Alright, I want you to turn to 2nd Chronicles. 2nd Chronicles chapter 18. 2nd Chronicles chapter 18. I was praying over what to preach this morning. This thought continually came to my mind, and even though I've said things along these lines before, evidently God wants it for somebody today, so I don't want to disobey the Lord. We'll be faithful and give what the Lord's laid on my heart. 2 Chronicles chapter 18, notice beginning in verse 1. Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance and joined affinity with Ahab. And after certain years, he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance and for the people that he had with him and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramoth Gilead. And Ahab, king of Israel, said unto Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-Gilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people, and we will be with thee in the war. And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the Lord today. Therefore, the king of Israel gathered together a prophet's 400 men and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, for God will deliver it into the king's hand. But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we may inquire of him? Now let me stop right there for just a moment. You'll notice Ahab had 400 prophets who spoke in the Lord's name. And here's Jehoshaphat, he recognized that these were not God's prophets. Just because a person is a preacher doesn't mean he's one of the Lord's. How are you going to find out? Pay attention to what he says. Otherwise, you'll be suckered into a lot of things. But just because a person's a preacher doesn't mean that he's a preacher of the Lord. And in this particular case, it's gonna end up being 400 to one. 400 preachers who were false, one preacher who brought the truth. So it's not a matter of numbers, is it? That determines whether or not the preaching is true. What determines it is the word of God. Well, let's get back to it. Notice verse seven. It says, and the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord. And again, whenever you see Lord in the Old Testament in all capitals, it is what word? Jehovah so he says there's there's this one guy there's this one guy that we can inquire of and we can inquire of Jehovah from him but I hate him For he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil. The same is Micaiah the son of Imla. Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. And the king of Israel called for one of his officers and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla. Now let's skip ahead, for time's sake, to verse 14. This is Micaiah. It says, and when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, go ye up and prosper, for they shall be delivered into your hand. Now, I think he said it with a smirk. And I think it was one of those obvious smirks. You know, when somebody's being sarcastic with you, and even though they may have given an answer, it's obvious they don't believe it. Now, I say that because of what takes place in the next verse. It says, And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the Lord? Now that tells me that that king knew that wasn't true. He had just had 400 of his own prophets say the same thing. And he knew what they had said wasn't true. That tells me there are a lot of people that although they don't mind hearing preaching, they don't want the truth preached to them. Because he never would have brought Micaiah here had Jehoshaphat not called for a prophet of the Lord. Now that's interesting. You mean there are people that go to church, sit in church, and want to be lied to? Yeah. Same people go to political rallies. Same people watch CNN. I'm sorry. Let me go on here. So, verse 17. And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me? I skipped a verse, didn't I? Let's back up, verse 16. Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon mountaintops as sheep that have no shepherd. And the Lord saith, these have no master. Let them return, therefore, every man to his house in peace. And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, did not I tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me but evil? And he said, therefore, hear the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting upon his throne and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left. And the Lord said, who shall entice Ahab, king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead? And one spake, saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner, Then there came out a spirit and stood before the Lord and said, I will entice him. And the Lord said unto him, wherewith? Now he tells how he's going to do it. Go up to verse 25. And the king of Israel said, take ye Micaiah, carry him back to Ammon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son, and say, thus say the king, put this fellow in the prison, feed him with the bread of affliction and with water of affliction until I return in peace. And Micaiah said, if thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the Lord spoken by me. And he said, hearken all ye people. Now the next verse makes a statement about Jehoshaphat. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-Gilead to battle. I want to ask a question today. What do you want to hear today? I think we ought to take up a vote and find out what you want to hear today, what particular subject you'd like the preacher to preach on, and what you would like him to say about that particular subject. Now God's prophets, their biggest job was simply to find out what God wanted said, and then they were to say what God wanted said. But one of the things you find out reading through all of the prophets, whether it be the book of Isaiah, the book of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, or Daniel, or any of the 12 minor prophets, those last 12 books of the Old Testament, that most of the time the people did not want to hear what God had to say. Because God would always point out their sin. And point out what was going to happen to them because of their sin. And even when they offered an opportunity for those people to get right with God, they wouldn't do it. They'd rather just get mad at the preacher. And isn't it interesting that in all these years, from way back then, thousands of years ago, people do exactly the same thing today. What do you want to hear? And why do you want to hear it? You see, Ahab was a wicked king. The Bible says of Ahab that there was none as wicked that did evil in the sight of the Lord as Ahab before him, and there was no king that served after him that did as wicked. This is, of all the years of the northern kingdom of Israel, the northern 10 tribes, this was the most wicked king that those poor people had. Now, of course, there were 19 kings that eventually served in the Northern Kingdom, and the Bible says of all of them that they did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. But then you got the Southern Kingdom, and that's Judah. The Bible says of Jehoshaphat that he did right in the sight of the Lord. I've got two kings that shouldn't be fellowshipping together, and they're fellowshiping. We've got a king that honestly loved the Lord and a king that loved Baal more than the Lord. And here they are together planning to go out to battle. And I'm thinking, well, Ahab needs the men, but Jehoshaphat, what does he need out of this? What is he doing? Is he just one of these kings that although he'll do right himself, He wants to be liked by the other side. He's open-minded about it. You know, I have a lot of things that have closed my mind about things. Because I've read God's truth. I see what God says in his word. And the Bible says, Jesus said to the word of God, thy word is truth. It is true. Psalmist said, thy word is true from the beginning, and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever. Now, when he hears the false prophets, both of them hear them, the good king, the bad king, they hear 400 men stand up and they're agreeing together. Go out and you'll have victory. Well, that sounds good. But Jehoshaphat recognizes none of those men are men of the Lord. How in the world could he tell? He could tell because he paid attention to what was coming out of their mouth. A lot of people sit in churches on Sunday morning, they don't pay any attention about what's coming out of the preacher's mouth. What they want to hear, somebody to pat them on the back and say something good's gonna happen to you today, and really, if you'll just think better about yourself, you'll be okay. You know, you need more self-esteem, that's your problem. And when they hear it, they say, oh, that makes me feel better. This is where I'm coming back to. I personally think that if you go to the house of God where you hear a man of God preach, if you leave having gotten right with God, then you ought to be able to leave and say, thank God, man, this is better. But if you haven't got right with God, you've got no business leaving feeling good. Because the word of God brings conviction. The word of God tells us that we are guilty. You remember Ahab when he went looking for Elijah and he found Elijah. And actually Elijah was the one who found him. And King Ahab said to Elijah, the prophet has now found me, O mine enemy. He didn't like Elijah. He doesn't like Micaiah either. But Jehoshaphat, Why was he wanting to hear from a prophet of the Lord? You say, well, he loved the Lord. Yeah, okay. But I look at the rest of this story and the prophet says they're gonna get beat. And Jehoshaphat doesn't take his army and go home. He had no intention of doing what the prophet of God said. And before they go off to battle, Ahab puts Micaiah in prison on bread and water. And Jehoshaphat doesn't even speak up. He goes off to the battle that the prophet of the Lord said they were gonna get beat. And he doesn't stand up for the man of God, even though that man of God wouldn't even have been there. had Jehoshaphat not requested Him being there. Why on earth would you want to hear what God has to say if you have no intention of obeying it if you don't particularly care for what He says? A lot of people don't think of how they tell on themselves spiritually by the things that come out of their mouth. This is a tremendous Compromise. Now, I read from 2nd Chronicles, this story is also recorded for us over in 1st Kings, chapter 22. And we have the same result, obviously, of course, because it's dealing with the same thing. Jehoshaphat is being polite and enjoying