Beloved in the Lord, sinner, there is a door of hope open for you. If you would but kneel. None can walk through this door with head lifted high. This is a door that leads to light, not darkness. You have to leave the dark behind. You have to repent of those sins and some of you need to get up off your face and you need to get up and you need to make this right. You need to deal with the secret sins of your heart. You have resigned yourself to live all of your days in the Valley of Achor and it does not have to be that way.
The Lord is open to you. He is wooing you. He is calling you. There is yet forgiveness that you may know grace that Achan at this moment in Israel’s history did not receive. If you would but see that door marked out with the name of Jesus Christ, because it was upon Him that the Lord’s wrath was spent, His burning anger poured out on Christ, on the cross, that you might walk through that door, out of the valley of trouble, into the light and have hope.
Let’s pray.
This clip is part of the sermon “A Horrible Sin and Another Heap of Stones” delivered by Dr. Kevin DeYoung at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, NC on September 29, 2024.