Voices and Choices

Well, with that heart attitude, let's turn to Proverbs 1. We began a new series last week together called "Wisdom for the Road." We're going to be walking through with God's help the book of Proverbs this fall here at Sharon Baptist Church. And this morning we'll be in Proverbs 1:8-19. Let's stand as we honor the reading of God's word.

Some of you may not be aware of this, but in this community where our church is situated here on Cravens Road, we're not far from an an area called "The Fork." How many people are familiar with the Fork? If you went a little bit further north on Cravens Road, you would come to a fork in the road where Cravens meets Old Cravens, also now known as Oak Grove Road. And if you were to stand at that point, looking south, you would have a choice to make. You could either take New Cravens Road or you could take Old Cravens Road, Oak Grove Road. The choice that you make in that moment would determine how you would travel. If you went down Cravens Road, it'd be real busy. So I hope that you're a fast runner or wearing bright clothes because there's a lot of cars trafficking on Cravens Road every day. You'd see families out and about. if you went down Oak Grove Road, it's not quite as busy. There are different houses there. You might wind through some quieter areas. Both of those roads would get you eventually to Savannah. But the route that you picked would determine what kind of experience you would have. Both roads would get you to Savannah in the end.

Now, there's some other routes in Hardin County, some other roads that aren't like that. For instance, when you come out close to where I live out on Rich Road or Hard Rock Road and you get to Highway 64, that's not a gradual, subtle fork. That's a "T." You've got to make a choice. I'm either going to go east on 64 and I'll wind up in Waynesboro or I'm going to go west on 64 and I'm going to wind up in Selmer, but you can't take both of those routes. You have to pick one. And the route that you pick, the road that you choose, it's going to determine where you end up.

Now, I want you to remember that image because it's gonna come up over and over in the book of Proverbs. It comes up in our text today for the very first time. This idea that your life is like a road. It's like a path. I want you to think of your own life like that, because it reminds us we're all standing somewhere at some point on the road of life. It also reminds us that we're all going somewhere on the road of life. We are traveling in a certain direction and we are all making choices as we travel to take this path or to choose that route, to go on this detour or to stay on this course. We're all making choices out there on the road of life every day. And each small choice is determining where we end up. Each small choice is determining our destination and the kind of people will be when we get there. We're all traveling on the road of life.

And God gave us the book of Proverbs to help us travel. God gave us the book of Proverbs so that we would walk in wisdom, that we would walk with skill so that we would make good choices that lead us in the right direction, not only being in the right place, but being the right kinds of people when we finally arrive. We're gonna come back to that again and again. But it starts today by understanding something about voices and choices. So I want you to notice first of all, what we learned here that there is:

The text begins in a family living room. and the dad is having this heart to heart conversation with his son. It could just as easily be a mom having a heart to heart with her daughter. But it's a big night in any case, because on the next day this young person is going to gain some independence. Maybe they're gonna get their driver's license and now they're going to be behind the wheel of their own vehicle. Maybe they're going into high school for the first time with lots more people around. Maybe they're moving off to college, or they're taking a job, or moving to a different city, whatever the scenario, they're about to gain a lot more independence than they've had before. And up until now, in this particular home this child has been in a godly environment. They've been living and developing in this safe little cocoon of love and discipline and bible teaching and going to church and good examples. And mom and dad in this house have always been right there where this kid is to teach, to correct, to shield. They've always been there. But now that's about to change because this young woman or this young man is going to leave the living room, walk out the front door, and get on the road, get on the road of life. And out there, he'll be making his own choices. She'll be making her own decisions.

And up until now, the loudest voices in this young person's life have been the voices of mom and dad. The mom and dad in Proverbs have been doing what God told the people of Israel to do in Deuteronomy 6, teaching the word when they get up and when they lie down, talking about it at the lunch table, applying instruction. When issues come up in their lives, they have been faithful to present the word to them. They've been faithful to present a wise example to them. They've shown this child what it looks like to walk in wisdom under the authority of the Lord. They've shown them a life of wisdom that the dad describes as a "graceful garland." Think about that Olympic victor's wreath that those old athletes would get around their heads that showed honor and victory and triumph. That's what a life of wisdom is like. The mom and dad have modeled for them a life of wisdom that's around your neck. A beautiful necklace. It makes your life more attractive. And in other words, this life of wisdom, it's not just the morally right thing to do, it's also the happiest way to live. It's the most satisfying way to live. It's the most honorable way to live. It's a life that attracts other people to you so they can learn from you and benefit from you.

