We move on in our study of faith, and we're looking at Jehoshaphat, one who turned to flight the armies of the aliens. And certainly, Jehoshaphat did this by faith. And I want to read here, we'll read down through verse 13, and then we'll look at a few passages of Scripture here, but we're going to take a look at Jehoshaphat's act of faith tonight, his act of faith. or we might better render it acts of faith. So verse 1 of 2 Chronicles chapter 20. It came to pass after this also that the children of Moab and the children of Ammon and with them other beside the Ammonites came against Jehoshaphat to battle. Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria, and behold, they be in Hazazon Tamar, which is Engedi. And Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. Judah gathered themselves together to ask help of the Lord. Even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord. And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the Lord before the new court. and said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven, and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? And in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham, thy friend forever? And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying, If when evil cometh upon us as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, for thy name is in this house, and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help. And now behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom thou wouldst not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and destroyed them not, behold I say how they reward us to come to cast us out of thy possession which thou hast given us to inherit. O our God, wilt Thou not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that cometh against us, neither know we what to do, but our eyes are upon Thee. And all Judah stood before the Lord with their little ones, their wives, and their children." Now, we'll stop our reading there. And again, we want to note Jehoshaphat's act or acts of faith And this we see, as we have studied over this, and we looked, and again, here were the armies of the aliens, the Moabites, the Ammonites, and the Edomites. And again, the Moabites and the Ammonites were the descendants of Lot, and the Edomites are descendants of Esau. And here they were, they had come up. And they were at En-Gaddai. And you can look on a map and you can see that's just around to the east of Israel. And you can follow on and look and see what was going on there. And the Bible tells us that there was fear. But again, faith will overcome fear. Faith giveth us the victory that overcometh the world. And so here we find that He first feared at this news, but then he set himself to seek the Lord, in verse 3. He set himself to seek God. And how did he do this? Well, the first thing is, they fasted. And again, if you remember last week, we noted that fasting is something that didn't end in Old Testament or in early New Testament ages, something that's still to be done, and not solely for medical reasons or because you're asleep, But it's to be done for the purpose of seeking the Lord and seeking His will. And it is done for His honor and His glory. And the purpose, again, isn't to try to pass out or to dehydrate oneself. It is an affliction. of where we are not partaking of things so that we might again seek God's will and have a greater experience of Him. We look as well and we find that not only was there a fast, or one proclaimed, but we also see that they gathered themselves out of all the cities and stood before the temple and cried out unto the Lord to ask help of the Lord. Now I'd like you to turn here in the offset in the beginning of the message over to the book of James, chapter 2. The book of James, chapter 2. And Jehoshaphat had genuine faith. He had, as Paul told Timothy, he said, I saw genuine faith in your grandmother and in your mother, and now I'm seeing it in you. And how is it? Because you can't see faith. You can't see faith. Well, you can see genuine faith by the works that are produced by it. And that's exactly what was seen here there in Timothy. That's exactly what was going on with Jehoshaphat. And that's exactly what James wrote about here in James 2. Look if you would at verse 21 and 22 of James 2. He said, Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? And so this is exactly what took place with Jehoshaphat. He believed God, he trusted the Lord, he was relying upon God, and we see this evidence in that he proclaimed a fast, he set himself to seek the Lord, he proclaimed a fast, and all of him and Judah assembled before the temple to do what God had previously commanded Judah and Israel to do. So we know that this was all done by faith. This was not, well, let's try and see if it works. No, this is what God said. And we're going to do it. We're going to wholly and solely depend upon what God says. We're going to trust Him. And there's no plan B. This is it. There are no, well, if this doesn't work, then we'll do this. No, this is going to work because this is what God said. And so we find here, and let me read, and you can follow along in James 2, and I'll read the amplified text, but verse 21, it says, was not our forefather Abraham shown to be justified or made acceptable to God by his works when he brought to the altar as an offering his own son Isaac? You see that his faith was cooperating with his works. And