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[0:00] This is the First Mustang Pulpit Podcast, a podcast of the weekly preaching and teaching at First Mustang.! Thank you for joining us. Let me give you a head start to find Obadiah.

[0:14] While you are finding it, a few things I want to share with you. You know, one of the things that John just mentioned that's so true is that our faith, as the book of Jude reminds us, is a once for all faith passed down to the saints.

[0:29] There is a historic component when we gather here that we are part of the family of God throughout all generations. One of the ways, kind of one of the subtle ways that we see and experience that is through song.

[0:46] The song our choir led us in. I set my hope on Jesus. It's a song that was written just a couple of years ago by some hymn writers that we're aware of, that we know, and we sing many of their songs.

[1:01] That was done, released just, I think it was two years ago in 2023. The song that we just have finished singing, though, A Mighty Fortress, written by Martin Luther in 1528, if I remember correctly.

[1:14] 500 years or so ago. And so we remind ourselves that we sing that which is biblical and old, as it connects us with historic Christian faith.

[1:26] And we sing that which is biblical and new, which is a response to the scripture reminding us to sing unto the Lord a new song. And so it's good for us to be able to sing songs that are biblical, rich, that have been around for literally centuries and others that are brand new, that express the heart to trust in the Lord.

[1:48] So many great things going on this summer. And we've got our group that was in Brazil. They are back. And we're thankful for their ministry in Brazil last week. We've got a group from our church that's in New York this week.

[2:00] I had a chance to visit with a couple of them today and yesterday and good things happening there. And then a group leaving next week to Colorado.

[2:12] And so we are excited about these different mission opportunities that our church has. And then also just right here at home inside of your bulletin, you see a green sheet.

[2:24] Just a quick word I want to say about that. These are some of the opportunities for ministry we have as we look forward to the school year starting. Our first Sunday of the new school year, our promotion day, is August the 10th, which is coming up three weeks from today.

[2:44] And we've got several new classes we're adding because, as you're aware, the Lord just continues to bring families to us. And in particular, so many young families that are joining our church.

[2:55] And we're so thankful for that. And so it's a chance for us to add new classes as the Lord has grown our church. And so we've got a number of so many who are already ready to serve and ready to go next school year.

[3:11] And again, if you're one of those who are teaching Awana or Sunday school and you're already signed up, lined up, ready to go, thank you for your ministry, whether you've been doing this for years or for some next month, you start your first time in this.

[3:26] Thank you for your service and your ministry to the Lord. For others who may be looking for a place to serve, there's a lot of ways to serve besides just Sunday school or Awana on Wednesday night.

[3:36] Many of you serve on our Eyes and Ears team. You serve on our choir. You serve by playing an instrument. You serve as a greeter. You serve at meals for Mustang. All kinds of ways that people serve in our church besides just in Sunday school.

[3:50] And wherever you serve, however you serve, we're grateful for what you do to help our church do what God's called us to do. But for some who may be looking for a place to serve, what's on this green sheet are opportunities that are in front of you right now that we know where we are praying for the Lord to provide additional leaders, additional servants.

[4:15] And so you see some of those areas for preschool at 9 o'clock and 1030. A couple of needs in children's Sunday school. And then also with our Awana ministry on Wednesday nights.

[4:27] It takes several hundred people for us to be fully staffed with Sunday school and Awana. It's really a staggering amount of people that it takes to do that.

[4:40] And the Lord has so faithfully risen up leaders in our church that serve and that love to use their gifts to bless our people.

[4:50] I just want to say thank you for every one of you who serve in any capacity in our church. If you think one of these needs could be something you'd be interested in, this is not a commitment by any means.

[5:02] But if you think you could be interested in that, what we'd ask you to do is just check off the class. There may be several classes you're interested in. Feel free to check several of them.

[5:13] And then a staff member will follow up with you this week and just talk to see if this would be a good fit. It may not be the right place, the right time for you. That's okay. But if there's a place that you think you may be interested to serve, let us know.

[5:26] And just when you leave today, just drop this green sheet in one of the wooden giving boxes at each exit door. And we'll have a staff member who will follow up with you and just see how the Lord may be working and preparing in your heart to serve.

[5:39] If that is a place for you. And so we are thankful in advance for those who the Lord will be raising up to serve and to teach.

[5:50] This has been true for a number of years. I suspect, Lord willing, it will be true again in August. We anticipate August 10th with Promotion Day.

