having the Holy Spirit begin to move in people's hearts. Listen, it's not about us. It's not about any one person. It's about the Holy Spirit of God moving in people's hearts and lives. We don't come to church to have a good time and entertain. We come to church for God to change us. We come to church for God to draw us closer to Him than we've ever been. We come to church to worship the One who's worthy of worship. I'm glad one person thinks so. He's worthy of our worship. Some of us need to sacrifice that idol of the cell phone and of Facebook and that idol that we have of television, that idol that we have that takes up all of our time and we don't have any time for the one who gave you a gift of grace. You say, preacher, you seem pretty fired up. I am pretty fired up today. I am pretty fired up today. I got to watch a message from an old-time preacher yesterday. And you know what's sad, Brother Doug, is we have to call them old-time preachers, not this generation preachers. We have a bunch of people that want to water down Christianity, water down the society. Listen, God is the same today as He's always been. And it wasn't an entertainer that saved you from hell. It was Jesus Christ, that one who was born in a manger. We're about ready to have Christmas time. It's that one who was born in a manger. who came to this earth, left the thrones of heaven and took upon himself the form of a servant and was made in the sinful flesh of man, but he didn't have sin. He took upon the form of man, but walked sinless on this earth so that he could die and have perfect God blood to save us from hell. We hear people sing about grace and we say, what time is church going to be over? And I see people pulling out their cell phones and looking at their cell phones. We need help. We need help. We need people to get up and get excited about the Lord again. And don't say, Preacher, I just don't have it in me anymore. Because we see you whenever you are out there at a ball game or whenever you're out there doing something else. You can get excited when you want to get excited. Listen, that prepares the heart for preaching. Your heart already ought to have been full. We could just go home right now. But the Bible says it's by preaching that changes hearts. And guess who's the best preacher? The Holy Spirit. He's the best preacher. We're going to be in Psalm chapter number 18 this morning. Psalm chapter number 18. Ms. Lisa scolded me for preaching short Wednesday night. So if I preach long this morning, it's her fault. And you can take it out on her. And she said, preacher, you must not have preached on Wednesday night. We were done in 30 minutes. I don't understand that. Well, you know what? The Holy Spirit can speak in 30 minutes. He can speak an hour and a half. He can speak in two hours. But the fact of the matter is we ought to just take clocks down and watches off when we come to church. Because we'll sit there all night long talking to our friends and doing all this kind of stuff. And we'll sit there and watch movies like zombies. And we'll sit there for hours and hours and hours. But we can't sit still for 30 minutes in church. Shame on us. Brother Doug, thank you for your Sunday school lesson this morning. What a blessing that was. Listen, I love the book of Psalms. He was talking about Proverbs as the book of wisdom. The whole Bible is wisdom, but the book of Proverbs is the book of wisdom, and we ought to have wisdom. And it said, him that hath wisdom, let him get understanding and knowledge. And we're supposed to have all those things. But the only way that we have them is through the Word of God. It's not the knowledge that the world has to offer, but the knowledge of who God is and what God is to us. And God laid on my heart several weeks ago to begin to preach on God and who God is. And we talked about God, the almighty one. He's almighty. We talked about God, our banner, that chief shepherd, that deliverer, that foundation, all that. He's God. But today I wanna preach a message to you that I was this week studying through and pondering some things and I love how God just ties everything together in scripture and what an amazing truth it is as we get into the Bible. See, the reason the Bible is so important is not because it's not man's words to us. It's God's words to us. And I have people say, yeah, preacher, my man wrote it. Well, listen, the Bible says that it's inspired. Look up the word inspiration, it means God breathed. So here's how the inspiration worked is God told men of God what to write, how to write it, when to write it, what to write about. And so they were God's words of what they wrote. That means this Bible was not thought of in the mind of man, but it was God's mind portrayed to you and I. And if we're going to do what Philippians 2 says about let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, if we're going to have the kind of mind we need in the Christian life, we've got to get into the mind of God. And that's into the Bible. And I wish we could put a screen up here