his faith was completed and reached its supreme expression when he implemented it by good works. That's an amplified text. That is an expounded text of that verse. Here we find again, as it was written in verse 22, and by works was faith made perfect. Faith reaches its supreme expression when it implements works, and right and biblical works, good works that praise God. And this is exactly what Jehoshaphat was doing. His faith took hold of God and what God said, and he ordered his life accordingly. See, if we have faith, that's what will happen. We take hold of God and His Word, and we order our lives accordingly. If we don't believe God, we don't take hold of His Word, and we don't take hold of God, and our lives won't be ordered accordingly. But this is not what took place. And so we see Jehoshaphat's faith. We see Judah's faith. We know that He believed God. We know that He walked by faith because it was manifested in what was done. Our works will manifest what we believe. They always will. They always have. It's always going to be that way. From the very beginning, when Adam and Eve, the woman, when they took of the fruit of the tree that God said not to take and eat, it manifested they didn't believe what God said. And when Abraham and Sarah went and she told Abraham to go into Hagar and conceive a seed from her, and that would be in the place, it manifested they didn't believe God. And when those ten spies said, yep, the land's just like God said it was, but you know what? We can't have it. We can't go in and enter it. That manifested they did not believe God. But here, Jehoshaphat did what God said. And Eshodi believed God. And it's not so much about the letter of the law. Yes, we need to follow what the Scriptures say. You can't have faith and go against what God's Word says. It is an impossibility. You cannot do contrary to what God's Word says and say, I believe God. I'm trusting the Lord. But when you do what God's Word says, and it's not just, again, going by the letter. It is from a heart of belief. And that's what Jehoshaphat had. And we find this in the great expressions in these verses. Turn over, if you would, to Hebrews chapter 4. Hebrews chapter 4. Now what was it? What was the great act or the acts here, and we'll look at it momentarily, but what was it that Jehoshaphat did? Well, he prayed. You realize prayer is an act. It is doing something. So often when one prays, they don't feel like they're doing anything. Well, and the reality is, is that prayer is sometimes exactly what God calls us to do. And it is exactly what we need to do, and it is exactly what we don't do. To cry out unto Him. And we'll note here that God had already put this in, that this was what God commanded to be done, was to come to the temple and to pray unto Him. That was it. That's all that they were supposed to do. And so we find here in Hebrews 4 and in verse 14, it says, Seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need." What'd they do? What were they told to do? To pray. That's an act of faith. To pray. Because it's what God commanded to be done. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace. Turn over, if you would, to Acts chapter 27. Acts chapter 27. And you can find here in these verses how there was something that took place. Here Paul is being sent to Rome and they leave and a tempestuous wind called Eurycleidon comes up and the ship is tossed about. And again, what did Paul do? Well, he prayed. And in Acts chapter 27, and notice if you would, verse 21. It says, But after long abstinence, Paul stood forth in the midst of them and said, Sirs, you should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. And I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar, and lo, God hath given thee all them that shall sail with thee." Now notice what Paul says under the men of the ship, Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer, for I believe, God, that it shall be even as it was told me. You believe that? Do you believe that it is going to be even as God has told you through His Word? That it's going to be exactly as He said it was? That's faith. I mean, here's Paul in the ship in the midst of a storm. And it's being tossed about and they get rid of everything on the ship. And Paul tells them, listen, the Lord has revealed to me that you're going to lose the ship, but not a single person is going to die. He said, I believe God. And it's going to be exactly like he said. That's faith, isn't it? The storm hadn't abated. The storm hadn't gotten any better. It was still happening. And he says, I believe God. It's going to be just like God said. Well, here we find, if you'll turn back to our text of 2 Chronicles chapter 20, again the act of faith of Jehoshaphat. The first thing I'd like you to note this evening is that in verses 6 and 7, his act of faith is prayer, and the first thing he does is he praises God. And this is something that a lot of times when we go into our prayers, we don't praise God. I mean, Jesus taught His disciples to pray and the very first thing that He told them in the model prayer was, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. The very first thing we are to do when we go before God is to honor Him. Or to present honor unto Him. To praise Him and to lift Him up. So often we go in there and it's, God, I need this, and I need this, and I need this. And really, there's not one of those things that we need. I