[6:01] That that month of August coming up will be our largest month of Sunday school attendance we've ever had. For a month that's been true the last number of years. If that continues this year, we want to be prepared for that.

[6:14] And so we're so thankful. And do know also for all of you as members and regular attenders who faithfully give to the Lord through the local church here.

[6:25] These mission trips that we're sending people on this summer, you have a role in that. A portion of every mission trip, the cost is offset by our church budget.

[6:36] And that is funded simply as our members and regular attenders generously and freely give. So every one of you who faithfully give to the Lord know that you have had a hand in sending people to Brazil.

[6:51] Sending people to New York. Sending people next week on the mission trip to Colorado. You have a hand, a direct hand in that as well as supporting our missionaries and mission partnerships we have literally all around the world.

[7:05] So some from our church physically go. Hopefully all of us of our church are praying for them. But all of you as you give, you have a direct hand in helping support those who are taking the gospel throughout the nations.

[7:20] And so I just want to say thank you for that as well. All right, Obadiah, we return to our study through this short but meaningful and powerful book in the Old Testament.

[7:33] Just a quick reminder as we get our minds around where we are. In the Old Testament, Jacob and Esau were brothers. They had their relationship severed and went their own ways.

[7:45] Their followers continued in that severed relationship. Though they are considered in Scripture the nations as brothers, they moved forward with great animosity.

[8:02] The descendants of Esau, known as the Edomites, the warning in the book of Obadiah is that they are going to be judged for their sin and will be wiped out.

[8:12] In the book of Obadiah is the word from God to Obadiah to the people of Edom for the instruction of the Israelites reminding them that those who oppose the things of God will not be victorious.

[8:36] We come today to verses 10 to 14. And as we look at verses 10 to 14, these are the charges against the Edomites, the descendants of Esau.

[8:51] If you wonder what have they done, why are they guilty before the Lord, the Lord is going to give the charges very clearly. This is the revelation from God to the prophet Obadiah, and it's a pronouncement of judgment against the Edomites.

[9:10] And in verses 10 to 14, he gives us the specific charges against them. The first thing, if you want to take a few notes this morning, the first charge against them is they did not help when they could.

[9:25] They did not help when they could. That's verses 10 and 11. Let's look at it together. Verse 10 says, Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.

[9:44] The way the Scripture records this, it gets the reader thinking back to where this began. This is a conflict that began with the brothers.

[9:55] And so it's speaking here to the Edomites, the descendants of Esau, and it mentions the violence against your brother Jacob. Intentionally, this is to get our minds back to the book of Genesis, where this conflict all began.

[10:13] And verse 11 says, On that day that you stood aloof. This is what the Edomites did. They stood aloof on that day when strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem.

[10:32] You were like one of them. The first charge against the Edomites is they did not help the people of God when they could have.

[10:45] He says, As you stood aloof, as foreign nations and armies were coming against Jerusalem and bringing destruction into the land, the people of Edom sat back and did nothing.

[11:04] And the Lord says, You stood aloof. Meaning, there were plenty of things that they could have done that they did not do. Now, in this short section, verses 10 to 14, the Lord is going to reveal the charges against them, and much of what will be shared are things they did.

[11:27] But notice he begins in verse 10, that they are guilty because of what they did not do. The Lord says, As they stood by and watched the atrocity, and they did nothing to help their brothers.

[11:45] And because they watched the destruction and did not help them, verse 11 says, At the end, you were like one of them.

[11:59] You could have helped. You didn't help. And so you are like those who came and did the destruction.

[12:13] He says in verse 11, That the foreigners entered the gates. It's a reference here to Jerusalem. And he says they're guilty for what they did not do. They did not help.

[12:23] This is what we would call sins of omission. We speak of sins of commission, sins that we actively do, and sins of omission, things that we do not do that we should, behavior that we omit from our life, sins of omission.

[12:44] James 4 speaks of this in verses 16 and 17. He says, As it is, you boast in your arrogance, all such boasting is evil. Verse 17, James 4, So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it for him, it is sin.

[13:06] If you were to ask the Edomites, what are we guilty of here to start? We did not plunder them. We did not initiate the attack. We did not initiate ruining their city or killing their people.

[13:19] All we did is sit back and watch it happen. And the Lord says, That's the first charge against you. You did not help when you could have.

