God's Scandalous Mercy

Thank you Rich sure well, as he said, my name

is Jordan. I am the pastor our Churchill Baptist. Have

been there for about a year and a half, coming

from California from another church where I was an associate pastor,

and it's a joy who have been there. It's been

a joy to have get to known Josh since I

arrived here.

He's been a good friend to me as.

I've reached out to other local churches, other local pastors

just to get to know them, and Josh and I

met soon after I reached out, and he's been a

great friend and encouraged me. Since you have a faithful

pastor who loves you very well, crossway, so I hope

you appreciate him well treat him well. But it really

is a joy to be here. I just want to

recognize for a moment that it is a Memorial Day

weekend and just thank many of the families and people

who have had service members that they have lost or have.

Served our country.

I'm very grateful to live in a country we're very

much in. Thanks to service members, we can secure freedoms

for the church to be able to proclaim the Gospel

without persecution or hindrance from that. So thank you for

those of you who have had family members who have served,

who are military families.

We do appreciate it well.

As Josh and I spoke, Josh knew as he was

finishing up Isaiah that I had recently finished up the

Book of Joshua at my church.

And when I asked.

Josh what I would like to preach, he said, oh, well,

how about the Book of Joshua from chapter two. So

that's where we'll find ourselves today. And Josh wanted me

to preach as I titled this sermon on God's Scandalous Mercy.

God's Scandalous Mercy is the title of today's sermon, and

it comes from Joshua, chapter two. But before we get

to our text today, I wanted to mention a few individuals.

That I have come to know.

A couple that I know of, but are real people

and a real life and I just want you for

a moment to think of what comes to your mind

as you think of them as I give these descriptions

of these people, What are the words that come to

your mind. The first one is a drug user who

steals and forges prescription slips in order to feed his addiction.

The second one, another man is a white supremacist who

has a pentagram tattooed on his chest, who is imprisoned

for theft. Another man is one that's so angry he

nearly choked his wife out in the first few years

of their marriage. A professional surfer who is at the

peak of his career, filling it with loose living and

a lavish life. A pastor who's continually continually engaging with.

Women not his wife.

A woman committed to a long term homosexual relationship.

With her partner.

A young man firmly holding to the doctrine, beliefs, and

practices of Islam. Maybe you think not all of them

fits into the same category, but nevertheless, there's probably words that.

Come to your mind for each of these.

Wicked, depraved, twisted, shameless for others, misled, misguided, arrogant, destructive, careless, reckless, hopeless.

If there's a caption that we might put over this,

it might be unlikely converts that if we're honest with ourselves,

ease and as Christian, when we hear about these people

in real life or when they're our family member or

our friend, we really think, Wow, God, it really is

going to take a genuine miracle to change this person around, to.

See them made different unlikely converts.

And as we turn to Joshua to today, it's often

a story that we associate sort of with Sunday School

when we're a kid, Which is interesting because even today,

I'll warn you it's sort of a PG.

Thirteen sermon.

There won't be anything explicit, parents, but maybe there'll be

some questions from your kids about some of the words

use here after service.

I have my six year old here as well, Isaiah,

and I'm glad he's here.

But as we think of Joshua two and the story

of Rayha, we meet one such person, somebody who was

an unlikely convert, somebody that nobody would have expected to

receive God's scandalous mercy because she, Rehab was a scandalous sinner.

She was a prostitute, even in the New Testament where

it told she was the prostitute that James and the

author of Hebrews.

That's what they label.

Her as is Rahab of the prostitute, and that's what

she's known for throughout the scripture. Outside of Joshua, that's

what she's called. Rather, she was an unlikely convert. She

was an outsider that wasn't expected to receive God's scandalous mercy.

And yet that's what Joshua Too is about. Joshua Too

shows us that God's mercy reaches any sinner willing to

fear and trust him. God's mercy is willing to reach

any sinner who was willing to fear him and to

trust him, even if that person is an outsider. No

matter how depraved or lost or confused that person may be,

God is able to reach them in his mercy. And

this is what Joshua Too teaches us about rehab and

by extension, about us and all those who would call

upon the mercy of God. And so if you have

your Bibles, we're going to take a look first at

the very first verse, where it's easy for us to

just skip over as we read it, as oftentimes we

know the story. But I just want to stop and

pause for a moment as we look at the scandalous

woman of who reyhab is that as the author of

Joshua starts this story, it's very interesting how he starts it.

