I'm thankful for the difference that teen camp makes in the life of a teenager. Just to go in and hear the preaching and everything going on, everything is centered around getting teenagers under the preaching of God's word. And I'm just thankful for the decisions that several of our teenagers made and just the way that God worked in their heart. and their life. And I just had those three come up, but of the forty-one who were there, I think probably just about every one of them made some type of big decision, some type of a decision that would be a lasting impact there. I'm going to open your Bible with us tonight to Joshua chapter number two. Joshua chapter number two. I'm thankful any time I'm able to stand and preach God's Word, but I'm thankful To be able to be in this pulpit, so many great preachers have preached here, and Pastor Broyhill preaches here regularly, and I'm thankful for the preaching of our pastor. I'm thankful for our staff and their preaching, and just to be able to see our staff behind the scenes and see what these guys do on a daily basis. I'm thankful for every one of them and just their heart for God and their heart for serving the church. And we just have a great staff, a great pastor, a great church, great people here. I'm so thankful to be here and there's nowhere else in the world I'd rather be preaching tonight. There's no other church I'd rather be serving in. You know, I remember growing up. I remember going to Sunday school, and I remember hearing about the great feats that God performed through men and women in His Word. I remember hearing about Sunday school teachers talking about different situations that occurred in the Bible. I remember sitting in Sunday school class and making a sling. We made a sling like David would have had, and they explained to us it wasn't a regular sling shot that you would pull back, but it was a sling, and we learned how to get the sling and spin it around, and we threw rocks at each other in Sunday school. It was great. I remember going out one time for Sunday School or Children's Church, I can't remember which one it was, and they went on our church yard and they marked and they said that one end of the ark will be here. They took us all the way to the other end of the church yard and said the other end of the ark would be here. I remember thinking for the first time, wow, that's a big boat. God did some incredible things. I remember sitting in class and having my teacher explain to me how the Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego said, we're not going to bow and if we burn, we're just going to burn. I remember hearing about Daniel. Daniel went in and was told not to pray by decree of king. He went, opened his window and prayed three times a day before the window and said, whatever happens to me is going to happen to me. I'm going to obey God rather than man. I remember going and looking and seeing all these different people, all these different feats of these great men and women of the Bible. There was Abraham who was willing to take his son and lay him on the altar and say, God, I'm leaving it all in your hands. I remember thinking about the great faith of Abraham as he did that. But as I remember looking back through all those Bible situations and the men and women that we learned about, there's one story, there was one situation that always stuck out to me. There was one event that I just loved to read. And that was about Joshua and the battle of Jericho. I'm sure you can remember Sunday school and remember the crafts you did and the things you made as you were learning about these events that happened in the Bible. And I remember, and we would sing the song of Joshua fit the battle of Jericho and the walls came tumbling down. I remember doing all those things and the excitement of it. But I'm afraid that oftentimes, we've heard these stories so many times, we've heard how that God did amazing things through amazing people, and how that God delivered Noah and his family on the ark, and how that God delivered Daniel out of the lion's den, and how God did all these great things, how that God brought down the walls of Jericho, and we hear these things, we go, man, I've heard that a thousand times. You know, you read through it in your Bible, and you get to it, and we just sort of skim over it. But tonight, I want to look at the book of Joshua here and learn several things Several lessons from Jericho. Let's pray. Lord, we love You today. We thank You for everything You do for us. Lord, we thank You for Your Word. We thank You for the men and women who march across the pages of Your Word as we read it. And they inspire us to live for You, and they show us that You're able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ask or think. Lord, I pray tonight that as your word is open, Lord, that you would help me, that I would say only things that would be honoring and glorifying to you. Lord, I pray you'd help every listener here tonight, Lord. They would not just be hearers of the word, but they'd be doers also. I pray you'd be with pastors as he preaches away tonight. In Jesus' name, amen. As we approach Joshua chapter 2, this point in the Bible, we find the children of Israel have been wandering in the wilderness for over 40 years. Moses has now passed on the scene, Joshua is now in charge, and the children of Israel will soon be crossing over Jordan. But before they do, they decide to send two spies over to check out the first target, the