God’s Answer: What He Will Do (Part 2) • 07.20.25

Nick Lees - July 20, 2025

God’s Answer: What He Will Do (Pt II)

Isaiah 66:1-24

Wrestling with responses to sin, God’s and ours

God will mercifully save the humble and repentant
God will justly judge the self-righteous and unrepentant

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Good morning, church family! (Thank everyone that made High Five Camp a reality via serving.)

Welcome to those who are visiting with us. If you’re here from High Five Camp, we’re thankful to have you joining us today. Our service on this particular Sunday is always quite different than others during the year as we rejoice in our time sharing God’s Word with the kids last week.

However, what is not different today is our study of God’s Word. We just so happen to be finishing up our study through the book of Isaiah that we began in January of 2024. Today is the final chapter before we begin our new series on the One Another passages next week!

Ushers + Bibles (Isaiah 66; page 742)

One Anothers SG study

Since it is our final Sunday in Isaiah and we probably have more visitors than usual, I thought it would be appropriate to provide a bit of a recap of where we’ve been, so you understand what you’re about to hear today. As you can see on the screen behind me, the title for this sermon series is “The Lord Saves”. This captures one of the key themes of the book. That the Creator God who made all things has a plan to rescue and redeem his wayward, rebellious people. However, there is a twin theme that has gone right along with this, and it is “The Lord Judges”. God, through the prophet Isaiah, has revealed that he is both a merciful Savior and a just Judge.

You see the problem was that the people God had made turned away from him to worship all kinds of other things. To use the language that we learned at High Five Camp, they chose the Bad Kingdom rather than the Good Kingdom. This was highlighted at the very beginning of the book:

Isaiah 1:2–4 (ESV)

² Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth;

for the Lord has spoken:

“Children have I reared and brought up,

but they have rebelled against me.

³ The ox knows its owner,

and the donkey its master’s crib,

but Israel does not know,

my people do not understand.”

⁴ Ah, sinful nation,

a people laden with iniquity,

offspring of evildoers,

children who deal corruptly!

They have forsaken the Lord,

they have despised the Holy One of Israel,

they are utterly estranged.

God called the heavens and earth to hear his charge against his people! Rather than obeying and worshiping Him alone as the One, True God, they have turned aside to worship the idols of the nations around them. Though the book of Isaiah is primarily focused on the nation of Judah, through our study we have seen that the rest of the earth has struggled with the same rebellion and idolatrous worship, even to today. All of us have been created to worship the One, True God, but we have each gone astray! If something isn’t done to rescue and redeem us out of this rebellious position, then we are in incredible danger of God’s just judgment.

Thankfully, through Isaiah, God has also revealed his grand redemption plan. This is God’s plan to make a people for himself from every tongue, tribe, and nation – a people who are wholly devoted to him and who will be with him forever. We heard about this as early as chapter 2:

Isaiah 2:2–5 (ESV)

² It shall come to pass in the latter days

that the mountain of the house of the Lord

shall be established as the highest of the mountains,

and shall be lifted up above the hills;

and all the nations shall flow to it,

³ and many peoples shall come, and say:

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

to the house of the God of Jacob,

that he may teach us his ways

and that we may walk in his paths.”

For out of Zion shall go forth the law,

and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

⁴ He shall judge between the nations,

and shall decide disputes for many peoples;

and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,

and their spears into pruning hooks;

nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

neither shall they learn war anymore.

⁵ O house of Jacob,

come, let us walk

in the light of the Lord.

You can hear the plea of God through Isaiah in verse 5 – “Come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.” This is God’s desire for the people. Don’t walk in the darkness of sin! Forsake sin and walk in the light of the LORD!

Throughout the book, we watched Judah fail to walk in the light of the LORD. Time and again, they have turned aside, ignoring Isaiah’s warnings from God, and chosen to do what is right in their own eyes. Throughout the book, God has repeatedly warned them and the other nations of the danger they are putting themselves in by choosing worship of self/idols over worship of Him! They have exchanged the One, True God for a lie.

Thankfully, God has also revealed to us through Isaiah the promised hope! He has a coming Deliverer. The future Messiah. The Suffering Servant who would make a way for His people to be counted righteous. This was most clearly revealed in chapter 53, where we read:

Isaiah 53:3-6 (ESV)

³ He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;

and as one from whom men hide their faces

he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

⁴ Surely he has borne our griefs

and carried our sorrows;

yet we esteemed him stricken,

smitten by God, and afflicted.

⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions;

he was crushed for our iniquities;

upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,

and with his wounds we are healed.

⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray;

we have turned—every one—to his own way;

and the Lord has laid on him

the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 53:11–12 (ESV)

¹¹ Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;

by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,

make many to be accounted righteous,

and he shall bear their iniquities.

¹² Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,

and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,

because he poured out his soul to death

and was numbered with the transgressors;

yet he bore the sin of many,

and makes intercession for the transgressors.

This wonderful prophecy in Isaiah was fulfilled ~700 years later by Jesus of Nazareth. He is the Suffering Servant who has borne our griefs, carried our sorrows, and was crushed for our iniquities. The answer to the coming judgment against sin is faith in the One who can deliver you from your sin and give you new life! Through faith in Jesus, it is possible to be forgiven of our sins and counted as righteous before God.

As we’ve journeyed to the end of Isaiah, we have witnessed God’s redemption plan revealed to not only include the Jewish people but the Gentiles (the nations/non-Jews) as well. The end of Isaiah reveals people from all nations joining the servants of God’s family. It’s a grand vision of the fulfillment of all of God’s promises. Through the Suffering-Servant King, God creates a covenant family of all nations who are awaiting the hope of God’s justice and a renewed creation where God’s kingdom finally comes on earth as it is in heaven.

What a beautiful redemption plan and a magnificent outcome! However, we must not celebrate too quickly. The reality of the closing chapters of Isaiah is both joyous and sobering. It is joyous to hear the message of assurance and hope for those who respond in humble worship before the Lord. Yet it is sobering to hear the message of the Lord’s fiery judgment for the false worshipers who are self-righteous and unrepentant.

As we close out the book in chapter 66 today, we continue to hear God’s answer to the people’s lament “What will God do?” We continue to wrestle with responses to sin, God’s and ours…

Let’s turn our attention now to the text. I am going to read the entire chapter for us and then we’ll work through it together.

Isaiah 66:1–24 (ESV)

Thus says the Lord:

“Heaven is my throne,

and the earth is my footstool;

what is the house that you would build for me,

and what is the place of my rest?

² All these things my hand has made,

and so all these things came to be,

declares the Lord.

But this is the one to whom I will look:

he who is humble and contrite in spirit

and trembles at my word.

³ “He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man;

he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck;

he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig’s blood;

he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol.

These have chosen their own ways,

and their soul delights in their abominations;

⁴ I also will choose harsh treatment for them

and bring their fears upon them,

because when I called, no one answered,

when I spoke, they did not listen;

but they did what was evil in my eyes

and chose that in which I did not delight.”

⁵ Hear the word of the Lord,

you who tremble at his word:

“Your brothers who hate you

and cast you out for my name’s sake

have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified,

that we may see your joy’;

but it is they who shall be put to shame.

⁶ “The sound of an uproar from the city!

A sound from the temple!

The sound of the Lord,

rendering recompense to his enemies!

⁷ “Before she was in labor

she gave birth;

before her pain came upon her

she delivered a son.

⁸ Who has heard such a thing?

Who has seen such things?

Shall a land be born in one day?

Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment?

For as soon as Zion was in labor

she brought forth her children.

⁹ Shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth?”

says the Lord;

“shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb?”

says your God.

¹⁰ “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her,

all you who love her;

rejoice with her in joy,

all you who mourn over her;

¹¹ that you may nurse and be satisfied

from her consoling breast;

that you may drink deeply with delight

from her glorious abundance.”

¹² For thus says the Lord:

“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,

and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;

and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip,

and bounced upon her knees.

¹³ As one whom his mother comforts,

so I will comfort you;

you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

¹⁴ You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice;

your bones shall flourish like the grass;

and the hand of the Lord shall be known to his servants,

and he shall show his indignation against his enemies.

¹⁵ “For behold, the Lord will come in fire,

and his chariots like the whirlwind,

to render his anger in fury,

and his rebuke with flames of fire.

¹⁶ For by fire will the Lord enter into judgment,

and by his sword, with all flesh;

and those slain by the Lord shall be many.

¹⁷“Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig’s flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the Lord.

¹⁸“For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory, ¹⁹and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations. ²⁰And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the Lord, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord. ²¹And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the Lord.

²² “For as the new heavens and the new earth

that I make

shall remain before me, says the Lord,

so shall your offspring and your name remain.

²³ From new moon to new moon,

and from Sabbath to Sabbath,

all flesh shall come to worship before me,

declares the Lord.

