reconstruction. Changes at the “top” will not occur until there are changes in the family. The only hope any country has begins in the home, with the children. They are the future.

AW Tozer

"Yes, if evangelical Christianity is to stay alive, it must have men again—the right kind of men. It must repudiate the weaklings who dare not speak out, and it must seek in prayer and much humility the coming again of men of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made. God will hear the cries of His people as He heard the cries of Israel in Egypt and He will send deliverance by sending deliverers. It is His way. And when the deliverers come…they will be men of God and men of courage. They will have God on their side because they are careful to stay on God’s side."
- --AW Tozer

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