Deuteronomy chapter number 5. Try to lay down a little ground work as we look at this chapter and we look at the end through the book. This is the longest message in the Bible. There is no message comparative to this message. This is Moses giving his final message, the last message from Moses, the man of God. The Bible actually compares Moses with Jesus. uh... and jesus is compared to most when jesus spoke about here in the word of god he told me i'll listen to what moses had to say amen and uh... tremendous man moses the only one who looked upon the face of god are actually looked upon god and lived uh... didn't look upon his face but they spoke the bible says face to face And so there's no one exactly like Moses in the scriptures. Amen. He asked the Lord that he would see him. He said he couldn't see his face, but he would hide him in that cliff of the rock, that crevice, and then he would walk by and he could look upon God. What a tremendous thing. When he come off the mountain meeting with God, his face shined to where he had to put a veil over his face. His face was so bright. that they couldn't look upon it. You say, well, that's strange. Well, that'll be common in eternity with the saints of God. The Bible says those who have been faithful to the Lord, those who have been faithful to lead others and lead folks to righteousness will shine as the brightness of the firmament forever and ever. So there'll be people's faces shining in eternity. Amen. because they walked with God and did what was right on this earth in serving the Lord. Amen. Chapter 5 begins, maybe the first five chapters or four chapters seem to be the introduction to this message. And then chapter 5 seems to be the beginning and the setting of the rest of the message. And so we'll start in chapter 5 and verse number 1. And Moses called all Israel and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them and keep and do them. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. And may I say this, wherever you're at in your life, this Bible is active to you right where you're at. You don't have to wait till you get older. You don't have to look back and say you're past this or past that. Moses said, this is for us. This is for us. Don't look back and say it was for somebody else. It was for us. He says, this is for us. We are alive this day. We're here. That's who it's for. The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire. I stood between the Lord and you at that time. to show you the word of the Lord, for you were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Thou shalt have none other gods before me. Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth, thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them. For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children under the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. Does it pay to serve God? I think that says yes, amen. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it as the Lord thy God has commanded thee, six days. Thou shalt labor and do all thy work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it. Thou shalt not do any work. Thou nor thy son or thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand, and by a stretched-out arm. Therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day. Honor thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thy days may be prolonged. and that it may be well with thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill, neither shalt thou commit adultery, neither shalt thou steal, neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor, neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is thy neighbor's. These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and out of the thick darkness, with a great voice, and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone and delivered them to me. We're going to pray and ask God to help us. Amen. And trust God to give us what we need. Father, in Jesus' name, thank you for the privilege, Lord, to be in this place today. Thank you, Lord, for the worship and, Lord, the praise that we experienced and heard and participated in in the service. Thank you, Lord, that you are glorified in the minds and hearts of people. Help us, Lord, to bring the message that you want today, and, Lord, that you would speak to our hearts from it, and we'll thank you and give you the glory. Speak to those who are lost. Speak to those who are saved. and speak to those who are, Lord, not where they should be with you. We'll thank you for all that and give you the glory. We ask it in the name of Jesus and for your glory. Amen and amen. As I said earlier, the message is all the way through the book. It is one message, and apparently Moses gave it in one setting. And he spoke all these words the Bible teaches us to the people of God, instructing them because they were about to go in to the land of Canaan. They were going to leave the wilderness and cross the Jordan and enter Canaan. And in that place, God was going to give them this great land that they were to live in. So this message, as Moses gives it, you'll look at numerous places in it, is setting the stage for their victory in Canaan land. That they could go into Canaan land and have God's continual blessing. and he is continuously warning them that if they will do and obey they will