Amen. All right. Well, turn with me to Psalm chapter 32. Psalm chapter 32. And I had a friend text me this psalm, and he had some notes with it, and he kind of asked me what I thought. And so I just started reading into it and referencing back and forth. And the next thing you know, you got a message. Amen. So Psalm chapter 32. I tell you what, it's only 11 verses. I'm just going to read the whole psalm. before we even start preaching. That's the only way I'm going to get through it anyway, because I've got more pages than I'm going to get through. So, Psalm chapter 32, Psalm 32, and I'll just go ahead and read the whole thing. It says, Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture is turned into the drought of summer, Selah. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin, Selah. For this shall everyone that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found. Surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Thou art my hiding place, and thou shalt preserve me from trouble. Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Say, Lo, I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go. I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse or as the mule, which have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked, but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, ye righteous, and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart. Psalm 32. It's a good psalm. Let's go to the Lord in prayer before we begin. Dear God, thank you, Lord, for this time. Thank you very much for this church, Lord. Thank you for the people that are here tonight. Lord, we're low tonight, and I know there's many missing, and I pray that you'd be with those that are not here. God, be with our pastor, as Michael said, Lord, and I pray that you should constantly keep a hedge about him and be with him, Lord, and give him just a desire for wisdom and understanding and knowledge, and I pray that you give it to him to our benefit, God. I pray that you continue to bless our church, Lord, I pray that you'd use our church in the way that you want to use it. And I don't know exactly how that is, but I pray that you would make it so. And I pray that you'd make each one of us exactly what you want us to be. And that would make this church what you want it to be, God. And I pray that you continue to take care of us and lead us. And my family, Lord, and as we go and have Thanksgiving tomorrow, Lord, we'll all be with friends and family. And I pray that you'd bless that. I pray that everything would be done for your honor and your glory, certainly everything that we do, God. And I pray that you'd bless us for it. In Jesus' name, amen. Alright, Psalm 32. So I just want to go through this psalm and make some points. And I probably won't get very far through the psalm. But I think it's a really good psalm. And I think a lot of times we can read what David says and understand what God wants us to think or wants us to feel. Because the Bible says that David was a man after God's own heart. And if I were to tell you You know, and we've all used this term probably, where somebody says they really like something, or something's their favorite, and you say, oh, you know, a man after my own heart. It's like we have common passions, or common desires, or we want the same thing. And so for David to be called a man after God's own heart means that he had some of the same some of the same heart as the Lord. And I think God put that in him. But we can read Psalms and get some of the things that God wants us to get. I think just because David wrote, if not all of them, most of them, I don't know. I don't want to say all of them if I'm wrong. I don't know for sure. Psalm 32 verse one, it says, blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity and in whose spirit there is no guile. Just real quick. I want to go to Romans four. And you don't have to go with me, but that is quoted in the New Testament, and I really like it. I use it a lot. I'm soul winning. And Romans chapter 4, it says, What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God. For what saith the scripture, Abraham believed God, And it was counted unto him for righteousness. So there's a lot in that term, believed God, Abraham believed God. And that's really what I want to talk about tonight. What does that mean? Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh, and this is where it goes on in quotes. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. That is the quote, and it's coming out of Psalm 32, where it says, And I want to talk about that point, in whose spirit there is no guile. But clearly, we're talking about a saved person right here. And we know that when we read in Romans chapter 4, and it tells us that. But let's talk about in whose spirit there is no guile. That word guile. I had to study that word out just a little bit, and it's an interesting word. Exodus 21, verse 12. I'll read this to you. This is the first instance of the word guile. You can turn there if you'd like, but you don't have to. Exodus 21, 12. It says, He that smiteth a man so that he die shall be surely put to death. And if a man lie not in weight, but God deliver him into his hand, then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. Okay, there's a lot in here, but let's start at the beginning. He