heard a song some years ago, and the one that rhymes is, forgive us for shaking your hand and not your face. And in these verses we find, if you'll look in 2 Chronicles 20 and verse 6, and said, O Lord God of our fathers, art thou not God in heaven? And rulest thou not over all the kingdoms of the heathen? And in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? Art thou not our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham, thy friend forever? So in the very first place, he just begins to exalt God. And you see how high that he exalts God? He says, Art not thou God in heaven. I mean, you can't get higher than that, can you? in His prayer, Jehoshaphat. And I'll tell you this, when you are going through anything, and you sit down, and you begin to pray, and again, understand, God knows exactly what's going on. He is not unaware of it. Just kind of like when they were in the ship, and they woke Jesus up who had been sleeping, and they said, don't you know, or don't you care that we're going to perish? He knew exactly what was going on. But you know, when you are going through something and you sit down and you pray, and you say, aren't thou not God in heaven? Well, that ought to just calm everybody down right there. It ought to just go, because He is God in heaven. See, prayer isn't really for God. It's for His people. It's for us. Because prayer doesn't change God. It changes people and it changes things. And we look at this and he says, Art thou not God in heaven? And in this portion, observe how Jehoshaphat, he rehearses to the Lord his greatness, his power, his might, and he rehearses how great God is. I heard one preacher tell me years ago, he says, God loves to hear His own words when you pray. I mean, think about that. You ever sign a contract for something? And you go and someone breaks the contract and you take that contract to them and you say, here you go, this is what you agreed to do. This is what God has agreed to. This is it. We like to say, God, I'd like You to do this, when God has never said He would do that. And in reality, He said He'd do a whole lot better things than we could even think of. You read that in Ephesians 3.20. He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or even think. And here Jehoshaphat cries out and he says unto Him, he says, O Lord God. Boy, that's a great name, Jehovah Elohim. Again, in our English we don't get the full rendering of what that means. but he calls him Jehovah Elohim. Again, the name Jehovah is the name of redemption, and the name Elohim, interpreted God, that is the covenant-keeping, the strong one. And it's plural, meaning the freeing one. He is calling upon the triune God, who is the strong one, who is the covenant-keeping one, who redeemed Israel. He's calling upon Him and He says, "'Art not thou God in heaven?' And it's a rhetorical question, isn't it? Because we all know the answer. He goes on and He says in the next line, "'And rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen?' He said, don't you rule over all the kings of the heathen? And again, who were the kingdoms that were coming? Well, they were heathen kingdoms, weren't they? Moabites, the Ammonites, and the Edomites. They were not God's covenant people. We know that. Turn over, if you would, to Psalm 22. Psalm 22 and verse 28. And understand this, Psalm 22 is written by David. David is the second king of Israel, Saul being first. Jehoshaphat is on down the line. So Psalm 22 was God's Word and it was available to Jehoshaphat. This was a psalm that was sung and may have even been sung in the temple, but it was known and available. And notice what it says in Psalm 22 verse 28, For the kingdom is the Lord's, and He is the governor among the nations. If it sounds familiar, it's because we noted it Sunday night. And so Jehoshaphat says, And rulest thou not over all the kingdoms of the heathen? Aren't you the governor of the nations? I read that. I mean, think about this. The Scriptures that you are told, or that you read, or that you've been taught, our faith is to be built upon those and built up upon them. We ought to recall things. You know, I read something. If you don't remember what it was, if you can remember one word, if God will bring one word, put some effort and turn to a concordance and find it. And rehearse it unto God as Jehoshaphat did. and cried out unto God. He wasn't just pouring out His heart. And He was pouring out His heart. But look what's in His heart. Scriptures there. Remember what David said in the 119th Psalm? About hiding Scriptures in our heart that we would not sin against Thee? Jehoshaphat had Scripture there and he's pouring it out to God in his prayer. He's crying out to God in faith. The Scripture says in the 119th Psalm in verse 9, Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word, with my whole heart have I sought thee, or let me not wander from thy commandments. Verse 11, Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. That's what Jehoshaphat had done with God's Word. It wasn't just in his head, it was in his heart. And so he's pouring it out unto God. And in 2 Chronicles 20, verse 6, he goes on and he says, And in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? You can look over into Exodus. You can read what God did to Pharaoh, what He did to the Egyptians, and how Israel experienced the power of God and His might when He redeemed them. And so has everyone here who's