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Now I want you to pay attention it wasn't anything in Israel wasn't the third their military.
Guys you know what's wrong with some of you, you know why you're gonna go to hell.
Some of you in this room are gonna go to hell.
Because you comprehend religion, but you don't comprehend grace.
You have no idea.
Some of you in here want to learn about the theological ramifications and systematic theology.
Of grace you want to try to discern and figure out with your over
exaggerated brain pan the lapsarian understanding of God's decree of grace.
It's never met your heart.
Some of you have been sitting in churches your whole life.
And you say you have faith.
But there is absolutely nothing to demonstrate it.
I'm gonna give you just an example from God's Word this morning.
I'm gonna give you an example of what Salvation really looks like.
I want you to read with me.
It's gonna be Joshua chapter 2.
Joshua chapter 2 and I want to show you a picture of Salvation.
Joshua chapter 2 verse 1 in Joshua the son of Nun.
He really did have parents.
Some of y 'all get that Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly to shoot him as
spies saying go and view the land especially Jericho and they went and came to the
house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged
there.
Okay, so I know.
The Baptist juices are just a flow and just a little okay, because let me get this straight.
Let me kind of give you the background of what's going on.
God had made a promise this cat named Abram that you're gonna have all of this land that you walk.
Abram had a son named Jacob.
Jacob's name got changed to Israel.
Israel had 12 sons.
They became the 12 tribes of the of Israel.
Well, they were sitting there and they went to a little place called Egypt to escape a famine
and they end up staying there.
Instead of going to the land that God had told him to go.
They were there and a Egyptian sat there and said hey, we got a free workforce here.
Let's enslave them and put them to work.
And so 400 years they worked that land.
God said, okay.
It's time God sent Moses in they walked out of Egypt.
Egypt was Obliterated by the way, if you want to study this Archaeologically look up
Tutmose the second a Pharaoh of Egypt, but that's a side note.
Anyways, they get into the promised land and God said I now y 'all go up to this land and
take it over because I promised Your father's father it would be yours and the children of Israel said
can't do it.
They're too big.
They're too strong.
We're weak.
We're just slaves.
We're Beaten down.
We've been oppressed.
Oh poor me.
Let us collect welfare out here in the wilderness and not do anything for ourselves.
God said that ain't happening and you've made me mad.
So you're gonna wander around in this wilderness for 40 years until that generation dies out and the new
generation is going to come.
That happened and Moses died and this guy named Joshua.
God came to him said it's time.
It's time to do this so Joshua went up and he crossed he was about to cross the Jordan
River and attack and split this promised land in two.
But the first place he came to was a city named Jericho.
Now if you look on your little papers there There's an artist rendering of what Jericho might have looked
like we know from the biblical accounts that there were two walls.
And these two walls were very thick and very high.
In fact, if you want to that picture under it, that is what Jericho looks like today.
Yes.
We still know where it is.
That's the archaeological dig.
Those are some of the walls that are there.
Sorry.
Internet.
Gen -z there really is a Jericho.
So anyways the two spies Joshua sends out they come to
Jericho and There's a woman her name is Rahab.
Now, here's where I usually lose people, okay Rahab is a whore
a harlot poor name in the Greek.
She is a prostitute.
I've actually heard preachers sit there and say oh, no, she wasn't a prostitute.
She was an innkeeper.
Sorry is she was a prostitute back then those were one in the same a lot of places.
They the guys would come to the end to hang out to the overnight travelers they would sleep there
and usually the person who owned the joint would provide food and drink and other
Things to the travelers and what was really cool about her is her house
was in the wall.
But it overlooked the main gate and this was very prosperous for her because she and
her Fellow co -workers could lean out the window and go.
Hey big boy.
Come on up, you know drinks are half -priced and it was a very very
lucrative business she had.
She was up there and the two spies went to that place and as they got
there The king had been hearing about this great Humongous Israeli army
running around and he sent his soldiers and a guy had said hey, man I think there are two guys that
are Israeli running around in here somewhere.
So the first place they went logically was to the inn or the whorehouse where
everybody went for the evening.
They shut and locked the gates.
There was no way out.
So they come and the soldiers are marching to Rahab's house and Rahab does this she
says guys I know you are you need to go upstairs?
On the roof and hide under some flax that I've got up there because they're coming to kill you
to death.
They knock on the door Sheriff's department.