that smiteth a man so that he dies shall be surely put to death. So if you kill someone, you're to be put to death, is what it's saying. But then it goes on, if a man lie not and wait, but God deliver him into his hand, So that means he didn't plan to kill the guy. God, it just, it just was an accident. It was, is what today I think we might call manslaughter. I don't know the rules of the laws, but like if you, you know, hit somebody with your car and you didn't mean to, and you weren't planning to, and it was an accident and it was a, you know, it was on you, you were driving, but it wasn't your plan. Then the Bible says that I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. So there's a place that you can go, there's a city that you can go to, and flee to, and stay, and it's a place of, I can't think of the word, but it's where you're able to go and stay, and not be sought out for blood that is on your head, that you owe. It says that if he kills somebody, he owes to be put to death. But if he didn't do it on purpose, God just delivered him into his hand, it just happened, Then I will appoint thee a place where thou shalt flee." So there's a place you can go and you can be free, but you got to stay there. But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar that he may die. So he's saying that if he came presumptuously upon his neighbor, if he slew his neighbor with intention or with presumption, or he intended to kill his neighbor, Then he's got guile. He slayed him with guile is what it says. And it says, you'll take him from the altar. You'll take him from the place where he fleed to. I cannot think of the word. Do either of you, anybody here know the word I'm trying to think of? No, that's okay. This is something city. Anyway, they take him from the city and kill him because they said, well, he did it with guile. He did it with intention. He did it deceitfully. I'll show you a couple other verses. Psalm 34, 13. Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking guile. Here's another one. Psalm 55, 11. Wickedness is in the midst thereof. Deceit and guile depart not from her streets. Evil and guile are compared as being, you know, synonymous somewhat. Excuse me. And then you've got wickedness. And then it says deceit and guile depart not. Wickedness is in the midst. Deceit and guile depart not from her streets. So guile is in the category of wickedness and it's coupled along with deceit. I'll give you one more. Psalm 10 7. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud under his tongue is mischief and vanity. So guile, I think you could also call it deceit. Guile has deceit in it. It has some dishonesty in it. And deceit and dishonesty come by pride, only by pride. So we've got this gift of righteousness that's imputed without works, freely. But there is a requirement. And it's said that you've got to believe. Abraham believed God. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes righteousness without works. And the guy that believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, But then it tells us that, and in whose spirit there is no guile. Let me give you another verse. Psalm 51. And you might turn with me to Psalm 51. Psalm 51 verse 16. So what we're talking about is, what does it mean to believe on the Lord? And that's not exactly the direction I would have said that this message is going when I came up here. But when we first read Romans 4, I'm certain that's the direction the message is going. So what does it mean to believe on the Lord? Do you know the message title? I haven't told you yet, but the title of the message is The Sacrifices of God. the sacrifices of God. So let's go to Psalm 51, look at verse 16. For thou desirest not sacrifice, else would I give it. Thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart. O God, thou wilt not despise. So it says, God doesn't want your sacrifice. He doesn't want your burnt offering. What he wants is a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart. But wait a minute. God did require an offering. He did require a sacrifice at a time. But what he's saying is those aren't the things that he really wanted. Those things were just supposed to prove that you had what he really wanted, which was a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart. Everybody understand that? You know, God doesn't just require that you change your mind. He does require that you change your mind, but that's not all He wants. He doesn't just want you to change your mind and go from this to this. He doesn't just want you to bring your sacrifice to the altar. He doesn't just want you to call on the Lord or to make a confession. It's not just a rote confession or some mechanical prayer that saves you. God doesn't want the sacrifice. What He wants is what the sacrifice portends. What He wants is what the sacrifice points to and symbolizes in you, which is the broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart. So what he wants is the confession, but not just the confession. He wants you to come to him, O Lord, and be broken. And yes, you're to receive a gift, but it's not just the act of receiving something for free that's saving you. It's the act of receiving the gift from the Lord with a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart. I'll give you another verse, Psalm 