continually have God's blessing. If they do not obey God, then they bring a curse upon themselves and the judgment of God upon themselves and upon their family by their disobedience to God. If you have time sometime, it takes a while, you can sit down and read the whole book in one setting and get the ideal of everything that is staged in each part of the message, amen. As he deals with their lives, he deals with their worship, He deals with their personal lives one toward another. How do they treat each other? All those things are expressed in this book and he says to them this is how God will bless you in the land of Canaan. Amen. When you enter the land now, there's several things to understand entering Canaan I did not mean it would be a land of peace. Matter of fact, there was more war in the first few years in Canaan than all the years they'd spent in traveling in the wilderness. Matter of fact, when they entered into the land of Canaan, it was continuous war. It was battle after battle after battle after battle. When you get saved does not mean you will not have any battles. Sometimes people get saved, they experience everything to just be rosy and peachy and all the things will be fine. It's not always that way. It may be that way a while, it may break out in more the next day, amen. People sometimes get saved and they have things that follow them from their past that brings battles into their life. They sometimes have people in their past and in their present that brings battles into their life. Sometimes they have issues and situations that conflict comes in and sometimes they meet folks in the path of their life that brings conflict. These people were fixing to enter battles that they have never experienced in their whole life. They were going to have battle after battle after battle after battle. But God still said, by obeying and following these things, they would be blessed. Amen. Not only that, but it was not a guarantee that there would not be temptation. In other words, it's not a land of innocence. Entering Canaan, the first battle they fought brought a curse into the camp of Israel. They went in, they crossed over, they fought the battle of Jericho. The next battle was Ai and they were defeated. Because that they had brought out of Jericho, one family had brought out a Babylonian garment and some gold and silver. Now the Bible says the Babylonian garment was the worst part of it. Because God had told them he did not want them to look like or be like the people that they were going to be going in and taking their land. So here we find that even in the land of Canaan, it was not a land of innocence. It was not a land of sinlessness, maybe it would be better to say. It was not a land where there was no temptation or conflict. Because you get saved does not mean that you're going to have a peace and contentment every day with no battle with the devil. Amen. I don't know exactly how Achan was tempted that day. The Bible said he saw the Babylonian garment and he saw, was it a wedge of gold and how many pieces of silver? Don't remember off the top of my head, was it 20 or 10? But he saw it. And so sometimes just being living where you're at is gonna bring something to your mind through your eyes that you got to deal with. But the fact is God's word still works. So the land of Canaan had a lot of things that they were not aware of at first. He had warned them that the people would influence them. They had some situations where there was people came to them, the Gibeonites came to them and deceived them and they got off track because of the influence. of people that was not telling them the truth. So all these things, and I don't have time to cover all, but there's many things happened in the land of Canaan, but yet God said if they would follow these principles, God would bless them. Now there's something that Moses did all the way through the book, and that's what I'm going to draw attention to today. He used the word remember. Over and over and over and I'll not be able to use every time he said remember Some of the times he repeated himself. He said to them Numerous times that they will remember their bondage There was other things he reminded, but I'm gonna use a number of them, 10 or 11 or 12, whatever it comes out to be, that he said to them, I want you to remember, if you will remember this, if you will remember this, if you will remember this, if you will remember this, these are the things that's going to keep you and give you victory if you will not forget, if you will remember this. The Bible tells us there's people who forget. The Bible says we need to give them more earnest heed to the things we have heard, less than any time we should let them slip. We forget, we forget, we forget, or we put off or we neglect. The word remember has the surrounding thoughts of bringing it to your mind often. keeping it in your thoughts, recalling the facts, looking at all the circumstances of it, amen. So when you remember, you're thinking, you're looking at, you're observing as if you was there again, amen. It's kind of like some of the songs we've heard this morning and they're talking about God's answering prayer and looking back and saying, did God do this? Sure he did that, amen. Thank God he did, amen. So the first thing is in this chapter, verse 15, he says, and remember that thou