the show. I mean, after all, this has been done in his honor. He's been at a banquet. This is big news. This king that he is with is a Jew. Even though he's an idol-worshipping Jew, he's a wicked king, he's a wicked man. As a matter of fact, he's married to a wicked woman, Jezebel. Man, she was full of all kinds of wickedness. So here's Jehoshaphat getting a demonstration and showing his honor. And when he finally gets the man of God up there to give what God has to say, it's obvious he had no intention of responding to what God said. So for people at Madison Baptist Church today, what do you want to hear? You're in Madison Baptist Church today. Some people may not know it, but we are known as a fundamental Bible-believing, Bible-believing, Bible-believing, Bible-preaching Baptist Church. We don't hold back. Preach it and let it go out where it will. When you thought about coming today, what did you want to hear? And why did you want to hear it? You see, we find a lot of seeker-friendly churches out there, like the 400 prophets. We're just gonna tell you how good everything is, how good you are, whether or not you've cursed this week, or drank alcohol this week, or gotten into pornography this week, or took your CBD so you could get out of your mind and make it through your life. Didn't come to hear anything that would be condemnation. And yet here, whether it be alcohol or drugs or abortion or any other kind of wickedness that's out there, see, there's a reason the Bible churches preach against abortion. It's murder. Murder's wicked, it's wrong. But see, it's not popular today. We're not interested in popular. We're interested in truth and God's word. So I know we're in election season. What do you wanna hear in church today, for instance, about your country? Now don't misunderstand, I love America, but America does have a lot of problems. And I'm not referring right now, I'm not referring to the fact that we have got a problem with the economy, with all kinds of, there are a lot of problems that are out there. I'm concerned about sin in America. I'm concerned about booze flowing like a river in this nation. All kinds of booze. I'm concerned about immorality. Everything that the networks put out on TV that is a show glorifies the ungodly. The heroes in each of them either practice or enjoy perversions and wickedness and ungodliness. That's what I'm concerned about in my nation. I'm concerned about a nation that murders over a million children a year in their mother's womb. I'm concerned about a nation like that. Because you see, that's got to bring the judgment of God upon it. You've got satamites controlling public thought. You've got kindergarten teachers who feel like they have a license to take four and five-year-old little boys and girls and see to it that they get some kind of gender change surgery and drugs and think the parents ought to have no say about it. Or school boards that are so perverted in their mind, they have so much power over what kids are taught and yet they teach them all kinds of wickedness, including having drag queens coming in. and reading filthy stories to those kids. How in the world are these people not put in jail? I'm concerned about a nation like that. You want to hear the truth about our nation? It goes far deeper than Republican or Democrat. It goes to the heart of sin. And a nation that has turned itself over to sin, the Bible says that righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. The greatest treasure a nation can have is righteousness. Righteousness according to the sayeth the Lord. And the Bible says it is sin that brings it down. So we have verses like 2 Chronicles 7 14 of my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways. Then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. And something that I have said many, many times from the pulpit, the problem with that verse is not the verse itself. The problem with that verse is how in the world are people going to turn from their wicked ways if they don't see their ways as wicked. Because even it seems when they hear the word of God, pronounce any kind of judgment on their lifestyle, they just ignore it and decide they're gonna be running off to a church where they'll never hear that. Like that will make it go away. And it doesn't. The sad thing is, judgment begins at the house of God. And it's God's people who need to lead the way at getting right with God. When our prayer lives are almost non-existent, besides asking the blessing on the food, and some people don't even do that. And we think somehow God's going to grant a nation like that revival, not when God's people themselves won't even get right with God. God's judgment has to fall. So what did you hear today? I mean, there's a reason why we're where we're at. And it's not Congress, it's not the White House, it's not the judges. It is the people glorifying sin and being sold out to it. People who mock God, who think somehow they can live in open immorality or perversion, and that God is not going to judge them when he's made it very plain. And by the way, go back through church history, go through the history of God's people, Israel. They've experienced it over and over again. So what'd you wanna hear today? And why'd you wanna hear it? How