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💭 Consider this: What does having a relationship with God mean to you personally? How does this covenant relationship shape and influence the way you relate to friends, family, or unbelievers?

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📣 What is your relationship with God? 🤔

God’s covenant with His people is not a casual agreement—it’s a sacred bond marked by fierce love and radical exclusivity. When Moses bowed before the burning glory of God, he glimpsed a truth we often forget: the God who saves us is also a jealous God. Why does this matter today? Because compromise starts small—a treaty here, an idol there—until we’re trapped.

But the covenant offers a better way: grace, faithfulness, and a love that lasts forever. This isn’t just ancient history. It’s your invitation to a relationship that defines your destiny.

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[19:54] The Abrahamic Covenant [23:38] The Promised Seed - Christ Alone [26:39] I. The Right To The Covenant [29:54] Reasons for Repetitive Prayers [33:11] II. The Reiteration Of The Covenant [35:24] III. The Revelation Of The Covenant [37:26] Believer’s Awesome Responsibilities [40:04] IV. The Response To The Covenant [41:57] Warnings Against Compromise [48:18] God’s Jealousy as Protective Love Practise Biblical Separation

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Do you realise that often we ask for the same thing again and again? We know that God is always with us, yet we ask Him to be with us. We know that God is in control of every situation, yet we ask Him to take control of the present circumstances. We know that God will guide and lead us, yet we ask Him to guide and lead us in the face of trials and temptations.

Why do we do that? Because repetition is an essential part of prayer. The reason why we repeatedly ask for those things is not because God does not know (He knows the end from the beginning), but we are acknowledging that all the things we have received come from Him.

The reason why we repeatedly ask for those things is because we are thankful that He fulfils His promises. The reason why we repeatedly ask for those things is because we are communing with Him, and He wants us to commune with Him—just like a child would communicate with his parents, acknowledging their love for him and his love for them, and being thankful for all the things he received from them.

Notice Moses included himself in the prayer: "Pardon our iniquity and our sin." Although he did not participate in building and worshipping the golden calf, this is what true spiritual leadership is all about. It takes a good leader to identify with the people. Whenever the people sin, the leader feels he is responsible (whether directly or indirectly), so he will include himself in pleading for God’s mercy. The same principle applies to parents as well. We will plead together with our children whenever they go astray from God.

II. The Reiteration Of The Covenant

Our second point is the reiteration of the covenant. God responded to Moses in verse 10: "And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee."

God’s covenant with Moses was not something new, because His covenant could not be broken. So here, it was a reiteration of His covenant. Though God did not explicitly say He will go with His people, or forgive their sins, or help them to inherit the land of promise, all these things were included in the covenant—that He would be their God, and they would be His people.

Dear friend, whenever we have any doubts about the love of God—maybe we feel as if we have sinned so terribly that we have gone beyond His grace, or maybe we feel as if God has forsaken or forgotten about us—all we need to do is to go back to the promises He has made to us in the book of His covenant, the Bible. God will never walk back on His promises.

III. The Revelation Of The Covenant

The third thing we learn is the revelation of the covenant. As God reiterated His covenant, He wanted Moses to understand that His ultimate purpose was for His own glory. The word "marvel" means wonder, and the phrase "a terrible thing" means an awesome thing. His plan and purpose in saving the children of Israel had not changed—it was for His own glory.

Previously, God had demonstrated His wonders in the 10 plagues (Exodus 7-12), the opening of the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21-22), the manna that came down from heaven (Exodus 16:4, 15), the water from the rock (Exodus 17:6), the pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night (Exodus 13:21-22). But here, God revealed that He would display His wonders in such a way that had never been done on the face of the earth or in any nation, and all the people would see His great work through the lives of the Israelites.

This was a reference to them entering the Promised Land. All the nations knew that the children of Israel were weak and untrained, so there had to be a powerful, divine, supernatural Being who had delivered them out of Egypt and helped them to defeat the inhabitants of the land.

With this awesome thing that God would do in and through their lives comes an awesome responsibility—and that is, the children of Israel had to live differently from the rest of the unbelieving world and to point them to the one living and true God.

Dear friend, today, God has the same purpose for you and me. He has sent His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to be the Saviour of the world. We have heard and believed in the gospel—by grace, we are saved—and God continues to work in and through our lives. For what purpose? Why not just take us to heaven immediately?

So that you and I can be the salt and the light of the earth—to declare the gospel, which has saved and transformed our lives, throughout the entire world. (Matthew 5:13-16) And the way for us to do it is to live differently from the rest of the unbelieving world.

It does not mean that our lives can save anyone. No matter how well we live, our lives cannot do that—only the gospel saves. But our lives can make the gospel believable. It can either make the believers or unbelievers say things like: ‘I wonder how the gospel can transform your life so amazingly. Please share with me—I want to know it.’ Or it can make them say: ‘You are no different from the rest. Your life has not been transformed by the gospel. You are doing what all the others are doing. Please keep the gospel to yourself.’