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The Walls Fall | Will Hawk | 21 Sept. 2025

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We explore the powerful story of Jericho's fall in Joshua 6, uncovering surprising insights about faith, silence, and God's redemptive work that often get overlooked in this familiar biblical narrative.

• Understanding Jericho's true scale – a city of only 6-7 acres that would take about 15 minutes to walk around
• God's approach to victory involves both His sovereignty (100%) and our obedience (100%)
• The unusual "parade" formation before battle demonstrates worshipping before seeing results
• Silence as the unsung hero of the story – Joshua commands complete silence for seven days
• The psychological warfare of trumpets blowing each morning like an alarm that couldn't be silenced
• Rahab's story as a model of God's mercy – one section of wall left standing amid total destruction
• The walls we build to protect ourselves often become the prisons that hold us captive
• God always preserves a pathway to redemption for those who trust Him

Don't leave with walls built around you. Let them fall today, even now. Go and talk to the Lord before we stand and worship one who deserves so much more than our silence, even though we'll give him both.


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Will Hawk:

All right, guys, if you would go ahead and grab a seat. If I can get Audra to come on up to read our passage, that would be great, as Audra's coming up. We'll be in Joshua, chapter six. Just want to let you guys know we do have a baptism class following church today and we have lunch and things like that provided. So, even if you haven't planned for it, but that is something that you feel the Holy Spirit may be pushing you toward, we would love for you to show up. That'll be in the room right outside the sanctuary, off to the right, and, Audra, I'll hand it off to you.

Audra Beaudoin:

Good morning, midtree. This morning I will be reading from the book of Joshua, chapter 6, verses 15 through 21. If you have a pew Bible it'll be on page 181. Please follow along as I read God's Word.

Audra Beaudoin:

On the seventh day they rose early at the dawn of day and marched around the city in the manor seven times.

Audra Beaudoin:

It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times, and at the seventh time, when the priest had blown the trumpets, joshua said to the people Shout, the Lord has given you the city and the city and all that is within it be devoted to the Lord for destruction.

Audra Beaudoin:

Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the things devoted to destruction lest, when you have devoted them, you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing of destruction and bring trouble upon it. But all silver and gold and every vessel of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord. They shall go into the treasury of the Lord. So the people shouted and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout and the wall fell down flat so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city. Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep and donkeys, with the edge of the sword. This is the word of the Lord.

Will Hawk:

Amen. Out of curiosity, I think the falling of the walls of Jericho is probably one of the most well-known stories in all of scripture. So let me just ask a question. You don't have to like vote, you don't have to. It'd be cool if you raised your hand. I would enjoy that.

Will Hawk:

Do any of you guys remember acting out walking around the walls of Jericho in kids' church growing up? Okay, all right, wait, wait. Okay, this is so great, this is so great. All right, you gave me one of these. I now want one of these because the sheer volume of hands. Okay, so raise your hand. If that was you. How weird are Christians? Okay, like, did you not read verse 21? Even the donkeys don't make it out of this thing. And we've got our little eight-year-olds just do-do-do, do-do-do and the destruction of the Lord comes in on Jericho.

Will Hawk:

I knew that this was going to be a well-known story, and so I thought I would start with a little bit of a question. I'm not going to put anything up on the screen, there's not going to be a poll or anything along those lines. I just want you to answer next to the person who is sitting next to you. And here is my question how long do you think it took to walk around, to march around the city of Jericho? All right, now I'll give you one hint. In the event that you didn't grow up in the church and you're like well, I feel pretty out of place right now. I'm gonna help you out. They walk around at one time for six days and then, on the seventh day, they walk around at seven times. So, whatever your answer is needs to be 24 divided by seven, and no greater, because they pulled this off seven times in a one day span. So compete with the person sitting next to you. How long do you think it would take to march around Jericho? I'll give you 10 seconds to figure it out. No googling or chatting or whatever. It may be. All right. By the way, this shouldn't be a long discussion, right? I mean, like, are you getting into it right now? Well now, if you march at a three mile an hour pace, which is the average walking, all right, this is a picture of what Jericho would have looked like average walking, all right, this is a picture of what Jericho would have looked like.