and show the life of the people of God and show how often times they actually get into this book and how much they read their Bible. And I wonder if we could put a scale up there and have a chart of how we read our Bible and how much time we spend with the Lord versus the time we spend for ourself. I wonder how many of us would be embarrassed. And you wonder why our country won't be changed. We wonder why there's so much bickering and fighting and how Satan is just devouring our country. Listen, Satan's always been fighting the people of God. He's always been fighting them, but the reason he's doing so much today is because we have let down our standard, we've let down what we believe in, and we've just clammed up and we don't want to say anything about it. Listen, we've got to start speaking about it again. We've got to start looking into the Bible. Psalm 18, if you're rejoicing in the Lord today, why don't you just stand with me, and we're going to read the Word of God. If you don't want nothing to do with it, well, I'm sorry, you're probably going to be offended today. Well, I'm not sorry if you get offended, and I'm not sorry for preaching the Bible. I won't ever apologize for that, but if you get offended, the problem's not with... Now listen, if I preach my opinions and you get offended, it's my fault. If I preach the Bible and you get offended, it's your fault. Because you're not willing to let the Holy Spirit of God speak to your heart and life. Some people say, preacher, we don't like this hard preaching. I know, that's why our country's going to hell. We need to have hard preaching once again. We need to have people that'll call sin, sin and stand up for holiness and righteousness and holy living. And as I was going through Psalm 18, I love this passage of Scripture. And David, the servant of the Lord, is speaking and he's been delivered from the hand of all of his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And now here he is in Psalm 18, starting in verse number one, he said, I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. He's professing his love towards God. And then he goes through, Brother Doug, and I believe he's saying this, God, here's why I love you. In verse two, he says this, the Lord is my rock. and my fortress, my deliverer, my God, my strength, in whom I will trust, my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower." We've been talking about who God is. And I was looking through this passage, Brother Travis, and I came to that phrase in there that said, the horn of my salvation. And I got to thinking, Lord, what is the horn of my salvation? What do you mean when you told David to pen this that David said, he's the horn of my salvation? God put that in David to write that. And I thought about what does that mean? And so I began to study what horns were used for and what horns were all about in the Bible and different verses in scripture where it mentions horns and different things like that. And we'll talk about that today. But the message I'm going to preach to you today is God, the horn of my salvation. the horn of my salvation. Let's pray. Lord, we love you. Thank you for the day that you've given to us. Thank you for the time to be in your house this morning. Holy Spirit of God, we ask you to meet with us in a special way. Do what I cannot do. Thank you so much for stirring in our hearts already this morning. Thank you for your grace. There's nothing like church. God, there's nothing like worshiping you. You are worthy of our worship. Please forgive us, Lord, for the sin and the wickedness that we allow into our lives that have no place in a Christian's home and a Christian's life. God, I pray that You'll forgive us for not standing up and doing what we ought to do for You. You tell us to stand, therefore. having our loins girt about with truth, and putting on the armor of God. And I pray that you'll help us to do that. God, if there's anyone here today that does not know you as their personal Lord and Savior, Holy Spirit of God, I pray that even right now, I know through the music, nobody can sit here and hear what they've heard already this morning and not have the Holy Spirit of God tugging at their heart, telling them that they need to be saved. And God, I pray that you'll draw them, that you'll bind Satan, Lord, get them out of here. They're not welcome. We need your presence here this morning. Holy Spirit of God, meet with us. We claim your promise that your word will not return void. Lord, I just want to be your mouthpiece this morning. It's not about anything that I am. I am nothing. Lord, I am but dust. But Lord, you're everything. And I pray that you'll help us today as we go through the word of God. Would you encourage us? Would you strengthen us? Would you bring a renewed spirit in our heart? to see more souls saved and lives changed and to do more for you. Lord, we ask all these things in your name. Amen. You can be seated. Thank you for standing. Psalm chapter number 18, I was looking at that and I was thinking about the