1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:04,840 Amen. Amen. 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:08,360 I'm so thankful for that grace. I mean, could you imagine if you 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,320 had to try to get to heaven on your own, Imagine what that 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,320 would be like? Like you said, I know how that 5 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,720 would go wouldn't go over so well for us, but it's all about 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:18,360 grace. It's all about what Jesus Christ 7 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:19,960 did for us, and that's an amazing thing. 8 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:24,280 Turn your Bibles this morning, if you will, to Psalm 119, Psalm 9 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:28,560 119. It's amazing the difference that 10 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,040 that that God's true work in our lives can make. 11 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:36,800 And when someone is religious for the sake of being religious 12 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,760 instead of for being right with God, they're not very impressive 13 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:42,680 to the world. They're not very impressive to 14 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,080 the Christians, they're not very impressive to God, I can tell 15 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:45,920 you that much. And. 16 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:48,800 But when God? Does a work in somebody's heart 17 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:52,760 when somebody truly gets saved, when somebody is truly wanting 18 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,480 to be right with God for the sake of being right with God 19 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,840 because they want to please him. It's the greatest possible 20 00:00:57,840 --> 00:00:59,200 experience that we can ever have. 21 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:03,120 And I, I, I used that word experience very loosely because 22 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,200 it's not just some experience that you have. 23 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,200 It's not some bright light that you saw coming towards you or 24 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,200 some dream that you had in the middle of the night that your 25 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,280 salvation experience. There has got to be a moment 26 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,240 when you come to the cross, you drop those burdens there at the 27 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:18,240 foot of the cross, and you give them to Christ. 28 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,040 You take that weight of your sin that you've been carrying for 29 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:22,760 all of those years, and you give it to him. 30 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,360 He can handle it. His shoulders are big enough to 31 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,080 handle the weight of the sin of the whole world. 32 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:28,680 He's already taken it on himself. 33 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:35,440 But Psalm 119, verse #41 Of course, David wrote this Psalm 34 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:38,000 and, and it's, it's, it's, it's very interesting. 35 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,600 It's an alphabetical Psalm. If you look at the very 36 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,640 beginning, most of your Bibles probably have headings, but 37 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:47,680 Aleph, Beth, and so on. It goes all the way down through 38 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,960 the Hebrew alphabet and every verse mentions something about 39 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:52,520 God's word in some way or another. 40 00:01:53,080 --> 00:02:01,200 Either the the talking about his His word or his testimonies or 41 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:05,640 His commandments or His statutes or something is is mentioned 42 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,680 about those things in every verse and the Bible says this in 43 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:13,880 verse number. 41 Let thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, even 44 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:18,360 as even thy salvation according to Thy word, so shall I have 45 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,720 wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me. 46 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:24,760 For I trust in Thy word, and take not the word of truth 47 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,320 utterly out of my mouth. For I have hoped in Thy 48 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,920 judgments. So shall I keep Thy law 49 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:33,160 continually, forever and ever, and I will walk at liberty, for 50 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,760 I seek Thy precepts. I will speak of Thy testimonies 51 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,440 also before kings, and will not be ashamed, and I will delight 52 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,960 myself and Thy commandments which I have loved. 53 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:47,200 My hands also will I lift up unto Thy commandments which I 54 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,120 have loved, and I will meditate in Thy statutes. 55 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:55,120 Psalm 119. Is a tremendous passage that 56 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:57,440 gives us the confidence that we can trust God's Word. 57 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,200 David did that. Many others throughout the whole 58 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,280 course of the Old Testament did that, and even many into the New 59 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:04,560 Testament. And by the way, there's many, 60 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,000 many times that the New Testament references the Old 61 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,360 Testament. Jesus told them to search the 62 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,480 Scriptures. Obviously they had the 63 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,480 scriptures available to them. You know, many people today want 64 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:17,880 to talk about the, the idea that, well, we don't have the 65 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,840 originals and the originals are the scriptures and we just have 66 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,800 copies of the originals and maybe they're accurate, maybe 67 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,440 they're not. Jesus didn't say search the 68 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,760 scriptures or Jesus didn't say search the, the copies that you 69 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:30,760 have and hopefully you can find what you're looking for in 70 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:32,600 there. He said search the scriptures. 71 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,920 That means they had accurate copies of God's word. 72 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:36,440 They didn't have the originals then. 73 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:40,960 They were gone by far by the time Jesus came on to the came 74 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,520 into the world and and the disciples were on the scene. 75 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:45,040 But he told them search the Scriptures. 76 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,720 They had God's word many times. He referenced Jesus referenced 77 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,320 the Old Testament many times. Peter and Paul and the apostles 78 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,880 and and the writers of the New Testament referenced the Old 79 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,440 Testament. We have God's word in our hands 80 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:00,760 and we can trust that when he says that he will preserve his 81 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,240 word. He preserved his word even 82 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,680 through all of eternity. He's going to preserve His word. 83 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,480 If He's promised to preserve it through all of eternity, then we 84 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:10,640 can trust that we haven't even now, because we're not even 85 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,680 close to eternity yet. We've just, we haven't even 86 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,040 started. But Psalm 119, verse 41, let thy 87 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:20,519 mercies come also unto me, O Lord, even Thy salvation, 88 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,120 according to that word. The first thing to be sure is to 89 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,200 be sure that you have what God gives. 