In his sermon titled 'A Call To Faithfulness', Justin Meier explores the concept of faithfulness as depicted in Deuteronomy 10:12-15. He begins by expressing gratitude for the church community and the opportunity to share his message. Meier illustrates the importance of covenant relationships through the story of an elderly couple wishing to marry, emphasizing the commitment and faithfulness required in such bonds. He relates this to the covenant between God and Israel, highlighting five key requirements for covenant faithfulness: fearing God, walking in His ways, loving Him, serving Him, and keeping His commandments. Meier underscores God's unwavering faithfulness and His unchanging nature, contrasting it with human tendencies to falter. The sermon further delves into Moses' role in guiding the new generation of Israelites into the Promised Land, despite not being able to enter himself. Meier emphasizes the importance of teaching future generations and remaining steadfast in faith, as God's commandments are designed for the good of His people. He concludes by inviting listeners to reflect on their own faithfulness and relationship with God, reminding them of the special covenant they share as God's chosen people.

In our building. So, I'm very accustomed to that, but thankful for your all's faithfulness, thankful for the Lord allowing us to come. And it really worked out kind of great to have services on a Tuesday night as you guys were doing. It wasn't even that you had to, you know, kind of change things around, but Brother David's like, wait, how long are you staying? And I said, well, we'll leave Wednesday morning.

He goes, great. But again, I appreciate the church here and I appreciate the blessing of knowing you all. And I'm thankful for the opportunity. Thankful for Brother David, thankful for his love and friendship to me over the years, even though again, his family is right there. He has always treated me as family and I appreciate his family as well.

Y'all have treated us like kings and queens while we are here and very thankful for that. Only complaint would be just it's a little cold down by the water right now folks all right and that's coming from an Ohio guy who shoveled like 16 inches of snow. Our oldest son, he, well, our only son, he's still back at home. He couldn't get off work. He has taken a bunch of some time off some other otherwise.

And then as Brother David mentioned, our oldest daughter is married and she lives in West Virginia. And we did pop in and see them very quickly so we just keep going further and further south. Our big traveling day will be back home Saturday and we'll try to get our 21 hours in on that day and make it back for the Lord's day. But again, very thankful to be able to be here, very thankful for the opportunity to preach, and I trust that it'll be a blessing to us all this evening. If you remember anything about me, I know it's been a little bit since I've been here and since I've preached I am about to ask if you're able please stand as I read the word of God we are in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 10 this evening.

Deuteronomy chapter 10 And just verses 12 through 15. Deuteronomy 10 beginning in verse 12. And now Israel, what doth the Lord God require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, to keep the commandments of the Lord and his statutes which I Command thee this day for thy good. Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord's, thy God. The earth also, with all that therein is.

Only the Lord had delight in thy fathers to love them, And he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day." And again, let us look to our Lord in a word of prayer. Our most gracious heavenly father, we do thank you for your love to us, your mercy, your grace, and your watch care over us. We are exceedingly thankful to be able to assemble tonight. Lord, we are exceedingly thankful for Sovereign Grace Baptist Church. Lord, we're thankful for her pastor.

Father, I Thank you for the years of fellowship and friendship that we have had, that we've enjoyed around you and your word. Lord, I pray that you would bless them, that you would keep them Lord and lift them up. Thankful for the opportunity again to preach the word this evening. If there are any here tonight that do not know you as savior, anyone that may be listening, that today would be the day of salvation that they come to know you in the full pardon and forgiveness of sin. Lord, that you would be with me as I servant, that you would give me liberty and ability to preach thy word in truth and in love.

I ask Father that you would forgive us of our sins in these things we ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you, may be seated. So this is coming right out of the middle of a study that I have been doing. This is actually lesson 24 from the book of Deuteronomy here in the 10th chapter.

