The Secret Things Of God

Deut. 29:29 9/14/25 a.m. “The Secret Things of God”

A couple of months ago we were up in North Dakota. There’s not a whole lot to see up there. A lot of farmland. But one thing they have that we don’t have down here in Oklahoma is SILOS. Now you may be thinking, “Well, I know where there are some SILOS.” Yeah, I do too but I’m not talking about GRAIN SILOS, I’m talking about MISSILE SILOS. Underground chambers that contain ICBM’S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. And on the tips of those missiles are NUCLEAR WARHEADS. There are ACTIVE MISSILE SILOS there now and then there are DEACTIVATED SILOS. For some reason they wouldn’t let us go to the ACTIVE ONES but they do have DE-ACTIVATED ones that you can tour.

And so we went up just to the North of Cooperstown, North Dakota to the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile Control Center. It’s kind of amazing. You pull up there and there’s a lot of Barbed Wire but the building is not very big. Nothing really impressive. But this is what I want you to get. It’s not what you see above the ground that matters. It’s what you don’t see that matters.

I want to read just one Verse this morning. I have never preached from this passage before but let’s look at Verse 29 of Chapter 29 of the Book of Deuteronomy.

“The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.”

If you look on up to Verse 1 in this Chapter, Moses is speaking to the Nation of Israel one last time. He says,

“These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.”

Here they are, near the Promised Land. Moses would soon die there in the wilderness and Joshua would soon lead the Children of Israel across the Jordan River. Major things were getting ready to happen. 40 years before this, at Mount Sinai, the Nation of Israel had made a covenant with God. I want us to look at that covenant.

Let’s read Exodus 24, Verses 7 and 8.

“And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.

8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.”

The people are standing there listening to Moses. They had all agreed to make this COVENANT with the Lord. They had AGREED to OBEY HIM. And so Moses had SPRINKLED them with the BLOOD of the SACRIFICE. The BLOOD of the COVENANT. The COVENANT had been made and you might say CONSUMMATED with the BLOOD of the SACRIFICE.

And so we look at this Verse, 40 years later. Many of the people are dead. They have been through some really hard times and Moses says this right here.

“The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.”

And so let’s go to the Lord in Prayer.

Brother ____, would you lead us?

I. I mentioned the Ronald Reagan Minute Men Missile Control Center. We pulled up there and it didn’t seem like much. We went inside the front door. Paid our $10 a piece. Set down in front of a little TV and VCR and watched a video.

We then went on a little tour of the building. The kitchen area where the guards ate. The bedrooms where they slept. WOO HOO exciting stuff. I was starting to think, “Ten bucks ain’t much but man this ain’t much to see.” But then they took us into the front security area. It started becoming more clear just how tight the security actually was. And then they took us through a door and there was an elevator. We got on and it dropped us 50 feet into the ground. We got off the elevator and there was a door 4 feet thick that weighed literally thousands of pounds. Inside was two control centers that two missiliers would set at. And these two men would set there ready to punch in the CODES that would launch NUCLEAR WARHEADS all over the world.

And I’m telling you this because it kind of BLEW MY MIND that just a little shack out on the North Dakota prairie was hiding something SO POWERFUL and SO IMPORTANT.