been saved by God's grace experienced His power and His might. so that we too can say with Jehoshaphat, and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee." I mean, that is the greatest example and rendering of God's power and might, is when He saves sinners. That's it. And you've experienced it if you're saved. that He called you out of the deadness of trespasses and sins, bound in those sin clothes. And He said, Your name, and come forth. And you came forth. And He said, Loose him and let him go. And you came forth to serve the Lord. Look in verse 7. He continues on and he says, Art not thou our God? Art not thou our God? I mean, here he is, he's claiming God. He says, Aren't you our God? Aren't you the one? And again, notice, look at the language. This is not happenstance. He's using the name Elohim. And again, I told you just a few minutes ago what that means. Has three meanings to it. Number one, the strong one. Number two, and let me say this about the strong one. There can only be one strong one. There cannot be two strong ones. So, the strong one, number two, it is plural. Elohim, in and of itself, is plural. There is no singular Elohim. And so it is speaking of the triune God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This is the same name that is given to us in Genesis 1-1, in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. and it means the strong one and the three-in-one, and then we also have that it is the covenant-keeping one. And in this instance, Jehoshaphat is dealing with the covenant-keeping aspect of this name, and we know that because of the context, because finish reading verse 7. Art not Thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before Thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham, Thy friend forever? I mean, he doesn't even go back to Moses. He goes way back to Abraham. Way back when God said, Get you out of the land of Ur of Chaldees into a land that I will show thee. And He says, I'm going to give you all this land and I'm going to make your seed as the stars of the heavens. Wherever your foot goes, and as far as you can see, it's going to belong to you. And then, when he separated, Abraham separated himself from Lot, he said, I'm going to give this to you. And he conferred it unto Isaac, and he conferred it unto Jacob, and then he raised up Moses after he'd spent some 40 years on the backside of the wilderness, and he sent him back to Egypt, and he said, you're going to take them, and now is the time we're going to go into that land. just like I said. So I'm going to give it to your seed forever. And now Jehoshaphat says, aren't you the covenant-keeping one who gave it to your friend Abraham and gave it to us, his seed, and put us in that land forever? Now that's being threatened, God. Now that's being threatened. Again, notice how Jehoshaphat, and it's not that God forgot, but he's rehearsing to God the very covenant that God had given him. He just keeps putting it before them. We have a covenant too. It's called an everlasting covenant. But we also have exceeding great and precious promises that God has given to us in His Son Jesus Christ. So this is again that great covenant that was given unto Israel. He recalls about the friendship of God and Abraham. God never called Esau His friend. He never called Lot or his sons His friend. But He did call Abraham, didn't He? And didn't He call every one of us whom He saved His friend? Most assuredly He did. We are friends of God in Jesus Christ. So He calls upon that, that oath that had been made between them. Look in verses 8 and 9, secondly. He calls upon God for mercy. In verse 8, He says about Israel, He says, And they, meaning Israel, dwelt therein, that is, in the land, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, You see, that temple wasn't built for anyone other than God. It was on David's heart. God said, you're not building it. Solomon will build it. And remember, the whole time, David and Solomon, they both conferred and said the same thing. Who am I, or how is it that I can build a house for you to inhabit when the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee? And yet God was pleased, wasn't He? The Bible tells us in Psalm 68 that that hill, meaning Mount Moriah, which became where the temple was built, you read it in Psalm 68, 15, 16, Mount Moriah is where Isaac was offered. It's the same mountain where Christ in that very area was offered. This is where round about the temple is at, where the atonement was made inside the Holy of Holies. It is the place where God desireth. It's the hill He desires. Psalm 68, you can read it. I'm not going to turn there and read it, but it's in verses 15 and 16. But Jehoshaphat confirms that they've dwelt in the land and they built a sanctuary for it. A sanctuary for God's name. It was His hill that He had chosen of all the earth to dwell in. And the Bible says, and it continues on in verse 9, it says, We built this sanctuary for thy name, and this is what was said, If when evil cometh upon us as the sword, or judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, for thy name is in this house, and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help. Turn over to 1 Chronicles chapter 7. 1 Chronicles chapter 7. And let's read here. That's not it, I'm sorry. 