horn of my salvation. And I was very intrigued by it, and I began to look through that, and there's something that you hear about, I don't know if anybody's heard this, I've mentioned it to a couple people, when they look at you like a Catholic in a new gate, it's called the law of first mention. What that means is, where a word is first mentioned in scripture. That that law when you study something you ought to study all of it Not just a verse and try to take a verse out of context the Bible says study the whole counsel of God that we're supposed to compare scripture with scripture and Study things in the Bible and the Bible says study to show thyself approved unto God a workman need not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth but that word study has become a curse word in our nation today and our society today people don't like to study and It takes up too much time. The sad part is, is that we can't even write big books anymore because people won't stay focused enough to read. And we think, well, why won't people read the Bible? Because we've just raised a generation of people who don't like to study, who don't like school, who don't like those kind of things. But the Bible says we ought to be learning constantly. Our whole life, as Brother Doug was even mentioning in Sunday school this morning, the Bible says newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that they may grow Thereby the Christian life is a growth process and as we begin to go through this I was looking at it I said the horn of my salvation and I begin to think Lord What did you mean when you said the horn and that law first mentioned that we were talking about? I want you to take your Bibles if you would please to Genesis chapter number 22 Genesis chapter number 22 And we're going to look at the first mention of the word horn in the Bible. And when David said here that he's the horn of my salvation, I believe it's referring to what we're going to see here in Genesis chapter number 22 and verse number 13. This is the story of when Abraham was told to take his son Isaac and to go sacrifice him on the altar. And Abraham's being obedient to his father, his heavenly father, and he took his son Isaac, that was the promised one of God, to Abraham. Abraham loved Isaac. Abraham was promised by God that through Isaac that his seed would be exalted as much as the sands of the seashore, that God was going to do some great things. So what kind of faith does it take Abraham here to take his son up to the altar and get ready to kill him? He knew that either God was going to raise him from the dead or God was going to do something miraculous because God promised him something and he knew God wouldn't go back on his word. But look at verse 13, it says, And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his, what? Horns. by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up a burnt offering in the stead of his son. I'm here to tell you today when David said, God, you're the horn of my salvation. I believe what he's saying, brother, is that substitutionary sacrifice for the children that the heavenly father has made in this earth that he wants to redeem from their sin. He's that substitutionary sacrifice. This ram here, Abraham, is getting ready to sacrifice Isaac and give him to God on the altar. But he told Isaac this on the way up the mountain, when Isaac asked his father, we have the wood and we have the fire, but where's the sacrifice? Where's the lamb? He said, God will provide himself. lamb understand this Jesus Christ is that substitutionary sacrifice for you and me when David looked at this and he said Lord you're the horn of my salvation what he was saying is you're the one who sacrificed everything for me you're the one who came and died for me so that I don't have to go to hell you're the one who's coming that one who's doing this the the lamb that has been sacrificed it's a picture we know Jesus hadn't come At that time and lived his earthly ministry But it's the same principle people in the Old Testament got saved by faith in Jesus Christ and what he was going to do on the cross of Calvary and the picture of the lamb that was Sacrificed all the time was a picture of what Jesus was going to do and that lamb which taken away the sin of the world They had to get saved the same way you have to get saved by faith by faith He's that substitutionary sacrifice And I begin to think about that man Wow The horn of my salvation. Without that sacrifice, we deserve hell. Without that sacrifice, we'd be burning forever. Without that sacrifice, there'd be no way for you and I to get to heaven. Jesus said in John 14, 6, Jesus said unto him, I am the way. the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. You say, well, how do you know that that's what he means? Look at Luke chapter number one, I'm glad you asked. Luke chapter number one. Who was it that's saying this? The horn of my salvation, David. David saying this, through the inspiration of God that he penned in here for us. And how do I know that, Brother Doug, that David is saying, you're that substitutionary sacrifice for me? Look at Luke chapter number one, verse 69. Verse 68 and 69, excuse me. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and redeemed his people and hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant, David. He's raised up a horn of salvation in the house of his servant, David. What he's saying is, David says, Lord, you're the horn of my salvation. You're the reason I can be saved. You're the reason I can rejoice. You're the reason I can do this. Why? Because you're the one who sacrificed for me. Man, we ought to be excited about that. We have too many dead people sitting in church. We talk about the sacrifice. David is not... I don't believe David's sitting here going, I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock. My fortress. Shh, don't tell anyone. My deliverer. My God. My strength, in whom I will trust. My buckler. He's the horn of my salvation. Shh. My high tower. I don't believe David's doing that. I believe he's saying, I love thee, Lord. He was excited about his love for God because of who God was to him. Because of that relationship that he had. He said, the Lord is my rock and my fortress, my deliverer, my God, my strength in whom I will trust, my buckler and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. Listen, if he was the sacrifice for David, he's the sacrifice for you. If you're in this room today and you've never trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior You heard a wonderful song that gift of grace. You cannot be saved except for the grace of God You cannot be saved if it were not for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ coming to this earth. That's why he came He did not come if you read in John chapter 3. He did not come to condemn the world. I We were condemned because of sin already, because of Adam's sin in the garden. We were already condemned. And from the day we were born, we were condemned to die in a place called hell. But Jesus came to give us life and life more abundantly. He came to seek and to save that which was lost. He's the horn of our salvation, the sacrifice of our salvation. He's the ultimate sacrifice for us. That horn, that law first mentioned, those horns, that ram caught in a thicket. And guess what it said? He was caught in a thicket. What is a thicket? It's thorns, isn't it? Let's look at the picture of the cross of Calvary. When Jesus Christ, the sacrifice for our sin, the blood atonement that was going to be placed for us, and we'll get into that in just a minute, and it's exciting, praise the Lord, and He's hanging on the cross, and He's dying, but what was upon His head? A crown of thorns. What a picture that he gave us. How all the way in the book of Genesis, a ram caught by his horns in the thicket was a picture of Jesus Christ having the sin of man placed upon his head, platted upon his head. You say, where's that? When God pronounced judgment upon Adam in Genesis chapter three, he said thorns and thistles came forth as a representation of the curse of God for man. But when Jesus Christ is dying on the cross, He had a crown of thorns upon His head. You know why? Because He's a substitutionary sacrifice for you. David said, He's the horn of my salvation. That's substitutionary sacrifice. It keeps getting gooder and gooder. Look at Exodus 27. Exodus chapter number 27 Look at what it It says here in verse 1 and thou shalt make an altar of shit and wood five cubits long and five cubits broad the altar shall be four square, and the height thereof shall be three cubits. What's an altar for? Let me ask you, what's an altar for? Sacrifice. Sacrifice for worship to God, right? Look what it said in verse two. And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof. His horns shall be of the same, and thou shalt overlay it with brass. See here, they're making the altar. And it said on the four corners need to be the horns. What's that a picture of? The chief cornerstone? The one that's the corner of our life? Who is He talking about? Jesus. Jesus. Because what is it? Who's the sacrifice on the altar for us? Jesus. And when it said the four corners of it, they were supposed to be the horn overlaid with brass. What a picture of the sovereignty and the power of God. What a picture of the holiness and the royalty of God coming down and sacrificing for you and I. And then look at chapter 29 and verse 12 of Exodus. 