145. Verse 18, it says, the Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him. And you'd say, well, there it is, Bo, who serves to call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And I've got a charismatic buddy that basically believes that if somebody says, you know, Jesus is Lord, or somebody says, I believe in Jesus, then that's it, they're saved. But that's, it's just not that simple. You know, the Bible is very clear that there's going to be liars. They're going to be false prophets. They're going to be people deceiving you. There's going to be people who are deceived themselves and don't even realize it. So it says the Lord is an eye unto them that call upon him to all that call upon him in truth. So it's not just call upon the Lord is to call upon the Lord in truth. Ben and doc pay attention. Whatever you're doing needs to stop right now. Yes, sir. You need to call on the Lord in truth. Not just calling on the Lord is not what he wants. If you've only called on the Lord, then you've not called on the Lord in truth. You've got to have a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart. If you've only brought your sacrifice, then you've not actually sacrificed unto the Lord. You've got to do it with a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart. Psalm 145 says that nigh upon to all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. And then it goes on in verse 19. He will fulfill the desire of them that fear Him. He also will hear their cry and will save them. The Lord preserveth them that love Him, but all the wicked will He destroy." So you've got somebody that's calling on the Lord and calling upon the Lord in truth, it says. And then it says, He'll fulfill the desire of them that fear Him. He also will hear their cry and will save them. The Lord preserveth all them that love Him, but all the wicked will He destroy. So what does it mean to call on the Lord in truth? Well, it definitely means to go unto the Lord with a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart, but it also means to fear the Lord and to love the Lord. You say, well, what does that mean? Well, you want me to put it into some words? It means that it's going to be God. You're going to fear him. You're going to know that you deserve hell. And the Bible says to fear, not he that can kill the body. I'm going to misquote it, but to fear the one that can kill the body and the soul in hell. That's not the devil. The one that can kill the body and the soul in hell is the Lord Jesus Christ. That's God that can kill the body and the soul in hell. He's the one you should fear. So when you come to the Lord with no guile, with no deceit, with no pride in your heart, that's what it says, that you've got to come without guile. And in whose spirit there is no guile, that means that you've come to the Lord with a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart. And you're coming to the Lord in truth. which means that you fear him. You know that you deserve to split hell wide open and he could open up hell and throw you in and it would be just and right and you'd have nothing to say about it because you agree with him that that's what you deserve. You fear the Lord, but you also love the Lord. So if God And he's Lord. And when you love somebody, you keep their commandments. What the Bible says, if you love me, keep my commandments. So I'm not saying, and I've preached this over and over, and it's got brought up as the reason why it's become a topic to me, but it's something that's apparently needful. That you don't need to make Jesus your Lord to be saved in the sense that you've got to follow every rule and serve him for the rest of your life and make sure you don't screw it up. And you're going to screw it up. You're not going to follow every rule. You're not going to serve him for the rest of your life. But you better make Jesus your Lord in the sense that you love Him. You know, I talked about this the other day. Let's go to Luke chapter 6. Luke chapter 6. Luke chapter 6. It's in here somewhere. Towards the end. Starting 45. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good. And an evil man, out of the evil treasure of his heart, bringeth forth that which is evil. For of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like. He is like a man which built a house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock. And when the flood arose, and stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded upon a rock. But he that heareth and doeth not is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth, against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great." There's a few things in here. The Bible says that in verse 48, the smart one, the one that built his house upon the rock, upon the foundation, he is like a man which built an house and digged deep and laid the foundation on a rock. So what do you have to do? You've just got to believe on the Lord, Brother Bo. Well, that's right. But in that is involved coming to the Lord with a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart. It involves calling upon the Lord, not just calling upon the Lord. It involves calling upon the Lord in truth, which means you fear Him and you love Him. It involves laying a foundation. And you can't lay a foundation on top of anything and