90 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:30,560 God gives us that mercy. God gives us salvation. 91 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,360 God gives us the opportunity to accept him as our Savior. 92 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:37,960 Second Corinthians chapter 13 and verse 5 says examine 93 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:39,880 yourselves. Whether you be in the faith, 94 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,320 prove your own selves, know you not your own selves how that 95 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:47,160 Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobates to the world 96 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:52,160 offers plenty of options, plenty of of alternatives to the true 97 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,680 gospel of Jesus Christ. There were plenty of things to 98 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,320 distract us from knowing the truth. 99 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,040 The devil has hundreds if not thousands of other religions in 100 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,960 the world that are preaching everything but the truth that we 101 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,280 find in God's word. They're there to keep people 102 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:08,480 from the true salvation through Jesus Christ. 103 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:12,640 But true salvation is God's gift, which is His mercy to us, 104 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,040 but we have to be saved on His terms. 105 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:17,120 We can't do it the way that we want to. 106 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,680 So many man made religions and so many man made ideas and so 107 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,840 many things that men have come up with that you have to do this 108 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:26,040 and you have to do this and you have to do this and this and 109 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,600 this in order to get to heaven. And if you don't keep those 110 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,000 things throughout your entire life, then there's no chance for 111 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,280 you. You have to go before some man 112 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:34,960 and ask him to forgive your sins. 113 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,800 You have to go do all of these sacraments and do all these 114 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,040 different things, and you have to keep them faithfully 115 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,120 throughout your entire life if you expect to have any chance of 116 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,440 getting to heaven. That's not what the Bible says. 117 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,240 I'm thankful that it's not based on my works of righteousness, 118 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,680 which we have done, but according to His mercy. 119 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,200 He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the 120 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,600 Holy Ghost. It's all about Jesus. 121 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:03,760 It's not about me. We have to turn from our sins in 122 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,560 repentance to Him, and He'll pardon US based on the promise 123 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,320 that He will. And repentance is a change of of 124 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,200 mind that leads to a change of heart that leads to a change of 125 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,640 direction. I don't stop sinning in order to 126 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,000 be saved. I stop sinning because I have 127 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,080 been saved. And there ought to be a change 128 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:22,800 in the life of somebody who knows Jesus Christ as their 129 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,880 Savior. When you're truly saved, then 130 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:28,560 you have something in your life that the world needs to hear. 131 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:33,080 Verse 42 of Psalm 119. So shall I have wherewith to 132 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:37,560 answer him that reproacheth me. For I trust in thy word, that 133 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,520 behind that word reproacheth is the idea of contempt and 134 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:43,800 mockery. The wisdom of the world is 135 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,480 opposed to the wisdom of God's Word. 136 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,720 But what are your answers when somebody scrutinizes your 137 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,320 so-called relationship with God? Emotion, excitement, more 138 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:55,920 blessings than they have. Well, I'm a member of the 139 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,160 church. I I live a sinless life because 140 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:01,120 I know Christ is my savior. Now I'm a Sinner just like all 141 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,560 of those people are sinners. I'm not any better than they 142 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,360 are. Jesus Christ died to save them 143 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,200 just as much as he died to save me. 144 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:10,560 We're just beggars. Telling other beggars where to 145 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:14,520 find bread doesn't make me any more loved by God. 146 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:16,560 But that's the whole point of the gospel. 147 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:20,120 We all have sins, but where are my sins now? 148 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,040 Are you still living in them? Are you still drowning in them? 149 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,160 Or are they under the blood of Jesus Christ? 150 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,800 Because to be saved means to have your blood, your sins under 151 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:30,720 the blood of Christ, to have them covered. 152 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,400 So when you stand before God, he doesn't see the list of all of 153 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,520 your sins. He only sees the blood of Jesus 154 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:39,080 Christ covering your sins. That's what I'm that. 155 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,560 That's what I'm excited to present to God on the day that I 156 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:44,160 stand before him. Can imagine what it must be like 157 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,520 for somebody that doesn't know Jesus Christ as their Savior. 158 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:48,560 And know that you've got all those sins that are on your 159 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:52,560 account and have no way that you can ever get them taken care of 160 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:54,720 because you've never been to the cross. 161 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,400 You've never had the mercy extended to you because you 162 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,640 haven't accepted it. Oh, he's extending that mercy to 163 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,480 everybody. The mercy that that that comes 164 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:08,000 from somebody who was condemned to die and condemned to spend an 165 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,640 eternity in hell. But that mercy that gives us an 166 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,960 opportunity to escape that punishment and to have a eternal 167 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,560 life in heaven. It's there for everybody. 