about the truth about man's condition? You remember Robert Shuler, the guy who had the glass cathedral. He's dead now and he's found out God did mean what he said. But he said this, he said, man's problem, this is in his book, The New Reformation. He says, man's problem is not that he's a sinner. Man's problem is that his self-esteem is not high enough. Man needs to think better about himself. And he said, real sin is telling man that he is a sinner. But that's exactly what God says. He says, all have sinned to come short of the glory of God. He said, wherefore is by one man's sin entered into the world and death by sin. So death passed upon all men for that all have sin. That's what God says. There's not a spark of good in every man, as Albert Schweitzer said. There is evil in every man. And by the way, it's easy to see. You take, we have a number of precious little children in our church and we love them to death. But I can tell you about every child that we have, you never had to teach them to lie, it came natural. You never had to teach them to disobey. It came naturally. If you don't want your child to lie, you got to work like everything to teach them not to lie. If you wanted them to obey, you have to work at it to get them to obey, which is why God says so much about raising children and how to raise them and to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. And you got some church going parents who have become so perverted in their own mind. They say, well, I'm not gonna teach my child that because I want them to be free to make their own decision when they get older. Now, as wonderful as that may sound, by the way, they will make their own decision, but it is your responsibility to train them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. If you don't, they never will make the decision for God, which means you're raising a child to go to hell and to burn forever. That's the truth. That's the truth according to the word of God. God says in Romans 118, for the wrath of God, is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness. Bible says in Romans 8, 8, so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Revelation chapter 20 and verses 14 and 15 declares that death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. In Revelation 21, 8, but the fearful and the unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and idolaters and sorcerers and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. Oh, preacher, you're one of those fire and brimstone preachers. Yeah, I'll tell you, if they're not, if the preacher you're listening to is not a fire and brimstone preacher, he's not of God. He's a liar. He's not there to help you. He's there to get an offering in a crowd. Because God's book is a fire and brimstone book. Why does God talk about that? Why did Jesus talk more about hell than any other person in the Bible? Because he doesn't want you to go there, that's why. Yeah, Jesus was a fire and brimstone preacher. And Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by me. You wanna go to heaven? He's the way. He's the truth. Jesus said, you should know the truth. The truth shall make you free. And he said, and that the Son shall make you free. Ye shall be free indeed. But you've gotta come to Jesus. Bible says, he that hath the Son hath life, he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. I believe people of all religions are going to heaven. You just don't know what you're talking about. Not going to happen. You got to turn to Jesus to go to heaven. Muhammad doesn't save anybody. He said, I got to be a Baptist? I didn't say anything about being a Baptist. There are a lot of Baptists going to end up in hell because they never got born again. Jesus said, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. You see, we're talking about eternity now. You may want to choose those 400 prophets that just get up to try to make you feel good when you leave the house, but they're going to leave you in hell burning for eternity and no hope of ever getting out. That's what the book teaches. It's what it says. And the reason Jesus is the only one who can save you is because he's the only one who could die on the cross to pay your sin debt. He who knew no sin. became sin for us. He died in our place. You see, Jesus never committed a sin, never thought a bad thought, never said a bad word, never did an evil deed, not one time. Perfectly without sin, went to the cross of Calvary to pay for your sin, to pay for my sin. to pay for the sins of the world. 