have that foundation succeed or stand or even be the foundation. Because whatever you've laid the foundation on is the foundation. So your foundation needs to be Jesus Christ. And if you've not digged deep, as the verse says, verse 48, he's like a man which built an house and digged deep and laid the foundation on a rock. If you've not digged deep and laid the foundation, which is Jesus Christ, if you've not come to the Lord with a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart, if you've not called upon the name of the Lord in truth, and that means with both fear and love, with both reverence and thankfulness to the Lord, then you've not digged deep and you've not built the foundation and you've not called upon the Lord. And that's a very important thing to figure out and know for sure. Have you just called upon the Lord or did you call upon the Lord in truth? Did you lay a foundation or did you dig deep and lay a foundation and build the house? Did you come to the Lord and confess or did you confess in truth with love and with respect and with fear? A couple other things in this verse in Luke 6. A couple things I want to show. It says, A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good. It doesn't say he might or he can. It says he will. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good. And an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil. For of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. So here's something. The Bible doesn't say it might or it could. It says it will. It will. What does it mean to confess to the Lord? Well, it doesn't mean that you answered Brother Bo's question right when he says, are you saved? Did you call on the Lord? It doesn't mean that you just told somebody, yeah, I'm a Christian. It means that you got with God and said, Lord, save my soul. Lord, be merciful unto me, a sinner. And if you've done that, if the Holy Spirit's led you to do that, then that is in truth. And that is with a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart. But it says that it will happen. It will bring forth. It will happen. So conviction, the conviction, the godly sorrow, which worketh repentance not to be repented of, the conviction of the heart will yield a confession. You know, conviction will make a contrite heart which will yield a confession. The Bible says a good man, and nobody's good, there is none good but one, and that is God, right? So anybody That is to be called or classified good can only be called good because they're in Christ. Right? So a good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, bring it forth. It doesn't say might or will. It says he will. He bringeth forth that which is good. What's good, out of the abundance of the heart of the mouth speaketh, that's good would be somebody with a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart calling on the Lord in truth. You know, I remember the time I did that. I know for sure that I had a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart, and I called on the Lord in truth. I had fear, and I believed that if I died at that moment, I was going to hell, no doubt about it. I believed. I deserved it. I didn't just believe that it was a true fact. I deserved it. I knew it. I was headed there, and I called on the Lord, and I did it in truth, and I loved the love, the appreciation, is in the assurance that you've got for calling on the Lord in truth with a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart, then the fear is knowing that you're dangling out over hell. But the love that would be calling on Him in truth, that would be your assurance. That would be knowing, I have given it all to the Lord. And your assurance will grow over time, certainly, as you learn more Bible and you learn more assurance truths from the Bible. But when you call on the Lord, when you give it to the Lord, there should be a degree of assurance right away. There's no doubt. And it should increase over time. You shouldn't necessarily have all the assurance you're ever going to have that moment, but you should have satisfactory assurance that you've left it in God's hands. And if you called on the Lord in truth, knowing that He could save you, then you will have assurance knowing that I've given it to God and God can handle it, He has handled it, and I've got nothing to worry about. And that's a good feeling. That's a true feeling. That is calling on the Lord in truth with a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart. The Bible says that you will confess, dig deep, lay Christ as the chief cornerstone, and you will confess. The Bible says in Proverbs 28, verse 13, he that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. So this is the guy, the guy that's covering his sins. And we know, the Bible says that if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us. So we know that we've sinned. And I don't even think, he that covereth his sins, I don't even think that's what it's talking about. I don't think that guy's saying, I don't sin anymore. I haven't sinned, I stopped sinning, I've never sinned. I don't think the guy covering his sins is saying that. I think the guy that's covering his sins is trying somehow to make his sins okay without Jesus Christ. Maybe he's trying to trust works to get him to heaven, or maybe, and this would be