wast a servant. Remember, in the midst of all these commandments that he is listing, this verse that I'm quoting from here is not in the list of commandments, over in the commandments. But in the midst of these, Moses said, remember where you come from. Remember, you used to be a servant before you had these commandments, before you had God's rules and regulation, before you had God's direction. You were a servant to sin. You were a servant to Pharaoh. You was a servant in Egypt. You were a slave. Amen. And may I say to you this morning, before you got saved, you was a slave to the world, to the flesh, and the devil. Amen. He says, remember that in sin you had no liberty, amen. Don't ever believe that serving God is bondage. Don't ever believe that living for God is some sort of captivity. Matter of fact, the most freedom you'll ever have in your life is when you're obeying God. James said it's the perfect law of liberty. In other words, if you obey everything in God's Word, you'll have more liberty than any other way you could ever have it. In other words, young people sometimes, they think by stepping over the line of God's Word, they get some freedom. For instance, young people oftentimes lose their purity, disobeying God's Word. And once they cross that line, they are in a captivity. Before they crossed that line, they were free over here. But once they crossed that line, they're in a captivity. They're in a place where now they can be gouged and poked and pried by the devil again and again and again and again and again. Sometimes they cross that line with habits, maybe drinking or drugs or some other sin or some other vice. While they were in God's will, they were perfectly free. But once they cross that line, they're in bondage. Now they've opened a door that they cannot close. They have put their life through a position that Satan has the opportunity to target them again and again and again. And it doesn't matter whether it may be lying or stealing or whatever other corruption it might be, inside God's law is the most perfect liberty there is. If you obey that as an individual, you have liberty. If you obey that as a husband, you obey that as a wife, you obey that as a child, as a teenager, a young person, wherever you're at in your life, wherever you're at in the scope of your life, if you obey God, you have the best, most perfect liberty ever can be had. Amen. When God says it's a law of liberty, it's kind of like a little boy, and his dad buys him the go-kart, and he's got a four-acre yard, and he says, son, you can drive all you want inside this four-acre yard. I'll give you, you run out of gas, I'll get you another can. And he rides around and around and around the yard. He said, but you can't go outside the gate now. You can't get out on the road. Well, after three or four days, the devil says, you'll have more fun out there on the road. Your dad just don't want you to have a lot of fun. You can have a lot more fun out on the road than you can in this yard. You're just going around and around in a circle in this yard. But the thing is, in that yard, he is safe. In that yard, he has dad's blessings. In that yard, he's protected. In that yard, he has freedom and liberty. But the moment he leaves the gate and goes outside, he's in danger. The devil doesn't tell him about the tractor-trailer coming down the road, the log truck. He just tells you you're going to have a lot of fun out there on the road, in the go-kart. In every aspect of life, that's exactly what the devil does. He comes to Eve in the garden and he says, hath God said? And he begins to question everything God has said. He said, you'll not surely die, but she did surely die. He says, remember, you was in bondage before you got God's rules, not in bondage after you got God's rules. Don't ever forget that sin was the slavery that you was in before. When you got saved or whoever that I'm speaking to this morning and me and myself included, amen, when we got saved, we were delivered from the bondage of sin. We were slaves and servants to ourself, our flesh, and the world, and the devil, and only God can set us free. Turn to chapter 7 and verse number 18. Satan had all sorts of ways of attacking us. As I said, all of us got outside the gate somewhere. All have sinned to come short of the glory of God. None are righteous, no, not one. You sinned, I sinned, we sinned, we all sinned, amen? And that's why we needed a Savior. We were all headed for hell without a Savior. We look back and we say, what the hell was it when I crossed them lines? You know, everything the devil ever said to make me happy made me sad. Before it's over with, it made me sad. Everything the devil ever told me would make me better made me worse. Everything the devil ever told me would bring me gain brought me loss. Everything he ever told me was a lie. He made it look pretty, but it wasn't. He made it look some way, but he was a liar. Amen. The Bible says, verse 17, let's read it. If thou shalt say in thine heart, these nations are more than I, I now more than I, how can I dispose of them? Thou shalt not be afraid of them, but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh and unto all of Egypt." He said, I want you to never forget, I want you to always remember how I brought you out in the beginning. I had to set you free in the beginning. You're going