168 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:20,760 You just have to accept it. And those who have never 169 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,520 accepted that mercy, those who have never accepted that grace, 170 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,600 those who have never laid the burden of their sins at the foot 171 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,240 of the cross, never can understand what it's like to 172 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:31,960 have those sins forgiven. They can't understand the peace 173 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,919 that passes all understanding. They don't know what it's like 174 00:08:34,919 --> 00:08:36,559 because they're living as a natural man. 175 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,520 And the Bible says the natural man receiveth not the things of 176 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,080 the Spirit of God. Neither can he know them because 177 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,400 they are spiritually discerned. But those who do know Jesus 178 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,920 Christ as their Savior, Their eyes have been opened, they've 179 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,600 been turned from darkness to light, and from the power of 180 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,280 Satan unto God. They've received forgiveness of 181 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,800 sins and inheritance among them, which are sanctified by faith 182 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,440 that is in Jesus. Christ and oh, to know Jesus 183 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:05,560 Christ as your savior is the greatest thing in the world, the 184 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:08,440 psalmist said. I trust in Thy word, which 185 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,640 literally means I have confident expectation because of your 186 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:14,480 word. I know that You're not going to 187 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:18,680 pull the rug out from under me. Means to attach yourself firmly 188 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:22,440 to something for support. John 3 verse 16, probably the 189 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:24,880 most memorized verse in all the Bible. 190 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,960 For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, 191 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:32,280 that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have 192 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:35,840 everlasting life. A little boy read that verse, 193 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:37,760 and he'd heard it many times in Sunday school. 194 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:41,040 But he was laying in his bed one night and that he was reading 195 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,280 through that verse, and somehow it just hit him like it had 196 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:45,200 never hit him before. And he realized that he was a 197 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:46,680 Sinner and he was on his way to hell. 198 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,120 And he'd heard many times how to accept Jesus Christ as his 199 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,880 Savior, but he'd been putting it off and he had been, he had been 200 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,080 neglecting to do that because he was just a boy. 201 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:56,840 He didn't need Jesus Christ, did he? 202 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,880 He wasn't that bad of a Sinner compared to the adults that he'd 203 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:01,600 heard about in his life. But that night, that. 204 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,280 Verse hit him differently and he dropped down onto his knees 205 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,040 beside his bed and he accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior. 206 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,600 And he slipped back into bed. And as he lay there thinking 207 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:12,880 about what he had just done, he said, I don't don't feel any 208 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,000 different. Don't feel like anything's 209 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,800 happened to me. He said, I wonder, I wonder if 210 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:19,400 God really did save me when I called out to him. 211 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:22,920 And as he lay there, he started to think that it was probably 212 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:26,120 the devil that was putting those thoughts in his mind and, and, 213 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:29,640 and Satan that was tormenting him about his, about accepting 214 00:10:29,680 --> 00:10:32,200 Jesus Christ as his savior. And so he had been told that 215 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,400 Satan loved darkness and he, he kind of thought that Satan was 216 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:36,960 lurking somewhere around his bed. 217 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,440 And since the darkest place in his room was under his bed, he 218 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:43,440 opened up his Bible and he. Turn to John 316 and he dropped 219 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:45,880 that Bible down on the floor and he slid it under the bed and he 220 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:50,800 said, see what the Bible says right there, Read it for 221 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:54,120 yourself. You see, that's essentially the 222 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,440 same conclusion that the psalmist came to here in this 223 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:57,960 passage here. Read it for yourself. 224 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,640 That's the best answer to give to Skull for this. 225 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:03,240 There's power. There's mighty power in God's 226 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,800 Word. So shall I have wherewith to 227 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:11,320 answer him that reproaches me For I trust in thy word for 228 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:14,800 those who know Jesus Christ that as their Savior, we're saved. 229 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:16,920 We're on our way to heaven. We've taken care of that part of 230 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:19,440 our lives, but we need to make sure that we're completely 231 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,640 trusting God. And that's that's what the rest 232 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,600 of this passage is about. The psalmist writes here. 233 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:28,440 There's there are ways for four tests if you will. 234 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:30,200 That I want to share with you this morning to help us 235 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:34,280 determine whether or not we are completely trusting God with our 236 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:35,960 lives. That's the title of my message 237 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:40,200 this morning, Four ways to know that you are trusting God. 238 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:43,920 Let's pray and then we'll look at this passage this morning. 239 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:45,840 Father, again, we thank you so much for your goodness to us. 240 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:49,160 We thank you for the opportunity we have to study your word 241 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:50,640 through this passage this morning. 242 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,680 And God, may you help us. May you help us to evaluate our 243 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:55,800 own lives. May you help us to do to 244 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,480 determine whether or not we are completely trusting you with 245 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,560 every aspect of our lives. First and foremost, that we're 246 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:04,280 trusting you for salvation. But beyond that, God, may we, 247 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:07,280 may we have the confidence that we can trust in you completely. 248 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,120 Well, thank you again for all that you do for us in Jesus 249 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,160 name, Amen. First thing I want you to see 250 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:14,840 from this passage. And by the way, we're going to 251 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,440 jump around to a few different passages this morning, but we're 252 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,400 going to keep coming back to Psalm 119. 