more relevant to the present company and the people that we associate with, the people we're around know the gospel, and they know that Jesus paid it all, and they know they can't work their way to heaven, but some of them, I'm afraid, I'm afraid some of them have not, they're covering their sins. in the sense that they may have made a confession, but it wasn't a confession in truth. And I don't know. I can't know your confession. I don't know. I can ask you questions. And if you just bumble and stumble and get them all wrong, I can know that you're, you don't believe the record and that you're not saved. But if you've got all the facts, right, and you know what the Bible says, then I can never know if you're really saved. But if you've got all the facts, right, and you know what the Bible says, then what's keeping you from being really saved and really having assurance if you don't, is the fact that you need to call on the Lord, and not just call on the Lord. So many people have done that. You need to call on the Lord in truth. It's not just offering a sacrifice unto the Lord. You know, God, I go to church, and I tithe, and I pray, and I read my Bible. It's not just doing those things. It's doing it with a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart. It's coming to the Lord with no guile in your heart, with no deceit with no lies, with no pride, is coming to the Lord broken and contrite with fear and with love and asking Him, calling on Him. And that calling on Him was not the end. That was not what you needed to go and try to do. What you need to try to do is have a broken spirit and a broken contrite heart. Calling on the Lord is just what's going to be yielded from or manifested from you have a real broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart before the Lord. Psalm 32 5 says, I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, and thou forgave us the iniquity of my sins. Confession or conviction will yield in a broken spirit, in a broken and contrite heart, it will yield a confession. Because the Bible says a good man out of the abundance of his heart, bringeth forth that which is good. And the Bible says that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. So that's what we're talking about. We're not just talking about, well, so-and-so can tell me the right answers. So I know he's good. That's not what it means. What it means is if you have had that broken spirit, that contrite heart, if you, let me give you another verse. Let's go to Psalm 38. Psalm 38. I think this is a great Psalm. We'll probably end here. Psalm 38. I don't know how much time we have left. What time do we usually end on Wednesday nights? Does anybody know? What time do we usually end on Wednesday night? Do you know? Don't know? Nobody knows. It doesn't matter. Psalm chapter 38. Psalm chapter 38. This is a great psalm to make the point that we want to make right here. Leave it at that. Man, I haven't coughed probably all that long and I can't stop coughing. That's how I get up here and I can't stop itching my nose or coughing or something. Psalm chapter 38. Check this out. Let's read some of these. Let's start in verse... Man, I'm not going to read the whole song, but you can read the whole song. The whole song is full of conviction and confession. Conviction and confession. Let's start in verse 1. We're not going to read it all. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. This guy's convicted. For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger. Neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. For mine iniquities are gone over mine head as an heavy burden. They are too heavy for me. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. I am troubled. I am bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long, for my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble and sore broken. I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. Lord, all my desire is before Thee, and my groaning is not hid from Thee. My heart panteth. My strength faileth me. As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. This is a guy who is broken. He says, I am broken. My loins are filled with a loathsome disease. There's no soundness. I'm feeble and sore, broken. This guy's convicted. This is somebody with a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart. And then look at these. I won't tell you the verses, but I'm just, I highlighted these. He says, He says, I am bowed down greatly. I have roared. My desire is before thee. It is hid not from thee. It says, but as a deaf man heard not, and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth, thus was I as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. He's got nothing to say. He's got no rebuttal. He's got no argument. For in thee, O Lord, do I hope thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. For I said, hear me. For I will declare my iniquity, I will be sorry for my sin. The one before it says, I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. This is a guy with a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart who is ready to halt. He's come to the end of himself and he's ready to stop. His sorrow is continually before him. He can't look away from it. It is the only thing. God is convicting him. God is working on him. God is what we