For some context, if you've never read the Book of Joshua,

Joshua is the leader of Israel come after Moses. Moses

has died and Joshua is his successor. The Israelites have

left Egypt out of their slavery. They ended up wandering

in the desert for years because of the first generation's

unfaithfulness to trust in the promises of their God, including Moses,

as he got angry with the people, and they have

died out. And now their children and their children's children

are entering into the Promised Land under the leadership of Joshua,

and Joshua has been given the task by God to

conquer the Promised Land and to remove the Canonites by

war from this land. But throughout Deuteronomy, Exodus, and including Joshua,

God repeatedly reminded the Israelites it's not because the Israelites

were particularly righteous or good anymore than the other nations,

but because of the wickedness of the Canonites, that Joshua

had been given this command, and so God was using

Israel as an instrument of judgment of his judgment against

the Cannonites.

And God warned.

Israel should they participate, should they worship, should they do

what the Cannonites did, they similarly would receive equal punishment

and equal judgment that God shows no partiality. An incomes

the Book of Joshua, and we come to chapter two

after Joshua assumes command, where Israel has been camping out

on the other side of the Jordan River.

And Jericho's on the other side, which.

Is really the first major city, the first battle they

need to start controlling this area. That Jericho was a

fortified city, it was a significant city. It was in

the central place that they needed to take an order

to have success.

In their warfare.

So then the author of Joshua just inserts this long

narrative story before they go to Jericho about this woman Rahab,

and this is where we find ourselves. And in first

one we find a scandalous woman.

And says this in God's word.

And Joshua, the son of None sent two men secretly

to shoo him as spies, saying go and view the land,

especially Jericho. Joshua was familiar with this strategy. He once

was a spy on behalf of Israel under the leadership

of Moses and was sent and was one of the

only ones to come back with a faithful report, him

and Caleb, and.

So he sends them out to spy out what are

we gonna do. What's the strategy going to be?

They know that God had given them victory, but they

still had to make some sort of strategy. And it

says at the end of verse one, they went and

they came into the house of a prostitute whose name

was Rahab, and lodged there. And at this moment, I think,

sometimes Christians we got to re the Bible a little

more creatively or open mindedly or honestly.

I read that.

Sentence when I became a Christian for the first time,

and as I think about the sermon, and I'm like,

what are y'all doing there? Just imagine some of you know,

the end of the story, they're going to report back

to Commander Joshua, and he's like, so we went to

the brothel, And I just imagine Joshua like, and what

happened next?

Boys? And so there they want.

But know that oftentimes in the ancient world, places like Rayhab,

people didn't go there just to receive services, but oftentimes

that was the place that served as the end of

sort of the town. And so even times people didn't

take Rahab services, they would have been there as sort

of the public's place to stay as a foreigner, and

so it was a natural place for them to go.

The author doesn't intend to imply any sense of immorality

on behalf of the spies here. But what the author

does want to to imply as the men come into

this is really how much it's stacked against Rehab that

in a Jewish mind, Israelite mind, as they would have

read this story as it was delivered to them, and

as some of them lived it out that last part,

a prostitute whose name was.

Rayhab lodged there.

Immediately everything was stacked against Rehab. She was a Canaanite,

a foreigner, the one that God declared she is among

the wicked nations that must be destroyed, including Jericho.

She was a woman.

The ancient world was not too kind to women, and

not only that, she was an immoral woman.

You see in the Old.

Testament, just as it is today, it's not exactly like

prostitution was a profession that was looked well upon. Even

in the Old Testament. God told the Israelites in Leviticus

nineteen that they would not make any of their daughters

the fathers of that profession, because.

That's what the Canaanites did.

Deuteronomy chapter twenty three, Verses seventeen and eighteen, God said,

you will not bring contributions to my tabernacle to worship

that are made from that profession. And in Exodus thirty

four and Deuteronomy thirty one, we find out that often

for the Pagans, for the Canaanites, that this profession was

associated with religious worship.

That in the ancient world.

When it came to being a prostituted, it wasn't just

about sexual morality, but it was also about worship and

religious worship. That that's often the things that came together.

And so we have this Canaanite woman who worships a

false God.

She's a woman who's an immoral one, both in.