Will Hawk:

Just so you know before we dive into the story, jericho was not just the first city that Israel was going to meet in their conquest. It was, in many ways, the greatest. We think of it as having one wall. It actually had two. There was an inner wall and an outer wall. Both of them would have been about six feet thick. The outer wall would have been about 40 feet tall, the inner wall about 20. To us, that doesn't sound impressive. We have elevators in their day and age, no cars or anything along those lines. This is a very insurmountable task. Additionally, jericho was low when it came to elevation, and so streams flowed into it, making siege very, very difficult. This area to walk around covers about six to seven acres. I deleted the scale, but now I will give you the scale. In all likelihood, it would take you approximately 15 minutes to walk around. Yeah, you guys were like nine hours. It was a miracle he held this line. It takes about 15 minutes.

Will Hawk:

We think, because of the movies we watch on the History Channel, that these cities are sprawling and wide. The reason I point this out to you is because, when these walls come down, something really cool and beautiful happens, but you're going to miss it if you can't picture it. So I want you to be able to. This would be a more true to life perspective. You can see some homes, you can see some roads. To help you get some real satellite image scale of what Jericho would have looked like. What you need to imagine is this what you need to imagine is plains, or almost hills, coming down into plains and then a city, almost like a spire, shooting up 40 feet. It would have looked almost like. If you look at the Aflac building I know that it's much taller, but it's just like Columbus, columbus, columbus, aflac, columbus, columbus, columbus. It would have been like that. It would have been like wilderness, wilderness, wilderness, jericho, wilderness. That's what it would have panned out. And it would have looked like.

Will Hawk:

Now, keep in mind, if you weren't here last week, god's people were ready, he had done incredible things. They are eager, they are excited, but God makes them, for one week, slow down and wait. They have to consecrate themselves, they have to get holy, they have to pursue him. They don't just rush headlong into battle. And the story, the chapter before, ends with Joshua walking up to a guy who has a sword drawn and Joshua's like you with us or you against us? And the commander of God's army says nah, I'm not with you, I'm not for you. I'm not here to take sides, I'm here to take over. And, son, I'm going to take it from here. And this is the story of how God took it from here.

Will Hawk:

Now, jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel. None went out and none came in. And the Lord said to Joshua see, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king, its mighty men of valor, this massive city. I'm handing it to you, I'm delivering it to you. Don't miss this, because I'm going to come back to it. God begins by saying here's what I have done. The trophy is already on the mantle. I've already told you to stack stone since we walked through the river. Victory is guaranteed. I have done this, god says.

Will Hawk:

And the text moves on and he says you shall, I have you shall. This is something that Christians struggle with. We struggle with the percentage of our involvement in the things that God is doing. The more reformed leaning you are, the more God does everything and you just muddle around in the mud and there is nothing useful of you and he just kind of drags you through it. The more Arminian you are, the more it's really up to you and God's like all right, you're on my team. Good, really needed a Joshua tie.

Will Hawk:

The reality of it is God is wholly sovereign and he is wholly expectant of obedience from his people. They are both operating at 100%. The expectation is that God is 100% in charge and that he expects 100% obedience and faith, and this is what it looked like for them. By the way, your obedience and faith is going to look a little different, but just as God gives us clarity through his word to us, he gave it to them as well. My people, this is what obedience is going to look like For me.

Will Hawk:

You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days. Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of ram's horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times and the priest shall blow the trumpets. And when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout and the wall of the city will fall down flat and the people shall go up, everyone straight before him. He's saying you're going to go straight in, there's going to be no hurdles. There's going to be no hindrances, there's going to be no loss. But I want you to notice this word shout. When they make a long blast, you will shout.