to face more enemies, more difficulties, more temptations, more problems. But look back on the day I set you free. Remember what I did to Pharaoh. Remember how I broke the bondage that Pharaoh had over you. One day when you got saved, the devil's bondage was broken and God set you free. Amen. And now you don't have to worry about what's coming down tomorrow or next week. There's a lot of people worried about something of their past. If God has saved you, praise God, it may come back up, but God's victory is still good. Remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh and unto Egypt. When you go into the land of Canaan, there's going to be more battles. There's going to be more conflicts. But is there any military force as great as the army of Egypt? None. The nations they were facing was nothing compared to Egypt. And may I tell you, the bondage, the slavery you was in when you got saved was as great as it could get. But God set you free, amen. He said, I want you to remember, I want you to remember, I want you to remember what's happened in the past and how the Lord has set you free. Who wants to be, who wants to become, or who wants to be like the world that's in loss? Who would you like to be like? Bonnie and Clyde. They're famous. You can still see pictures of the automobile with three or four hundred holes in it, ain't it? Jesse James, I mean, maybe some of them, or maybe somebody like Marilyn Monroe. Who is the person that's outside the boundaries of God that you would like to be like? Maybe Elvis Presley, who died while he was in his forties. Now look at his family. I wonder how many in the 60's said they'd like to be like Elvis. Is there somebody outside the boundary of God that has a greater impact than what maybe you'd like to be like Hitler? He was looked up to for years and years. Mussolini. Here are Hitto and thousands and thousands of others, amen. History proves those who have no respect for God cannot be respected, amen. Is there anyone that's rich, a ladder, a plateau that you're looking at? May I say to you, if you're not following Jesus Christ, you're following a lost path. No, I don't care if it's a movie star, a singer, is it Whitney Houston? When she was at her pinnacle, people idolized her, they don't today. Wonder why? And thousands and thousands of others. I was reading articles one day that I didn't know because she made that song so famous. I didn't know she bought that song from that other songwriter. What was her name? She bought that song from Dolly Parton. You know how much she gave Dolly for that song? Ten million. That's the song that made her famous. But who would want to be like her today? Or any of her family? You see, the devil is a trickster, he's a liar. Outside the boundary of God, there is no liberty. Outside the boundary of God, there is no freedom. Inside the word of God, you have perfect freedom, perfect liberty. God can defeat every enemy if you'll stay inside the boundary of God's will. Look in chapter eight and verse number two. And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness to humble thee and to prove thee and to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep the commandments or no. Has God failed to lead you in the right direction? Every time a Christian starts to even step across the line, the Holy Spirit says, don't do that. Getting ready to say something you're not to say? Don't say that. Getting ready to go somewhere you should not go? Don't go there. Has he not been faithful to lead you? He said, remember, I've led you all the way to now. What makes you think I can't lead you from here? Amen. What makes you think I will not continue to lead you? Some of our Sunday school kids was in that sense this morning. If God's led you to now, friend, he will lead you all the way. He will lead you all the way. His sons and daughters are led by the Spirit of God. Amen. He said, I want you to always remember. I've seen folks up here in the choir singing when they're singing about prayer, and some of them lifting their hands, and I thought I remembered when she had that prayer, and that one had that prayer, and this one had that prayer, and God led them, and God took care of them, and now they're up here, they're rejoicing, and I don't know if their mind was in the same place of mine, but I was thinking, I remember when they prayed. I remember when they prayed and God stepped in and God led them through those shadowy moments and those dark valleys and God brought them out and now they're up there shining for God. He said, I want you to remember all the times I led you. I want you to remember. You better not look ahead without looking back and thinking, God, for everything He's brought you through up till now, He's brought you to where you're at today. He's got you sitting in the house of God. He's got you here where you can listen to the scripture and know what God wants for your life. For God's sake, don't bottle on the thing today and give up. Amen. Amen. Amen. You're going into Canaan. You're going into the land that I'm going to give you. I'm going to bless you, but you need to remember and not forget. Remember Moses did not go in with them. He died on the outside. God told him he would not live to go into Canaan land. He dies on that side. But he said, I'm telling you these are the things, that's what you need as you go