253 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,840 So maybe put a ribbon or a bookmark in there and we're 254 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:24,560 going to come back to it. But I want you to understand 255 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:28,320 this first of all, four tests. How do you know if you're 256 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:30,760 completely trusting God? Well, first of all, is the way 257 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,360 we wait. We can tell if we're completely 258 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:35,200 trusting God by the way that we wait. 259 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,240 Psalm 119 and verse #43 the Bible says. 260 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:42,320 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for I 261 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:47,240 have hoped in thy judgments. The psalmist wanted nothing in 262 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,560 his life or his circumstances that that would give his enemies 263 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:52,960 a handle against him. And often we find ourselves in 264 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:56,640 situations where it seems as if God's word has failed, where it 265 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,600 seems like God has failed us, where we prayed and we asked God 266 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,320 for something and and it just seems like God didn't come 267 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:04,880 through for us. The enemies of God are quick to 268 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:07,840 pounce on those things. And the skeptic picks out some 269 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:10,880 grave injustice that's been done to some believer. 270 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:12,120 And he says, there, look at that. 271 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:15,760 Look, God let you down. Imagine the the the skeptics and 272 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:19,240 the scoffers against Job. Oh, they came. 273 00:13:19,560 --> 00:13:22,720 They were, they were in the form of his friends and they scoffed 274 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,400 at Job and they said, look, look what's happening to you. 275 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,480 I believe they, in fact, I know they trusted God. 276 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:31,280 God came to each one of Job's friends at the end of the book 277 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:34,800 of Job and he told them, you, you, you, you spoke as foolish 278 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,000 men. You need to go make a sacrifice 279 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,040 and you need to go ask forgiveness for the things that 280 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:42,760 you said to Job. But there are many out there who 281 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:45,960 are looking for opportunities to just throw it back in God's 282 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,320 face. Oh, you, you gave everything to 283 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:49,720 the Lord. You trusted on him. 284 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:52,360 You, you gave up that old wicked lifestyle. 285 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,880 You gave away all those things that you used to do and now look 286 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,880 how God's treating you. And they try to throw it back in 287 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:02,120 the face of those who are trusting in God. 288 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:06,280 And they say there explain that many things in life seem to 289 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:09,360 nullify the truth of the Bible to the satisfaction of the 290 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:12,760 unbeliever. God, however, is not working on 291 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,360 the puny time scale of microscopic man. 292 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:19,280 He's working for eternity, and his word is made of the stuff 293 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,720 that eternity is made of. When God made a promise you can 294 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:27,200 take, you can bet that God is going to see that through to the 295 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,040 to the end. You can be sure that he's going 296 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:30,960 to keep his promise if he made one to you. 297 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,360 And there's so many Bible examples that that that point to 298 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,600 the fact that the ultimate truth of God's word may sometimes be 299 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,760 seen right away, but sometimes it may be decades or even 300 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:43,200 centuries before God's promise comes to pass. 301 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:45,520 But God will always keep His promise. 302 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,680 Would your trust have wavered if you were Noah pounding nails 303 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:55,520 into that ark for 70, five, 8090100120 years? 304 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,520 Noah sat there laboring on that ark, did not see God's promise 305 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:01,080 come to pass for all of that time. 306 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:04,200 Would you, would your trust in God have wavered if you were 307 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:08,680 Joseph counting prison bars? When you trust, trusted God and 308 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:10,960 you put everything you had, you put all of your confidence in 309 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:12,840 him. And now here you are, sitting in 310 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,640 a dungeon, sitting in a prison in Egypt, far away from your 311 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:20,120 friends, far away from your family, seemingly far away from 312 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,560 God. Would your trust have wavered if 313 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:25,680 you were in that situation? How about if you were Job 314 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:28,480 watching the destruction of everything that God had given 315 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:33,280 him, Thousands of camels, thousands of cattle, thousands 316 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,360 of donkeys, 10 children gone in an instant. 317 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:38,160 Would your trust have wavered in God? 318 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:42,000 If you were Job sitting there scraping the wounds that God 319 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,320 allowed Satan to pass on your body from the crown of your head 320 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,840 to the sole of your feet, would you have, Would your trust in 321 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,200 God have wavered? If your wife was sitting next to 322 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,720 you saying Job just curse God and die, would your trust have 323 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:57,760 wavered? Think about Abraham. 324 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:00,880 God promised to make a great nation out of him, and at 100 325 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:04,520 years old he was still sitting there without an heir, without a 326 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:09,280 child to pass that, to make it that that great nation out of. 327 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,000 Would your faith in God have wavered? 328 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,360 But each of these men saw God's through, saw God come through to 329 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,760 them. For them all the way to the end, 330 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,120 because they waited on him and they waited on God's timing. 331 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:28,600 How do you wait on God's timing? What word is in your mouth? 332 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:32,440 The Bible says and take not the word of truth utterly out of my 333 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:34,560 mouth. What word is in your mouth as 334 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,400 you wait for God's timing? Anger God. 335 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,280 Why haven't you come through for me yet? 336 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:45,200 Bitterness. Doubt. 337 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:51,120 When we're truly trusting God's Word, then our faith is going to 338 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:54,000 demonstrate itself through the choice of our words. 