[13:36] You know, it goes all the way back to Genesis, which the Lord intends us to do. It's why in verse 10, it speaks of your brother Jacob. It's forcing you to go back and remind yourself of Jacob and Esau and how this entire division between Israel and the Edomites began in the first place.

[13:52] And as you go back to Genesis, you can go even further back from Jacob and Esau and you have a question in the very first family that exists there that we read in the first chapters of Genesis.

[14:07] And the question comes up, Am I my brother's keeper? With Cain and Abel, that's the question.

[14:18] Am I supposed to know what's going on? Am I supposed to care what's going on? Am I my brother's keeper? And no doubt, leaning upon what we see in Genesis, we see now in the book of Obadiah, the crime, the charge against the Edomites that they watched their brother, to use the language of verse 10, be devoured.

[14:47] It's so tempting to go through life with the mindset of just every man for himself, isn't it? It's so tempting to just think it's about your life, your family, everybody else is on their own.

[15:00] You've got your own needs after all. You've got your own problems. You have your own bills. You have your own health issues. You have your own family issues.

[15:11] I mean, the last thing you need to do is worry about somebody else's life and their needs and their problems. You've got plenty of your own. That's kind of how the world would lead us to think and lead us to live.

[15:26] You just worry about yourself. You've got your own things to deal with. It's not your responsibility to worry about anybody else. And yet, when you read the New Testament over and over and over, love each other, forgive each other, serve each other, bear each other's burdens.

[15:48] The New Testament describes the church as a body. If one part of the body hurts, we all hurt. There is this truth in the Scripture that we are to love each other and to care for each other and that your needs are my needs.

[16:11] And my concerns are your concerns. This is not every man for himself. In fact, this is one of the beauties of being a part of the local church is that we can love each other and help each other and serve each other.

[16:31] One of the beautiful things that we see, you'll see this next Sunday after we take the Lord's Supper once a month when we give the opportunity for people to give the love account, and you'll see people that come freely on their own with no pressure to do so, just choose to give, and you'll see single adults and married families and children and teenagers and senior adults, and you'll see those who have lots of income, and you'll see those who have very little income, and they just gently, quietly passing by will give money to the love account, and what does that money go for?

[17:09] 100% of it goes to help families in our church in need. All of it. Why would you give to that?

[17:22] Don't you have your own needs? Your car could break down. You could have an unexpected illness. You could lose your job.

[17:32] You could have a home repair that happens. I mean, let everybody take care of themselves. But that's not the way the body of Christ functions.

[17:48] We care for each other. We love each other. We support each other. And if you hurt, we hurt. And if there's a need in one family, that burden is bared by all of us.

[18:06] We don't want to repeat the mistake the Edomites made where we just look back and see things going on and wipe our hands of it and say, not my problem.

[18:21] We want to go through life looking for needs. Looking for ways to serve. We talk about it often here that one of the things that's good is when someone tells you a need to meet it, that's good.

[18:39] What's better is to be actively looking for needs. Not just simply responding when the need comes to you, but looking for ways to serve. Looking for people to help.

[18:51] Looking for ways to be a blessing. Now we could sit back and say, not my problem. Not my worry. Not my concern.

[19:06] But if we live like that, we would be living like the Edomites lived. And the Lord says they were guilty of that. There's a second thing that they're charged with and that's that they found joy in the calamity of their brothers.

[19:27] They not only sat back and didn't help, they found joy in the calamity of their brothers. Verse 12, But do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune.

[19:40] Do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin. Do not boast in the day of distress. He said, do not gloat, do not rejoice, do not boast.

[19:54] Do not take joy in the calamity, in the downfall, in the pain, in the struggle of others. So the first charge against them is they were just looking on and not helping.

[20:09] The second charge against them is as they looked on, they found this sinful delight in watching all of the trouble come upon the people of Judah.

[20:23] But verse 12 says they should not gloat. Don't boast, it says at the end of the verse. Do not boast in the day of distress.

[20:37] In the original text, the word for boast here means to make your mouth large. Don't have a big mouth, it says.

[20:48] The picture is they had a big mouth to be able to boast many words to express their joy over the downfall of Judah. When we boast, we are having a big mouth.

[21:02] We say that, we use that language. Oh, he has such a big mouth, she has such a big mouth. And what we mean by that is they talk so much about words that are unhelpful. That's the exact language used here in Obadiah 12.

[21:14] Do not boast. Do not enlarge your mouth. And that's what people do when they rejoice in the downfall of others.