Will Hawk:

One of the cool realities of this word and the way that it's used in scripture is that it comes from a Hebrew word. That means two different ways of shouting. Now, some of you were shouting yesterday. Some of you were shouting at a television that could neither hear you nor refs that care about your existence, but you shouted nonetheless, as did I, and there are a number of different shouts. There are shouts of frustration and there are shouts of joy. Here, the two shouts that we see pointed to are a shout of a war cry. This is we are beginning the battle. We are giving you everything we've got. We wanna strike terror into your hearts, so you will hear us roar before we come. That is one part of this shout, but this same word also means victory. Now, why do I take the time to point this out? All of you know what shouting is Will. Is this really the deep Hebrew that we need to be doing this morning? Yes, and I'll tell you why, because what's tucked into this are two great realities. God is saying I want you to shout because there is a war coming and I want you to shout because there is joy and victory guaranteed. Both of these things live side by side 100% you going in as the warrior that I'm calling you to be and 100% you yelling that victory. Is already certain Unbelievers in the room what you are going to see in this text and, by the way, this is just how the Holy Spirit puts things together.

Will Hawk:

This story and this story have incredible parallels. Now, unbelievers, if you are waiting, and waiting, and waiting, I would encourage you to listen to the story of a sister who thought that she could build walls that lasted 13 years, as though they would protect her. They did not. They became the weight of her fall and, by the grace of God, he held her up. Christians, if you believe that victory is only something you will find and not something you have found, you are missing out on one of the great realities of trusting in Christ, and I would have you not miss both of these things.

Will Hawk:

In this text I have you shall. We get to see their heartfelt obedience and, as a result, we get to see God bless them because of their heartfelt obedience. This is called divine human instrumentality, the fact that the divine, who is in charge of all things, condescends to using broken people like us. And when he does, he is inviting us to be a part of the guaranteed victory that he has secured. They are to do what they are told to do march around some walls, and God is going to do what he says he will do. Additionally, no one is left out. So Joshua, the son of Nun, called the priests and he said to them take up the Ark of the Covenant this was the box that was symbolizing the presence of God and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of ram's horns before the Ark of the Lord. And he said to the people go forward.

Will Hawk:

Everybody has a part to play In this particular service. Kelsey had a unique part to play compared to last week and next week most likely. Do you realize I don't know if y'all understand this Do you realize you have a part to play on Sunday morning? Some of you are coming in for the first time and you're like time out. I'm not serving in a kid's room, I don't even know these kids. I'm not down for snot and I'm not down for diapers. I don't know what you're talking about. By the way, we could use the help Fall more people coming to church. All of you have like a hundred kids Thanks Cape Hearts and as a result of that, every fall we're like scrambling and scratching. That's one way you could serve, but that's not my point in this. My point in this is priests were a part of this. Hardened soldiers were a part of this. There's a fair chance that butchers were a part of this, that people who would never have considered themselves part of an army were a part of this. No one is left out. Everyone has a part to play.

Will Hawk:

But there is an unusual reality to this very common story, and I don't know if you've ever thought about it. What is it that they are doing when they march around the city and let armed men pass on before the ark of the Lord? If you were to see this, I'm going to ask for somebody to give me an answer. If you don't, that's okay. What would we usually call this? We wouldn't usually call it marching.

Will Hawk:

If a group of people get in a line and they're walking in a circuit and they're blowing trumpets, what would we call that today? We call it a parade, all right, what'd you say, shane? Protesting, different, similar, similar. We would probably call it a parade. Because they're happy. They're happy, shane. It shouts of victory. We would call this a parade. We would have floats and balloons and children with cotton candy and all kinds of fun things.

Will Hawk:

Don't miss out on this unusual reality of a very well-known story. They are marching around a city that is filled with people who are scared of them and hate them. They are marching around a city with 40-foot high walls, with archers atop them and spearmen atop them. They are having a parade before the battle. They're having a parade before the championship game. Do you realize how insane this sounds? Pick your sports team and then invite them to have the championship celebration, walking through the streets of the city before the season has even begun, and everybody will tell them impressed with your confidence. But that makes no sense whatsoever and no one is going to show up. That's what they do.

Will Hawk:

Author Robert Smith says this parade formation suggests that God wants us to worship before he does the work. Just going to pause there. This is suggesting that God wants us to worship before he does the work. Trumpets were blowing and people were shouting even before the walls fell, which then brings us to this question before the walls fell. Which then brings us to this question Do you wait to worship until God has given you what you're looking for? Don't get me wrong. It's normal. It's just not faith. It is normal for us to pray and then praise God once we have received the thing that we have asked for, then praise God once we have received the thing that we have asked for. Pray that something would be removed and then praise God once it has. That is normal, but it isn't faith. Are you withholding worship until God does the work?