2 Chronicles 7. And here we find the covenant that God had made with Israel upon the dedication of the temple. And we've read this before because this is why they appeared before the new court. This is why they came to the temple. This is why they didn't stay in their homes all over Judah and Benjamin. This is why they assembled at the temple. It says in 1 Chronicles 7, verse 12, And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice. If I shut up heaven, that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people, if 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 hear their land. Now mine eyes shall be opened, and mine ears attend unto the prayer that is made in this place. For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there forever, and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually." That's the covenant God made. And you can read in 1 Kings 9, verses 1-9, the very similar words that are rendered. And it's the same thing, God speaking unto Solomon. And Jehoshaphat tells us, again, Scripture interprets Scripture. And so in 2 Chronicles 20 and in verse 9 it says, if when evil cometh upon us, and then he describes the evil that can come upon us as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine. So God said this, Scripture interprets this, and it tells us if one of these things happens, God said He would do this. If we will come before His temple, And if we will stand there and if we will cry out unto the Lord, if we will humble ourselves and seek His face, He will heal our land and forgive our sins. And so here we find that Jehoshaphat and Judah were doing exactly that. And it was not a show. This was not smoke and mirrors. They were not putting on a dress rehearsal. They were legitimately humbling themselves before God. They came and it said in verse 9, the very last phrase, "...and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help." Jehoshaphat did not vainly hold God accountable to that which God did not agree to. Jehoshaphat didn't come to God and say, well, God, we're in a bit of a pinch, we're in a bind, and this is what we'd like you to do. No, you see how he says, God, this is what you said. And pardon this expression because this isn't a very good one, but it kind of shows what was done here. He's holding God accountable to His Word. As if we could hold God accountable, but you understand what we're trying to express here. And God hadn't forgotten it. But all through Scriptures when there's prayers, we see what God said being put before God. What God said being put before God. And it's kind of like the other day. I told my kids they had to do this, this, and this, and then they were going to bed, and Horatio comes to me and says, Mom said we could do this. I had no idea his mother had said that. And I says, okay then. Do this, this, and this, and then you can do what your mom said, and then it'll be bedtime. But you know what he didn't say? Well, I wanted to do this. Because when he said, mom said we could do this, and I conferred with his mother, well, you have to hold that up. That's binding, isn't it? What I want is not binding, but what an authority, or what God, the authority says, that's binding. And again, God hadn't forgotten. But if you read 2 Chronicles 7, when we read through there, God said, oh I'll heal, but you have to do something first. They had to come home. He says, my ear is attentive unto this temple. And he says, I'm looking down, and let me get it correctly. He said, My eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. My eyes shall be open and my ears attend unto the prayer that is made in this place. So God was merely waiting for them to do what they were supposed to do. God will take care of what He said He'd do. He always has. He always has. And I am convinced He always will. Look, if you would, in verse 10 and 11, Jehoshaphat rehearses the threat. And again, God is not unaware of any of this. He is very aware. He was more aware of it than Jehoshaphat and Judah was. He knew Ammon and Moab and Edom, they were at Engedi long before Jehoshaphat did. In verse 10, Verse 10, And now, behold, the children of Ammon, and Moab, and Mount Seir, whom thou wouldst not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not. Behold, I say, how they reward us to come to cast us out of thy possession which thou hast given us to inherit. Here he rehearses the issue before God. See, again, and I'll not turn there, I'll give you the reference, Deuteronomy chapter 2, verses 5, verse 9, and verse 19. Deuteronomy chapter 2, verse 5, 9, and 19, is what I have written down. God told them, and it may be chapter 5, I don't know, but I wrote 2. It might not be either of those chapters. But God told them that they could not go into Ammon, they could not go into the Moabites, and they couldn't go to the Edomites. He says, you do not meddle with them. I have given the Edomites Mount Seir, and you don't bother the Ammonites or the Moabites because I've given them that land. I have a different land for you. Don't meddle with them. And Jehoshaphat says, we did what you said, God. We have never meddled with them, and look how they repay us. We didn't go into their land and invade it. If we would have, if you would have told us to, we would have destroyed them, guaranteed. But you put a hedge about them and we didn't go into that land. And now look what they're doing to us. Behold what the enemy is doing to us. You gave them a land and now they're trying to take the land that you gave to us. He said, Thou, when they came, and he says