So we're not like speeding through it or anything, but I'm not, you know, I don't think I'm taking too long. So I'll definitely give you some context to come into this, but the text tonight that I'll deal with, I'll title the message A Call to Faithfulness. It's telling Brother David yesterday about a story or something that occurred Just about three or four weeks ago, as I was preparing and studying for this message, I received a phone call from Brother Reed, and he said there was a couple in their church that was wanting to get married, and Brother Reed doesn't have his license in Ohio, and so he asked if I could and so I just wanted to know a few things to get started. Come to find out that both of these were widowed folks. So one was 88, the other I think she was like 77.

And so I'm like, what in the world do I have to tell them? Like nothing. They have more marital advice to ever give me. So I was like, nope, don't need to do premarital counseling. We're good there.

Now I have a point that I'm getting to all this with this text, but it was a, it was an honor to be able to do it. A wedding, of course, is an example of a covenant relationship. And what was special, again, wasn't that it was me that was asked. That wasn't what was special. What was special was two members still of the Lord's Church, both having been married, who wanted to show the example of what a covenant relationship is supposed to be.

They didn't want to just live together, even at that elderly age. And that was what the most special part was for me. They still wanted to show again that faithfulness of the Lord, that example to others and the importance of covenant and commitment before God in one another. And I really appreciated that. So the call came from Brother Reed to me on a Wednesday.

It's kind of funny, I'll just tell you this party called me on a Wednesday and said, you know, don't worry, don't worry, it's nothing major, you don't need to, you know, hurry calling me back. So I didn't. So Thursday around noon he called again. I'm like, okay. So anyway, I took it and so from Thursday and then performed, you know, again in their home on the Friday.

And I say all that to say you gotta kinda hear this part so I talked a little bit about our 17 inches of snow. They were married on that Friday and they really got to know each other because the storm came in on that Sunday. So they were there. But anyway, all right. But marriage, that marriage covenant, that marriage relationship, it's not really a text, that was just kind of an illustration to get us into the text, showed faithfulness though.

It really did show faithfulness. And that is that kind of commitment that God gives, which is even better than a human relationship, even better than a human covenant, a human marriage is God's covenant, God's promise that God has given to his promised, that God promised to his chosen children as shown to us here in verse 15, only the Lord had a delight in my fathers to love them. And he chose their seed after them, even above all people as it is this day. And I will talk more about that text a little bit. But God's faithfulness to his people, God's faithfulness to his chosen people.

And so when I was looking over, and again, when brother David asked me, I wanted to hopefully be a little bit of an encouragement to the faithfulness of God. There'll be some challenge in the message as well, but y'all's faithfulness to the Lord is very encouraging. And I thank the Lord for that. But Moses, he's speaking to Israel here. And he is also through God speaking to us as God's chosen sons and daughters.

You see beloved God has not, God will not, and God cannot break his promises. God will not, God has not, and God cannot break his covenant. So let us that know the Lord, let us honor and serve the Lord, let us remain faithful to God, because God is always faithful to us. There's never a time that God is not faithful to us. We falter, we weary, we're not faithful, maybe sometimes in our reading, We're not faithful sometimes in our praying.

We're not faithful in some of the areas of our life, but God is never unfaithful. God is not the one that breaks the covenant. God has not, will not, cannot break his covenant. God is always faithful. He says, Hebrews 13 5, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.

Now I promised you a little bit of context and review coming into this, so let me do that. Not fair, right? You're coming into lesson number 24. Seems a little unfair. So in the grand scheme of things, what's going on here is Moses is preparing the new generation of Israelites to enter into the promised land.

And that's still happening here in chapter 10. Moses has actually been preparing them for a little while. When we say new generation, I'm talking about, you know, most of the previous generation died of wilderness, all of that, and so Moses is now in his old age, and Moses is mentoring this younger, or this newer generation of Israelites to enter the promised land. Now, also remember about Moses, Moses doesn't get to go. Moses is not going to the promised land because he had a little bit of a little anger issue there and smoked the rock instead of you know doing what God said.