Just this week, I heard several people uh just praising God for the life of a gentleman named Billy Kerr who spent decades in Hardin County, just living a life of honor and godliness and consistency and service. Somebody who's lived this kind of graceful garland life of wisdom, a beautiful pendant necklace life of wisdom. That's the kind of life that this mom and dad want for their child.

But out on the road, they're going to start hearing some other voices, other voices that belong to new people who have very different agendas for this young person's life. And this dad talks to his son about what he's gonna face. He gets really blunt in verse 10. He says, "you're going to meet some sinners out there." Does that sound kind of judgy to you? But dad says, "you're gonna run into some sinners out in the world." Now, on the one hand, we're all sinners who need a savior, amen? That's what Romans 1-4 was all about. We're all sinners. We all need God's grace. We all need a savior. But this dad is talking about people whose lives are characterized by sin, their whole lives are defined by sin, their whole outlook is shaped not by the fear of the Lord, but by a world that's in defiance of God and that's in rebellion against God, who reject God and his ways. And the dad tells his son, "you need to be able to recognize that in the people that you meet, a huge part of wisdom is being able to rightly evaluate the people you encounter, being able to rightly evaluate the perspectives from which they are operating in their lives. You need to be able to discern those things and understand those things."

And parents, we've got to prepare our kids to be able to do that. We've got to make some moral evaluations. We gotta teach them to make some moral evaluations. So we don't want to be self-righteous and say "No, we're the Godly people, those are the bad people. You be like us and not like them. No, no, we're all sinners who need the Lord Jesus Christ. But son, I may love this guy to death over here, but he's walking in foolishness. When you see him losing his temper, blowing his stack out in town, we don't do that. That's not the way of wisdom. This lady, we all love her. She's our friend. When you hear her being loose with gossip and slander, that's not the way of wisdom that God's marked out for us. God's calling you in a different direction."

We've got to be able to talk like that with our children to prepare them for life on the road, for this life of wisdom. And what this dad says is, "I've got to prepare you for the people that you meet because the people you meet are going to influence you." They're going to influence you. In fact, verse 10 says they're going to try to entice you to be like them and to go with them. And he says, "son, if you choose to go with them and be like them, there are gonna be some consequences that mom and dad can't protect you from. Once you're out on the road, making those choices, making those associations, you're entering into a realm outside of our control, outside of our protection. I can do something about it when you're 8 years old and trying to run out in the street. I can't do anything about it when you're 28 years old and running with people who defy God in his word. Your consequences are gonna be something that I can't reach." And so he's very straight with his son. And he says, "look, you're reaching a point in your life where you've got to decide who you're going to listen to, which voice you're going to follow. Are you going to act on this lifetime of wisdom that God has given to you through your family, through the church, through the teaching of the Scriptures? God has made all these treasures of wisdom available to you. Are you going to value that like a gold medal that you won at the Olympics? Or are you gonna throw it away to follow a different set of voices? I can't make that choice for you." The dad says, "I can't make those decisions for you. You've got to make those decisions."

And y'all, we've all got to make those decisions, don't we? We've all got to decide if we're going to listen to God's wisdom or we're gonna listen to another voice. So real quick before we leave this first point, I think there's a lot of wisdom here for parents across the room. There's wisdom here for parents about how we prepare our children for life. That's what we're called to do to get them ready to walk out that front door and live as mature followers of Jesus, making wise choices that bring glory to God, and beauty, and satisfaction to their own lives. But it's gonna require us to walk in wisdom. It's gonna require us to cling to the word of God. It's gonna require us to have these kinds of conversations, not like one time, but all the time in our home about what the world is really like, and what kind of people they may meet and encounter. It's gonna require us to demand them to take responsibility for their actions, to help them understand that they're gonna make some choices that are gonna bring consequences, and they're just gonna have to deal with them. We're gonna have to teach them those things. And a lot of us can teach from painful experience, amen? So we got a lot of material to work from, but we're called to prepare our children to live in the world before God.

