“Choose you this day whom ye will serve,” Joshua 24:15. These words were addressed by Joshua to the Jewish nation. The service referred to was the worship of Jehovah instead of idolatrous deities. On no fair principle can the verse be applied to the ungodly; for there is no analogy between the children of Israel as they were then circumstanced, and men and women who are “dead in trespasses and sins.” The latter are “condemned already” under the Law; the former were under God’s favour as His nationally chosen people, and were able to respond to the exhortation.
