Where Is Your Trust? Series

WHERE IS YOUR TRUST?

PSALM 20:7 NKJV

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.

BEFORE I DEAL WITH OUR MAIN TEXT, I WANT TO LOOK AT SOME PRINCIPLES OF TRUST BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION

WHERE DO WE TURN IN A DAY WHEN TRUST HAS BEEN MISUSED, MALIGNED, AND TWISTED TO FIT OUR OWN AGENDA?

THERE ARE THOSE WHO PUT THEIR TRUST IN MATERIALISM, “WHO HAS THE MOST TOYS AT THE END WINS.”

THAT IS A VERY SAD EPITAPH FOR ANYONE ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANS.

THE ONLY SURE THING THAT WE CAN TRUST, IN THIS WORLD, IS JESUS CHRIST.

WE SHOULD NEVER PUT ALL OF OUR TRUST IN PASTOR’S, MINISTER’S, RABBI’S OR OTHER CLERGY BECAUSE MAN, WILL LET YOU DOWN, NOT INTENTIONALLY BUT THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MEET ALL YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

I WANT TO LOOK AT A SCRIPTURE THAT TELLS US ABOUT WHERE WE PUT OUR TREASURES, OUR TRUST.

MATTHEW 6:19-21 KJV “DO NOT LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES ON EARTH, WHERE MOTH AND RUST DESTROY AND WHERE THIEVES BREAK IN AND STEAL. BUT LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES IN Heaven, WHERE NEITHER THIEVES DO NOT BRAKE IN AND STEAL. FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS THERE YOUR HEART WILL BE ALSO.”

WHY IS IT THAT WE DO NOT HONESTLY AND OPENLY TRUST THE LORD IN “EVERY SITUATION THAT WE FIND OURSELVES IN?”

I BELIEVE ONE OF THE REASONS IS WHEN WE SEE THE THINGS IN THE WORLD, THAT DECEIVES US, INSTEAD OF OUR INVISIBLE LORD AND SAVIOR.

WE FAIL TO HAVE FAITH IN THE LORD. THAT IS WHY ROMANS 12:1-2 NKJV GIVES US DIVINE DIRECTION ON HOW TO PUT OUR TRUST IN THE LORD. “I BESEECH YOU BRETHEREN BY THE MERCIES OF GOD, THAT YOU PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY, ACCEPTABLE TO GOD WHICH IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE. AND DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT BE YOU TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, THAT YOU MAY PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD AND ACCEPTABLE AND PERFECT WILL OF GOD.”

PAUL IS SAYING, YOU HAVE TO TRUST THE LORD ENOUGH TO LAY YOUR LIFE TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY UPON HIM.

THE WORLD HAS MANY THINGS TO PULL YOU AWAY FROM TRUSTING THE LORD. I THINK YOU WILL AGREE, WE LIVE IN THE WORST TIME OF MATERIALISM THAT HAS EVER BEEN SEEN.

ONE OF THE CULPRITS IS THE INTERNET. WHILE IT IS GOOD, PEOPLE USE IT FOR THE WRONG REASON, SADLY, PORNOGRAPHY IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH.

THE DEVIL IS DECEPTIVE AND WILL OFFER YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO PULL YOUR ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE LORD AND PULL YOUR THINKING AND CONSECRATION FROM THE LORD TO THE WORLD.

JOHN 10:10 KJV “THE THIEF COMETH NOT BUT TO STEAL, KILL AND DESTROY: I AM COME TO GIVE YOU LIFE BUT LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY.”

THE DEVIL WILL NOT ONLY STEAL YOUR JOY, BUT STEAL YOUR TRUST IN THE LORD.

THAT IS WHY WE NEED TO RESIST THE DEVIL. JAMES 4:7 NKJV “THEREFORE SUBMIT TO GOD, RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.”

1 CORINTHIANS 10:13 NKJV “NO TEMPTATION HAS OVERTAKEN YOU EXCEPT SUCH AS IS COMMON TO MANKIND, BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL, WHO WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO BE TEMPTED BEYOND WHAT YOU ARE ABLE, BUT WITH THE TEMPTATION WILL ALSO MAKE THE WAY OF ESCAPE, THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO BEAR IT.”

JUST FROM THOSE SCRIPTURES IT VERIFIES THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SUCCUMB TO THE THINGS OF THE WORLD, TO TAKE YOUR TRUST OFF GOD AND PUT IT ON THE THINGS OF THE WORLD.

BEFORE I GET INTO OUR MAIN SCRIPTURE, I WANT TO DEFINE WHAT TRUST IS IN THE HEBREW AND GREEK LANGUAGE.

IN THE HEBREW GESENIUS’ LEXICON, IT DEFINES TRUST AS,”TO SET ONE’S HOPE AND CONFIDENCE'’, “TO BE SECURE, FEARING NOTHING.”

IN THE GREEK “ALETHEIA”: TRUTH WAS USED IN ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY IN TRUTH OR DISCLOSURE IN PHILOSOPHY.

THOSE SCRIPTURES PROVE THAT GOD’S PRESENCE IS ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF US AND THAT WE CAN PUT OUR TRUST IN THE LORD AND HIM ONLY.

NOW LET’S GET TO OUR MAIN TEXT IN EXODUS 20:7.

THIS PSALM WAS A PRAYER FOR KING DAVID. THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL APPARENTLY WOULD SING THIS SONG AS A PRAYER TO GOD TO GIVE THEM VICTORY OVER THE ENEMY.

IT IS INTERNALLY ATTRIBUTED TO KING DAVID. IN THE INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL COMMENTARY, CHARLES AND EMILIE BRIGGS SUGGEST THAT IS WAS WRITTEN DURING THE TIME OF JEHOSHAPHAT.

STEPHEN BLANDON MADE THIS OBSERVATION: “THE WORD “TRUST” MEANS TO LIE HELPLESS, FACE DOWN. IT’S ACTUALLY A PICTURE OF A SERVANT WHO IS WAITING FOR HIS MASTER’S COMMAND SO THAT HE CAN RESPOND IN FULL OBEDIENCE. IN OTHER WORDS, OUR FOCUS MUST BE ONE OF TRUST AND SUBMISSION TO THE LORD.

ACCORDING TO MANY COMMENTATORS, ISRAEL NEVER OWNED OR KEPT HORSES. THEIR ADVERSARIES, HOWEVER DID! THAT WAS ONE REASON THEY FELL ON THEIR FACE TOWARD GOD BECAUSE THEY KNEW THAT WHEN THEY PUT ALL THEIR TRUST IN GOD, HE WOULD SUPPLY THE VICTORY FOR THEM.