29 and verse 12 and look what it says about this alters and thou shalt take the blood of the bullock and Put it upon the horn of the altar with thy finger and Pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar. Let me ask you a question Why did they have to put the blood on the horn of the altar? What was that a picture of? It was a picture of the blood that Jesus shed, that sacrifice for you and I. Because the Bible says, without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. That substitutionary sacrifice. Man, what a picture. You think they just did all this stuff because they were trying to do a ritual to get to heaven? No, God was revealing Himself and what His plan was for somebody to be saved. As they were to take that sacrifice, And the blood that was spilled from that sacrifice was placed on the horns of the altar and poured around it as God spilling out His blood for you and I. There's way more verses that talk about that. Exodus chapter 30 and verse 10, Leviticus 4.7, Leviticus 4.18, 4.25 and 4.30 and 4.34. In fact, let's turn there Leviticus chapter 4. Leviticus chapter 4, look at verse number 7. And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar, and of sweet incense before the Lord. Why? Because it's a sweet-smelling savor to God. When that blood was placed upon the altar, he wasn't looking, Brother Jason, at a bullock. He wasn't looking at a lamb. He was looking at the blood of his Son, Jesus, who takes away the sin of the world. Look at verse 18 of chapter 4. And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar, which is before the Lord, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out the blood of the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. Because guess what? You cannot enter into a holy place with God unless you come through the blood of the sacrifice. You cannot come to a place of the holiness of God. You'll never reach the holiness of God unless you come through the blood of the one who is holy. Jesus said, be holy as I am holy. He wants us to have that holiness upon us that only comes through Him. He's that substitutionary sacrifice. I want you to also look, I began to look at what horns meant. Not only was that law first mentioned of the sacrifice that was made for you and I, but let me tell you, I began to look at this and I began to think, okay, now I am saved. I've received the sacrifice. I put my faith and trust in the one who shed his blood for me. I know that I'm on my way to heaven, not by anything I have done, but according to the grace that he has bestowed upon me, according to his love for me and his sacrifice in my place so that I don't have to taste hell at all. And I began to look further. And I think now that I'm saved, I've got a new life in the Lord Jesus Christ. But guess what? The battles get hard. Lord, what am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to make it through this journey? I want you to take your Bibles, if you would please, to Psalm 92 and verse 10. It said, By the way, it's not talking about a horse with a horn on top of its head. The horn of a unicorn in scripture represents power. The animals use their horns for what? Defense. That's what they fight for. He said, listen, exalt my horn as the horn of a unicorn. Listen, if you study a unicorn, I began to look up that word and they say it's like a rhinoceros, that horn, the strength of the horn of a rhinoceros that comes. How many of you would want to go up against a rhinoceros with that horn? Not me. My son Carter, just out of the blue one day, we're sitting in the house and we're talking about something, had nothing to do with rhinoceroses, okay? But we were at the house talking and all of a sudden he goes, hey, I think he said mom or dad or one of us, and he goes, did you know that a rhinoceros's horn is so sharp it can go through a car door? And I looked at him and we thought, that was random. But as I began to study this, that phrase began to resonate in my mind what my son Carter said. And I thought, man, what power there was in that horn. What power there was for defense. What power there was. And he said, in that same verse, he said, thou art my deliverer. He said, you're the one that brings me through it. Why? Because the horn of salvation, not only is he the substitutionary sacrifice, but he's the source of power in the Christian life. He's the source of power. If you remember, take your Bibles, if you would, please, to 1 Samuel 16. You remember when Saul was anointed to be king over the nation of Israel? He was anointed with what? Out of what? Saul wasn't. He said a vial of oil. But then here comes David. Remember where Jesus was coming from? The lineage of David? I thought, why would Saul be anointed with a vial of oil? Because guess what? That wasn't really God's choice. Who was supposed to be king over the nation of Israel? God was. But guess what they said? We want a king. God said, okay, I'll give him a king. So they were anointed with a vial of oil. But God had a plan. And through the lineage of David, who was going to be king, ruling over the nation, look what it says in verse number 13. Then Samuel took a horn of oil. Anointed him in the midst of his brethren and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward Listen, you know what the horn of oil represented the power of the Holy Spirit of God being poured out upon David's life because that was the source of the power that David needed to rule the nation as he needed God It's a picture of God Poured out upon you and I when the Bible says be not drunk with wine wearing his excess But be filled with the Spirit of God We're supposed to write