verse 11, Behold, I say how they reward us. Oh, we did them good, Lord, but now they're turning our good and using it for evil against us. He goes on and he says, and notice the language that Jehoshaphat uses. To come to cast us out of what? Thy possession. which thou hast given us to inherit." Notice how he always refers unto it as the Lord's. It's your land, God. You gave it to us, but it's yours because, again, you're over everything. He says, you gave it. Thou gave it to us. We didn't come in here and take it of our own free ability. No! You gave it to us. And He gave it to us forever, and now someone is trying to go against what you said. You need to deal with it. So, number one, he praises God. Number two, he talks about God's covenant of mercy. Number three, he tells God about the threat. Do you understand what Jehoshaphat's doing? taking this burden off, and he's putting it over here on God. Because the government cannot be upon Jehoshaphat's shoulders, it has to be on God's. It has to be. He said, I can't carry this load. This is a huge load that this enemy is upon me. I can't deal with it. And he describes that in verse 12. Last of all, as you'll look here in this verse, now he makes a request. He hasn't made a request yet, has he? See, this is kind of the opposite of our prayers sometimes. We go in telling God what we want, we never get to the exalting of Him. We're too busy telling Him what we want. And then verse 12, O God, or O our God. Again, the language is specific. He's using a specific title or name. Elohim. It's not my happenstance. It's not, well yesterday when I prayed, I used Lord. So today is Wednesday, so I'm going to use Elohim today. No. He's dealing with a specific aspect, the covenant. He says, O our God, wilt thou not judge them? And now he turns and he deals with the strength of God, doesn't he? He says, for we have no might, we have no might, against this great company that cometh against us. Neither know we what to do. but our eyes are upon thee. And all Judah stood before the Lord with their little ones, their wives, and their children. See, this wasn't just the men. This was the whole family. This was, and notice it, their little ones, their wives, and their children. It wasn't just, again, it wasn't just the men, it wasn't just the men and the children or men and wives. The wives and the whole family was there to cry out unto God. What a tremendous thing to teach as the heads of house and as parents to teach the children to trust the Lord. In verse 12, He requests, and he says, first of all, he requests God to judge them. He says, God, you've got to handle this. The reason you have to handle this is because we have no might against this great company that cometh against us. So the first thing he says, we don't have any power, we don't have any ability, we don't have any strength. And that's still true today about God's people. Without me, ye can do nothing. Psalm 18, where it says that the Lord is my strength, is still applicable today. It's still true. I can do all things through Christ, Jesus, who strengtheneth me. It's still true today. But without me, ye can do nothing, is still true today. He says, secondly, why is it that God must judge? Neither know we what to do. We don't know what to do. You ever had that? I don't know what to do. Well, the first thing is, you might want to look in this book. Because all the answers are here. Everything that we'll have to do within life is in this book. It's all there. And he says, neither know we what to do. Well, they were doing exactly what God had told them to do. Isn't that something? Come to me at the temple, present yourselves, humble yourselves, seek me, and I will hear what you have to say. I will be attentive unto it. I am looking down at this place. And then it's something they didn't know what to do, but they were doing exactly what God had told them to do. To cry out unto Him. And then He says, but our eyes are upon thee. They weren't looking to anyone else but Him. It's the same thing. When the fiery serpent came down in the wilderness, God told Moses to put a serpent on a pole, a brazen serpent on a pole, and set it up, and it says that if they'll look toward it, or look to it, they didn't have to actually see it, they just had to look to it. And they would be healed or saved from that fiery serpent. And if the same thing that John the Baptist told lost sinners, Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him, which taketh away the sin of the world. The same thing that Paul wrote in Hebrews 12, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Looking. We don't know what to do, but we're looking to you God. And you know, God, if it was Your will for them to come in here and to destroy this place and to slay all of us, they're going to do it while we're looking at You. Because that's what we're doing. And so be it. Kind of like John said, even so, come Lord Jesus. But this was Jehoshaphat's act or acts of faith. Exactly what God said. And Lord willing, we'll know the results next week. I pray that if you're here tonight, that we might be encouraged and our faith might increase. That we might trust the Lord and that when we don't know what to do, we'll look to the Lord. And when we think we know what to do, we'll look to the Lord. And when we know that we know what to do, we'll still look to the Lord and trust Him. So we thank God for the privilege to be here tonight.