[21:27] They make their mouth large so that they can express many words, attacking, abusing, and laughing. Ezekiel 35 verse 13 says, You magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me.

[21:49] I heard it. The Lord hears the words that come from our mouths. And the first charge against the Edomites is they set back and did not help.

[22:02] And the second charge is that they rejoiced in the calamity of their brother. Here's why that's a problem. Romans 12 15 reminds us that we are to rejoice with those who rejoice and to weep with those who weep.

[22:24] This is how the local church is to live. You rejoice, we rejoice. You weep, we weep.

[22:37] this is one of the reasons church, that when hardship comes into your life, when your family has struggle and need, don't run away from the church.

[22:56] I get that it's tempting. We don't want everybody to know our business, we don't want people to know our worst moments. I understand the human nature part of that, but here's the thing.

[23:07] Biblically, if the church is functioning as it should, if the church is thinking and behaving and responding as the Lord has instructed us to do, when your family goes through a time of hurt, the responsibility of the church is to weep with you.

[23:30] Now, do churches do that perfectly? No, because we're all imperfect. we're all supposed to rejoice with those who rejoice when something good happens for you, when the Lord blesses your life, blesses your family.

[23:44] We should all rejoice with you. Do we do that perfectly? No, because we're sinners, we're imperfect. But this is the heart of how we should strive to live.

[23:57] That we don't respond to your blessing with jealousy, jealousy, but we rejoice with you as you rejoice. And we don't respond to your suffering with some kind of wicked, sinful boasting, well, we're better than that, because we're supposed to weep with those who weep.

[24:19] This is why as Christians we are to be connected to each other, because we are our brother's keeper. your victories, the blessings God gives you, should be shared with the church because we want to give God praise for what he's done in your life, and the needs that you have should be shared to the church because we want to bear those burdens as best we can.

[24:47] We're imperfect at it. Every church who strives to be faithful is imperfect at these things, but this should be the direction of our life, not perfection, we're not perfect, but this should be the direction that we're striving to go, that when you have a need, we all have a need, and when you rejoice and give thanks, we all rejoice and give thanks because every good and perfect gift comes from God.

[25:17] Proverbs 17.5 says, whoever mocks the poor insults his maker. He who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

[25:32] This is what the Edomites did. They sat back and said, look what's happening to Judah. Look at the torment going on inside the gates of Jerusalem.

[25:47] And they laughed. And they mocked. There's a third charge that's given and that is that they took what did not belong to them.

[25:59] So you just see this progressively getting worse. At first, they just did nothing and watched it. Then they laughed at what happened. Now, in verse 13, they see their opportunity.

[26:10] Look at verse 13 with me. Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Do not gloat over his disaster in the day of his calamity.

[26:21] Do not loot his wealth in the day of his calamity. Their brother was beaten up and they sat back and did nothing.

[26:33] And they joined in the mockery and then they went in to loot and steal. One author referred to this, it would be like robbing the family store.

[26:47] It's what the Edomites did. And it just got worse and worse. They did nothing.

[26:59] They gloated. And then they participated. They consider the hardship of their brother as an invitation to profit from their calamity.

[27:14] There's a fourth charge against them. Verse 14, they offered no help to their neighbors. They offered no help.

[27:25] Verse 14, do not stand at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives. Do not hand over his survivors in the day of distress.

[27:35] What were they doing? Well, as the people of Judah were trying to escape and run for their lives, Edom then took them down. There was a remnant there in Jerusalem who survived and as they tried to run out, Edom would capture them.

[27:53] And as they captured the survivors there in Judah, they would then send them off to their enemies. So in these short few verses, what have we seen that Edom was guilty of?

[28:08] Verse 10, slaughter. Verse 10, violence. Verse 11, standing back and watching destruction. Verse 12, gloating. Verse 12, boasting.

[28:18] Verse 13, going inside the gates of God's people. Verse 13, looting. Verse 14, cutting off fugitives. Verse 14, handing over survivors to be tormented by those who were attacking Judah.

[28:35] Charge after charge after charge after charge. Some of a passive sin. some of it active sin. Some of it sin they committed with their mouth, some with their mind, some with their heart, and some with their hands.

[28:59] And all of it was an offense to God. You and I would do well to remember and consider the truth that all of our sin is an offense to God.

[29:21] Whether it's the sin of our mind, things that we just think, or our mouth, the words that we say, or our heart, the motives that we have, or our hands, the things that we physically do.