I don't know if any of y 'all have ever heard that before but it is an awakening moment in your life.
But anyways knocks on the door sheriff's apartment.
She opens the door.
They say hey, we're looking for two Jews.
Looking for two Hebrew dudes.
Where are they?
She goes.
Oh, yeah, they were here.
They went that way and the guards were like, okay and off they run.
Rahab goes back upstairs to the guys and says hey, they're gone.
I got rid of them.
Look I have heard About your God.
I have heard and she actually uses the word Yahweh.
I heard what Yahweh did to the Egyptians.
I heard what he did to two of our generals not too long ago.
I know that your God Yahweh is the sovereign God of all the earth and
I Want to live because I know his people are coming here and as big as these walls
are and as bad as we think We are there's no way we're gonna stand up to the power of your God.
So here's what I'm asking you.
I've saved your life.
I will get you out of this city.
But when you come back to take us over.
Remember me and my family the two spies said I tell you what here's the deal.
You make sure there is a scarlet rope Hanging out of your window and we
won't knock you out and you make sure here's the deal.
Everyone that you want saved better be in that house and they actually tell Rahab if
we come and They're not in your house and they get killed that blood is on your
hands not ours.
Deal deal they shook hands and she lowered them had them lowered out the window on
that rope and they escaped.
How does this have anything to do with salvation.
Well, I'm gonna share with you just a couple of things first of all, I want you to understand Rahab
was already condemned if you go back to Genesis 15 now I want you I need my
timeline back.
Michelle.
We are going to do it Kaylee.
We are gonna do it.
But anyways I want you to understand this before there was a nation of Israel before they went to Egypt before
anything in Genesis chapter 15 this is what God said.
I'm gonna give you and your descendants all that promised land.
I'm gonna give them that and Abrams like dude.
I got like two kids.
What do you mean?
I don't have a whole bunch.
Oh, you will your descendants are gonna be like so many you can't even count on and they're gonna get that
promised land.
But before that happens, they're gonna be enslaved for 400 years.
They're gonna rebel against me.
But then I am going to save them and then they're gonna walk into that land and the people that used to
persecute you the Amorites or the people where Jericho was you're gonna wipe them out in the fourth generation.
Guys, you know what's awesome about prophecy is I don't have to look in the future to try to figure out a
prophecy from God's Word go.
God has said this is exactly what's gonna happen and all these kingdoms and governments and
people and powers and religions that.
Try to get people to come after him.
God said this is what's gonna happen and it is exactly what has happened for 6
,000 years.
God had said this country is going to hurt you before they did
and I am gonna punish them in.
The future.
Rahab was a member of a condemned people by God.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me explain something to you today.
Some of you think that being a Christian is being forgiven.
Okay.
Forgiveness is a very small part of salvation.
Very small part of salvation if that is all you understand.
And I know some of you have heard preachers on TV or maybe you grew up in church and the total
encompassing thought and Understanding of God's salvation for your life wraps up around a little
prayer and walking down the aisle and getting baptized.
Ladies and gentlemen, listen to me for you to truly understand the grace of God.
You must first understand the condemnation that's against you.
You are a heathen godless pig.
Well, I haven't been to rehab 19 times.
Yeah, you have.
I've never been an adulterer.
Yes, you have.
I've never murdered anybody.
God says if you are guilty of one part of the law, you are guilty in all of it.
Wow, that's kind of harsh yet.
You're condemned.
People think that when you get to heaven God's gonna judge you ladies and gentlemen.
You've already been judged you are on your way to hell right now.
God in his grace and his mercy chose to save some.
But they aren't gonna be all.
I'm sorry.
Hell's gonna be a lot fuller than heaven.
You need to understand salvation like Rahab.
She was stuck in a place and she was part of a people group that was actually
condemned by God from the word go.
Mmm.
Verse 9 and 10 of chapter 2.
I want you to listen to this verse 9 and 10.
It says this.
And She said to the men I know that Yahweh has given you
the land and that the fear of you has fallen upon us and That all the
inhabitants of the land melt away before you for we have heard how the Lord dried up
the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt and What you did to the two
kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to Sheehan and Oh Whom you devoted
to Destruction.
And as soon as we heard it our hearts melted and there was no spirit left in any
man.
Because of you for the Lord your God.
He is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath.
She had heard the Word of God.
Ladies and gentlemen, she was totally depraved and without worth.
