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Deuteronomy chapter 7, verses 7 and 8.

It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set

his love on you and chose you, for you are the fewest of all peoples.

But it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the

oath that he swore to your fathers that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand

and redeemed you from the house of slavery from the hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt.

I love those two verses. Like did you hear what God just said to his people?

It says it's not because you're this great, mighty, large group of people that the Lord

set his love on you. God's saying that I didn't love you

because you were this great, mighty, large group of people,

for you were the fewest of all peoples.

So why did the Lord choose?

That's the language here.

He chose you, even though you are the fewest of all peoples.

Why?

And the answer is, it is because the Lord loves you. So the Lord set his love on the people of Israel. Why? Because the Lord loved the people

of Israel.

In other words, it wasn't because of any merit in them at all.

It wasn't because of them at all.

It was because of him. It was because of the Lord that he set his love upon them.

This love initiated, originated, originated in God,

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