²⁴“And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”

This chapter is a lot to take in, especially if you haven’t been with us for the rest of Isaiah and are unfamiliar with God’s frank speech to the rebellious people. What we just heard are the closing words that God had given the prophet Isaiah for the nation of Judah. As we wrestle with responses to sin, God and ours, I’ve summarized it into two key takeaways. Here they are:

God will mercifully save the humble and repentant (those who turn from sin to God)
God will justly judge the self-righteous and unrepentant (those who DO NOT turn from sin)

I believe these capture the essence of God’s response to sin, as revealed here, while also challenging us to evaluate our own response to sin. Please understand this – the Bible is very clear that there are only two groups of people in the world throughout human history. Those who are humble and repentant – worshipers of the One, True God. And those who are self-righteous and unrepentant – worshipers of self/idols.

To put it back into the language from High Five Camp – two kingdoms – God’s good kingdom (light/truth/salvation) or the bad kingdom of darkness/devil/self. And, as we heard this week, we are all born into the bad kingdom. We enter this world shaking our fist at God and thinking that we know better than him. From the moment we can express ourselves, we demand our desires be satisfied when we want, how we want, and for as long as we want! If you spend any amount of time with toddlers, you know what I’m talking about.

Unless something changes, we are in danger of facing God’s just judgment for our self-righteous, unrepentant rebellion. Have I got your attention yet? This is serious stuff we’re talking about!

So, let’s take our time wrestling through point #1 this morning, which is the Good News, that…

God will mercifully save the humble and repentant

This truth is revealed throughout the chapter. It is brought up very early in verses 1-2 as God reminds them that he needs nothing from them. His point in speaking this way is to remind them of how BIG he is in comparison to how SMALL they are. The people of Isaiah’s day had gotten too big for their britches and thought that their works were what made them righteous. They wanted God to fit into their nice little box, the house that they had made for him (the temple). God wasn’t going to allow for that! He sets them straight by reminding them that he rules from a throne in heaven and the earth is like a footstool to him. Everything that is made is from him. All that has come into existence is his.

Here’s the point – God doesn’t need us! He isn’t indebted to you due to your righteous deeds – how much you’ve given, the nice buildings you’ve made for him, the religious actions you’ve taken. When we treat God as if he is a magic genie to be manipulated by us, we’ve gotten it all wrong!

God does not need our righteous works; however, he is pleased by those who have a humble and contrite spirit! He is speaking of an internal posture of your heart – someone who recognizes the severity of their sin problem in light of God’s perfect holiness. Such a person trembles at God’s word because they recognize how worthy God is of worship and they desire to please him! Deeply convicted of their need for rescue, they cry out to him for salvation.

We are talking about true worshipers here. Not those who go through the motions of self-righteous religion. God also has a lot to say to those people too. We’ll get to that, but first, look at verses 7-11.

Here God promises that he will accomplish Zion’s redemption. He is mighty to save! That is the whole point of the childbirth language. God will not fail to bring about what he has promised. He will create a people for himself in the city of Zion that are his holy people!

Those who are humble and repentant are invited to rejoice and be glad because they will be comforted/satisfied in her. Comparing Jerusalem to a nursing mother, God speaks of consoling his people and allowing them to be satisfied in her. These figures of speech are intended to drive home the blessings of being the humble worshipers of God. God’s humble and contrite people will be blessed!

This is further explained in verses 12-14 where God invites them to behold what he will do for his people. He will extend peace to her like a river. They had previously lost this peace due to their disobedience of God’s word (48:18), but now it is restored through God’s grace. The river flows again!

The idea being conveyed is they will only know God’s peace. No longer will they be exposed to danger, toil, or snare. As we heard last week in chapter 64, in the new heavens and earth, danger/sorrow/suffering/and death will be no more! Peace will be the order of the day. Peace with God and peace among the nations, as foretold back in chapter 2!

Peace of this magnitude and extent is hard for us to imagine. Never again will there be tension in our relationship with God! Never again will a fight or a war break out among humans. What a magnificent promise and future hope! Oh, how we long for that day!

The promises don’t stop there. The glory of the nations will be like an overflowing stream as they come into the city. We’ve heard about this previously. God will unite believers from all over the world into his forever family and they will come to his city to worship him. As they come, they will bear their wealth to offer in service to the Lord. The picture is of complete provision for the Lord’s people. This is a picture we find repeated in the book of Revelation, chapter 21:

Revelation 21:22–26 (ESV)

²²And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. ²³And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. ²⁴By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, ²⁵and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. ²⁶They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.