Will Hawk:

Christian, you were never called to be normal. You were called to be faithful. You were called to sing through tears and celebrate through brokenness. You were called to have your eyes, your head, your hope and your affection so far in front of you that the things of this world, the things of this day, the things of your marriage, the things of this family, the things of your body, the things that make you angry, frustrated and disappointed in this life, can't even shake you because of the sureness that the shout of victory is going to come over your life. They walk around for seven days proclaiming victory, under the shadow of tall walls, holding evil people, holding devices built for their own destruction. Why? Because faith is assurance of things that we hope for. It is conviction of the things that we do not see. And because God's people had this, they make the book by faith. The walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days by faith. God showed up. They did what he asked them to do by faith. Rahab the prostitute did not perish With those who were disobedient. She did what God had asked her to do. She honored him.

Will Hawk:

Robert finishes his quote by saying Anyone can shout after the walls fall, but can we shout before they fall, knowing that they will fall, because God said that they would Believer? Can I just mention a couple of walls that are guaranteed to fall in your life? Shame is guaranteed to fall in your life. You have been justified in Christ, which means all of the shame and all of the guilt that caused you to build 13 years of 40 foot high walls, thinking that you are protecting yourselves by not sharing the story of your own brokenness amidst a people who are definitely broken, worshiping a God whose mercy is endless. This is a wall that is guaranteed to fall If you are trusting in Christ. His word tells us that his spirit dwells within us, which means the believer that you are 10 years from now is gonna be so much greater than the believer you are today. The things you are struggling with today are not a guarantee to be a thing that you are struggling with tomorrow. Are you hopeless? Do you have despair? Expect that wall to fall. Your sickness, your brokenness, your anger, your despair. Expect that wall to fall. Your sickness, your brokenness, your anger, your frustration, your disappointment. Do you know, believer, that it's going to fall?

Will Hawk:

When a friend of mine passed away in his 40s, I've shared this story with you His family that had been praying for his healing, that had prayer requests on one side of the fridge and answered prayers on the other. They took a request that said daddy gets better and after his death they moved it to the other side. Why? Because the wall was guaranteed to fall as he has a new body and walks in newness of life. But here is the question what lap are you on? Are you on lap one around the city? Are you on lap one around this world? Are you on lap one around this reality in your own life? Do you have faith for six more walks around? It may take a minute. 13 times they walk around this city faithfully before God ever does anything.

Will Hawk:

Kelsey, I want you to know how much I appreciate you sharing your story. I really appreciate the number 13 coming up. 13 years of waiting as God's people walk, 13 times wondering is he good enough, strong enough and faithful enough? And what happens? Well, just as Joshua had commanded the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets before the Lord went forward blowing the trumpets for the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Following them, the armed men were walking before the priests who were blowing the trumpets and the rear guard was walking after the ark while the trumpets blew you ready Continually. God's people were so annoying to the people who lived in Jericho. But before that happened, I don't want many of you who have heard this story to miss what I think is the unsung hero of this story. I've never heard anybody talk about it and it is by far my favorite reality of this text. I'd never seen it and I probably preached on this a number of times.

Will Hawk:

Joshua commanded the people notice the quotes here. He's speaking. We have his actual words. You shall not shout or make your voice heard. Neither shall any word go out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout, then you shall shout. So he caused the ark of the Lord to circle the city, going about at once, and they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp.

Will Hawk:

I'm going to take this verse and I just want to show you verse 10, but I'm going to break it out because I want you to see something that I had not seen. We talk about noise and we think about them marching. We think about the horns blowing and we think about them shouting. We think about the walls coming down, but do you think about the seven days of silence before? Look at how many times Joshua tells them be quiet, don't speak. Do you know how eerie it must have been to live in that city? Do you know how odd it must have been? They've fought battles before, but they've never fought an army called Israel, which means God fights for them. They fought battles before, but not against a nation for whom which God ripped a river open that they could walk right through. And Joshua looks and he says not once, not twice, but three times. And what is fascinating about this is no one speaks in the text for seven days. Now, I slid over here because I can't actually prove this for sure. It's not explicit in the text, but what you're going to see is, when they wake up early in the morning to sound this abundantly annoying alarm, joshua doesn't speak to them to tell them what to do, they just do it, which means they may not have just been silent when they were marching around the city. It may have been a nation committed to silence for one entire week. Silence as they walk, entire week. Silence as they walk. Silence as they eat. Silence as they get ready to sleep, silence as they care for their children.