[29:37] all of it is an offense to God. And as surely as Edom was judged by God, so will the final destruction be for all people who oppose the Lord.

[29:57] God, well, these are the things that the Edomites did a long time ago, somewhere around 2,600 years ago.

[30:12] This was a distant land, this was a distant time, these are a distant people. people. Are there some things that we can learn today from their sin that would help us in our pursuit of the Lord?

[30:30] I think there are. Let me share a few of them with you. Number one, we want to remember that a day of reckoning is coming. Just as it was true for Edom and Obadiah, so it's true in our world today.

[30:45] A day of reckoning is coming. And I want you to think of this in two different ways. Number one, for those who may be here in the service today and you don't know Christ as your Savior, maybe you've heard the gospel, maybe you know the story, maybe people would think that you're a believer, maybe for you it's just a game or about showmanship, or maybe for you you're just buying your time.

[31:12] You have to come to church because your mom and dad make you. You come to church because your spouse drags you. You come to church because you have no choice.

[31:26] And you don't flaunt that. People around you wouldn't know that's how you feel. You just kind of quietly, passively reject the things of God.

[31:47] You don't do it blatantly. Maybe you still sing the songs with us and you maybe even open your Bible and you may even take notes. But in your heart, the part that only God sees, you know what He knows, that you're just biding your time, waiting, until you can be set free.

[32:17] And what makes that particularly dangerous is you may look at your own life and be content with that.

[32:31] Or maybe for some that are doing that very thing, you look at your life and you say, you know what, it's actually working out quite well. Business is good, health is good, life's going pretty well, and while I don't believe in all this stuff the church talks about, it seems to be working out alright.

[32:59] You just keep playing the game. Let me remind you, when the book of Obadiah was written, Edom was doing just fine.

[33:13] But the Lord saw their sin and a day of reckoning was coming. My friends, that's just as true today as it's ever been.

[33:28] The day of reckoning is coming. Never mistake God's patience for his indifference to your sin. God's love at the same time, I want you, those of you who are believers, who do love the Lord, who are truly pursuing the Lord, please keep the same truth in mind.

[33:50] A day of reckoning is coming. And maybe you've been hurt by others, maybe you've been abandoned by people, but you need to remember that their day of reckoning is coming, those who have opposed the Lord.

[34:08] But, rather than delighting in their coming judgment, instead, train your mind to pray for their salvation.

[34:23] And what I want you to think of is this, entrust your pain to the Lord's hands.

[34:38] Entrust your pain to the Lord's hands. Human nature says you've got to seek revenge.

[34:48] Human nature says this person who hurt you, this person who lied about you, this person who damaged you, that they're getting by with it, and you've got to make sure and get even with them.

[35:01] No. Instead, train your mind in those moments to stop and pray for their salvation, knowing that a day of reckoning is coming for them. And though you may be quick and tempted to say, but they're getting what they deserve, just understand, if not for grace, you'd be getting what you deserved one day.

[35:22] But God's grace has softened your heart and changed you. And because it has, even when you think of those who have hurt you or wronged you, don't seek revenge.

[35:40] You don't have to get even with them. A day of reckoning is coming. And rather than delight in the coming judgment they would face, pray instead for their heart to be changed and for them to come to know the grace of the Lord Jesus.

[36:02] And when you say, but they hurt me, I get it, but entrust that pain in the Lord's hands. Maybe the pain you feel is the prompting to pray for their soul that in His sovereignty, the Lord will use to bring them to a place of salvation.

[36:35] I know that's hard. Because it's hard when people are wrong to you. It's hard when people turn their back on you.

[36:46] It's hard when people manipulate you. It's hard when people abandon you. I know.

[36:59] But it may just be that the pain in your heart that is there from their sin is your prompt to pray for them that the Lord will use to bring them to a place of salvation.

[37:16] Number two, take the initiative to make a difference in the lives of people. Take the initiative to make a difference in the lives of people.

[37:33] I can't stress this enough. Those who serve others are the most joyful people. That keeps coming up because these are lessons we want to learn from the sin of the Edomites. Those who are servants are those who are joyful.

[37:47] And I know this is so counterintuitive because we think and the world tells us that the more we look after ourselves the more joyful we will be.

[37:58] But that's not the way it works. Philippians reminds us that we are to look out not for our own interests but the interest of others. So take the initiative to make a difference in the lives of people.