But she had heard a message of hope and that message of hope was a sovereign God
Who would save her in spite of her failures?
Romans chapter 10 verse 17 says this faith comes by hearing and
hearing The Word of God.
It is not the word of a preacher that saves you now.
Listen to me.
It is not the words of a preacher that saves you.
It is not a church building that saves you.
It is not a church that saves you.
It is not a Denomination that saves you.
It is not your moral Understanding that saves you.
The only thing that saves you is the grace of Almighty God.
Where are you this morning?
Have you heard the Word of God?
Do you really heard it or right now?
Are you listening to a sermon guys?
I'm not preaching to you a sermon.
I'm begging for your eternal life right now.
I am trying to preach to you the Word of God.
Because some of you in this room think the reality of your life now is greater than the reality that's
coming.
My friends.
Your entire lifetime on this earth is nothing but recess in a year.
It's simply one little period that you're passing through this life.
The Word of God says man's life is like a vapor of smoke here today and gone tomorrow.
You have very little time very little time to hear the Word of
God.
Notice that she does not say now notice when she is sitting there saying of why she's
afraid.
She does not mention the numerical value of the Israeli army.
She does not mention the m1 Abram tank or the m2 Bradley or the
f22 Raptor or any of the other great technological morals of the United States
military.
I'm going to tell you why the United States of America exists today in 2024 is by the grace
of Almighty God.
We should not have won the Revolutionary War.
We should not have won the War of 1812 yet in both of those against military odds that
are.
Staggering beyond all belief the United States stands here today, but it will never be by our
own power.
It'll be because the blessing and grace of Almighty God.
And my friends I must tell you that we need to quit saying God bless America.
We need to start saying God have mercy on America because the blessings have dried up from our
ridiculous Absolute rebellious attitudes to a holy and righteous God we
take God out of schools and bring Transvestites in and they always read the stories to the
kids.
Why not the 12th graders?
Because Satan knows if he can get them while they're young he can jack them up in the end
and some of you parents are so complicit in this and Your influence on your child is
maybe 30 seconds a day and you think you're gonna overcome that.
You have lost your ever -loving.
Mind.
If you're gonna restore your family I promise you it's gonna take the Word of God and not
the wealth of the power of some stupid religion.
I Want you to also notice this.
Rahab wasn't at the Dead Sea Rahab wasn't there.
When.
Israel marked out of Egypt.
You see there was an element there that actually saved Rahab.
It's not just hearing the Word of God.
It's believing.
Do you believe this morning?
Do you believe we're gonna get to more of that in a second?
She heard the Word of God, but she truly believed in verse 11.
It sits there and once again, she says.
In verse 11, and as soon as we heard it our hearts melted.
There was a.
Effect of a causality.
Christians, I Hope to God you're in this room and the lost
people in this room can see the effects of your faith in Christ.
How are you in your Christian life today, how are you.
Is there enough evidence?
Is there enough things that validate your life as a Christian you may sit there and go well, of
course, yeah.
No problem, but I ask you I want you to read James.
You can flip over there.
I want you or I think I wrote it on your papers.
I can't remember but James chapter 2 in the New Testament in that 4 ,000
years after this event and Joshua happened the half -brother of Jesus James
a Pastor the first pastor of Jerusalem writes this.
But someone will say you have faith and I have works.
Show me your faith apart from your works and I will show you my faith
by my works.
You believe that God is one you do well.
Even the demons will leave and shudder Verse 25 and that
same way.
Was not also Rahab the prostitute verse 25.
Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and
sent them out another way.
Let's talk for just a second.
Let's talk about what faith really is.
Do you believe in your heart Jesus?
That's so sweet.
God love you.
God bless.
Let me be Baptist.
God bless your heart.
Bless your little heart.
Just bless it.
Guys are you still in the first grade?
I?
Have a 67 year old woman who has been in church literally her whole life.
Her whole life.
And last week. I looked her in the eyeball and I said You are not a believer
and she was so aghast.
She was so mortified.
She was so angry at me and she said How can you
say that.
And I said I'm not sweetie.
God's Word is and if you keep relying on your church membership in the length of your longevity
of sitting in a building.
To stand before God and justify your sin.
You are in deep deep doo -doo.
Ladies and gentlemen How do you know you have faith?
Because faith always generates effective work.
You cannot say I have faith in Christ and your life
does not change.