What she does and the worship before her God. She

was an idol worshiper, and she's a foreigner and an outsider,

not someone you would expect to be a recipient of

God's mercy. And so we start to understand when we

put ourselves in the mind of the original readers, this

really was a scandalous woman. That's what we come to

find out about Reyhab in our first verse. But the

text continues to a scandalous deception from this woman, but

a type of deception that we don't expect.

From her verse two through seven.

And it was told to the King of Jericho, behold,

men of Israel have come here tonight to search out

the lands. Then the King of Jericho sent to Rehabs, saying,

bring out the men who have come to you who

entered your house, for they have come to search out

all the land. But the woman had taken the two

men and hidden them. And she said, true, the men

came to me, but I did not know where they

were from. And when the gate was about to be

closed at dark, the men went out, and I do

not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for

you will overtake them. But she had brought them up

to the roof and hid them with the stalks of

flax that she had laid in order on the roof.

So the men pursued after them out of the way

of the Jordan, that is, the Jordan River, as far

as the fords, and the gate was shut as soon

as the pursuers gone out.

Now this is where we have to be careful, church.

And as I went through Josra, I taught this to

my church as well that when you read Old Testament narrative,

you have to know that many of the times these

stories aren't in there for the moral lessons. They're trying

to teach you something about who God is. It is

dealings with real people in real situations. Because if you're

ever somebody who's talked about this story as an adult

with someone else, the debate that often comes up is

was Rayhab justified in her lying? Can Christians lie? And

then people go into all these hypotheticals. You know what

if I'm like hiding Jews in Nazi Germany and Nazis

come and knock on my door, can I lie? And

that's a justified lie? We want to get into all

these ethical debates. For some of you who are wondering

that I'm sad to report to you, I'm not going

to answer that question today. And the reason is because notice,

as you read the story in Joshua, the author is

not really concerned with that, because his main point in

telling this story, and God's main point in giving this

story is not to give us moral lessons about when

it's pervisible to lie or not lie. He's trying to

communicate something else about Rayhab and by extension about us.

Notice where the author does focus in on the tension

of the story that if you could suspend for a

moment that you don't know this story, the tensions building

of what's gonna happen.

The first question is.

Why would this Canaanie woman bring these spies and what

she gonna do to them? We don't know yet as

the story's first told, And so he's building that tension

as a good storyteller, leaving us wondering what's gonna happen

to these men as Rahab hides them, and he adds

the details that the king of Jericha knows and sends

soldiers to her door to say, hey, what happened to

those men who came to you, because we know what

they're here for. Well, the author wants to communicate to

us is what risk Rayhab was taking receiving these men,

that the king of that city sent men and said,

we know they came here. That Rahab was putting her family,

her brothers, her sisters, her father, her mother all at

risk of treason, which would end in death if she

was caught. That's the risks she's taking in to bring

in these spies. But remember we don't know yet the

reason for her deception. Why is she doing this? Why

is she taking such great risks to receive these men?

And so there's Rayhab, and she takes them into the

upper roof of her house, which would have been sort

of like an attic where often people in ancient days

would have lived or rather slept.

When it came to being a knight.

And when the kingsmen are gone, she goes up and

talks to him, and there comes Versus eight and onward

where we find a scan the list of confession, and

some dialogue that begins to happen between this.

Woman Rayhab and these spies.

Another thing that will be helpful for you as you

read and study your Bible for yourself, and as you

read these stories, know that as you read stories in

the Old Testament narrative and really in the New too,

that the meat, the substance of oftentimes where the author

is trying to communicate happens in the dialogue between characters.

That's where he wants us to learn. This is what

this story is really about. This is what I want

you to focus on. That the things on kind of

both sides are meant to build up to that moment

and to exit it and show you find out what

people really believe, what they really are when they start

to talk. In the Old Testament stories, that's why the

dialogue is in there. But notice he puts it at

the point that the tension in the story is like,

I want to find out what happens. This woman's been

lying to people. There's spies, she's hiding an eye. I

want to know what happens here? Do they live, do

they die? What happens next? And yet he inserts that

here to say, this is what I want you to see.

This is what I want you to focus on. Rayhaps

scandalous confession. And so we read in verse eight, before

the men lay down, that is, before they went to sleep,

she came up to them on the roof and said

to the men.

I know that the Lord.