339 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,600 And there may be times even when you doubt in your own mind. 340 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:00,760 There may be times even when you just don't know how things are 341 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:02,640 going to work out. But what's the words that come 342 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:04,319 out of your mouth? Are they words of trust? 343 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,720 Are there words of faith? Are there words of anger and 344 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:09,960 bitterness against God because God didn't do it the way that 345 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:13,599 you thought He wanted to do it? Listen, God doesn't work on our 346 00:17:13,599 --> 00:17:16,800 timetable. God works on his own timetable, 347 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,440 and He's got all of eternity to make that time work. 348 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,560 Or we look at it through the lens of our own puny 349 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:28,040 understanding. God's understanding is far 350 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,960 greater than ours. His ways are not our ways. 351 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:33,240 His thoughts are not our thoughts. 352 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:38,080 We don't understand it because we're not looking at it from the 353 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:39,400 heavenly view. We're looking at it from the 354 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:42,560 earthly view. We we only can look around. 355 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:44,200 God can look down and see all of it. 356 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,320 How do you trust Him? Proper waiting brings a greater 357 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,360 capacity for service. See that the more we learn to 358 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:54,240 wait on God, the more God can use us in His service. 359 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:58,040 Job came to that realization. When he hath tried me, I shall 360 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,640 come forth as gold. Gold is far much more useful 361 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,360 than than than clay. Gold is far more useful than 362 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:07,760 brass. It's far more valuable than 363 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:10,000 those things. And Job in that waiting, 364 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,000 exhibited the patience that comes to a man who is fully 365 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,400 trusting in God, fully trusting in God's Word. 366 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,760 And Job said when he tried me, I shall come forth. 367 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:22,880 As gold, are you waiting for God to show you the next step in 368 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:24,000 your life? I'll tell you this. 369 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,240 Get busy for God. I don't know what God has for me 370 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:28,840 next. I don't know exactly what God 371 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,640 wants me to do, especially for our young people who might be in 372 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:34,160 high school or college or maybe just after college. 373 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:35,640 I don't know what God wants me to do. 374 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,960 I'll tell you what you do. Get busy for God. 375 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,840 You get busy working for God. He will show you the next step 376 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,240 in your life. But waiting on God gives you a 377 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,520 greater capacity for service to Him. 378 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,680 We're in the waiting process for a building right now. 379 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,360 Oh, man, the the worst thing we could do is hold off on all the 380 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:56,760 ministries while we wait for God to come through for us. 381 00:18:57,360 --> 00:18:58,720 We're just, we're just going to wait. 382 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:00,880 We can't start this. We can't do that because we just 383 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:02,320 don't know what's going to happen. 384 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:06,320 No, get busy for God. Get busy doing something for him 385 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,480 that this church has been built in the four years that we've 386 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,800 been waiting for God to do something when it comes to a 387 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,880 building. God's built this church during 388 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,400 that time. And if those of you have been 389 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,680 here for, for, for more than five, 6-7 years, know that 390 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,480 that's exactly what's happened. We've been in a waiting pattern 391 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,200 for a long time waiting for God to do something. 392 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,200 But as much as we know how we've been busy for the Lord in that 393 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:34,320 time and God has built his church because we don't just sit 394 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,360 there and wait and say, oh, poor us. 395 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:38,280 We don't know what's going to happen next. 396 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:40,800 Poor us. We have a building situation 397 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,800 that that this building is going to be torn down more than 398 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:45,320 likely. And then what are we going to 399 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:46,720 do? I guess we just sit here and 400 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,880 wait for God to do something. No, we wait for God to do 401 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,480 something, but we get busy while we're waiting for him to do it. 402 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:55,560 Let him work through you. When it passed through the 403 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:58,680 school of trials were more useful as servants of God. 404 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,720 Turn over to Isaiah chapter 40. Most of you probably know this 405 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,640 verse, but I think it's worth looking at it again and seeing 406 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,800 it with these with fresh eyes when it comes to the idea of 407 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,640 waiting on God and having patience on His timing. 408 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:15,640 Because this is what God says about those who wait for Him. 409 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:20,200 Isaiah chapter 40 and verse 31. But they that wait upon the Lord 410 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,480 shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings 411 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,000 as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. 412 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:30,000 They shall walk and not faint. That's what He does for those 413 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,280 who wait on Him. So are you completely trusting 414 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:34,520 in God? Well, you're going to know, by 415 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:37,200 the way, that you wait. Are you busy serving him? 416 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,760 Are you busy living, living for Him while you're waiting for Him 417 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:42,840 to show you the next step? Are you busy living for Him 418 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,040 while you're waiting to tell you what He wants you to do? 419 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:51,360 That'll determine where you're at and your trust of God the way 420 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:53,840 that you wait. But also, I want you to see this 421 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:58,240 back in Psalm 119. How do you know if you're 422 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,520 completely trusting in God? Well, first of all, by the way 423 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,720 that you wait, but secondly, by the way that you walk. 424 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:09,080 He says this in verse #44 So shall I keep thy law 425 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:16,000 continually, forever and ever. Temporary delays and setbacks 426 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,760 were not going to undermine the psalmist faith. 