first enemy they're going to approach once they get into the Promised Land. We'll pick up reading in Joshua chapter 2, verse number 1. The Bible says, And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and they came into an harlot's house named Rahab, and they lodged there. As we look at Jericho tonight, I want to see several lessons in Jericho. The first lesson that we see as we look at this city of Jericho is that God employs unusable people. God employs unusable people. You see, they go in and they go into this land and the first thing it says is they go into this lady and she's a harlot. That's how it describes her. It tells us about the spies, it doesn't tell us their name, but it tells us about Rahab the harlot. When we first find Rahab, we find a woman we probably won't associate with. Rahab is an unholy person in a sinful society. Rahab lived in Jericho, which was the chief worship center of their goddess, Ashtaroth. Ashtaroth was a very immoral goddess. She was their goddess of sensuality. As an act of worship, people would go into this temple of this goddess Ashtaroth, and they would commit immoral acts. Most likely, from what I've read and what I've looked at, Rahab was one of the people who would be used in the immoral acts of the worship of this false god. They go in and they find this lady. The display of God's power begins when we see this person with a reputation that's not a good reputation. We begin to see this amazing feat that God would accomplish as he brings down the walls of Jericho, and it all starts with this lady who has a terrible reputation. This lady who's known as an immoral lady. This lady who, of the 11 or 12 times she's mentioned in the Bible, nine of them she's referred to as Rahab the harlot. I don't know about you, but that's not the kind of title I want to be known by. And we see that in this, God uses, People who are completely unworthy, people who are completely unthinkable, people who have nothing to offer Him, and He uses them for incredible things. When God wants to do something, God doesn't go out and look for the most talented person. God doesn't look for the person with the most ability. God looks for the person who has the heart and says, God, you use me in whatever way you want to. I'm thankful tonight that I serve a God who doesn't worry about my past. I'm thankful that I serve a God who saved me. My past is behind me. My problems are behind me. My troubles are behind me. And I've got a God who wants to use me and allow me to work for Him and accomplish great things for Him no matter how bad I am. No matter how bad you are tonight, the good news is Jesus loves you. He died on the cross for you, and no matter how many sins you've committed, no matter how many bad things you've done, no matter how many times you've failed Him, no matter how many evil, terrible, wicked things you've done, we have a God tonight who loves you, and we have a God tonight who wants to save you. And if you're saved tonight, forget about your past, forget about the problems, forget about the things that are behind you, and press toward the mark for the prize that God has set before you. And that's exactly what Rahab did. Rahab forgot about the things that were behind her. Rahab no longer cared that she was called Rahab the harlot. Rahab no longer cared about that past reputation. Rahab was excited that God had a job for her. And she jumped right on the job and did exactly what God had for her. When you look at verse 1, it says, And they went and they came into the harlot's house. One author said, and to seemingly empathize her prominence and gallantry in the account. Her name is given, while the names of Joshua's two spies, who also performed very well, are not given." You see, these spies, they went to secretly search out the land, and as they did, we don't know their names. We don't know anything about them. As a matter of fact, as far as I know, they're never referenced again. But as you go into the New Testament, you hear about Rahab the harlot, and you hear about how Rahab served God, and you hear about the great things that she did for God. Can I tell you? We have a God who's graceful tonight. We have a God who's full of love. We have a God who's full of mercy. You know, as you look at Rahab's new faith in Jehovah, we find a faith that cleans up lives and a faith that obviously cleaned up her life. When you get to Hebrews chapter 11, the great hall of faith, you find that only two women are mentioned. You find that Sarah's mentioned. Sarah is this great wife of this patriarch Abraham, this man who lived for God and served God, and Sarah's mention there is this lady who had this child in her old age. And then when you get down to verse 31, you'll find the Rahab's mention. It says, I'm thankful that when God sees me, God doesn't see my sin. I like the song, when he sees me, he sees the blood of the lamb. He sees me as worthy and not as I am. And I'm thankful tonight for our God who uses unusable people. For our God who employs people who we wouldn't choose. For God who looks past the surface and the problems and the failures of our past and encourages us on for a great future. Then in James chapter 2, you don't have to turn there, it says, Likewise, also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works when she had received the messengers and had sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead. You know, people could use Rahab and say, well, you see, Rahab was a harlot. I can live any