But nevertheless Moses doesn't get to go and Moses is still taking the time as a mentor, as a guide, as a faithful leader, and teaching this generation. As a man, as a human, you can be like, no way, I don't want to tell them anymore. I told the former generation they didn't listen, I'm talking to this generation now. They didn't listen. Even in the lessons that Moses is going back upon and teaching about how the old generation did not follow the Lord, there's already been instances in here where he's giving them, he's already re-given them the law, so we've already gone through that with Exodus, He's already given them all of this and they're still disobeying and he's still reminding them as a man, as a human, you can just say, that's it Lord, I'm done.

I don't even get to go to the promised land. I don't need to talk to these folks anymore. They won't listen. But that's not the heart of Moses. So it's a call, yes, for the children of Israel to be faithful, but it's also a reminder to us of the faithfulness of God's servant Moses before he dies, not even getting to go.

What? Oh, the lizard following me. Yes, that's fantastic. Excellent. All right, how's like, am I dancing?

What am I doing? I don't know. We don't live stream at our church, so all the weird goofiness that comes, others don't get to see it. They just don't get to see it. Brother David's like, I know you don't.

Anyway, all right, I want to make sure I was okay. So the grand scheme of things, Moses could have basically been like, no, I don't want to be faithful to you, God. I don't want to teach this generation this anymore. I don't even get to go. But that wasn't the attitude of Moses.

Was Moses sad that I'm sure that there were times where Moses was like definitely wanting to go to the promised land? Of course, for sure. God said no. And Moses didn't leave his post. So that's what we're like right smack dab still in the middle.

They have not crossed over yet and Moses has still been giving them instruction. So now that brings you kind of a very quick summary to get us to here. Now in chapter 10 very quickly since I'm just jumping into verses 12 through 15, Aaron has now died, verses 6 and 7. And what we learn from that is that death of a person does not stop the work of the Lord. It just doesn't.

I mean, there is certainly sadness. I told the church when I preached it, you know, I don't want people to mourn for me, but human nature is that we would, but Grace Baptist Church doesn't cease to exist because Justin's no longer there. And Aaron, of course, a well-trusted, well-respected leader. I mean, eventually we know if we fast forward through Deuteronomy, Moses is going to die and Joshua is going to fill into that role because the work of the Lord is not dependent upon a man, but it is the work of the Lord. And so they've gone through that, so that's a struggle.

And then Moses highlighted the unique role of the Levites here in this chapter, verses eight and nine. The Levites were chosen to bear the Ark of the Covenant and minister before the Lord. The Levites had that special role of mediating between God and the people. And then I will read verses 10 and 11, that gets us right into the text that I read of 12 and 13. So after all of that, the death of Aaron and the role of the Levites, let me read 10 and 11.

And I stayed in the mount according to the first time, 40 days and 40 nights. And the Lord harken unto me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy thee. And the Lord said unto me, arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swear unto their fathers, to give it to them. So they were called to arise. In other words, they were called to get to work and to get busy for the Lord.

They were told and commanded by God to arise. So that brings us now to this call to faithfulness here in the text that I read. So just two parts very, you know, very simply. Number one, the requirement of covenant faithfulness, and then the heart of God's covenant is what we're gonna look at. So the requirement of God's faithfulness, verses 12 and 13.

And now, Israel. What doth the Lord require of thee? But to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good." So Moses building now in this call to action, he asked them, what does the Lord require of you? I ask you this evening folks, what does the Lord require of you? Certainly in all that is going and everything that is happening, He requires you to still be in His house.

He requires of you to still read His word and honor Him. And I'm gonna give you a little bit more, because actually God says what He requires of you. But what does He call? This is our time. This is our call to action.

What does the Lord require of us? I mean, after all, we do nothing to earn His love. We do nothing to earn salvation. We do nothing to keep salvation. That God has given us of His Son.

God has saved us from our sins, so what does He require of us? What are we to do in this relationship with the Lord? Well, we are to do what God says, to fear the Lord by God, that is to love Him, to honor him, to obey him. That's what we're required to do. We're required not to go after the strange gods.