427 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:23,000 He was determined to let his actions line up with his words. 428 00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:25,560 And that's exactly what DL Moody did. 429 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:28,480 And that explains why he was so successful as an evangelist and 430 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:33,440 why unlettered man as he was the agnostics, the intellectuals, 431 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,000 the skeptics of that day just could not defeat him. 432 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,120 I read a book about DL Moody just a couple months ago. 433 00:21:39,120 --> 00:21:43,560 It was very eye opening and very insightful into what how God was 434 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:49,000 able to use DL Moody. But in 1883, DL Moody was in 435 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,280 Britain, and he was he challenged the freethinkers and 436 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:55,080 the atheists that were in that country to. 437 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:57,600 Come to a meeting and he was going to speak just to them. 438 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,240 And obviously there was many unsaved in in, in the countries 439 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,040 that that he preached in and many people were saved through 440 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:05,560 the meetings, but. There were those. 441 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,080 Who who consider themselves to be agnostics or freethinkers and 442 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,320 atheists. And DL Moody wanted to talk 443 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,520 specifically to those people. And so at that time, a guy by 444 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:18,440 the name of Charles Bradlaw was the the maybe you can call him 445 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:19,960 the reigning champion of atheism. 446 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,680 He was the one that that that just championed the cause of. 447 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:26,000 There is no God. And so as soon as this man heard 448 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,000 about DL Moody's challenge, he got all of his clubs together. 449 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:30,680 He got all of the people that he knew together. 450 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,800 And he said, we're going to go and take over this hall. 451 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:33,920 We're going to take over this meeting. 452 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,120 And we're going to show DL Moody just who it is that he really 453 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:41,160 does serve. And so DL Moody, when the 454 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:45,920 meeting started, turn to his text in Deuteronomy chapter 32 455 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:50,520 and verse #31 their rock is not as our rock, even our enemies 456 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:54,840 themselves being judges. And began to pour just broadside 457 00:22:54,840 --> 00:23:00,240 after broadside of incidents where he he gave stories of, of 458 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,880 men and women whose deathbeds he sat by, some who were infidels 459 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,160 and some who were Christians. And he explained to them the 460 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,160 difference between somebody who was dying as a Christian and 461 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,280 somebody who was dying as an infidel. 462 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,680 And one after another, he just told story after story and and 463 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:21,800 and and challenged them to to to decide which ones had the best 464 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,240 foundation. Which ones had faith that they 465 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,240 could hope and rest in? And before long, tears started 466 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,880 to flow in that audience. Men who were so hardened against 467 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,280 God's word began to soften just a little bit. 468 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,640 But the great mass of men, these dark and determined faces, 469 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,280 defiant against God, they sat there seemingly unmoved. 470 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,760 Deal Moody continued to preach this message to them and. 471 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,480 And hit them really on their most vulnerable points. 472 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:51,120 And at the end of the meeting, DL Moody said, now we're going 473 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:52,280 to stand and we're going to sing. 474 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,560 Only trust Him and. We're going to. 475 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,000 Open the doors to the back of this auditorium and if anybody 476 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,240 wants to get up and leave, this will be your opportunity. 477 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:06,320 Instead of stampeding for the door, 5000 men that were in that 478 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:10,120 auditorium that night all stood up, mumbled through the words of 479 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:14,800 that song and every single one of them sat back down and DL 480 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,480 Moody started to explain to them in simple terms how they could 481 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,840 become a Christian. And after a few minutes one of 482 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,760 them from the audience shouted out I can't deal. 483 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,760 Moody said just hang on hear, hear the rest of the gospel for 484 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,040 just a few more minutes. And as he continued on, one of 485 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:37,520 them stood up and raised his first and said I won't and deal. 486 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:42,240 Moody, with all those men in that audience, said, it is I 487 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,960 will or I won't. For every single man in this 488 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:51,040 auditorium this evening, either you will accept Jesus Christ or 489 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,080 you won't accept Jesus Christ. It's a battle for your will. 490 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,240 He said your champion is that man who just stood up right 491 00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:59,440 there in the middle and said I won't. 492 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,160 If you want to join him, then join him. 493 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,080 And there was silence. Nobody, nobody answered. 494 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,880 Yeah, Moody said, man, this was his quote. 495 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,680 You've had your champion there in the middle of the hall, man 496 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,000 who said I won't? Thank God that no man says I 497 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,560 won't. Now who will say I will? 498 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,600 And it seemed like in an instant the Holy Spirit broke loose on 499 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,760 the crowd of Christ's enemies. The men sprang to their feet, 500 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,200 their faces wet with tears, and many of them began to shout. 501 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:33,960 I will, I will deal. Moody sat all those men down, 502 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,080 and one by one they were able to talk to those men and lead them 503 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,560 to Christ. He knew the value of eternity. 504 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,600 He said. Your rock is different than my 505 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,400 rock. Deuteronomy chapter 32 said that 506 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,640 exact same thing. Their rock is not as our rock, 507 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,320 even our enemies themselves being judges. 