way I want to. But James says the exact opposite. James says that Rahab went out, did what God commanded, and by her works, we know that Rahab was a saved lady when we look and see the things that she did. When Rahab was saved, God took her from being an adulteress to an ancestor of the Messiah. See, Rahab had a son named Boaz. Boaz had a son named Obed, Obed had a son named Jesse, Jesse had a son named David, and several hundred years later, a son of David was born, and his name is Jesus. See, it's incredible what God does with people who have less than a remarkable past. As a matter of fact, the best person in here, if we were to go into your closet and pull out all the skeletons, none of us are really that good. And I'm thankful that I have a God who, even though I grew up as a preacher's son, grew up in a pastor's home, God was able to overlook my faults and my failures and the times I sinned against Him. No matter how good or how bad we are, we have a God who's able to use us. It's not our ability that God uses, it's our availability. I'm thankful for 1 Corinthians 1. It says, "...but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and the base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring not things which are, that no flesh should glory in his presence." You know, it's funny that God used this layman with no reputation, as a matter of fact, a terrible reputation. to accomplish great things for him and he does that many times because as the end of the verse says that no flesh is glory in his presence. There's nothing special about any one of us in here. We're all sinners saved by the grace of God. But not only do we see tonight that God employs unusable people, we also see that God's truth reaches unlikely places. The spies come in, and they go to the house of Rahab. They hide there. The guard of the city of Jericho comes in. They look around. They can't find the guys anywhere. Rahab says they've already gone. And then she tells them after they go, After they go, I'll lay you down through a scarlet cord. You'll go, you'll hide in the mountains for a few days, and then you can go home from there." But she said something interesting as she's talking to him. Let's look at verse 9 of chapter 2. The Bible says, And she said unto the men, I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did unto the two kings of the Amorites that were on the other side of Jordan, and Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. And as soon as we had heard these things, our heart did melt. And neither did there remain any more courage in any man because of you. For the Lord your God, He is God in heaven alone and in earth beneath. Now therefore, I pray you." She says, I've heard about what's happened. I've heard about the things your God did. I've heard about how you crossed the Red Sea. When we look at the city of Jericho, you've got to understand, as I told you earlier, immorality was on every corner. Immorality was worshipped. And whether Rahab was a temple worker or a streetwalker, we don't know. But we know that her lifestyle was completely unacceptable to God. But in Jericho, it was very acceptable. In Jericho, it would have been exalted. You know, things that were evil in Jericho were lifted up as things that are good. If we're going to find a place to share the gospel, to tell what God's done, to share the good news, Jericho would be a hard place to go. You know, however, it's easy to cast stones at other cultures and other societies and places where we're not. You know, in case you haven't noticed, we live in a society that calls bad things good. We live in a society that calls good things bad. We live in a society that elevates people who shouldn't be elevated. We live in a society where evil is praised and all things that are good are considered bad. We live in a society very similar to that of Jericho. And Rahab, the unlikeliest of people in the unlikeliest of places, heard of the power of God and placed her faith in the God of heaven." She was in an unlikely place. I'm thankful tonight that God's truth reaches unlikely places. I'm thankful for every bus worker who goes out every Saturday morning while the rest of us are doing all kinds of things we do on Saturday mornings. They're knocking on doors. They're inviting kids. They're going to many places where there isn't love, there isn't care, there isn't hope, it seems like, to them. And then somebody comes by and knocks on their door and invites them to come to church. What an unlikely place to find love many times. I'm thankful for every person who comes in our church that looks different. I'm thankful for the people who come into our church who relate more to Rahab than the average church person. I'm thankful for that God is willing to use those people. For 46 years around King, North Carolina, people have been hearing about this God. People have been hearing about the God who dried up the Red Sea. People have been hearing about the God who brought kings down. People have been hearing about the God who brought the walls of Jericho down. You know, it's our job to tell that good news. It's our job to share that truth. It's our job to let people know that we have a powerful God who can change their lives in a powerful way. It's our job to let people know that our God is better than anything, any high they'll ever achieve, any drunkenness they'll ever achieve, any temptation or any struggle they'll ever have. Our God is better than that. Our God is great and