We're required not to fill our lives with the polluted stuff of the world. We're required to live our lives to the fullest for our Lord. In the mornings, I'm preaching a series in the book of Malachi and Malachi is dealing with Israel and he is literally I promise you dealing with the same sins that Moses is dealing with here with the children back here in Deuteronomy. And in Malachi's time, as he was prophesying, as he was preaching to the people, he was telling them, basically, I mean, he was talking to the people, he was talking to the priests for letting some of the polluted offerings go, allowing them to bring the, you know, the not the best, not their best of their offerings, and tithes and offerings of the cow, of just their worship, and the priests were letting it go so they were not bringing their best. The Lord requires of us our best, Not the polluted leftovers, but our best.

Now I've given you the requirements, not because I've given them to you, God has. But I've read them to you, but now I want to slow down for a moment. We don't have to struggle to know what God requires of us. God is not up in heaven going, oh, how could I trick my children today and make them do something for me that I'm not gonna tell them about? That's not who God is.

Now I've had bosses like that. I've had bosses like that that don't tell me what's required of me, but I only know that I messed up. When I messed up! And then the explosion happens and the boss gets all crazy like and you're like, what's going on? Why didn't you do this?

I didn't know what was required of me. That's not our God. He tells us what is required of us. And of course our God is an awesome God, our God is a perfect God, our God is a perfect father and a perfect master and all of those things. So as we serve him, God is not the exploding boss that I just mentioned, but God again he's not the author of confusion, God is not out to get us or trick us.

God tells us what and how we are to live. God tells us the requirements. This is not the only time that God shares with us the requirements and the commandments. It's not the only time that Moses has shared it with the children of Israel here and this is not going to be the last before the Lord takes Moses home and they cross over and they go into the Promised Land. It will not be the last.

But again, God doesn't change. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So God is not, as I said, it's not a I got you moment. It's not a you know what servant Justin today you did not do. Now he tells us what is required of us and Moses reminds him of it.

Again quite simply in the text and I don't want to branch too far from it, but quite simply, we have five things to walk in this covenant faithfulness with God. To fear God, walk in his ways, love him, serve him and keep his commandments. So what does the Lord require of us? That's exactly literally what it says here. And now Israel, what does the Lord require of us?

That's exactly, literally what it says here. And now, Israel, what does the Lord require of thee? But to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, to keep the commandments of the Lord and his statutes which I command thee this day for thy good." That's what he requires, a call to faithfulness, a call to do what God says. So talking about them quickly, number one fear God. Now with God, this does not mean that we have to run around and hide and be scared of God.

Right? It's not, now, I mean, there are people that simply have no fear and they live all the different way, but that's between them and the Lord. But again, this fear is to be in reverence and to be in that mindset of the Lord, to be in respect to God, to be obedient to God. This fear of God is not like the vase that you are just waiting for to explode. No, again, this fear here is to be in reverence and respect, to be obedient to God.

To, sure, yes, fear the wrath of God. Yeah, If you're here or listening in your laws, then you must, you need to fear the wrath of God. The wrath of God is very real. The judgment of God is very real. The lake of fire for all eternity is very real.

And that should scare people for sure. But here, as Moses is teaching to the children of Israel, again, it is to be a reverent or to be in reverence to God, to fear God in that way. So what does the Lord require of us? To fear him, to reverence him, to honor him. Number two, to walk in his ways.

That's awesome, right? Shows that we're on a journey, okay? And the journey is not over until we go to be with our Lord. And so while we're here, We have this call to faithfulness. Moses reminding the children of Israel as they're about to enter into the promised land.

Now he's actually already told them as well in previous chapters he says, when you get to the promised land, do not fail or forget to give God thanks for the abundance that they're about to receive. You know, and that's when we typically, in this call to faithfulness, when we are called to walk in his ways, typically human nature-ly-ish, there's a lot of E's there. When we are less faithful, when God is, God is always the best to us, but when we acknowledge or when we, when he is pouring out his blessings upon us, we tend to be less thankful. It's a weird thing. But he tells us, he requires us to walk in his ways, this journey.

So we are to be active in obeying and walking in God's ways. God's ways that are holy. We are to obey God. In all his ways. And the Bible says that God's ways are not our ways.