to rejoice in that source of power that comes through that sacrifice when it's poured out upon us We can have power to overcome and the day in which we live David said he's the horn of my salvation He's the sacrifice for it. He's the source of it He's the source of it Not only is he the substitutionary sacrifice and the source of power that comes in our salvation. Look at what it says, if you would please take your Bibles to Joshua chapter number 6. Joshua chapter number six. Look what it says starting in verse number one. Now Jericho was straightly shut up because of the children of Israel. None went out and none came in. And the Lord said unto Joshua, See I have given into thine hand Jericho and the kings thereof, and the mighty men of valor, ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go around about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. And seven priests shall bear the ark seven trumpets of ram's horns. And the seventh day ye shall come past the city seven times, and the priest shall blow the trumpets." Listen, not only is He the substitutionary sacrifice, not only is He the source of power, but He is the sound of victory in our life. He had said to take these ram's horns and to blow the ram's horns. Listen, Jericho was an impossible task for the people of Israel. Jericho was an impossible battle. There was no way that they could get to victory by themselves. But God said, listen, I want you to take the ram's horns. And I want you to give them to these seven priests. And on that seventh day, when you march around seven times, I want you to blow into those trumpets. And when they blow into the trumpets and that noise was resonating out, why would the walls of Jericho come tumbling down at that time? Because it was the power of the sacrificial lamb that came through and destroyed the enemy of the nation of Israel. That horn that was blown, it's the sound of victory in our life. David was saying, Lord, I love you. Why? Because you're the source of my power. You're the sacrifice for me. But guess what? You're the sound of victory. my life you brought me through that mine enemies and out of the hand of Saul and you saved me from that bear and that lion and you helped me to destroy Goliath and all that but it wasn't David he said today all of them will know that there is a God in Israel And Joshua, when he was leading the nation here into the promised land, the land of Canaan, there's battles that they were getting faced. And Canaan represents the Christian life, friend. And listen, there's going to be battles. Just because we're saved doesn't mean that life's going to be all fine. But we're going to face battles. But you know what? We can still have a sound of victory. We sang about it this morning. Victory in Jesus, my Savior forever. We can shout about it. We can rejoice in it. Because He's the sound of victory. He's the sound of victory for you and I. Look at 1 Kings 22. 1 Kings 22. Look at verse 11. And Zedekiah the son of Chenana made him horns of iron. And he said, Thus saith the Lord, With these shalt thou push the Syrians until thou hast consumed them. You know what he's saying? You know what you need to fight your battles? Something that's firm. Something that's solid. Something that you can use as your weapon. God said, put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand in that evil day and having done all to stand. Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, putting on the breastplate of righteousness, your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, the helmet of salvation, the shield of faith. But it said, in the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. You know what we need to have? That horn of Scripture. that helps fight our battles for us. It said Zedekiah made a horn of iron to push back the enemy and fight against them. God gave us the Bible to fight against the enemy so that we can get victory and hear that shout of victory. Listen, why do you see people sitting here and when somebody says victory in Jesus and that gift of grace, they stand up and they wave their Bible and they say, amen, glory, hallelujah. Why? Because it's a sound of victory. We have victory in the Christian life through that substitutionary sacrifice, through that source of power in our life. There is so much more that we could talk about horns, but not only do we see that substitutionary sacrifice in the source of our power and the sound of our victory, it was the substance for the people. They carried oil in there. They carried water in there. They carried all of those things in those horns. For what purpose? They used them to dump out oil into their meal, to mix things. They took water to drink to sustain them. They carried them in those horns. Why? Because it helped sustain them through it. See, God is everything. And David, when he's saying this, the Lord is my rock and my fortress, my deliverer, my God, my strength, and whom will I trust? My buckler and the horn of my salvation. He was saying, God, You're my substitute. God, You're