I looked at this 67 year old woman whom we have talked before and I said you cannot.
Be that.
Racist and hate your brother and sister in Christ and be a
child of the living God She said to me.
Well, that's what everyone was doing back there.
You know what that everyone's doing now.
They're either struggling with where they are with God or they're burning in hell right now.
First John tells us if you claim to know Christ, but hate your brother.
You are not a child of God.
And here's what's funny.
They will hear the Word of God and say that applies to everyone else, but
me.
Do you know the heights of which you are reaching you are the asterisk pole that claims?
I am God and I choose to believe in God's Word.
What is right or wrong here?
Today I'm speaking to you as a warning.
I am begging you for your own soul.
You need to repent and I ain't talking about walking down a stupid aisle again.
I'm talking about being real and coming to a place where saving Faith
saves you.
Have you ever been remorseful about something?
Pastor I feel bad about it.
Let me tell you something.
You want to feel bad about being sinful.
Get up about 630 in the morning.
After you've partied all night long.
And someone's beating on your door.
Because they have nowhere else to go and they sit there and go.
Hey Man, I got a six -pack of Miller genuine draft.
And I go come on in.
And we smoke a doobie and I start drinking beer 630 in the morning.
I've been asleep two hours.
Yes, and I'm a pastor about 40 minutes
later.
I Am sitting over the toilets and my knees feel like jelly and I am
Sweating profusely.
I look ghost white in the mirror and I am going Buick
right in that toilet a pastor.
You shouldn't say like this in church.
Listen, I'm not gonna have anybody to go ahead on my watch because of your sense of delicatess.
Just chillax and listen.
I Felt bad.
I.
Felt.
Remorseful.
I did.
I remember praying and I was a lost person.
God, please help me.
I will never ever drink again.
It's again ever.
Oh, get me out of this one.
You know where I was that night.
616.
You see.
Your remorse of sin does not equal faith based
repentance.
Regeneration is if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
All things have passed away.
Behold all have become.
Well, I'm a Christian.
What changed your life.
Not really nothing.
Really.
Really I guess your opinion supersedes God's Word.
Oh, I believe in God.
James 2 Do you understand the sarcasm that's being left here?
Oh, I know it's not precious moments Bible time, but James sister and says You
believe in God and that he is one.
You do.
Well, here's a Bucky Beaver badge.
Even the demons believe that and they shudder in fear.
Let me ask you a question.
Rahab is a prostitute out of a national capital.
With all these fine upstanding people who would not dare go down to the dregs on the
wall They would never be caught in the whorehouse of Rahab.
They were good Standing up righteous people.
But when the wrath of God came and all of their fake walls fell Their lives fell
with it and save only the prostitute who lived by faith Was saved.
You see she did something different.
She said she believed and the spies said two things.
You must tie a red cord to your window and I ain't talking about a little piece of yarn.
I gotta see at least a 30 -foot scarlet rope in the backdrop of that
brown.
Clay.
We got to see where you are.
Now.
You may say well, that's not that big of a deal.
Really?
Think about this.
You're in a city Surrounded by a wall with an enemy army camped
out for months all of a sudden.
Some chick in the front of that city puts an 18 foot 1 inch thick red rope
Going all the way to the ground.
Somebody gonna ask a question.
Somebody gonna sit there and go yo Rahab.
What's up with that rope?
To Rahab why you got it, you know, somebody is gonna be sitting there going.
Hmm.
But you see Faith when it calls us to repentance.
It doesn't ask the cost it asks for obedience
and true Faith can never be measured by anything else other than the obedience of
our will.
Submitting to God's.
Where are you today?
Forget sermons forget church.
I'm asking you as an individual not a group.
Where are you with God?
You see if you say you have faith, there's got to be evidence to back it up.
Also.
I want you to understand this.
Hmm, I.
Want you to understand if you go to chapter 6?
Here's what's happening.
This is for you Christians.
You lost people to sit back for a second.
I want you to understand what happens.
She lowers the rope out there and she waits.
All of her family's like going what are we doing in this house and you know her parents.
You know her parents were probably the kind of parents that were kind of like, oh my god I can't believe we're here at her house
again because she wasn't living with them.
You know what I'm saying?
She was one of those girls.
She was one of those girls that brought a bad name to the family.
You know.
She was one of them women who decided to rebel and go be something that the city Leaders would thought
was shameful.