into Canaan. If you want to live a victorious life in Canaan, have God's blessings in Canaan, then listen to the leadership of God when you go into Canaan. Amen. Are you listening? Chapter number eight again. Verse number 18. But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant, which he sware unto thy fathers as it is today." He makes this remindment to them more than once. What you have, God gave you. You say, no, what I've got God, I work for it. Not unless God let you get out of bed. Not unless God let you be able to eat and digest your food. Not unless God let you have eyes to see and ears to hear. Not unless God done all the other things. You are blessed of God. He said, don't forget I'm the one who gave you power to get to where you're at right now. I would dare to say everybody in this building drove in a better vehicle than you ever expected 25, 30 years ago. You probably got more clothes, you probably got better things than you ever planned on. Hey, some of us run out to the outside toilet a few times, amen, and most people don't even know what that is today. We're blessed of God beyond measure, amen. He said, don't forget, you remember what you have. You remember what you have and how you've been blessed with wealth. I gave it to you. Don't ever forget how you got to where you're at. He said, oh, preacher, I've worked. There's people got up to go to work this morning that's paralyzed, will never walk another step. And because, my friend, they can never take care of themselves again, someone will have to take care of them. There's people woke up this morning blind and they seen when they went to bed last night. There's people woke up this morning deaf and they could hear when they went to bed last night. Are you listening? You and I need to remember everything we have come from God. Every good thing, every perfect thing, every gift, God has enabled you to have it and he is to always get the glory and always get the praise and be magnified for it. Moses said, don't ever forget it. He gave extensive instruction. He said, you'll eat from trees you did not plant. He said, you'll dwell in houses you did not build. You'll live in towns that you did not construct. He said, you'll have all these things. He said, don't ever forget they all come from God. They all come from God. How many ate a piece of fruit last week? How many ate it off of the tree you grazed? Isn't that something? I wonder how many of us had a strawberry last week. Isn't that something? In the middle of the, well, spring winter, amen. King David couldn't have had a strawberry in the winter. Solomon couldn't have had a strawberry in the winter. Doubtful Hitler could have had one in the winter. Or Mussolini. Or Harry Hitto. But you did. And if you didn't have one, you could have had one. God said, don't ever forget everything you got. I bless you with it. I mean, last week when I went to Virginia, I said, Lord, God, thank you for this vehicle I'm driving. I do not deserve it. And I could never thank you enough. And the highway I'm driving on, I remember when I used to go up that way, there was no four-lane highway. There was no I-64. There was no I-81. What now is a five-hour trip was then an 11-hour trip. There was no rest stops. Oh, there was a picnic table and an outdoor toilet here and there along the highway. That's what was a rest stop. It wasn't no clean place to go in where it's heated in the winter and air-conditioned in the summer, and they furnished the toilet paper for you. Are you listening? We're blessed, blessed, blessed. He said, when you get all this, don't forget it was God that gave it. You know what's happened to our country? He just forgot God. It does not remember God gave us all this. He said, don't forget. Remember. Remember, I blessed you. Remember, I'm the one. I am the one. Oftentimes, Israel is looked down upon. From the time Joshua died until Nehemiah rebuilt the wall was 1,000 years. This nation hasn't been here 300 years. 200 and what? 1776, figure it out, you mathematicians. We haven't been here 300 years, and look what we've turned into. Sometimes people look at Israel and say, how can they get their, how can they turn their back on God? Look what our nation has done in 200 and some years. Underneath my one of the greatest revival spiritually that ever has been seen, as far as coming back distinctly to the word of God. You don't have to go haywire. You don't have to go down some crazy road and turn your back on God. He said, remember, remember, remember. If you'll just go into the land of Canaan and remember, and remember, and remember, you'll go right if you'll remember. But if you forget, He said, you'll leave God if you forget. He said, teach your children all these things. When they're born, they're gonna ask, mom, dad, why do we do this? Why do we do that? Why do we do this? For God's sake, don't say preacher Jones said that. Say the Bible says this. The word of God says this. This is what the Lord loves. He said, when you go in the land of Canaan, remember, remember, remember, Chapter nine, verse number seven. He says, remember and forget not how thou provokest the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness. Don't forget when you disobey God, it brought chastisement. You know, one of the most miserable moments for a Christian is just after they disobey God. just after