Pastor Brent began by repeating the theme of this sermon series on The Promises of God: “God’s people in God’s place under God’s rule in God’s holy and loving presence.” After an opening illustration about President George Washington’s Farewell Address in 1796, Pastor Brent used Moses’ Farewell Address in Deut. 6 to reveal the purpose of the law. The law was both functional and redemptive, designed to point us to Christ. Secured by Christ’s life, death, and resurrection, Christians obey God out of love and freedom rather than out of fear and slavery.