His ways are better than our ways. So that means that we need to not be walking around like the world walks. But watch this. That means we also not necessarily be walking around the way that other Christians walk. We ought to be walking around the way that God walks.

Our example is not me. Our example, and Paul, Yes, Paul did say, you follow me as I follow Christ. Those are the characteristics that Paul said you follow. You don't follow me because of me. You follow me because of who I'm following.

And if I'm following Christ, those are the things that you are to follow. So God says that we are to walk in his ways, not Moses' ways, not soon to be Joshua's ways. Now follow them again as they follow the Lord, but to walk in God's ways. God again doesn't use trickery and God doesn't use all kinds of things as he calls us and requires us to be faithful to him. He tells us how to walk.

Our walk, our conduct, our manner of life is to be a living testimony for God. In fact later on in chapter 11, and we're not much further past that actually, so this is still a relatively fresh message. My two girls that are here, they're like, yep, it's only been a couple of weeks. We're only a couple of messages into chapter 11. But later, you know, again, he's going to tell them that they are to be that example to the lost around them.

And not in those words, those are the words that we use today New Testament wise, but to those that are not chosen, and that will come out in the second part of the message. But walk in God's ways. God's ways. We don't have to pretend that we don't know. God reveals it to us.

We can justify that we don't want to walk in God's ways because we want to walk in our way. We want to do it our way. We want to live our way. We can try, we can justify it, but our justifying doesn't change God's word. God's word doesn't change.

So he requires us to walk in his ways. Number three, what does the Lord require of you? To love God. People say, well how can this be part of what is to be in this covenant faithfulness of God? You say, of course I love him, Brother Justin.

Okay. How many people enter into marriage in love and then in divorce? So yes, what does the Lord require of us that we love him and we love him because he first loved us. I know all of that, you know all of that. People don't go into marriage typically because they're not in love, but the divorce rate is so high because something happens, something changes within that relationship.

For us in our relationship with God. It is not God that changed God says behold I'm the Lord I change not it is not God that runs out of love So it is us it is our service it is our devotion and it is our faithfulness that changes. So yes, we love him because he loves us and he gives us the ability to love him. You start not walking in God's ways, you start not fearing God, you stop being faithful, and your relationship with the Lord changes. David's relationship with the Lord changed when he sinned with Bathsheba and he asked the Lord to restore to him the joy of his salvation.

He wasn't walking in the ways of the Lord there. God tells us in 1 John that if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins. And John is speaking to believers there. Of course, God is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and salvation as well, but it's another message. So we are, what does the Lord require of us?

To love. Taught this again back in Deuteronomy 6. I'll just read it very quickly. Deuteronomy 6 and verse 5. It says, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might.

These words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart and thou shall teach them diligently into thy children. And thou shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." Don't you love how God uses words that make sense? We know what a journey is. We know what walking is. We understand that.

So on this journey of life as we are serving our Lord, we are called and we are commanded to be faithful to him, to walk in his ways. Really there's a huge emphasis and really a lot more than I ever realized before I started doing the study here in Deuteronomy of how much Moses encourages them to teach their children, to teach the next generation. You kind of know it's there, it's there very, very frequently. It's there in chapter 6, it's there in 10, it's there in 11, it's all throughout Deuteronomy the importance of teaching that generation. And so, again, what does the Lord require of us?

To fear him, to walk in his ways, and to love him, these are our commands. You say, again, why do we need to be reminded of this? Well, they need to be reminded of this because they were not fearing, honoring, and loving God. They were going after idol worship. They felt like they were just running right on back to Egypt, right?

They were following after idols. They were neglecting worship. And so the reminder of this covenant, this call to faithfulness, to love God. That was the Lord who required us, Number four, to serve Him. To serve, to give of our abilities that God has blessed you with.

To serve God in living for Him by doing good to all men, especially under those who have the household of faith, and proclaiming the gospel. To serve him. That's what he says, you need to go out and you need to serve me and I won't take it much further there. At number five, kind of sums it all up here, number five, to keep his commandments. We're to keep the commandments of the Lord.