they disobeyed God. Absolutely no peace, no peace, no peace because they disobeyed God. And God says, remember, disobedience brings difficulty. Was it Becky? Tell me about which one getting a spanking the other day on her hand? Was that you? Oh, OK. Oh, I remember as Jana was telling me. I'll not tell you all that story, but she spanked her and said no. Well, she did it again. Spanked her and said no. Spanked her and said no. And that happened three or four or five times. And then she started toward it, and she said no. And she said, see, spanking your child will keep them out of trouble. God says, remember when you disobeyed me, how it affected you. Remember when you disobeyed God, what it did to you. You want to have no peace? You want to have that sleepless night? You want to wrassle all night? You want to wrassle tomorrow? You want to wrassle the next day? You want to go through all that? Why don't you just obey God? Young people learn, it'll pay off to obey God. You don't have to go down a dark valley to learn. Amen. He said, remember, don't forget it. Don't forget it. Don't forget it. Many times with a little child, you just go after they've done God a few of them. They don't want no more of that. Amen. God said, if you forget I chastise, you'll get into trouble. You go the wrong way. You'll get out of sorts with God. You'll end up in problems. Amen. You'll not be right with God. Look in chapter 9, verse 27. In this text, he says, you're going to have people that's going to serve you over there. You're going to have people that's working for you when you get over into Canaan. You're going to have some people working for you. He said, remember how I forgave you. Be willing to do the same for them. He said, remember, in verse number 27, he said, remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to the wickedness, nor to their sin. He says, you've got to remember every time they bucked me, they got into trouble, but God sets some examples for you. There's no better example than those who have lived before us who have said, I'm going to serve the Lord, and I'm going to live for God. They were done wrong. They were mistreated. Things happened to them, and they still serve God. Who are you going to look to for an example? I've got somebody in here that I was thinking the other day when I was reading a verse in this chapter. I was thinking of four men, and I prayed for them. One of them's already gone to be with the Lord. They were four bosom buddies, and they complimented each other's rebellion. Not a one of them's in church today. One of them's gone to heaven. He called and apologized and asked me to forgive him before he went to heaven. That's good. Thank God for that. Do you want to pick out somebody that's not gonna serve God, that's not gonna get along, that's not gonna do right? Why don't you just go back and pick out Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and say, I tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna follow somebody that just kept on serving God, regardless of what happened. There's not a person alive that hasn't been offended. There's not a person alive that hasn't had their feelings hurt. Matter of fact, you know who can hurt your feelings the most? Him. Not me. Him. Because you love each other. You know who can hurt your feelings the most? It's him, that buzzard there. It's because we love each other. Some people say, oh, it's the people. Does Saddam Hussein hurt your feelings? You don't even know him. We're going to hurt each other's feelings. There's not going to be a time that somebody's going to live through this world with a Donald and not be hurt. Look what happened to the forefathers, but they served God anyway. Did God forgive you? He didn't forgive everybody else. Amen. Say, what are we going to do? Get over it and go on. Get over it and go on. Live for Jesus. There's people out of church today that will never be back to the house of God because they put their feelings on their shoulder and the devil made sure they got knocked off. Well, I brought my casserole and there wasn't nobody even eating it. Take it back and give it to your husband. Are you listening? Abraham served God. Isaac served God, even Jacob served God. You know what the Lord says when we get to heaven we're going to do? We're going to sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That's right, they served God. We're going to sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We're going to sit down over and over. We're going to get to sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Amen. Pick out somebody that's going to serve God and let them be the one that influences your life. Who hasn't been hurt? Who hasn't been offended? It ain't some stranger in Oceania that's done me the worst. It's people that I went to church with that's done me the worst in my lifetime. A preacher that ought not to be. I didn't say it should be. I'm just saying get over it. and serve God and go on for the Lord and do what's right and be what God wants you to be no matter what. There are servants of God that serve the Lord. Job's friends come, his best friends. They sit down with Job. Job is now, every one of his children's been killed. That's a bad shape to be in. He's covered in sores from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet. He was a wealthy man, he's