I know that Yahweh has given you the lands, that

the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that

all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

For we have heard how the Lord dried up the

water of the Red Sea before you, before you when.

You came out of Egypt, and what you did to

the two kings of the Amorites who are beyond the Jordan,

to Sihon and Og, whom you do voted to destruction.

And as soon as we heard of it, our hearts melted,

and there was no spirit left in any man.

Because of you.

For the Lord your God, he is God in the

heavens and above on the earth beneath. Now, then please

swear to me by the Lord, as I have dealt

kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with me

in my father's house, and give me a sure sign

that you will save alive my father and my mother,

my brothers and sisters, and all who belonged to them,

and deliver our lives from death. And the men said

to her our life for yours, even to death. If

you do not tell this business of ours, then when

the Lord gives us the land, we will deal kindly

and faithfully with you. And so right in as part

of the story, we have this inserted dialogue where where

again Rahab makes this scandalousion. I could almost hear Jesus

like what he said to the Centurion, and the Gospel

of Luke. Even in Israel, I haven't found such faith.

Even in Israel, I have not found such faith and

in the original language the textas is emphatic, it emphasized

rey Hab knew this about the Israeli God. She knew

it to her bones that Yahweh had already given Israel

the land. That yes, they hadn't conquered it yet, but

their God had given it to him, and victory was

a shirt ray haveven knew had already had the fear

upon her of Israel, because that's what God had promised,

and that that fear was in the hearts of the Cannonites.

And they feared Israel not just because of Israel, but

because of who their God was. Yahweh had caused the

Canonites to despair and the faith of certain judgments. And

she knows this because she's heard of yahweis mighty deeds,

of God's mighty deeds he's done for Israel, the drying

up of the water the Red Sea. When they were

with Moses and they crossed in the Exodus, she heard

of the king Sihon and aug that when Moses was leading,

they had already conquered on the other side of the river,

even though they were.

Great and mighty kings. Rahab knew this.

She knew there was something significant about their God. And

you have to know that in the ancient world, oftentimes

people kind of thought of gods as localized deities, that

they would kind of stay in their area. That there

was kind of the God of this land and the

God of this land, and as you went to land

to land, you kind of worshiped the God that was

there so that you would have fruitful fields and fruitful time,

and that it would go well for you in that land.

But as Rayhab makes this confession, she dismisses all of that. Yahweh,

He's the God in heavens, above and over everything. He

was faithful to Israel all the way back in Egypt.

He was faithful to Israel in their travels, and now

he's faithful to them here.

He's not just some local deity. He is the God

above it all.

And Rayhab recognizes this, and she even uses covenant language

that Israel knows when she talks about God's kindness. God

has said it is that that wasn't often a word

that Hebrews would have heard to hear God's loving kindness.

She's implying that she has a posture of covenant loyalty

now to this God because she has come in fear

of him and his sovereignty, and she is going to

fall on his mercy. And so that confession happens, the

confession of Yahweh's sovereignty. And now, for a moment, this

is kind of like right where the bite is as

she makes that confession that he is the Lord ultimately

in the heavens and the earth. Just imagine for a

moment that you're one of these Israelite spies. Just put

yourself in the place.

You're in the middle of warfare, you go into the city,

you know it's going to be destroyed.

Imagine for a moment the astonishment that sees those spies.

As one of the clearest confessions of who Yahwehs is

is on the lifts of a Canaanite hor You feel

that some of the parents are like, Oh, that's what

the author's trying to communicate.

That's how it would have hit the original heros. That's

how it's meant to hit us, That's how God wanted

to hear it.

Scandalous, How can this be that this confession is on

the lips of this woman, and yet here it is.

It reminds us so much of God's mercy and even

in the New Testament, just what Paul says in Romans

ten nine, because if you confess with your mouth that

Jesus is Lord, not just savior. And that's what you

need to know that when it comes to Jesus, he

is in just the Savior. He is the King. You

don't make Jesus the king of your life. He's already

a king. The only question is are you submitting your

life to him? Do you actually live in fear of him?

Whether you're already a Christian or not a Christian yet,

Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus's Lord,

and believe in your heart that God raised him from

the dead, you will be saved. You submit your life

life to Christ and trust and believe you will be saved.