She was embarrassing her parents.
And now she sits there and says come on over for dinner.
And so they're sitting there and night after night Rahab's waiting.
She's out the window.
Well, they didn't have binoculars back then but she's out the window.
All right.
She's looking where's the Israeli army and.
They're not coming man.
They're probably gonna be like every other man in her life.
Then it sat there and said, oh, I love you, baby.
You're the only one who understands me.
Me and you will be together forever honey bunch.
And just like every other man they've let her down.
Probably starting with her daddy.
Oh.
And then one day.
Wait.
What's that on the horizon?
There's dust to kicking up on there and here comes the whole Israeli army.
Now watch this.
The whole Israeli army comes up and she's like, oh boy.
Today's the day.
And for six days, this is what God told Israel to do.
I want you to walk up.
I don't want you to say a word.
I want you to walk around the city and then
leave and she's
like Lord down.
She didn't lose hope.
She did exactly what God had told her to do and that is wait on the salvation of God
the next day here.
And they leave again the next day here.
They come again and they leave again Christian.
I know hope can somebody sometimes be dashed.
I know that we can get tired of waiting.
But if you just wait one more day that delivery is coming and on that seventh
day.
The children of Israel this time they weren't quiet.
They were like what like a bunch of drunk rednecks at the
NASCAR race.
They're yelling and those walls come tumbling down.
And Ray having an entire family are saved.
Last point.
I want to ask you a question.
What kind of God.
Uses a prostitute.
Thank You Jesus.
Mind us now Christian.
I Love Witten.
I do.
We got gays.
What.
Uh, not transsexuals, what do they call them?
Transgender them's.
Yeah, we got one of them coming around every once in a while.
We got good Lord.
We got X something up in here.
Robert he didn't tell you the right.
He used to be a stripper a dancer, you know.
Yeah, it was bad.
It was bad.
He kept his legs kept getting bruised by all the quarters hitting him.
But
you know what glorifies God.
It's not the best of us following him.
It's the ones that no one thinks there's a hope and a chance for.
And you know.
Those are the ones that God will glorify his name in the greatest and
pluck them out of their sin and Set their feet upon a rock Give them that
robe of righteousness.
Let those broken shoulders be pulled back a little bit.
That strained neck lift it up a little bit and feel clear and clean.
Whitten.
Let us never look upon someone's sin is so great That the grace of
God can't save them just like they saved your sorry, but Let
us always be that place.
Well, we don't look at someone's past to determine their future.
But we look at God's grace to know they're our brother and sister in Christ.
You know, it's amazing God used.
Rahab.
In fact if you go to Hebrews chapter 11 Hebrews chapter 11 is known as the
the the hall of heroes or the faith chapter.
Basically in Hebrews 11 God lists out in the Bible the people of
the greatest faith.
It's kind of like Ohio, you know, it's the Pro Football Hall of Fame
and it's funny in verse 29 It says if Hebrews 11 by faith the people cross the
Red Sea on dry land.
But the Egyptians when they attempted to the same were drowned.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
Verse 31 by faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with
those who were Disobedient because she had given a friendly welcome to the
spies.
It's 4 ,000 years later.
You're gonna call her a prostitute.
That's kind of shaming her a little bit.
No, it's giving glory to God.
It's giving hope to others guys.
Your testimony and your failures are not meant to be hidden out of shame.
You see they're nailed to the cross and I bear them no more and that's a sign to a lost and dying world that no
matter How far you've gone no matter what you've done.
There is still hope in the name of Jesus Christ.
You see way had the prostitute 4 ,000 years later is mentioned in Scripture.
But there's another place that she's mentioned.
Oh my god.
This gives me two goosebumps.
Telling me to Matthew chapter 1.
Oh my lord Matthew chapter 1 I'm gonna be honest with you.
I'm a little shamed to read this one, you know.
I'm a little shamed to read this one.
Charquita.
You got your blood work done.
Years ago, yeah, what are you 3 % again?
Say it.
African.
Somewhere down along the line.
She got a little black in her somewhere, you know, she got it.
She got a name like Charquita, it should be that big of a surprise, right?
I always love calling her Shaquanita, you know.
She got a little bit of black in her somewhere.
Down the line.
Y 'all said where's he going with this in it?
I Enjoy that pregnant pause.
I really do.
I love the awkwardness.