But there's not just wisdom here for parents, there's wisdom for all of us, because all of us are out on this road making these decisions. Some of us haven't been a kid in a long time, amen? We've been out on that road for a long time, and we've made some choices, and we have many more choices to go before this road runs out. And we've got to decide whose voice we're gonna listen to. So whose voice are you listening to? What voice is loudest in your heart every day? There's a decision we all make.

So this dad is talking with his son and he kind of paints this picture of a potential situation that he's going to walk into. And he pictures the son leaving home strolling down the path, kind of like Pinocchio. You know, I got no strings to hold me down. He's excited. He's happy. He's got this freedom. It's kind of exhilarating. It's kind of intoxicating, but bless his heart. He's also kind of naive and he can't help that. He's just green. He hasn't experienced a lot of life on his own yet. He's that simple person, that beginner that we talked about last week, which means he's very easily influenced and very easily molded. And as he's walking down the street whistling this happy tune, this group of people calls out to him. Now, when the dad paints this picture for us, you may think, "You know, this is a little extreme Eric. I've never been recruited to join a violent gang. And I mean, I'm just looking at myself in the mirror. I don't see it happening any time soon. I mean, believe it or not, the Crips and the Bloods haven't been out looking for me to be the number one person in their group. I don't think that's really a danger for me." And maybe not, maybe not for us.

But we all need to understand what peer pressure is, what the pressure of a crowd is about, how social pressure can move us to do things that we know are wrong, that we know are foolish, and lead us down a path we never imagined that we'd travel. And what I want you to see is what the dad shows the son is, "Look, when this gang tries to get you to join, you're gonna want to because it's going to appeal to some very strong desires that are in your heart.

And I want you to understand this, first of all, we all have a desire for acceptance. That's a huge part of the appeal of this gang. Did you notice how many times they say, "let us," "let us," "we," "join us" over and over again. They are offering this young person inclusion. "You can be a part of what we're doing." I don't care how independent you are. I don't care how introverted you are. I don't care how much of a lone ranger you are. We all like to feel included. Nobody likes to feel excluded. Now you may choose to decline the invitation to the party and be by yourself. But you're thankful that you got invited. Nobody likes to be left on the outside. It's a powerful drive. They're appealing to you. We all want to feel wanted. We all want to feel invited. We all want to feel accepted and befriended. We all like the idea of being brought into a circle of impressive people, cool people, beautiful people, talented people. God put the desire for acceptance deep in our hearts. He made us for community when he made us in his image. God is a trinity and he made us to long for community, that by itself is a good thing. But sin causes us to idolize good things and make them God things. And we as fallen human beings can idolize acceptance. We can want to be included and accepted so much that we do foolish things to gain acceptance or keep acceptance. Am I telling the truth?

We can change who we are so that we can fit in with the particular group we want to. We can do what we know we shouldn't do so that we can go along with the crowd. We can make our lives crazy by saying "yes, yes, yes" to all these commitments when we ought to say no, because we're just terrified of displeasing someone or disappointing someone, that may be kind of a low level temptation. But we can also ignore people who are true friends, who are church friends when we see them out, and we're with our other friends who would not be impressed if they knew how closely associated we were with them.

Have y'all seen Inside Out 2? The little middle school girl, you know, one of the big crises in her life is these high school girls are kind of accepting her on this varsity hockey team, and that makes it really uncool to be seen with her little middle school junior varsity hockey team friends who've always been there for her in the past and it creates this crisis. Why? Because she's got this deep desire for acceptance that we all understand the desire for acceptance.

It can make us spend money on crazy stuff that we don't have to spend just to impress people who we don't even like! We can go along with gossip and meanness and recklessness just to be accepted. Don't pretend like you don't know what I'm talking about. Let's do a show of how many people can honestly say there has been a time in your life where you have done something foolish because you wanted to impress someone? That's everybody in this room! Except the liars... and we love y'all too. That will be a different sermon on a different day.

This is a strong desire in our hearts and we need to recognize it. There's also another desire though that they appeal to: 

Now on paper what they proposed to this kid sounds crazy. "Hey, let's go lie and wait for innocent people and then kill them and take their stuff. That sounds kind of nuts, right? I don't think that's going to end well when we just read it on Sunday morning in our Bibles. But to this young person in this moment, it would also sound pretty exciting. Why? Because they are offering him something called autonomy. That means to be self-ruled, to be your own boss. "Come on, don't be a kid just doing whatever your mom and dad say. Make your own rules! Rebellion can be thrilling, amen? It can be exciting.