lost everything he owned. And his three friends come and sit down and watch him for a week and never spoke a word. Just stared at him, the Bible says. And then one of them said, you know what? It's all Job's fault. Paraphrasing. Isn't that a way to comfort you, buddy? Hey, Job, you are hiding some kind of mean, wicked sin somewhere in your life. You know what Job did at the end? He prayed for him. He prayed for him. And you know what God did? He forgave him for the way they treated Job. Job prayed for him, and God forgave him. How is it we want God to take care of us, but we don't want to take care of nobody else? It doesn't work that way. Amen. He told them, he said, you're going to have servants and slaves and people. And he says, they're going to want to be free. And it comes time to be free. He said, you let them go free. And he said, not only that, you make sure they don't go out empty. He said, if they need cattle, you give them cattle. If they need livestock, you give it to them. Whatever they need, you give it to them. He said, because I delivered you from Egypt. I brought you out of bondage. You was a slave and I made you something. He said, if you have a servant that's going to be leaving, you make sure that servant don't leave empty handed. Are you listening? He said, if you'll do that, you'll be blessed in the land. You'll be blessed in the land. You'll be blessed in the land you're going into. When Jeremiah was preaching, And God was going to destroy Jerusalem. Here's what He said. If you'll keep that one commandment, I'll spare Jerusalem. What commandment? He said, you let your servants go. You give them freedom. If they want to go, they're allowed to go. He said, if you obey that one commandment, He said, I'll spare Jerusalem. You know what they did? They let them all go. But in a few months, they went and got them back. And God said, I'm going to destroy Jerusalem. He said, now, no matter what you do, I'm gonna destroy the city. You wouldn't obey that one command. If whatever's in your heart this morning, you better make sure it's clear with God towards somebody else. Are you listening? God is serious. Chapter 15. Verse number 15. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee. Therefore I command thee this thing today. Don't ever forget, God set you free. And over and over, he'll make that statement in this book. Don't ever, always remember, you was a bondman. Don't ever forget, you was a bondman. You was in bondage one day, and God set you free. Look at chapter 16. Say, preacher, I want to live a victorious Christian life. Then remember these things. Verse 3, he says, thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, therewith even the bread of affliction. For thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste, that thou mayest remember. the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt, all the days of thy life." He said, don't ever forget the day I set you free. They had this feast. I know people that have a bigger feast on the day they got saved holiday than their birthday. You may not remember the date as far as April the 6th or January the 4th or whatever it might be, but you'll remember the time when God saved you. Amen. God says you make a big deal out of that. We oftentimes have big birthday parties and all kinds of things and there's nothing wrong with that. Apparently that's what they did in Job's family. All his children had birthdays and they all come for the birthday party. But God said, don't you ever forget the day I set you free. That's the more important day. That's the most important day in your life. That's the most important day you had to celebrate. It's the day God saved you. It's great. We had David and Andy over here celebrating her anniversary. But they've also acknowledged and she acknowledged it wasn't for the Lord. We'd never have this. The day God saved us, that's what made it all possible. He said, don't you ever forget the day as long as you live. As long as you live, make that day remembered in your life. The preacher said, I don't have no day, there's something missing. Maybe that's the reason you're in a mess. Are you listening? He said, as you go into the land of Canaan, don't ever forget the day. And they had the Passover to remind them of that day continuously over and over and over. We should celebrate our anniversary. Nothing wrong with celebrating our birthday. But I tell you what's more important than that is the day you got saved. The day you got saved. They can celebrate theirs together because they got saved on the same day. Ain't that wonderful? That's great. But the day you got saved, he said, don't ever forget it. Don't ever forget it. Remember it. Remember it. Remember it, amen. Remember it. Again, in verse number 12 of chapter 16, he says, and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. Again and again, it reminds them, don't forget you was a bondman. Don't forget you was in slavery. Don't forget you was in captivity. Turn to chapter 24. I'm not going to have time to cover all these, but I'm going to skip over some. Chapter 24. It's amazing what he writes in these chapters. Verse number 9. Remember what the Lord thy God did to Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. Isn't that amazing he'd write that? Isn't that amazing? Did he write it? We remember what happened to Miriam, what