For what the heart one believes and is justified. Justified

means you're made right with God in legal standing. And

what the mouth one confesses and is saved for. The

Scripture says, everyone who believes in Him will not be

put to shame, for there is no distinction between jew

Or and Greek. For the same Lord as the Lord

of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.

For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord,

will be saved.

It's a good thing to live in the fear of

the Lord.

And it's only when you come to submit in fear

to the Lord that you can actually turn to trust

to him because you realize what your true need is.

And So, if you're somebody here today that hasn't been

living in fear convicted of your sin, perhaps you are

in the moment. Perhaps it was something this week, or

you've been sensing that that's God at work in your life,

bringing you to the fear of Him.

And maybe you're just like Rayhab.

Could God really have mercy on me, I'm not a

likely candidate for this, or maybe you're something you're thinking,

I'm not really like Rayhab, I've never done anything that immoral.

Well, guess what I know, y'all have been In.

The Book of Isaiah, Isaiah has a lot to say

about hortem spiritual adultery.

And that that's the sins that we're guilty of.

That when we go to worship other things besides God,

we are unfaithful to God as a spouse, maybe unfaithful,

and that's the treason.

That we're guilty of.

And that's what we need to understand about sin Church.

It's not just failures, it's not just mistakes or mess up.

Think about the words the Bible uses as it talks

about sin, treason, iniquity, rebellion, adultery. Those are heavy words

because sin is not a light thing. And in the

story of Rehab, God is going to destroy this Cannonite

city because of its wickedness, and this woman, who seems

to be one of the most wicked of them all, God.

Is going to show mercy upon her.

So it is for you here today that if you're

that person, God is willing to have mercy on you.

If you would repent, He's willing to give the pardon.

God is ready to.

Receive sinners anyone who comes to fear and trust in him.

Is that where your trust is?

And if you're somebody who's already a Christian, you say, Jordan,

and I've already done that of I've already believed. Remember

where you came from, Remember what you've been redeemed from.

It's kind of a popular trendy thing right now today

to kind of be like, don't call yourself what you were,

but now what you are because you that, but now

you are this, and there's some true to that that's

in the New Testament. You're a new creation in Christ.

You've been made right with God. That's the good news

of the Gospel. That your clothes in Jesus righteousness, and

nothing you do or don't do is going to mess

that up, because ultimately, your trust was never in yourself,

and God's love for you was never even predicated on you,

but on his son Jesus Christ, to whom you're now united.

And now God loves you because He loves Jesus so much,

and he will never stop loving his son. Therefore, your

salvation is secure an eternal because of what Jesus did

is finished, fixed in history, and will never change. And

God will always love his son and those united to him.

But remember that even though we don't celebrate our past sins,

we don't glory and them. Sort of if I could,

people say things, would you do things differently?

I'm a check out.

I do everything differently if I can live my life over.

Doesn't mean I regret everything. But we remember the redemption

that Christ is broad. Ester that when you remember your

former sins, we remember.

What God has done. Sometimes people wonder what will heaven

be like. What will eternity be like?

By the way, Church final destination is new Earth with

real bodies, not ghostly existence in heaven. Remember, Jesus has

a real body comes to restore this earth one day.

But it's good for us to remember. Even on a

new Earth, he will be there.

His glorified body. And guess what will still be on

his hands and his feet.

The scars Calvary won't be forgotten. Your former sins won't

be forgotten, but they'll be redeemed. They'll be forgiven, and

you'll praise your Savior for eternity for what He's done

for you. From where Christ has redeemed. You let your

testimony glorify God as you tell people of.

The mercy that God has had on you.

When it comes back to our story, we don't know

what it is that cause the spies to sort.

Of make this deal with rehabs.

Some people question whether they even should have, because under

Moses and Joshua they were actually commanded don't make any deals.

Sort of with these peoples.

There was some provision at times in Deuteronomy that a

people should repent, that they could relent and make peace,

but for the most part there were many more commands

to completely annihilate the people's but again, the author isn't

concerned for that. But I wonder what it was in

those spies that made him think of this. I tend

to think that maybe this is sort of wholly imagination

at work. So it won't take this as as from.

The Lord, as Paul would say.

But maybe as she mentioned God's loving kindness, his compassion

towards sinners.

They remembered, they remembered what Moses said in Exodus.

About God's loving kindness. It is mercy from generation to generation.

I thought, this.