the source of my power. God, You're the sound of victory. You're my substance. God, You're everything to me. I wonder, can you cry that today? If you're saved today, guess what? He is your sacrifice. If you're lost, guess what? He's your sacrifice. He's the one that died for you. Why do you say, man, these people are weird. They cry on an altar. You know why we call this an altar? Because it's a place for things to die. A place for things to die. You know what that means? Our flesh. Anything that hinders the power of God upon our life. Well, I won't ever go down to an altar. You'll never get the power of God. You say, why? I don't have to come down to that altar to do it. You're right. You can make your pew an altar, but the fact of the matter is God likes humility. You know what it takes to step out of a pew and to walk down here and to kneel at an altar. Well, preacher, people might think something about me. So what? Let them think what they're going to think. One day you're going to stand before a holy God that was your sacrifice, that was your source of power, that was your sound of victory, that was your sustenance. And you're going to say, well, I didn't give my life to you because the person sitting next to me was going to make fun of me. You think he'll accept that? Say, no, I was the source of your power. The reason you wouldn't do it is because you wouldn't just put faith in me and humble yourself and come down and let me change you. Listen, we need to have change. We need to have change. We need people just to quit fighting against the Holy Spirit. Don't quench Him. If He's speaking to you today, understand we heard about that gift of grace. We heard about victory that comes through Jesus. We heard about all that, but we'll sit there and say, Preacher, bless me if you can. I'm coming to church to get fed. Listen, you ought to get fed when you come to church, but this ain't the only place you're supposed to be fed. You need to be fed every day in your home, in your secret place with God. You need to be there eating from the Word so that you can grow thereby. And let that source of power be poured out through you so that others may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven. And you can loudly proclaim the victory. Guess what? Satan's army's not ashamed to shout about it. They're not afraid of it. We hear it all the time. Watch the news for five seconds and you hear about it. Satan's army is not embarrassed by what they're doing. So why are we? Why are we ashamed to shout the victory and rejoice in the fact that we're saved in the source of our salvation and our power, that sacrificial lamb that was our substitute that did all of that for us? He says, come unto me. Come unto me. He's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. He wasn't just a substitutionary sacrifice for the elect. I heard somebody say recently, well, the Bible says in Romans, whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son. That talks about predestination of people being saved. But Dave, you know what I thought? Who did God foreknow? Everybody. He foreknew all of us, didn't He? So God predestined for every one of us to be saved. That is God's plan for you and I. He's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And we go back to that law of first mention again. If you read the first time the word whosoever is used, guess what? It's when Cain killed his brother Abel. And he said, well, what if somebody is going to do this? I'm going to put a mark on him. And he said, whosoever toucheth Cain. wrath of God is going to abide on him. Who was he talking about? Just the elect? Just certain few? No, anybody that touched Cain, the wrath of God was gonna go on him. That same word is used in John 3, 16. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Romans 10, 13. That whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. It's the same word that was used back then. It wasn't just for a select few people. It was for everybody. And that's how salvation is. It's for you. It's for me. It's for the whole world. Why? Because He loved us and gave Himself for us. That's why He came. He came to redeem man so that we don't have to die. And listen, He's not just talking about physical death. There's a death that's worse than physical death. It's in the book of Revelation. It says in death and hell we're cast in the lake of fire. This is the second death. Listen, that death, you're going to experience, friend, if you've never put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ. You're going to. Well, God wouldn't do that to anyone. You're right. He'd have a substitutionary sacrifice for you. David said about it, Lord, you're the horn of my salvation. You're the reason I can be saved today, because you were that sacrifice for me. And Lord, you're the source of my power. God, you're everything to me. You're the sound of victory. in my substance. Who is He to you today? Let me ask you this. Are you saved? Have you ever trusted Jesus as your Savior? With heads bowed, eyes closed,