I was watching this old Youtube video of this seven year old who jacked his grandmother's Dodge Durango and drove it down the street at 70 miles an hour. And when the news team interviewed him after, he said "I like being bad. It's fun. I like doing hood rat things with my friends." And he's right. It is fun to be bad. There's something thrilling about doing what you know is wrong. Why is breaking the rules so fun? Because it makes you feel big. It makes you feel strong. It makes you feel like you're in control, like you're powerful. "Hey, let's go blow up this guy's mailbox with a cherry bomb." "Hey, let's go pull that fire alarm and watch everybody freak out and run out of the building." Why do kids love to curse and say filthy things as soon as adults leave the room? Because it makes them feel big and tough, like they don't have to be under the rules. Why does disrespecting authority always feel cooler than being respectful to authority? Why? Because it's the thrill of autonomy. I'm my own person. I'm not under any authority. Why is there an appeal to vaping in the bathroom during school hours when you can just vape after school? Because part of the fun is breaking the rules and being reckless and kind of being a rebel. You know what I'm talking about? You do know what I'm talking about.

There's something exciting about autonomy, and this is part of the appeal of everything from illicit drugs to drinking to getting behind the wheel of a car. Nobody can stop me, nobody can tame me. I'm gonna do what I want to do. And that's a real desire that we need to recognize in our hearts. But there's a third desire: 

They promised this guy some fast, easy money. "Look, just one quick job. We'll all be rich. We'll split the purse evenly." I mean, don't hold your breath on that kid. It's probably not gonna work out like that. But they're appealing to this desire for gain. Now in Proverbs, a desire for gain is not bad. Proverbs is going to say a lot about the blessing of wealth, but it's also going to talk about the blessing of wealth when it's gained God's way. And God's way of accumulating wealth is through honest work, hard work, wise management, building wealth over time and keeping wealth in its proper perspective, using it to generously bless other people, always using wealth to serve and to love, not to take and to rob. But sin makes us want to short circuit all of that and find a shortcut around God's way of gain to make money in illegal ways or illicit ways or crooked ways, when the most important thing in our life that drives us and in fact drives us to do things that we know are wrong, the sin that makes us want to hurt people in order to get money or to hold on to money. And we need to be aware that that is a desire that's in our hearts. We could go down this road too.

And so as this dad reviews these different desires that the group is going to appeal to in this young man, I want us to think about the wisdom of what he has to say. It will help us make good choices and walk wisely. If we understand how the world appeals to us, if we'll understand ahead of time that people are going to come into our lives, and they're going to appeal to deep soul desires that we have for acceptance, for autonomy, and for acquisition. And if we listen to those desires in that exciting moment, it's gonna turn us off wisdom's path. I wonder if you can see this in your own life. I wonder if you can see how there have been times where the world, where human beings, where Satan has come to you in these specific areas and lored you off the path of wisdom down a path of destruction. If you can't see that, you need to keep listening! Because wisdom wants to develop a self-awareness in you, an awareness of the areas where you can be lured to stray.

I know there are a lot of really dedicated fishermen in the house. How many people love to fish? That's just your thing. You love it. I see you all over the place. I think I like the idea of fishing. I think what I really like is catching fish. But that means I've got to go with somebody who knows what they're doing because I don't really know anything about the different lures and jigs and all that kind of stuff. But I do have this basic concept down.

The idea of fishing is to make the bait look so good that the fish ignores the hook, so that it isn't even thinking about the hook. They're just thinking about that shiny jig or that juicy worm. And Godly wisdom is given to us to help us see past the shiny lures and the juicy worms, the bait that the world dangles in front of us so that we can avoid that sharp barbed hook. That's why Proverbs is given to us. It's not been given to us to ruin our lives, to make our lives no fun. It's been given to us to save our lives so that we can live in joy. It's all about the skills that we learned last week. If you remember some of those words, we learned about words like discernment, the ability to distinguish between two subtle alternatives. We learned about the word insight, the ability to see past the surface of a situation into the true nature of it. We learned about the word prudence, that's shrewd, smart, caution in a dangerous situation that keeps you out of trouble. That's what we need out on the road of life. And that's what this father is calling this son to. And there's a couple of ways that he calls his son to practice discernment when he's tempted to go along with the crowd, when they're walking in foolishness.