How incredible that day will be! When God’s glory radiates from Zion and the nations rejoice in it and offer themselves and their gifts to worship him.

The picture of the nursing mother returns in verses 12-13 to communicate yet again the comfort that God’s people will receive in those days. In quick succession, the word comfort shows up three times, communicating how God will be their Comforter. What a wonderful promise to people who were in great distress! Remember their nation is in ruins and they have been wondering if God will indeed save them. For those who are humble and repentant, God has given them the assurance that they will experience the fullness of his comfort one day.

They shall see and their heart shall rejoice; their bones flourish like the grass because they will experience the blessings of God. He will use his power and might to bless his servants. These are powerful promises to weary people. Weary people who have been beaten down by sin and suffering.

What is your response to these promises? Do they cause you to consider where you stand with God? Because that is what they should be provoking within you.

These blessings of God’s mercy and comfort and provision of peace come to those who are humble and repentant. Those who confess their sin before God, acknowledge their need for salvation, and desire to obey his teachings, seeking to live in a manner pleasing to him.

The surprising Good News of the Bible is that God delights to save sinners! He does not want us to perish in our sin. He repeatedly calls us back to him. He has made a way of salvation through faith in His Son, Jesus, the Suffering Servant of Isaiah and the Crucified Christ of the New Testament. This is what sets Christianity apart from every other world religion – God made a way of salvation for us! He paved the way for reconciliation (peace with God) by sending his own Son as a sacrifice for sins. Every other world religion requires you to work your way to God, but Christianity says that you are unable to do that, so he made the way for you!

Listen again to what God intends to do in Isaiah 66:18-23:

Isaiah 66:18–23 (ESV)

²² “For as the new heavens and the new earth

that I make

shall remain before me, says the Lord,

so shall your offspring and your name remain.

²³ From new moon to new moon,

and from Sabbath to Sabbath,

all flesh shall come to worship before me,

declares the Lord.

God intends to gather his people from all nations/tongues. He will send out missionaries to bring them all to him from the furthest corners of the earth. That is what is being communicated here! Both believing Jews and Gentiles will come to God and, shockingly, at least to the Jews, even Gentiles will be priests in the house of God!! God is laying out a plan to make a diverse covenant people for himself who have the privilege of representing him and drawing near to him! FOREVER! Verses 22-23 reveal that this salvation will be ETERNAL!

Why would you not want to be a part of this forever family of God? God mercifully saves the humble and repentant. What is keeping you from honestly confessing your own sin and turning from it to follow Jesus? *pause* This is the path to ETERNAL life. As we heard during High Five Camp from Romans 10:

Romans 10:9–10 (ESV)

⁹because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

This salvation is not cheap. It cost Jesus Christ, the Son of God, his life. He bore the wrath meant for you on the Cross. He endured suffering beyond what we can fathom so that we might be saved. Will you be humbled by this reality and repent/turn from your sin to follow him the rest of your days? I pray that your soul is screaming, “I WILL! GOD HELP ME!”

Because the alternative is so clearly laid out in this chapter and I would not want it for anybody! Here it is again:

God will justly judge the self-righteous and unrepentant

This is the BAD NEWS, and you ought to be thankful that God doesn’t conceal it from you. He is a loving Creator who makes it clear to the self-righteous and unrepentant that their vain religiosity will not save them! Consider again verses 3-6, where he shockingly tells them that their religious activities are like killing a man, breaking a dog’s neck, offering pig’s blood, or blessing an idol.

God’s point is that their vain religiosity is an abomination to him. He knows the hearts of men/women! He sees right through those who put on a show of worshiping him week after week. He knows that at the heart it is simply self-worship. It is pagan idolatry, not worship of the One, True God!

God is very clear that they have made their choice. They chose their own ways. They delight in what God hates. They have not been willing to heed God’s call or listen to his word. Rather than trembling at his word they have rejected it to do what was evil in his eyes! They have no desire to please God but only a desire to please self.

Their choice results in God choosing to justly judge them. They have chosen the wrong kingdom to follow, and they will pay dearly for it…

Now notice the startling detail in verse 6 – these people will be found in God’s city and temple! These are not “foreigners” but people in their midst who put on an outward appearance of religion while remaining unrepentant. These men and women likely attended the temple regularly, making their offerings as prescribed in the law, keeping the Sabbath and other requirements with precision… YET their hearts were far from God! Their motives were not to please God but to please self. As verse 5 reveals, they were self-righteous, looking down on their brothers who were humble and contrite. They had no real interest in serving God but serving themselves!