And here's the really awesome thing, Again, God's commandments are not grievous. And God's commandments are not a burden. They're not meant to drag us down. Rather, the commandments of the Lord take us from being down and they lift us up. When we stay and when we listen and when we do what God says, it is for our good.

Listen again, God is telling us what is required and God is not trying to confuse us as we live for him. And when parents give commands to their children and you're like, ooh, command, rules, whatever. You know, we have rules. The Meyer household had a set of rules. It wasn't because we didn't love our children, we gave them to them because we love, yes, because we do love our children.

And when they're following the rules and they're following the commands, the relationship is stronger and is better. And so God's commands are far better than my commands. They're perfect. And again, it's not that God's just up there, oh yeah, these are from eternity past. God doesn't have to change his rules for me.

He doesn't have to change his rules for the children of Israel. He doesn't have to change his rules for Jonah. He doesn't have to change his rules for Paul. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Again, the commands are not meant to drag us down, but to lift us up.

And God's commands, as I said, many bosses want you just to assume what they want. Now I'm guilty of that. I know these things and I know I shouldn't do those things. As I lead people, there are definitely times that I have forgotten to set the extra... I was talking about work, here.

What are you talking about in the house? Yes, I've done it with my own kids, of course, right? And I have failed to set what was required. I have failed to set the command, the rule, the standard, whatever it may be. And then all of a sudden, they're not doing it.

And I'm like, what is going on? Maybe a little less calm than that, both in the workplace and at home. But again, that's not God. He has called us to this faithfulness, and he's told us to keep his commands. His commands are not grievous, they're not burdensome.

And they're to lift us up. God is not an outright exploding boss, though Yes, sometimes he does send correction. That's not the message tonight, but that is a reality, that is truth. God has explained his expectations. The question for every single child of God this evening is, are we obeying them?

Not as your pastor, not as your pastor's wife, not as the church. Every single person has a responsibility before God to obey his commands. And that's what I want us to get a hold of this evening. That God does this for their good. I told the church again, we're 24 messages into Deuteronomy, and Moses, I feel like I'm getting up and I'm being a little bit of a broken record because he's continually telling them to love the Lord thy God with all their heart, all their soul, all their mind.

He's continually reminding them to be obedient to God. He's continually reminding them that once they get to the promised land, do not fail to give God praise and thanks for the things that you're given. Why do you think that is? Because we're prone to forget. We're prone to wander, Lord, I feel it.

Prone to leave the God I love. And so, you know, I stand up and I kind of introduce Deuteronomy and I'll give the smile and I'll get started and I'm saying it's gonna sound very familiar and what can happen is that when we hear the familiar arity, we're like gonna zone it out because it feels like we just learned that. Don't think for a second that we're the first generation of people to be like, Moses, we've already heard this. Yes, we're gonna be faithful, Moses. Okay, Moses, I got it.

Again, Moses has heard the murmuring and the complaining of the children of Israel a couple times over by now. Again, Moses is the man of God, not able to go into the promised land. Moses as a man can absolutely just be like, that's it, I'm done. I don't wanna talk to these murmurs and complainers anymore. Moses, so awesome, teaches us how to be faithful and teaches us these things.

Was Moses perfect? No. Why? Because he's a man. But, again, we are prone to forget.

We are prone to disobey. And so week after week and time after time as we keep going through this, that's why we are called and reminded to be faithful. Now, secondly, we see in verses 14 and 15, the heart of God's covenant. He says in verse 14 and 15, behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord's by God, the earth also with all that therein is. Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people as it is this day." I think everyone here knows, I think I've probably said it because I've preached here before but creation is one of my favorite topics to preach on and so when I saw this I was like, oh I'm going to just preach creation here but I'm not, I'm going to try to stick with the context of the text in which Moses was teaching here about this covenant and about the call to faithfulness.