And first of all, he tells them about: 

Notice in verse 15 he says, "my son, do not walk with them, hold back your foot from their paths for their feet run to what? Evil." That's a really hard word, isn't it? And here's why it's important that we know that word, understand that word, use that word, because in the moment when pressure and temptation is working on all these different desires in us that are so strong: acquisition, autonomy, acceptance, whatever it may be, our judgment gets really cloudy and hazy. And we can talk ourselves into doing things as if they are good when five minutes before we would have said they were evil. It's so important though that we come back to this basic truth of Proverbs that we learned last week in 1:7, "the fear of the Lord." When we're making those decisions, we are making them before the face of God. The God who made this world, the God who made us, the God to whom we will give an account after this crowd and these friends are long gone. And this God has a standard of good and evil. It's not cloudy to him, it's not hazy to him. And we need to remember that we are under a God with a real standard to which we will be held. And that's why the fear of the Lord really is the beginning of all wisdom. That's where it all starts. And if you've got that fear of the Lord in you, that awareness that there is good and evil out there, and God wants me to choose the good, and if I don't, we're gonna have a conversation about it, that's gonna keep you out of a world of danger.

It's like when Potiphar's wife came to Joseph, and there was a million reasons why he should have sinned with her from our perspective. But Joseph instead said, how can I do this evil and sin against my God? There's a fear of the Lord that was controlling Joseph. In that moment, I heard Tony Evans say one time that men in a submarine are going into a foreign, hostile environment, they're going way down under the surface of the water. Human beings aren't supposed to survive down there. But the reason they can survive is because the pressure inside the submarine is more powerful than the pressure outside the submarine. And it keeps them from getting crushed. The fear of the Lord in your heart is that pressure inside of you that will keep you walking in the good and not turning aside to the evil no matter what environment you go into. We need to remember the standard that we can trust. But then there's also: 

One thing the dad tells the son in verses 17-19 is that these guys in this gang, they're not just evil, although they are, they're also really stupid. Why are they stupid? Because they live in God's world where he makes the rules and he applies the consequences and yet they live as if they can defy that God and defy those consequences and defy that moral order of God's universe. Now, here's an experiment that you can try this afternoon. If you go home and after you get a good lunch, you get out a ladder and climb up to the top of your house onto the roof and jump off, what's gonna happen? You're probably gonna break some bones. You're certainly going to hit the ground very, very hard. Why? Because there is a law called gravity that will be active in that moment. And it doesn't matter who your daddy is, it doesn't matter how much money you've got in the bank, it doesn't matter how much education you have, whoever you are, race, color or creed. When you jump off a roof every single time, the law of gravity is going to apply to you and you're going down. We're all just subject to that law. And so we, if we're wise, we live in accordance with it. We submit to that law.

But here's what Proverbs teaches us, that God not only has physical laws that govern his world, he has moral laws that govern his world. And we're all subject to those too. Now, the difference is when you defy one of the physical laws like touching a hot stove, or trying to breathe underwater, or jumping off the roof of the house, the consequences are immediate. But when you defy God's moral laws, the consequences aren't always so quick to come. It's more like sowing and reaping. The Bible says you sow the seed and it takes a long time to see any effects, but a harvest is coming for good or for bad. And what this dad is explaining to his son is these young men are sowing rebellion and defiance of God and His moral order and there will be a harvest of consequences. There is no escaping God's law and God's order. If you ignore God's way, he says, you're lying in wait for your own blood. You've got a death wish. He says, "I mean, think about a bird. I know some of y'all are wild for turkey hunting. When you go turkey hunting, you go to extravagant lengths to hide yourself. You've got decoys, you got paint on your face, you got camouflage, you got ground blinds, you got these little calls. You have all kinds of things going on. Why? Because you know if that bird spots you, he's out of there. I mean, even if he sees just a little sliver of caucasian flesh, he is out of there, he's gone. Why? Because a bird's a survivor. That bird has got a will to live." Certainly if you just stood up there in the middle of the path with your gun pointed, he's not gonna come out there because turkeys aren't stupid.

