Turn And Trust In God

Greetings to you in the sweet name of Lord Jesus Christ. I consider it my great privilege to share the Word of God with you.

We are going through one of the toughest situations in human history. We know these things are inevitable or unavoidable. This pandemic is not the worst or the last, these calamities are going to affect mankind in one or the other shapes again in the days to come.

From South Asia to Africa to Latin America the pandemic is confronting developing countries with a public health emergency combined with an economic crisis and each exacerbating the other.

The present situation of the world also showing us that the most powerful nations, developed nations be it Japan, America, China, Italy etc. are incapable of so many things still. The nations whose GDP growth is the highest or the least have no control over so many things. They can only spend time in searching for the questions thrown at them by God.

Meteorologists, hydrology, oceanography,   seismologists or any department of the science have failed to warn us about the Tsunami, hurricanes, storms, floods and famines and even if they warn us their predictions have failed us miserably, they warn us for heavy rain and it turns out to be a flood, some times they warn us for floods it turns out to be heavy rain. I am not telling that they are incapable of anything but they have failed us badly due to which many have lost their lives and many are loosing in spite of spending billions of dollars for these research centres they can not save enough lives. Surely there are advantages and disadvantages of these technologies.

In recent times these technologies and science were diverting our trust from God to these man-made lifeless stuffs.

Today  I have entitled my sermon as Turn and trust in God alone.

Today's message theme or purpose is that you turn from these idols to the Living God.

For that

Let us turn our Bibles to Isa. 31:1 "Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are very strong. But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel not seek the Lord!

Before going deeper into the verse let us look the Lord in prayer,

Dear God heavenly Father, thank you for giving us the privilege to listen to your word, help us to turn and trust in you alone God in times of problems and calamities. Help me to deliver this sermon to the best of my ability Amen.

1) Stop trusting in any nations or men.

No matter how much that nation has developed, their infrastructure, education, hospitals, Medicare, defences, economy etc.

Stop trusting in these nations, experts. Coming back to the scripture here God is warning people of Judah and to their king

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses. Cursed is the man who is going back to Egypt for support and help, maybe at that time Egypt was best in the defence but what is this Egypt, who are these Egyptians are, it is the same nation who tormented Israelites for almost 400 plus years, and it is the same nation whom God made a mockery of their beliefs, gods, magicians, kings and the most powerful man in entire Egypt Pharaoh. By going down to Egypt they were despising the command of the Lord. In Deut. 17:16 'But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall not return that way again.’

Being a king of Israel, he should not acquire horses for himself, neither send people there to acquire horses, God doesn't hate any nation but it is a covenant with Abraham and because Israel is a peculiar, holy, set apart and an apple of God's eye, its 'woe' to them, today God loves us so much he gave himself for us, in time of calamities where's our trust. Medicines are our trust, doctors, the most popular hospitals, they will fail us, they will squeeze you and make you empty. Assyria was the world's conquering power at the moment, they had destroyed the northern kingdom, Syria and great Babylon and now they are heading towards this tiny divided nation Judah. King Hezekiah terrified and was trying to get help from the neighbouring country.

Isaiah 31:2?-?3

'Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster, And will not call back His words, But will arise against the house of evildoers, And against the help of those who work iniquity. Now the Egyptians are men and not God, and their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out His hand, Both he who helps will fall, And he who is helped will fall down; They all will perish together'.