our God is powerful and our God is mighty, and we have the privilege of telling people about Him. God could have told people anyway, but God allows us to tell people. You know, I tell our teenagers all the time, I'll be honest with you, it makes me nervous to go up to somebody and pull out a track and hand it to them. It makes me nervous. I do it, but it makes me nervous. Why is that? We're sharing with people the greatest truth they'll ever hear. We're sharing with people the greatest love that's ever existed. We're sharing with people the greatest knowledge they can ever have, and we're ashamed of it. But I'm thankful that in those unlikely places, in those places where many times we don't want to go, those times where sometimes our bus workers have to have men because it's unsafe for our ladies to go there, in those places, God still loves people, and God still cares about people, and God still desires to reach those people. We have an incredible God. We have an incredible truth to share. And we get to share it. What a privilege. What an exciting thing that we get to tell people that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. I'm thankful that I get to share that truth with the world. I'm thankful that I'm in a place where when I give my missions dollars, they go to tell people. I'm thankful that so many things we do at our church revolves around reaching people to gospel across the street and around the world, honoring God, building lives, and reaching others. That's what we're all about, and I'm thankful that we're in a place where that happens. Not only do we see that God employs unusable people and that God's truth reaches unlikely places, but then we see tonight that God possesses unparalleled power. So spies, they go to Rahab's house, he lets them down by the scarlet cord, they go and they hide in the mountains for a few days. Finally, when they see that the guys who were hunting them are gone, they go back, and they cross back over Jordan, and they're there with Joshua. They're back. You know, it's funny that these spies look a little bit different than the other spies did. If you remember back in the book of Numbers, 12 spies go out, and they come back. Well, they say, man, the land of Canaan is big. There are graves. You've got to carry them between two men. There is milk and honey flowing there, but there's giants. We get to these spies, and they tell a little bit of a different story. These spies say that God has given us this land. God has delivered this into our hand. I'm thankful tonight that I have a God who possesses unparalleled power. When things don't seem possible, when there are giants in the way, when there are things that seems like, I'm just a grasshopper. We've got a God who's able to take care of those problems. We've got a God no matter how big or how scary things are ahead of us, our God is able. After the good news of the spies, the children of Israel crossed over the Jordan into the promised land. But the Canaanites, they were already afraid after they heard that God opened another body of water and let them cross the Jordan. In chapter 5, in verse number 1 of the book of Joshua, it says, These people, they were afraid. Now, I'll admit, I'm not a soldier, okay? I'm not a Marine or anything like that. I appreciate the guys who did that, but I don't understand war strategy. But I would say in the little bit of what I do understand, I would say that when your enemy's heart's melted, it's time to attack. When your enemy's down, it's time to jump on them and give them everything you've got. And that's what I probably would have done if I was Joshua. But God had other plans. We rarely like it when God has other plans. You know, we make these plans, and we're ready to go out for our plans, and there's many times that God leads us in a different path, that God takes us in a different direction. They had all the momentum, the wind was at their backs, the time to attack was perfect, and God changed it. They had just wandered 40 years in the wilderness because Moses messed up, because Moses tried to make a decision on his own, and here they are, it's time to attack, what are they going to do? Well, once the people crossed Jordan, God commanded that all the men be circumcised. After they waited for healing at the end of chapter 5 and the beginning of chapter 6, Joshua had a conversation with God. Instead of giving Joshua a great war plan or having Joshua ask for the advice of the generals, the war masters, God gave Joshua a unique plan. You know the plan, it's not a secret. Take the men of the army. take seven priests who are going to have their trumpets, take the Ark of the Covenant, and walk around the wall. I don't know about you, but if I want to take down a wall, walking around it does not seem like the best strategy. Okay, so day one, what are we going to do, God? You're going to walk around the wall, and you can't say anything. I'd struggle with that more than I would walking around the wall not saying anything, you know? They get up and they begin to walk around the wall. They walk around the wall the first day. They get up the second day, they walk around the wall the second day. They get up, they walk around the wall the third day. Six days they walk around the wall. I don't know about you, but that sounds like a terrible strategy. You know, there are times in our lives where we have plans. There are times in our lives we have strategies. There are times in our lives where we've looked