Humans are stupid because we can know what God's law says. We can know what God has told us about murder, and about defiance, and disobedience, and yet we still walk right into it. Learn from a turkey, learn from a bird, have enough sense to care about yourself and preserve your own life to live under the law and the authority of God. And this is what Paul says in Galatians 6, "Don't be deceived, God is not mocked, that which you sow you will also reap." The reason the fool is the fool is he thinks he can be the one exception in the world to God's moral law. Everybody else may have consequences. He's not gonna have consequences. She's not gonna have consequences. I can be this really angry, ragey person, and I can still hold on to my marriage and family. I can be this person who gets drunk and gets behind the wheel of the car and there is nothing bad that is going to happen. I can do that. Nobody can stop me. I can be this person who tells lies. I can be this person who is not trustworthy and I'm still gonna have all these relationships and people are still gonna want me to work for them and all this kind of thing. We deceive ourselves into thinking that somehow this law of sowing and reaping of actions and consequences doesn't apply to us. That's what makes the person a fool because nobody gets out of it! Nobody gets out of gravity, and nobody gets out of God's moral law. So reject that! Reject that way of stupidity to go back to that road.

If you're standing there and if you're in your vehicle at Rich Road feeding out onto
Highway 64 and you want to go to Selmer, there's only one way you can turn, and that's 64 west. Now, you may say I hate 64 west. I don't like it. I don't want to see that stuff. I want to go on 64 east. Now, I still want to go to Selmer. I'm going to get on 64 east. That's stupid. That's crazy. It doesn't work that way. You can't get to Selmer unless you travel on 64 West.

And some of us want a happy, satisfying, blessed life by traveling in the road that goes in the absolute opposite direction. According to what God has said, there is only one way to get that kind of life that has a satisfying marriage and people who trust and respect you, and every other blessing that Proverbs talks about. And that is the way of wisdom. And Proverbs wants us to embrace that. All right, one more road story as we come to a close:

There are detours we all take. So a couple of times this semester, I'll go to Louisville, Kentucky to the seminary that I attended. And I get to teach some classes occasionally. And when I'm coming into the big city, and I'm just a little country boy navigating Hardin County's roads all the time, I'm not used to too much complication and lights and businesses and all that kind of thing. And if I'm not careful, there's a split off. And instead of taking the correct exit to go into the seminary in Louisville, I'll keep riding on the interstate and I'll go across a bridge into the state of Indiana. Now, that may not seem like a big deal to you. But the state of Indiana is trying to build some new roads and build some new bridges. And that means every single time you cross that bridge, you have to pay some money. And I've done this before because I've been distracted. I've been on the phone, I've been singing Johnny Cash or whatever it may be, but I don't take my exit. I keep riding that interstate and I go across that bridge into Indiana. And as soon as I realize what I've done, "oh, it's so stupid!"

So then I have to get off the next exit and then I turn around and I come back. Now, I was just over there for like a minute. I am only in Indiana for a minute. I took the wrong road. I realized that I had done it. I've reversed course. I came back, I got back on the right path. But, you know something that I found out the hard way? The state of Indiana still wants me to pay that toll. There's still a consequence to the choice that I made and the road that I took, even though I was able to correct it and get back on the right course. That's what Proverbs is all about. Wherever you are on the road, whatever choices that you've made, here's some really good news for you. There is an opportunity to turn around. The Bible calls it repentance.

Stop going in the direction that you're going where nobody can tell you what to do and you won't listen to the truth. Instead, get a humble heart. Listen to the Lord. Follow examples of wise people. Turn around and start going in a different direction. But if you're here and you're still thinking about what direction you wanna go to, what you need to understand is there are gonna be consequences for those choices, and sometimes those consequences are very lingering. Now, God can give you grace to bear up under them and he does so generously. But we would just rather you miss out on some of those consequences and just stay on the right path. The main thing you need to know is that we have all, everybody in this room including me, been that son who has heard the truth, heard the wisdom, and chosen not to listen to it. We've all chosen to go our way, our path, and we've all suffered for it.

The good news of the gospel is that there is one perfectly obedient son, one perfectly wise son who never turned aside to the right or to the left, but he lived for the glory of God and obedience to his father every single day in our place. His name is Jesus Christ. And if you will come to him with your ruined life, your crooked life, your complicated consequence-ridden life, and you bring that to Jesus today, he'll get you turned around. He'll get you on the right road. He can redeem even the worst, most foolish choices that you've made if you'll just go with him. Let's pray

Sermon by Eric Smith
Senior Pastor, Sharon Baptist Church