508 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,800 He knew he was safe. He had taken hold on the 509 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,000 permanence of God's Word. It doesn't matter what the 510 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:57,400 infidels say. It doesn't matter what the 511 00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:58,840 atheists say. It doesn't matter what the 512 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,080 Gnostics and the agnostics and everybody else says. 513 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,880 It matters what God's Word says. And we can trust God's Word 514 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,320 waiting is not meant to be a time of doing nothing. 515 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,800 Every moment is a preparation for the next step in God's plan. 516 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,120 If you really believe that everything in your life happens 517 00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:16,000 for a reason and the and that every. 518 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,000 Moment in your life is planned by God, then what are you living 519 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:23,120 for you the the way you live or the way that you walk is going 520 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:25,680 to back that up. And so we we prove that we trust 521 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,160 God not only by the way that we wait, but by the way that we 522 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,720 walk. What are you doing for God while 523 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,120 you're waiting? What are you doing for God while 524 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:35,720 you're waiting for that next step? 525 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,160 Every moment is a preparation for the next step in God's plan. 526 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:43,240 If you really believe that everything in your life happens 527 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,680 because God allows it to happen, then that waiting is helping you 528 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:48,240 get to the next step that God wants you to do. 529 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,600 It's more important, it's important for us to see the big 530 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,760 picture than it is for us to understand the small. 531 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,680 Parts, right? What we understand is just a 532 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,240 small little piece in that puzzle. 533 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:00,840 I know that many of you have probably taken the time, whether 534 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,560 recently or a long time ago, whatever happens to be. 535 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,640 You put a puzzle together at some point in your life and when 536 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,760 you pick up a little puzzle piece, it doesn't look like it 537 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,000 makes a whole lot of sense because it's just random little 538 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,800 colors and maybe a line here or a line there. 539 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,480 But you have no idea if you were just pick up that that little 540 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,800 piece of the puzzle what in the world is supposed to be a part 541 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,080 of. But when you take that little 542 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,920 piece and you fit it into the puzzle, it makes perfect sense 543 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,560 and God is seeing the entire puzzle. 544 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,440 All we see many times is that little piece, and it doesn't 545 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,240 make sense to us, but it makes sense to Him. 546 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,800 And so He's expecting us to just wait on him. 547 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,280 And in the process of waiting on him, we're supposed to be 548 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,280 walking in the way that He wants us to walk. 549 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,520 Trusting God means leaving the big picture to His concern. 550 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,840 He understands it all. He knows how everything is going 551 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,960 because he sees the upper side. We can only see the bottom. 552 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,040 He knows the next. Step that we need to take, but 553 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:54,520 we need to trust Him to help us do it. 554 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,480 My part, as the text says, is continual obedience, or 555 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,600 literally obedience without interruption. 556 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:07,240 Psalm 119 and verse 45. And I will walk at liberty, for 557 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,520 I seek thy precepts. Most people would not describe 558 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,480 walking according to God's laws the way the psalmist did. 559 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,480 They would describe the life of faith as a life of bondage 560 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,280 rather than a life of liberty. I'm a Christian, so I can't do 561 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,000 that. I can't do this thing. 562 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,000 I can't go here, I can't go there. 563 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,120 I can't do all the things that I'd like to do. 564 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,240 To the unsaved man, it might look like a life that's hedged 565 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,400 in with restrictions, but the psalmist saw God's law as the 566 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,880 perfect law of liberty. It didn't mean that he couldn't 567 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,920 do whatever he wanted. It means that he was free to do 568 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,000 what God wanted him to do with his life. 569 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,600 That is what he says is true freedom. 570 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,720 So shall I keep thy law continually, forever and ever, 571 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,440 and I will walk at liberty, for I seek thy precepts. 572 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,200 How many millions of people are a slave to drugs? 573 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,640 How many millions of people are a slave to alcohol? 574 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,640 I'll tell you what it was. It was some encouraging news 575 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,320 that I read a little bit earlier this week. 576 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:06,080 This there is a some statistics that had come out that said that 577 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,720 only 56% of people say they drink. 578 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,320 But you know that there's more alcohol being consumed in the 579 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,200 United States than than there ever has been. 580 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,760 Less people drinking, more people consuming alcohol means 581 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,120 there's so many more people in our country that are addicted to 582 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:25,840 alcohol, people who are, who are addicted to smoking and addicted 583 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,080 to so many other things. Bad temper, pride, evil 584 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:30,480 passions. That's not freedom, that's 585 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:34,720 bondage, and I have the freedom in Christ to not have to do 586 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,560 those things. We have the privilege of 587 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,520 following God and walking after His law, and that's where true 588 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,560 freedom begins. And so we prove our trust in God 589 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,920 by the way that we wait, by the way that we walk. 590 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,680 And #3 I want you to see this in verse #46 I will speak of thy 591 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:55,320 testimonies also before kings and will not be ashamed. 592 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,160 We prove our trust in God by the way that we witness. 