The declaration here serves to exalt the sovereignty and the omnipotence of God over all of his creation. Sure, absolutely. Showing God's ownership of everything. From the great cosmos to the very dirt of the earth for a reason, right? To remind them that out of all that is in this earth, All that is in heaven, out of everything that God has made, from the beautiful stars to the oceans that we have now seen, like three times since we've been here this trip, from the oceans and the whales and the insects and the armadillos, from the trees to the fields to the mountains and everything in between and even all the other people on the earth, the heart of the covenant that God made was with Israel.

And He's calling them to be faithful. Folks, He's calling us, His chosen people, to be faithful. So yes, I can preach creation a little bit here, but what Moses was reminding them, what Moses was showing them is that God is the God of the heavens of heavens. God is the God of the entire earth with everything that is in the earth. But only the Lord had a delight in the Father to love them.

And he chose their seed after them. Even you above all people as it is this day. That humbles me. This special relationship is between God's chosen and Him. It is awesome.

The heart of the covenant is right here with God's elect. Those that Jesus shed his blood for upon the cross of Calvary. Of all of the other, again of all of the stars, of all of the planets, of all of everything, of all of the entire universe and the entire world, at the heart of the covenant of God. It's the love for His children. It is God's chosen people that are the recipients of God's amazing grace.

Paul spells that out beautifully for us in the book of Ephesians chapter one, right, verses three through 14, how God chose us before the foundation of the world. And yet people cry out, people say, well, I don't see how you can follow a God like that. And people say, I don't wanna follow a God like that. How is it fair that God would send some to eternal judgment and not others? But I'll say to you, nothing that you don't already know or haven't heard from this pulpit that God would have been perfectly just in sending all of us to hell for our sins because that is the judgment that we all deserve so I thank God for His grace and I thank God for His chosen remnant and I thank God that in that he tells me what he requires of me and he says, Justin, be faithful to me, be faithful to me.

And he's a good master, perfect master in every way. And while I still to this day as I stand before you now do not know why God chose me Justin Meyer before the foundation of the world to be saved. I can tell you I'm glad that he did. I'm so glad that he did. And if you're here this evening and you know that you have been saved, I know that you also are thankful to be His chosen child.

If you're here, if you're listening, I want you to know while I do not know who the elect of God are, I know that Jesus saves his elect. I know that he says in his word, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and now shall be saved in Acts 16, 31. God is able to say, It is Jesus Christ that paid it all, and all to him I owe. Sin had lit the christened stain, he washed it white as snow. It is Jesus Christ that is preached, and it is Jesus even now that I tell you about.

You know today is the day of salvation Tuesday. It's the day of salvation. You know Wednesday is the day of salvation too. So it's Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and every other day that ends with Y. Which really I said everything about Monday so I'll just say it.

All days. But today, tonight, now, it's the day of salvation. If you do not know Jesus as your Savior, He alone can save you. And so I asked you some questions this evening, but do you know Jesus as your Savior? If you are here tonight and you know that Jesus has saved you, then you alone has He chosen you above all people, as the text declares.

What does the Lord require of us? To fear him, to walk in his ways, to love him, to serve him, to keep his commandments. You child of God, you are special. You are a child of the one true King who gave everything, gave his everything to you. You are his, even on this day.

And so you and I have the opportunity to love and to honor in this covenant relationship. And it is not God that will ever let you down. It is not God that will ever forsake you. And so now the challenge to Israel again is they're getting ready to go to the promised land. And we're journeying on, we're going through, right?

We're going on our journey is to honor and love our Lord. So may God help us to be faithful in this call to faithfulness. Now what you're not hearing, and I'm done, but what you're not hearing, I'll tell you why. Let me just read to you verse 16 real quick. It says, circumcised therefore the foreskin of your heart and be no more stiff neck for the Lord your God is a God of gods and the Lord of lords are great and mighty and a terrible which regardeth not persons nor taketh reward.

I'm telling you there are some things that we've got to cut out of our life and there was a whole message devoted just to that. But may God help us to be faithful. I thank you for your attention to the Word of God this evening turn the services back over to the pastor.