Amen and amen. If you got your Bibles and I hope you do, Ephesians Chapter 5,

and even if you're the kind of person that doesn't normally open your Bible when I say do that,

I don't know what's wrong with you. However, this week I need you to do it. Get out your phone,

go to it, get the Bible in front of you, because I need you to see that these words are actually written. I'm not making this stuff up, okay?

We're just going to read straight from the text, and we are going to talk about husbands and wives.

We're in this series called As for Me in My House.

It goes all the way back to the book of Joshua, when Joshua, the leader of the nation of

of Israel at that point, at the end of his life, he takes the nation of Israel to this place called

Shechem. The hill of blessings on one side. The hill of cursing is on one side. If you ever come to

Israel with me, I'll take you there. And he draws a line in the sand for the nation of Israel.

And he says, choose for yourself this day whom you will serve. he lays out one of two options and one of the

options is you can serve the idols that your father served but as for me and my house we will serve

the lord and a part of what i need you to know here is when he made that declaration he was it was

laid in his life there were probably hundreds of people in his family, well, over a hundred at least.

And he is declaring the faithfulness of God in his house.

That's what this series has been.

That not only in our own household would we follow Jesus, but this house, as for me and

my house, that's for us and our church family, the Lord's

house, we will serve the Lord, amen?

It is a declaration of the faithfulness of God.

This year, we've been talking about abundant life because we're in this two-year journey

called the 10-10 life.

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