Woman gets it, This woman gets who Yahweh is as

unlikely as it. Maybe you see the Bible oftentimes and

the stories it tells. It's not concerned with neat tidy explanations.

And the truth is that's one of the reasons that

I love scripture, real people, in real situations, where there's

not always a neat tidy This is how it happens,

and that's not how life is. Probably many of you

came in here today with different sorrows, hurts, sins.

Whatever it may be.

You may find yourself even a position like rayhab and

this is where God meets us where real life is.

But the story moves on, and so we not only

see this scandalous confession, but a scandalous deliverance.

She Reyhab had made a confession of faith.

But she's going to act obediently on that faith.

This is how the text finishes in our story today.

Then she let them down, that is the spies verse fifteen,

by a rope through the window. For her house was

built into the city wall, so that she lived in

the wall. And she said to them, go into the hills,

or the pursuers will encounter you, and hide there three

days until the pursuers have returned.

Then afterward you may go your way.

The men said to her, we will be guiltless with

respect to this oath of yours that you.

Have made us swear. Behold, we have come into the land.

You shall tie the scarlet cord in the window through

which you let us down, and you shall gather into

your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all

your father's household. Then if anyone goes out of the

doors of your house into the street, his blood shall

be on his own head, and we shall be guiltless.

But if a hand is laid on anyone who was

with you in the house, his blood shall be on

your head. But if you tell this business of ours,

then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath.

That you have made us swear.

And she said, according to your words, so be it.

Then she sent them away, and they departed, and she

tied the scarlet cord in the window verse twenty two.

They departed and went into the hills and remained three

days until the pursuers returned. And the pursuers searched all

along the.

Way and found nothing.

Then the two men returned, and they came down from

the hills, passed over and came to Joshua, the son

of None, and they told to him all that had

happened to them.

And they said to Joshua, truly, the Lord.

Has given all the inhabitants of the land into our hands.

And also all the inhabitants of the land melt away

because of us.

Notice that Reyhabs faith.

Ended with her actually doing something, responding obediently tying the

scarlet cord. You can read in chapter six as she

gathered her family into that house. Faith that is true,

faith that is genuine always results in works that people

will really repent and actually change, people will really trust

and believe, And here we find Rehab doing just that

and letting the spies out. Warning that Jesus gave and

I think is appropriate for this text. Don't think to

yourself that you trust in Jesus.

If you don't obey him.

Don't think to yourself that Jesus is your savior.

If you're not submitting to him as the Lord.

Jesus at Matthew seven told that those are who are

build his house on the rock, And in that explanation

he doesn't say the rock is him.

He says the rock is the one who listens and obeys.

Rayhab had a saving faith. And we know this because

the story of Rayhab was just one of betty that

we find in the scriptures that it was a foreshadowing

of the good news of Jesus Christ. She was a

scandalous sinner, she deserved judgment.

She was on an hour outside of the.

Least likely person to be converted, and yet she came

to fear the Lord, to trust and his promises, and

she found mercy. So you can find mercy today. But

an amazing thing that God did through Rayham and continues

to do is he makes sinners in the trophies of

his grace. That mercy is when you don't get what

you do deserve. Grace is when you receive what you.

Have not earned, what you don't deserve.

And so Rayhab not only receives mercy but grace as well.

As you open up the Gospels and you read the

Gospel of Matthew in verse five, who's there in jesus

genealogy but Rahab the prostitute redeemed by a merciful God,

just a foreshadowing of what Jesus would come to do.

That Jesus himself having gentile.

Blood, and their Rayhab was a trophy of God's grace.

I told you about some people at the beginning of

this sermon. I'm glad to say that those are all

people I know or know of who have also become

recipients of God's mercy, even though they were unlikely converts.

That same mercy is.

Offered to you today that if you are to remain

in your sin, it's to remain like that Canaanite city

Jericho for certain destruction, and God using Joshua would bring

that city down and the people in it. But God

offers the opportunity like ray have for those who repent,

those who trust in Him and find refuge, to find

his mercy.

But not only that, but his grace.

And so God takes wicked sinners, and he makes them

the objects of.

His mercy and trophies and his grace. To see, this

is what I do.

I take unlikely people and make them like my son

Jesus Christ and save them. I do the impossible. So

God has done with you, Christian.

And he can do with you today. Fall on his mercy.

Let's pray