pray when we get to witness to somebody and they don't really receive it, but we know they got it. We pray that God would not give them rest, that God would work on their heart and afflict their heart and put a burden on their heart and weigh heavy on their heart. And this is exactly what's going on right here. This is a guy. David is convicted. And he's calling on the Lord. And he's trusting in the Lord. And his hope is in the Lord. He says, I'm ready to halt. My sorrow is continually before me. It's the only thing on my mind. I can't get it off my mind. For I will declare mine iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin. You know, I have heard preachers preach against being sorry for your sin. I have. Let me tell you something. Here's why they've done that. They've said, listen, you don't need to be sorry for your sin. You just need to believe. That's what the Bible said. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. But let me tell you something. There's a lot in the word believe. First of all, I don't even think that the people that have said those things would argue with this. Believe doesn't just mean know the facts. It means trust. You've got to trust. If you just believe and you don't trust, you've not believed biblically, you've just changed your mind. And God does ask for us to change our mind. Hey, the sacrifices of God are not a changed mind, but He does expect you to change your mind. The sacrifices of God are not a prayer, but He certainly expects you to come to Him and call on His name. The sacrifices of God are not any of these things that we must do. The sacrifice of God is not taking a gift. The sacrifice of God is none of those things. But He does expect all those things from you. But the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart. You've got to call on the Lord. Nobody's saying you don't have to call on the Lord. But it's not calling on the Lord that saves you. Just as in the Old Testament, it weren't the sacrifices that would save you. It was being willing. It was being ready to halt, and having your sorrow continually before you, and declaring your iniquity, and being sorry for your sin. And, O Lord, in Thee do I hope, Thou wilt hear, O my God, O Lord my God. It's putting your faith in the Lord. You know, in the Old Testament, they didn't know the name of Jesus Christ. They were putting their faith in the fact that God would send a sacrifice. My son, the Lord, will send himself a lamb. They were putting their faith in the fact that the Messiah was going to come and pay for their sins. But it wasn't the things that they did to show that they were putting their faith in the Messiah that saved them. It was the faith that saved them. So it's not calling on the Lord that saves you. It's calling on the Lord in truth. Now, do you do that with your mouth or with your heart? Well, as I read Psalms, It sure seems like it's done with your heart. Now, does it have to be done with your mouth? No, I don't think so. You say, are you most likely going to do it with your mouth? Well, I'll tell you this. When I got saved, I don't know for sure if I prayed out loud or not, but I can remember praying for a long time. I've said this before. I probably prayed for half an hour. You know, I didn't know what to say. Nobody led me in a prayer. By the way, I don't believe in leading people in prayer. I believe that when you go to the Lord, you don't need to know what to say. You just need to know what you're feeling. You just need to know who you're trusting. That's all you need to know. You need to know whose hands you're putting it in, and that you're putting it in His hands. That's what you need to know. So did I pray out loud when I got saved? I don't know for sure. But the sacrifices of God are not words out of your mouth. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart. And I know I had that because it led me to call on the Lord. And I know I called on the Lord in truth because I did it with a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart. And I know that it was calling on the Lord in truth because I did it with love and I did it with fear. I had a fear that I deserved to tell at that moment and I was headed there and there was no doubt about it in my mind. And I had a love knowing that if I put this on the Lord, that I could be sure that he had it. And that's what led me to get saved that night anyway. You know, I grew up knowing these answers. I grew up learning all these facts. But what led me to be saved that moment, that night that I trusted the Lord was the fact that I realized, boom, I'm not 100% sure. And if I were 100% sure, I knew all the facts. And I would have told you I was sure. But at that moment, in my heart, I knew I wasn't sure. I was convicted. My sin was continually before me. And I was broken. And I was contrite. And I called on the Lord. And I did it in truth. Because I had the fear and I had the love. I knew I deserved it. I knew it was right. I knew if He sent me to hell at that moment, that that would be justice. And I knew that if I would trust Him, I didn't have to worry about any of that. And that's calling on the Lord in truth. There was no soundness in my flesh. The soundness that I sought was from the Lord. There was no assurance in my confession. There was no assurance in some rote mechanical