Choose this Day whom you will Serve

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To choose the way of life means to learn from the Bible and act upon it. Blessings and wisdom will follow. As for you and your house, will you serve the LORD?

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

In the ancient Greek world, wisdom was discovered through a lively philosophical debate with wise people.

But in the Old Testament, walking with the LORD God consisted of two things. You needed both:

1. LEARNING the commandments: studying, discussing, memorizing, hearing them taught, hearing them preached.

2. DOING the commandments. It is not enough to “know” the truth. We must act on it. We must put it into practice. We are called to Action-Faith.

 

In our day, walking with Jesus Christ entails two pursuits:

1. LEARNING the teachings of the Lord Jesus: studying, discussing, memorizing, hearing them taught, hearing them preached. In essence, we are to be students of the Scriptures.

2. DOING the teachings of Jesus. We are to DO as Jesus taught. It is not enough to “know” the truth. We must act on it. We must put it into practice.

 

In our day many Christians say something like this:

The Lord knows what is in my heart.

Yet they do not learn the teachings of Jesus. Nor do they act upon them.

 

BIBLE VERSES

 

Deuteronomy 4:1. Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you.

Deuteronomy 4:6. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Deuteronomy 4:26. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 5:1. Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”

Deuteronomy 11:26. Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:

Deuteronomy 30:1. It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,

Deuteronomy 30:19. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. (KJV translation)

Joshua 24:15. If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were 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.

Sirach 15:17. Before man is life and death; And whichever he likes, it shall be given him.

2 Esdras 2:14. Call heaven and earth to witness. Call them to witness, for I have left out evil, and created the good, for I live, says the Lord.

2 Esdras 7:129. For this is the way that Moses spoke to the people while he lived, saying, ‘Choose life, that you may live!’

 

SEE ALSO

Doers of the law will be justified. We Christians say salvation is by faith. Yet the New Testament calls us to put our faith into action. Otherwise our faith is worthless.

 

Unless otherwise noted, all Bible quotations on this page are from the World English Bible and the World Messianic Edition. These translations have no copyright restrictions. They are in the Public Domain.