Entitled folks irritate the snot out of me.
They just do oh.
And I ain't even just talking about.
I'm talking about the dreg society to the richest part.
I don't matter.
Just entitled folk.
You know, it's funny is sometimes we forget where we came from.
I want you to read Matthew chapter 1 verse 5.
This is.
The lineage of Jesus Christ.
This is The family history of
Jesus and Salman the father of Boab.
By.
Rahab and.
Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth and Obed the father of Jesse.
Now you may sit there and go.
What does that mean?
Well, I want you to understand.
When we repent God does more than just forgive you.
You see the walls came tumbling down that day and Rahab and her entire family were
saved.
But wait, there's more you see because if you follow God by faith starting out
your life.
Whole life will change.
We know Rahab left the prostitution business.
We know she did but wait, there's more she got married for the first time
maybe got really married to one dude and we know she had kids
and those kids grew up and Rescued another woman who was an outcast a little
chick named Ruth, right?
And those people were not Jews.
They're not Hebrews.
They didn't go to First Baptist Church.
They were the dregs of society yet.
They were the blood lineage of the birth of Jesus Christ our Lord.
You see what's so awesome about God's grace.
It's not that you're just forgiven.
It means that you're no longer Disqualified and you're back in the game.
Some of you guys never got off the bench playing football.
Some of you guys never got to play the what's this one called? Trombone because
you were too lame to even make the marching band.
You are a loser squared.
Okay, right.
You're an absolute loser.
But when you become a child of God, it's not that just God forgives you.
Oh, it's so tiring.
There's so much more.
There's so much more and some of you old people playing with your earrings looking at you watch.
You're the godless pig heathen that I'm talking to right now and you best pay attention before you split the gates
of hell open.
Come to a place Where you know the grace of God not through religion
but through the love of Jesus Christ and.
Then that red cord that red cord.
I can't miss that as I read this.
I can't miss that red cord.
You see because there is a red thread.
That weaves its way from Genesis where two animals are killed and their skins are used to clothe
Adam and Eve.
Where a blood had to be spilt for man for God's people to be covered.
I can't miss that cord where lambs were sacrificed on the altar so that others
may be saved.
I can't miss that red cord in the wilderness.
Even after God's people turned their back on God God never left them and called them back to repentance
and all the way up till John the Baptist saw Jesus walking and said Behold the Lamb of God
who takes away the sin of the world.
It's a beautiful thing.
The blood of Christ is more than just forgiveness.
It is the adoption into the childhood of God and it has been saving people
for 6 ,000 years either faith in it coming or faith in it having come.
Music dudes or dudettes do you think I got to ask you a question today?
Have you heard the Word of God for your salvation?
Now listen, you may say yeah pastor.
I would say back in 1994.
Okay, good.
Here's a gold starting Sunday school report and we'll stick your little Moses coloring picture on the refrigerator for you.
Okay, but for you that are actually wanting to grow who have you shared that with recently?
You see a prostitute who had no Bible training as soon as she had hope in something went and got her
family.
Where are you at?
You invite your family over for a cookout, but you don't ever invite them over to hear the Word of God.
Come on.
Well, they'll see it in our prayer over dinner.
They do the same thing at their house ain't no difference.
What difference you gonna make and they're gonna buck at you.
Why are we here again?
Why are we waiting?
Guys, keep on giving it to them because there's a day coming.
We're too late is too late.
There's gonna be no other shot for them to go to heaven.
I'm gonna ask you today.
Are you a hundred percent sure you have faith in Christ as a believer
if you say?
Absolutely, then I'm gonna ask you this.
Who you sharing that with.
Pastor.
I need some help.
I'm not sure that's why God invented that bald pastors.
I can't do nothing for you, but I can show you in the Word of God the answers that you're looking for.
But understand this too.
There's a bunch of folk in here who can help you too.
Well pastor.
You don't know what I did.
I don't have to know.
I got someone else who's probably done it worse than you.
Stop letting the shame of your failures keep you from the hope and the grace of God.
Well pastor I have.
I committed adultery.
Okay, you can be not just forgiven.
You can be restored Pastor.
I've been divorced.
Okay, you can still be restored pastor.
I've done this.
Your sin does not disqualify the grace of God.
Have faith in.
I'm gonna ask you to stand.
And if God has spoken to you this morning you come if you've heard God's Word you come and be
obedient as he leaves.