Will Hawk:

Silence is the unsung hero of this well-known story. And I wonder, christian, I wonder American, if you appreciate silence? I looked at Bruner. I actually walked up to you as soon as you did the call to worship and I was like hey man, good text. He didn't know it was in it, I didn't know he was going to say it. The Lord, your God, is in your midst. This is how he began worshiping. He is in our midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with gladness and he'll quiet you by his love and he will exalt over you with loud singing.

Will Hawk:

Silence does not mean absence when it comes to pursuing the Lord. But are you comfortable with it? For God alone, my soul waits in silence. From him comes my salvation. What salvation are you needing in your life right now? For some of you, it may be salvation from your sin. It might be. I need God to forgive me. For some of you, it's salvation in a difficult relationship, salvation at work. Are you trying to fix it? Are you making lots of plans or are you sitting in silence when words are many? Transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent. This one's my favorite. Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil. Quietness than two hands full of toil. Being silent in half a measure will outwork two measures of your hard work if you are being silent before the Lord.

Will Hawk:

Then Joshua rose early in the morning and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. Notice no quotes here. This is day one and he doesn't say a thing to them. He just wakes up early in the morning and the priests are awake as well. They know exactly what they're supposed to do. No alarm clocks back then, and the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of the ram's horns before the ark of the Lord. They walked on and they blew the trumpets continually and the armed men were walking before them and the rear guard was walking after the ark of the Lord While the trumpets blew what does the Bible want you to realize? Continually. And the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp, and this they did for six days. Do you know what this is supposed to feel like? I'll tell you. Set a seven second timer.

Will Hawk:

The worst sound in all of the world, in my opinion, is the sound of an alarm going off when you wake up in the morning. This one how many of you hate this right now? Yeah, yeah. How many of you hate this right now? Yeah, yeah. This is what Jericho dealt with in an alarm. They could not snooze for at least 15 minutes early every single morning, and then silence. I want to take you there. I want to take you there on day one, when Jericho wakes up and kids start crying because and you got seven dudes, so when one of them takes a breath, you got six other guys who were sending it and for at least 15 minutes, the guys who were sending it, and for at least 15 minutes, probably more like half an hour this alarm just keeps ringing and they can't find their phone and the snooze button is broken and they can't turn the thing off. And then finally, let's just say, after half an hour it goes silent and their heart rate in Jericho drops. And they look at each other and they say in Jericho drops. And they look at each other and they say what was that? What is going on? They just blew horns for 30 minutes and didn't say a word and now they walked back home and it's silent again.

Will Hawk:

Day two comes exact same thing. They get woken up in the morning. Day three, day four, day five, day six an alarm that they cannot turn off. But on day seven something changes. On the seventh day, god's people rose early at the dawn of the day and they marched around the city in the same manner, but they do it seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times and by then you know what Jericho is doing. Kids, get up. Everybody, go brush your teeth. They're just gonna keep blowing this trumpet for another 30 minutes. All right, let's just go. Let's start making some breakfast. Let's get on with our day. They've been doing this for six days. They're gonna continue doing it.

Will Hawk:

The trumpet ends after about 30 minutes, but the feet keep going and then the trumpets erupt again and everybody in the city begins to look around. What's going on? You know what? They just doubled up. They just doubled up, they got confused, and then it snoozes. And then it goes again and again and again. The alarm that they were hearing was the alarm that God had been sending for hundreds of years, and instead of waking up, they kept snoozing it. I know that there are many of you who are in the room right now and you have lots of problems with what you read in verse 21, that God would decimate an entire group. But what I want you to realize is on that seventh day, there was an alarm being sounded that they fully ignored.