[38:17] Actively search for ways to bless others. And while you're doing that don't think that you have to have lots of recognition.

[38:33] You just need to be faithful. You just need to be faithful. This summer the Lord's given us seven interns who are working with us.

[38:47] These young men and young women who are learning about ministry and learning about church leadership and learning to serve. They get a paycheck but it's not large.

[39:02] They're making money but they're not buying vehicles with it. What I hope they are getting though would be valuable experience in a healthy church and learning the joy of serving.

[39:15] Because if they're chasing titles or paycheck they won't make it. But if they learn to love to serve Lord willing they've got a lifetime ahead of them to make a difference.

[39:30] In our church today there are a few servants there are a few leaders who people know their name. There's a few people who will be in front of everybody.

[39:45] Most of our servants in our church aren't public. Most of our servants in our church don't have their name in print. Most of our servants in our church don't get affirmed.

[40:01] don't get applauded. But they live with joy. Because they're not doing this for recognition or applause.

[40:12] They're doing this because they love Jesus and they care about His people. The world will tell you sit back serve little give little take much.

[40:29] I mean how could that not be better? Because it's not. Because the road to selfishness leads to despair.

[40:43] The road of serving leads to fulfillment. Take the initiative to make a difference. Number three do not delight in the downfall of others.

[41:01] Pray for those who hurt you. Why would you want to do that? Because when you get hurt when you get disappointed when your heart is broken one of two things will happen.

[41:18] You will become cold and calloused. or you will become soft and tender. And what we're tempted to do is to say does this person deserve my love?

[41:36] Do they deserve my forgiveness? Do they deserve for me to serve them? But that's a bad way to start anything. Anything. We don't deserve God's grace.

[41:50] We don't deserve heaven. We don't deserve His forgiveness. We don't deserve His gifts. But God being rich in mercy has lavished His grace upon us.

[42:08] And if you go through life blaming others, judging others, criticizing others, you can do that.

[42:21] And you can vent your anger and in our world today you can do it really publicly. You can create lots of smoke and you get lots of people to pay attention to you.

[42:35] But I promise you, I promise you, you'll be miserable. And if you go through life feeding that part of you that loves to see other people suffer because it somehow makes you feel elevated, you'll become a very hardened person.

[43:08] There's another way to live. it's the way that God's people are called to live in Scripture. And that is to grieve at sin.

[43:22] Let your heart be broken over the sin of others. Don't delight in it. Don't approve of it. Don't join in with it. But so train your heart and mind that the name of Christ is more important than your own.

[43:45] And so you'd rather live and respond in a way that makes much of Jesus instead of a way that indulges your flesh.

[43:59] Praying for those who have fallen, praying for those who have sinned, will keep your heart soft and will keep your mind focused on the Lord and not yourself.

[44:20] And it can be costly. It can be tough. But when people fall, they need someone to pray for them.

[44:41] They need someone to meet them in their darkest moment. Not to make light of their sin, not to affirm them in their sin, but to pray them through that Lord willing to a time of repentance.

[45:03] So we've seen what Edom did and we know what happened to them. Let this be a warning to us.

[45:16] God has the final word. But because he does, we trust him. We follow him.

[45:29] And we want to live for the sake of his name. If you're here this morning and don't know the Lord is your savior, there's never been a time in your life where you've repented, turned of your sin, and by faith called upon the name of the Lord.

[45:44] We encourage you and invite you even this day to do that. You've heard about that through the testimony of the baptistry. you've heard about that in the songs that we've sung.

[45:57] You've heard the call of that from the scripture we've studied. Would you even this day admit your sin, not blaming the world, not blaming your family, not blaming society, owning your sin, and call upon the name of the Lord, who is a refuge and a savior for those who believe in him.

[46:30] Lord, your word today is helpful for us, convicting to us, and we pray that it would be useful by your Holy Spirit to bring us to a place of repentance and confession, that we would live lives that are holy and faithful, faithful, and that you would use us to help those who are in need.

[46:51] In Christ's name, amen. Love you, church family. God bless you. You're dismissed. Thank you so much for joining us via live stream this morning.

[47:07] If you have any questions whatsoever about our church or the ministries that our church provides, please visit us at fbcmustang.org. We would love to follow up with you and get to know you better.

[47:20] As always, we try to emphasize, if at all possible, if you could be here physically present with us, we would love that and that'd be a joy to serve you in that way.

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