and we've got everything figured out. And then God says, no, instead of attacking, why don't you just walk around the walls a few days? God, we've already wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. Why do we have to walk around the wall again? Walk around the wall again. Walk around the wall again. You know, those times in our lives where it feels like we're stuck in a holding pattern, and we're walking around the wall, and walking around the walls, and walking around the walls. We're wondering, God, are you there? Are you going to answer my prayer? God, I could attack the city. The city is right there. I can touch the walls, God. Why are you not letting me attack this city? You know, I'm thankful that when my best plans fail, God's best plan is always there. I'm thankful that when I'm weak that God is strong. I'm thankful that I have a God whose plans are always better than my plans. Joshua chapter 6 verse number 5 says this, And it shall come to pass that when they make a long blast, and the ram's horn, with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, and the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before the Lord." You have to understand that these walls are not typical walls. God's got the plan. Walk around it, the wall's gonna fall down. You know, when I would think about these walls, you know, I would just picture in my mind these big brick walls. Well, Before they would build a wall, the first thing that they would do is they would dig down to the bedrock. They wanted to make sure that nobody would tunnel under. They wanted to make sure that nobody would get in this city any way but through busting through the walls. They wanted to make sure that this wall was impenetrable. They would dig down to the bedrock. But most historians believe the city of Jericho didn't just have one wall, it had two walls. There was a wall on the outside that was stone, that was about 15 feet tall, about 6 foot thick. And then on top of that 15-foot stone wall, there was another, about a 15-foot long wall, or a 15-foot wide wall that sort of went up to a second wall. And between those walls is where they would build houses. That's where Rahab's house would have been and other houses. Between these walls that are 15 feet apart, both 6 to 8 feet thick, these are serious walls. And God says, don't attack them, don't burn them, don't dig under them, don't take any of your weapons of war with you. Walk around the walls the seventh day, walk around seven times. When you get to the end, the trumpets are going to blow, and we want all of you to yell. I bet after seven days of not talking, there was a lot of yelling going on at that point. They did everything as God instructed. And verse 20 says that the people shouted when the priest blew the trumpets, and it came to pass when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout that the wall fell down flat. So the people went up to the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. I'm thankful tonight for a God who brings down walls for us. 2 Corinthians 12, 9, and he said to me, my grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. You know, God brings down many times in our lives the walls of uncertainty. Mark 16, don't turn there. Mary, Magdalene, and the other Mary were, they're devastated. Jesus is just crucified. He's in a sealed tomb. And they decide they're gonna go clean up his body for burial. Was there going along? One of them asked the question, who's gonna move the stone for us? They had no idea who was going to move the stone. They had no idea how they were going to get inside to his body. But they knew that that was what they needed to do to take care of the body of Jesus and they weren't going to let a stone get in their way. They got there and the stone was moved and Jesus wasn't there. In our lives, a lot of times we look up and there's a stone in our way. We know that God's told us to go here, we know that God's told us to do this, but there's a wall in our way, there's a stone in our way, there's something obstructing us. And I'm thankful for my God who takes down walls, who takes down problems in my life and struggles in my life and allows me to serve Him. Maybe there's a wall in your life tonight and you say, you know what, I've been saved and I've learned to serve God, but man, Todd, I just still can't do it, I don't know how to give to God. It's hard to give sometimes. You know, we get to a point, and you look at how much money you have, and how many bills are due, and how diapers, you learn about diapers, and all this stuff, and you go, man, just give to God. Give to God. Maybe the wall in your life is following God's will. You know that God has a plan for your life. You know what God wants you to do, but you're fighting it. Just go with God. Maybe the wall in your life is, like I talked about earlier, you're afraid of soul winning, you're afraid of going out. Just get over it and go with God. Our God breaks down walls. Think about it. Our God breaks down walls. Our God speaks out of burning bushes. Our God rolls stones out of the way. Our God parts seeds. Can I promise you, if you're facing a problem, if you're facing a struggle, if you're facing a situation, God can get the wall out of your way. You can do exactly what God wants you to do. Then we see last of all tonight that God punishes unknown sin. So they go in. They take the city. They've walked around the walls. They've done everything. The walls have come tumbling