Will Hawk:

On the seventh day, at the seventh time, when the priest had blown the trumpets, joshua said to the people shout, for the Lord has given you the city. And here's what's fantastic. You see it right there in quotes. All of a sudden, the text begins moving in slow motion and as their hands come up to shout, the text takes you somewhere else. Notice the number 16 and then this when this shout ends, the city and all that's within it is gonna be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Finally, after 400 years this is Genesis 15,.

Will Hawk:

God had given them 400 years to turn and come back to him, and they had snoozed and snoozed and snoozed and snoozed. And after this shout ends, it's going to him. And they had snoozed and snoozed and snoozed and snoozed. And after this shout ends, it's going to happen. As their hands are coming up and their lungs are filling up. When this shout ends, only Rahab, the prostitute and all who were with her in her house are going to live. God is going to make a statue, he is going to build this model of mercy that cannot be missed. When this shout ends, he's looking at his people and he's saying keep yourselves from the things that are devoted to destruction. When I give you this victory, don't put your hands on the things that want to kill you. When this shout ends, get all the silver, all the gold, all the bronze, get all of these things. You don't know it yet, but this is how we're going to build the very temple that you're going to be worshiping in in the years ahead. When this shout ends, 400 years of God's promises and preparations collide. So the people shouted and the trumpets were blown, and as soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout and the wall fell down flat.

Will Hawk:

The concept here in scripture is that not one stone is left on top of another. It's not like there's heavy crumbling on the east but not on the west, so they've got to weigh in. The whole city shakes and crumbles to dust. Well, not the whole city exactly, because when the entire landscape goes flat, all that is left is this one little piece of wall, this one tower. To God's grace, this one held up stone of mercy. What is it that remained?

Will Hawk:

But the two men who had spied out the land? Joshua said go into the prostitute's house and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her, as you swore to her. So the young men who had been spies went in and they brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all who belong to her, and they brought all her relatives. They put them outside the camp of Israel. They moved them from all of the brokenness, from all of the destruction, from all of the noise and from all of the clamor. Verse 25, rahab, the prostitute, and her father's household and all who belong to her, joshua saved alive and she has lived in Israel to this day.

Will Hawk:

What happens when the walls come a tumbling down? A pillar to his grace is extended, extended across all the centuries, for those who would run to him for shelter In the midst of ongoing destruction and noise. Everybody in the city must have looked up and they must have seen this one thing that remained a signpost of hope that has been lifted up One room with one wide window, with one red rope hanging from it, a red rope of God's promised redemption for all who would put their trust in him, for all who would say I've spent 13 years or 30 years, or 13 months or 13 minutes building walls that I thought protected me, hiding myself inside, not letting the world know the great brokenness that was inside of me. So now you and I and we get to decide who we are going to be. Do you feel safe inside those walls that you have built? Does your shame and your brokenness and your darkness does it feel well, protected by what you have built up? Because they believe that the walls would protect them? It would protect everything they held valuable? If only they could have just seen that their walls were holding in the very vile thing that God would have rescued them from.

Will Hawk:

If I were to put it simply and not be real pastoral, I would say it this way Don't cling to something that's trying to kill you. Don't hold fast to something that's trying to drown you. Don't connect yourself to something that is not connected to God or to Godwardness or life. Each of us must decide if we want to be found amidst the rubble that we cause or the redemption that Jesus makes out of it. And the beauty of that is you have a choice. You have a choice. This is a great story of military victory, but it's a better story of spiritual victory. I love you guys and I know you and I talk to you and I praise you for this.

Will Hawk:

You do this stuff all the time. You say here's what I've projected to the world. Let me tell you what's going on inside, and the walls are going to have to come down, but I am trusting that God will leave enough for me to cling to, and he always will. What are you hiding behind and what do you want? To be in the midst of the rubble that you cause or the redemption that Jesus can make out of it? Come to him Seek forgiveness. Hide no more, because his grace is sufficient and he gladly offers it. If you need to sit, sit. If you want to stand and sing band, y'all go ahead and come on up. If you want to meet, talk, celebrate, pray, I don't care. All I care about is this Don't leave with walls built around you. Let them fall. Today, even now, go and talk to the Lord before we stand and worship one who deserves so much more than our silence, even though we'll give him both.