happened to Miriam? She talked bad about the preacher. And God gave her leprosy. Moses prayed for and God healed the leprosy. They said, don't ever forget that. I was thinking of other things he reminded us of in other places of scripture. He said, remember Lot's wife. There's other things in the Bible he says, remember, don't ever forget this. In this place he said, remember what I did to Miriam. You know why he said that? He is sending Joshua to lead them into the land of Canaan. He said, you need to obey the man of God that God's going to put over you. It's going to be Joshua. And he says, you need not forget what I did to Mary. That's amazing, God. In the midst of this message, in all these chapters, I mean, He could have brought up a lot of things. But right in the midst of it, He says, don't ever forget what I did to Mary. Amen? Are you listening? Are we reading from the book, just God's precious word? Chapter 25. I said, preacher, I want to be blessed in the land of Canaan. And you better remember these things. The land of Canaan is a picture of the victorious Christian life, living for Jesus on a daily basis. Verse 17 says, remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when you were come forth out of Egypt. How he met thee by the way and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary, and he feared not God. Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. Thou shalt not forget it. You better never forget, buddy, what the devil did to you. And you better never let him have the opportunity to do it again. He said, Amulek didn't fear God. Look what they did. They destroyed the weak among you. Boy, I tell you, you don't have to look around long, maybe go back just a few years and you remember Christians and people who seemed to love God and they were weak and the devil destroyed them. Why would you and I want to serve the devil? He said, don't ever give them the opportunity to ever do it again. Don't ever forget it. Don't ever forget it. Parents, listen. You think your kids are not vulnerable? You're crazy. Don't ever forget what the devil's done to other kids. Protect them, serve God, and don't let Amalek have a chance. He said, when you get in and you get the peace and the rest, he said, make sure Amalek is forgotten forever. And don't ever forget what they did. God could have said a lot of things, but he mentioned Amalek. He said, don't ever forget it. Keep it in your mind. Remember how Satan destroys people's lives. You young couples, you don't have to look far, you'll see a couple destroyed. Divorce, family torn apart, broken hearts. Don't ever forget that that's the same devil that wants to destroy your life. That's the same devil that wants to hurt your children. That's the same devil. That's the same Amalek that hates this church and all others. Same one. He said, don't ever forget what he done. Don't ever forget I destroyed the weak. You picked out the weak and destroyed them. Don't ever forget that. Are you listening? Turn to chapter 32. We'll get over to the end. We're not going to get done, but we'll get somewhere, amen? Some of you are already tired and your chicken's burning anyway, and some of you got something besides your chicken burning, amen? He comes, he's almost closing the message. He's almost at the end of it. Verse seven, remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask thy father, he will show thee, thy elders, and they will tell thee. Remember the old way. Remember the old way of many generations. God's still the same. His laws have not changed. His rules are still the same. Look back and say, why did they do that? I'll tell you why they did that. They read a verse of scripture, and they said, I think this is what that means, and this is what we're going to do. That's why this nation had dress codes up until the last generation or generation and a half, because they read in the Bible. They said, you know what? They said, I believe we're supposed to look different. And they did. Because it said it in the Bible. That's why they had standards about other things in their life and the way they lived and they raised their children and so on and so on. Because they read it in the Bible. Amen. He said, you better not get to a new place. You go back and stay on the old stuff. Go back many generations and stay with the old stuff. Jeremiah said, seek the old path, where's the good way, and walk therein. They said, we're not walking that old path. God said, you'll be destroyed if you don't. And they was. We can go the new way. We can go the new way. Is that what you want? You want to just take our signs off the bathrooms back there and just have open bathrooms? You want to have no standards for the way we live? You want your children to not even know whether they're boys or girls? We're in a crazy world. And they think we're nuts. He says, you remember the old timers. That's the way to go. You'll be going right if you go the old way. You'll be going right. Moses says in my last message, never speak to you again. Never bring you another message. But he said, if you'll do this, you'll be blessed in the land that I'm sending you into. You'll be blessed. And God will bless you. But if you don't do it, he said, you'll be cursed. Then he said, choose you this day, blessing or cursing. Make up your mind what you want. Let's bow our heads and pray.