This morning, I will like to take this opportunity to wish all fathers a happy father’s day. I say may the good Lord bless you all amazing fathers today. You are doing a great job and I salute all of you. Since it is fathers day today, my message will mainly focus on the fathers but I also pray it will also be a blessing to the women as well. The title for the message this morning is “AS FOR ME”. Lets read: Joshua 24 New International Version The Covenant Renewed at Shechem 14 “Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” 16 Then the people answered, “Far be it from us to forsake the Lord to serve other gods! The scriptural verse "as for me and my house" is very popular and it is typically seen at people’s doorway at their home. It can be seen as a plaque people keep in the kitchen or on their mantle in the living room. It’s a recognized verse of the Bible that many attribute to their belief in how they should live individually and as a family. Now the question is how did “"as for me and my house" come about and who said it? Now Joshua 24 is long passage but for the sake of time I only read verses 14-16 where the focus of the message is. So just to give you some context from the passage, Joshua led the children of Israel across the Jordan and into the promised land to take up their promised inheritance.. And as his death drew ever closer he gave a farewell speech to the nation, which had been chosen by God to be a holy nation unto the Lord and a peculiar people unto Himself. Joshua rehearsed his final instructions in the ears of a nation.. that was to frequently and repeatedly do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