Such fake faith makes you an enemy of God. And do not be fooled, he will render recompense to his enemies! Just judgment is coming for the self-righteous and unrepentant, regardless of whether you are Jew or Gentile. This was true in Isaiah’s day, it was true in Jesus’ day, and it is still true in our day. It would be wise to take it to heart and repent!

God invites us to behold how he will judge his enemies in verses 15-16:

Isaiah 66:15–16 (ESV)

¹⁵ “For behold, the Lord will come in fire,

and his chariots like the whirlwind,

to render his anger in fury,

and his rebuke with flames of fire.

¹⁶ For by fire will the Lord enter into judgment,

and by his sword, with all flesh;

and those slain by the Lord shall be many.

He is coming in fire, like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury. These are not delicate terms! This is the language of judgment. The refiner’s fire will destroy those who are not repentant.

Many in our day struggle with such language about God! It is because we have too high a view of ourselves and too low a view of sin. If you understood the severity of your sin and the holiness of your Creator, then you would more readily accept this teaching about the final judgment. This depth of rebellion against the King of Kings and Lord of Lords warrants such just judgment. Those who demand justice in our day want the penalty to fit the crime, yet when God reveals what the just penalty for sin is many cry, “TOO HARSH! UNLOVING!” As if they knew better than the all-knowing God.

Now, I don’t deny that it is hard to hear that many will be slain by the LORD. It is right to be shocked at such language. Yet we must also recognize that this is the reality of a world where the majority of those alive HATE God. Even amongst those who CLAIM to be Christians there are many who will be justly judged, because on the last day it will be revealed that they were of the group found in verse 17 – those who sanctify and purify themselves, yet live wickedly. Going through the motions of faith will not save you!

Let me put it another way. The act of raising your hand, praying a prayer, going down to the altar at the front of a church service WILL NOT save you. Because we are not saved by our works. Salvation is a gift of grace through faith in Christ alone.

Ephesians 2:8–9 (ESV)

⁸For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, ⁹not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Titus 3:4–7 (ESV)

⁴But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, ⁵he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, ⁶whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

My point is – do not depend on your works to get you to heaven. Cry out to God for conviction of your sin and a new heart that desires to live for him. Ask him for FAITH that endures to the end! God is the One who saves, and he delights to keep his children to the end. He can give you a new heart, so that you can and will live for him.

And just as God’s salvation leads to eternal life, so God’s judgment leads to eternal death. The final words of God through the prophet Isaiah are sobering:

Isaiah 66:24 (ESV)

Those who have been saved by God will look upon the eternal judgment and death of those who have rejected God. They will take it to heart and agree that God is the just judge.

While you may be uncomfortable by such language, I hope that you would not disagree with the God who spoke these words and preserved them in his written word for your benefit today. What is the benefit of such clear and cutting teaching in Isaiah 66? That we might have ears to hear and a heart to believe and turn from sin to God to be saved!

Do not disdain God’s word. Do not be like the self-righteous, unrepentant men of Isaiah’s day who chose their own ways and ignored God’s word. It will not end well.

Instead, heed the call of God to worship him and tremble at his word. Cultivate a desire to please God in all that you do. Seek the humble and contrite heart that recognizes God’s holiness and your need for him. This is best accomplished by sitting under the regular teaching of God’s Word in your daily life.

If you do not have a habit of digging into the Word day in and day out, I want to encourage you to establish such a practice this summer. Feast on the words of life! Ask God through prayer to open your eyes to see the beauty of his truth and to have a mind that understands what it says and the conviction of heart to live it out. That will mean that you must change.

All of us are constantly in the process of fleeing from temptation and sin to pursue the desires that honor God. May we not grow weary of that battle. May we put on the armor of God that we learned about during High Five this week.

Ephesians 6:10–17 (ESV)

¹⁰Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. ¹¹Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. ¹²For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

¹³Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. ¹⁴Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. ¹⁶In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; ¹⁷and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

We have been warned of God’s just judgment if we take sin lightly and God’s merciful salvation if we avail ourselves of his grace through humble faith and repentance. It is my prayer that each of us would now wrestle with our response to sin.

I pray that you would personally experience God’s merciful salvation as one of his humble and repentant people. If you’d like to talk more about that after the service, it would be my delight to do so.

Let’s pray.

Pray