1 John 2, 2, and he is the propitiation for our sins, but not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. He died for everybody. He was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification. Nobody else has done that. Jesus is the only one. That's why Peter, preaching in Acts 4, 12, declared neither is there salvation in any other. For there's none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. There are some people who think Mary can do it. She can't do it. She needed a Savior too. She says so in Luke chapter 1. She rejoiced in God, her Savior. Only lost people need a Savior. She is not a co-redemptress. She didn't pay for your sins. She couldn't pay for your sins. Only Jesus paid for your sins. And three days later, rose up from the dead, and he said, and if I live, ye shall live also. According to John chapter 14, you see, his resurrection from the dead proved that his payment was sufficient to God for your salvation and for mine. What a marvelous truth. And God has told us that salvation is in him alone by his grace. Nobody here is going to heaven because you deserve to. For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. He's the only way. Your works could never be good enough, for the Bible teaches that all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Now, people can get mad or they can get saved. Which would it be? If you're not saved, if you've not been born again, and I know the world mocks that word, saved. Whenever somebody in Hollywood appears and they start talking about saved, these people, they're just doing it to mock. But they're gonna find out if they don't get saved, they'll die and go to hell too. And that's the truth. You know how Ahab could have stayed alive? When he heard Micaiah get up and speak, he could have said, I'm not going to battle. Rest you can go if you want to, I'm not going. I've heard from the man of God. I'm not going. I'll get right with God. Didn't do it. He died. I didn't read the full story, but the full story, see, he goes out to battle. He tells Jehoshaphat, you put on all your kingly garments. I'm going to go into battle disguised. Now, you would think Jehoshaphat would have started thinking, wait a minute. If they're gonna knock out the king first, I'm the only one that looks like a king. I'll tell you, but when you go stupid, like he did when he knew better, he deserved whatever he got. But here's Ahab, so he dresses up. It's like he doesn't believe that God can pick him out. And so there was an archer on the other side who just simply shot a bow at a venture. He wasn't even aiming at anybody. He just shot it up in the air and it came down and didn't go through the armor but caught that crack in the armor between the arm and the chest plate and went down into his body. And when he died late in the evening, the dogs came and licked his blood just like Elijah said it would happen. He'd been wise to pay attention. But he didn't want to hear what that prophet had to say. And it's always to the person's detriment when they don't listen to the Lord. If you're here today without Christ, be smarter than they had today. You can come to Jesus Christ and trust him as your savior, and he will give you eternal life. But as many as received him, to them give you power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. Well, that leads us to a third thing. What do you want to hear about sin? And why do you want to hear it? Now, I already quoted Romans 118, and this is a New Testament verse. Not that it makes any difference whether it's Old Testament or New Testament, but there are a lot of people who have been so careless with their Bibles, somehow they think that the God of the New Testament is different than the God of the Old Testament. And he's not. He's exactly the same. For the Bible says in the book of Malachi, for I am the Lord, I change not. The Bible says of Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today and forever, Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 8. Matter of fact, the Bible says of God in James chapter 1, in whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. God is the same that he has always been. and how God, when he makes any statement about sin whatsoever in the scripture, no matter if it was during the time of Moses or during the time of King David or during the time of Isaiah, it doesn't make any difference. God feels exactly the same about sin that he felt about it when he gave it in the scripture. He's not changed his mind. He feels exactly the same way. So, for instance, and by the way, in the New Testament, one of the very last books of the Bible to be written, 1 John chapter 3 and verse 4, he gives us the definition of sin. He says, whosoever committed sin transgresseth also the law, for sin is the transgression of the law. That verse was written to us some 60 years after Jesus died on the cross. And it lets us know that sin is the transgression of God's word. Now, you've got people today that are trying to tell us, oh, it doesn't make any difference what translation that you use, but they changed the words. You better be careful about that. I mean, Jesus said, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, not by every word that translators use, See, I want a Bible that uses, number one, the right text, uses, number two, the proper method of translation, and that's word-for-word translation. That's what I want, because that's what Jesus said that God would use. So what do you want to hear, for instance, about Hollywood? Well, if you want to hear the truth, you're not going to hear anything good about Hollywood. What do you want to hear about alcohol? If you want the truth, there's not going to be anything good to hear about alcohol. I'm trying to refrain from just going off on a tangent here right now on alcohol, because when I do, my face gets red, my blood vessels begin to pop out, and my wife gets worried, or hopeful, one of the two, that I'm going to have a stroke. Why do you hate it? I was brought