down. They go in, and God says, do this. Go in and destroy everything, except the gold and silver. Bring it back and give it to God. So there's this man by the name of Achan. Achan goes in. Most people here probably know the story. He takes a little gold, a little silver, and a Babylonian garment. Something nice. The Bible says he hides it in his tent. Well, after God's brought down the walls of Jericho, the next battle is not that big. It's Ai, just a small little town. They go into Ai, they attack Ai, and before they know it, these men who just watched God bring down the walls of a city are running for their lives. Men die that day. They come back and devastated. They asked Achan, what happened? And Achan said, when I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonian garment and 200 shekels of silver, a wedge of gold 50 shekels weight, then I coveted them and took them, and behold, they're hidden the earth in the midst of my tent and the silver under it. I've heard it said many times, my sin only affects me. If you believe that tonight, you're believing a lie. Your sin doesn't just affect you. Your sin affects people around you. Your sin affects people who love you. In Joshua chapter 7, they're talking about the things that are going on. In Joshua chapter 7 verse 6, I know I've got you turning all over a few chapters here. It says in verse 6, "...And Joshua ran in his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face for the ark of the Lord, until he even died." And he and the elders of God put dust upon their heads. And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites or to destroy us? Would it be to God that we had been content and dwelt on the other side of Jordan? So he gets to a point that a whole nation, not only do they lose men, but then they begin to question the will of God. Is this even what God has for us? Joshua begins to sound like the children of Israel who are wandering in the desert. God, why did you bring us over here so we could get beat by the Amorites? God, what in the world is going on? The thing that led to this was Achan's sin. See, your sin hurts other people. You may say, it only affects me, or it only hurts, you know, this sin is something that nobody knows about. This sin is something that doesn't affect anybody. Can I promise you, if there's a sin in your life, it affects other people. So that's something I tell our teenagers all the time. If you have sin in your life, the Bible says this, if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. You say your sin only affects you, but if there's sin in your heart and you're praying for somebody, don't expect God to hear those prayers. That's what the Bible says. Your sin affects other people. The selfishness, the bitterness, the greed, the anger, the envy, whatever it is that's in your heart, if there's a sin in your heart tonight, it's affecting people around you. Unknown sin hurts others. But unknown sin hurts you. Joshua 7.25, and Joshua said, There are several lessons from Jericho to learn here. The first thing we learned is God employs unusable people. God's truth reaches unlikely places. God possesses unparalleled power. And then we saw that God punishes unknown sin. You know, maybe you're the person here tonight, and you can relate to Rahab more than you can relate to the rest of the people in here. There's sin in your life, there's a reputation that's not good, there are things that are bad. As I've said already earlier tonight, Jesus loves you. He died for you, and tonight He wants to be your Savior. Maybe you're that person here tonight and you know that person who relates more to Rahab than the people who are in here. Maybe you're that person here tonight and you know that person and instead of loving that person and bringing them to Jesus, you sort of reject them. You put them off a little bit. Maybe tonight somebody needs a burden for souls. A burden for people around them regardless of what type of reputation the person has. Maybe tonight there's a wall in your life that you can't overcome. Our God brings down big walls. Whatever the wall is in your life, whatever the struggle is, whatever the thing that you just can't get over is, God can bring it down. And maybe tonight you have some sin in your life. Maybe there's something that's holding you back spiritually. Maybe there's something that's holding people around you back spiritually. Who knows? Akin calls the country. Maybe there's sin in your life that's holding the whole church back spiritually. I don't know what it is tonight, but I know that this is the message God put on my heart. And I know that he's speaking to somebody through it because he wouldn't have given it to me if he didn't. So if you're here tonight and God's spoken to your heart, we're gonna bow our heads and pray and then the altar will be open for you tonight. Lord, we love you, we thank you for everything you do for us. Lord, we pray tonight that you would work in every heart and every life. But I pray tonight that you help those people who don't know you as Savior. I pray tonight that you would help people maybe who don't have a burden for souls like they should, or maybe people who have some type of wall that's in their life that they need you to help them bring down because they can't do it on their own. Or maybe tonight there's people who have sin in their life. Lord, I pray that you would help in every situation. We love you. We thank you for everything you do for us. In Jesus' name, amen.