form that I went through. There was no assurance from anybody telling me I had any assurance. The assurance was from the fact that I called on the Lord in truth with fear and with love. And that brought me assurance. That gave me assurance. And the more I've thought about it, and the more I've focused on it, and I've thought about it today, just driving, I've thought about this very thing, that it's not because there are people that have called on the Lord. They've prayed a prayer, and that doesn't save a person just praying a prayer. But I know, I was thinking about this today, I know that that was the moment, that was the time, because I was broken. I was broken. There were other times I had prayed to God, but never before had I been broken. And I was broken, and I was contrived, and I called on the Lord in truth. And from that moment forward, I've known what it's meant to be broken. And I've known what it's meant to really truly believe something, and really truly trust something. And I've known what it's meant to really truly love. Because before I called on the Lord with fear and love and truth, I didn't really know what any of those things meant. But now I do. And now I know whether I'm doing it or not. And now I know whether I'm right or not. And now I know if God put something on my heart, and I am to repent. Now I know if I've really repented, or if I've just gone through a form. If I've just said a prayer. If I've just done the things that I'm supposed to. If I've just brought the sacrifice to the altar. You know, that's not the sacrifice that God wants. He did ask for all those things. But that's not what God wants. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart. And that means you've got to come to the Lord with no guile, no deceit, no dishonesty, no pride in your heart. You've got to come to the Lord broken and contrite in truth. That's what it means. I don't know that I'll be able to get through any more points. Let's read just a little bit more out of Psalm 38. I'll tell you what. In verse 1 it says, O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure, for thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger, neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. It says, Thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. You know, I've been sorry before. I've been sad before. I've been in trouble before. I've been wrong before. I've been down and low before. But when I was convicted, I knew that it was the hand of the Lord pressing me sore. This wasn't a worldly sorrow or a sorrow after the flesh that I was just going to forget about. This was a godly sorrow that God's hand was pressing me sore. And it was a work of repentance not to be repented of. The sorrow of this world, we get sad, we feel bad, we got caught, or whatever it is. You're just sad. We've all been sad. But you're going to repent of that sadness. You're going to turn from that sadness. You're not going to stay in that sadness. You're not going to stay in whatever that sadness leads you to do or to change. You're not going to. You're not going to. But when you repent with a godly sorrow unto the Lord, that's the godly sorrow that works as repentance not to be repented of. And there's no changing that. Once you've trusted the Lord, once you've called on the Lord with a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart, there's the godly sorrow. In truth, there's the calling. Not to be repented of. You can't lose it. You can't repent of it. It's not to be turned from. You got it forever. I don't know why this is the message I preached. I truly believe that all the people here truly listening today are saved. But I don't know anybody's heart. And I think this is an important message that ought to be preached all the time. I tell you what, the sacrifices of God are not lambs and bulls and blood offerings and burnt offerings. It's not a confession. It's not coming to church. It's not an offering. It's not a prayer. It's not any of those things. It's a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart, and they should lead you to do all those things and more. Amen? Let's pray. Dear God, thank you, Lord, so much for your word. Thank you so much. for the sacrifice, Lord, that you paid for us. That's the sacrifice that's acceptable, Lord. All I'm to bring is humility and a willingness, God, a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart. You brought the rest. Thank you, Lord, so much for all you've done for us, Lord. I pray that everybody in here has got a time that they know that they were broken and they came to you, Lord, in truth and trusted and called on you out of truth, God, and I pray that you would just bless that Bless that testimony. Bless the hearers of this word today, God. I pray that they've all been doers of the word. Lord, I pray for all my kids. Lord, truly, I pray that you'd save every one of my kids. That's a prayer on my heart, God, and I pray that you'd bless them all. Many of them are young, God, and I pray that you'd just bless them, work on their hearts. God, whatever you gotta do, if it's put them in the ditch in the gutter, if that's what you've gotta do to save them, I pray that you'd save every one of their souls, Lord. Thank you for this church. Be with our pastor. Be with those that are away. In Jesus' name, amen.