up in a drunkard's home, and I saw what it did to people. That's why I hate it. I heard my mom and dad come home from a night of partying at the Eagles, the Moose, or the VFW, or one of those places, be in a drunken fight with one another and use the awfulest words toward one another. I come from a broken home. Yeah, and alcohol was a big part of that. Yeah, I hate it. I hate it completely. There's no way you can justify the wickedness of that filthy stuff. How about, what do you want to hear about dress? How to dress? You know, you'd be shocked how much God says about dress in the scripture, both Old Testament and New Testament. He says a lot. I can give you a lot of verses on it. You just read it. God wants us to be dressed. Amen. He wants us to be dressed and he wants us to be dressed right. You say, what's that? Well, modest begins it. He wants you to be dressed according to what gender you are. If you're male, you're to dress like a male. If you're a female, you're to dress like a female. And if you're confused about that, look at the pictures on the outside of the restroom doors. How about that? I haven't said that in a long time. Yeah, it was good. I almost felt like saying it again, but I think you probably got it, so we're good. We'll continue on. Do you hear what? What do you want to hear if the preacher was going to preach on marriage today and marriage and divorce? Would you want to hear what God had to say about it? Or would you rather hear what Dr. Phil has to say about it? Which one would you rather hear? See, God is the one who created marriage, and man who tries to play with it, tries to change it. We've got government officials, we've got senators and representatives who think that they have a right to change what God already set down in his eternal word. Hmm, do you want to hear what God says about dating? About premarital activity? Ooh wee. What's amazing to me is how many Christian singles and young people who think somehow God doesn't mean it, and they're going to reap some terrible things in their relationship even after marriage because they think God doesn't mean what He has to say. I don't have time to preach on that today, but we'll get around to it. How about what God has to say about child-rearing? What do you want to hear? And to be quite honest, there are a lot of us who laugh at Ahab's comments but fail to cry at Jehoshaphat. What was wrong with Jehoshaphat? He knew better. He had no excuse. He knew who the true God was. He knew what his word was. He knew he had a prophet of God when he heard Micaiah. He knew it. And yet he continued on the same old way like it didn't matter. To me, that is the height of stupidity. You know, when Madison Baptist Church becomes full of Jehoshaphats, whoever is pastor at that time, I hope he'll still proclaim the truth. Because Jehoshaphat shows himself to be absolutely without excuse. There's a verse in 1 Corinthians chapter 16. That says, if any man love not the Lord, I'm sorry, loves not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maranatha. That word anathema is a word that's translated four times in our New Testament as accursed. Let them be, if they love not the Lord Jesus Christ. I want you to get this. Jesus said, he that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me. He that loveth me not keepeth not my words. That's John chapter 14, verses 21 and 24. Jesus spoke on the night before his crucifixion. John Flavel, an English Puritan preacher back many years ago, stood up before his congregation The service was basically over. And he was about to pray the benediction, the closing prayer. And he read that verse, if any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema. And then he said, how can I ask God to bless a people that he is cursed? You know, I imagine most people going home that day weren't real happy with what they had heard. Especially that last statement in the prayer of benediction. So, what do you want to hear today when you came? And why? God wants you right with Him. That's why He's given us His Word. But that'll be up to you. The Bible says, be doers of the word and not hearers only. Now get this, deceiving your own selves. Let's be doers of the word. Right with Him. When we hear it, I want my life right. You say, well, preacher, they're just a bunch of little things that I recognize are not right. Well, the fact that you recognize they're not right has nothing to do with the size. It has to do with the fact of sin. You need to get right. And if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Father, I come to you in the name of the Lord Jesus and how I pray you'd meet with us now. I pray that your word would go deep into every heart, if there's any here. that have never truly been born again. May they understand, as Jesus said, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Lord, I pray today, they'd respond in the invitation, come to Jesus and accept his eternal life that he promised to all that trust him. I pray for Christians today. If they recognize that there's some things in their life that are not right according to the word, may they not be a Jehoshaphat and just hear it and go on their way. Lord, may they respond and get right with you. Have your way in our lives, I pray in Jesus' name.