593 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:05,880 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings and will not 594 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,200 be ashamed. You know that means something 595 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,240 when you say that you'll give a testimony of God before kings. 596 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,480 King had the ability to cut your head off if he felt like doing 597 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,280 that. If he was, if you offended him, 598 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,920 you could disappear and he could make it happen. 599 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,840 It's kind of the ultimate test of whether or not you're going 600 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,400 to share the gospel. And God says, Hey, I want you to 601 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,640 go talk to your neighbor and you say, I can't do it right. 602 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,360 I want you to go talk to your coworker. 603 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,520 I'm a little too nervous. I'm afraid of what they're going 604 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:36,640 to say. I'm afraid of what they're going 605 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:38,440 to think. I want you to talk to your 606 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:42,320 family. Oh, but, but, but, but he says, 607 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:46,120 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings and will not 608 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,960 be ashamed. We have nothing to be ashamed of 609 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,040 in God's Word. It's it stood the test of time. 610 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,640 It's commanded the allegiance to some of the world's finest 611 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,640 thinkers, and we need not to be ashamed of this book. 612 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,080 It has the answers for all of life's problems. 613 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,280 If we really believe that, then we'll share its message with 614 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,640 other people. Many people in the Bible were 615 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,160 successful for God because they were not ashamed to share God 616 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,000 with others. Oh, look at think of all the 617 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,120 examples. Paul did it, Daniel did it, 618 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,480 Esther did it. So many others in God's Word 619 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:26,000 shared the the Bible with others unashamedly before before people 620 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,720 who had the ability to take their life. 621 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,440 Look, God protected them. Paul shared the Gospel with the 622 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,800 emperors of Rome. The enemies, the avowed enemies 623 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,000 of Christianity. And he ended up ultimately 624 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,640 losing his life for it. But he said, I'm not ashamed of 625 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,960 the gospel of Christ, for it's the power of God unto salvation. 626 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,760 Daniel did it. He got sent to the lion's den. 627 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,200 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego did it and they ended up going 628 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,560 through the fire. Esther did it. 629 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,240 God delivered her, God delivered all of them out of the out of 630 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,240 the hand of the King. The list could go on and on, but 631 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:05,000 boldness is a key and greeting to proving our trust in God. 632 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,280 If we really trust him, if we really believe Him, then we will 633 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,880 share Him with others. So many other religions who 634 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,440 don't even have the truth are willing to share their faith. 635 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:22,200 How you think about how how devout the Mormons are to get 636 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,840 their gospel out, their young people take two years of their 637 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,840 life and dedicated strictly to the church to try to spread the 638 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,920 message of Mormonism. And people make fun of the 639 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,280 Jehovah's Witnesses because they're constantly knocking on 640 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,000 their doors and trying to share their faith. 641 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,720 But they're sharing their faith. They have a reputation that 642 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,920 they're going to go out from door to door and share that 643 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:50,880 truth, at least in their mind. And yet here we know that we 644 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,440 have the truth of God's Word. From God's Word. 645 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,680 We know that if people don't accept the truth of the gospel 646 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:02,840 plus nothing, minus nothing, no works, no anything else, then 647 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,280 they'll go to heaven for all of eternity. 648 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,200 If they don't, they'll spend an eternity in hell. 649 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:15,480 And yet we don't share it to our shame, Paul said, I'm not 650 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,280 ashamed of the gospel of Christ. Why don't we share it? 651 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,240 We ashamed of it. That's what the world thinks. 652 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,320 When you won't share the message of the gospel, you must be 653 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:25,880 ashamed of it. Or why wouldn't he tell me? 654 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:30,160 All right, all you think about businessmen, salesman, we're 655 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,680 trying to make a sale. They'll do anything. 656 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,200 They'll do anything. They'll say anything they got to 657 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,520 say. They'll they'll promise you 658 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:37,920 anything. They got to promise you to get 659 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:42,480 you to buy their product because they believe in it and they want 660 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:46,080 you to buy it. Yet when it comes to sharing the 661 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,040 greatest message that's ever been given, we shrink away and 662 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,520 we cower in a corner. We're afraid of what people are 663 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,320 going to think. We have the truth. 664 00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,160 Are you completely trusting your God? 665 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,160 If you're completely trusting in God, then you'll have no 666 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:02,960 problem. I'll speak the testimonies also 667 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:04,800 before kings, and I will not be ashamed. 668 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,360 That's what the psalmist said. Not many people who are willing 669 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,920 to stand up and tell it like it is, regardless of the cost. 670 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,760 They're afraid of political correctness, correctness. 671 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,800 They're afraid of the cost. What's your testimony? 672 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,040 Are you willing to share your faith with others? 673 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,159 Or what? Are you willing to prove your 674 00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:27,560 trust in God by the way that you witness? 675 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:30,639 But I want you to see one last one. 676 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:36,360 In Psalm 119, verse #47 we prove our trust in God by the way that 677 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,239 we wait, by the way that we walk, by the way that we 678 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,560 witness. And lastly, we prove our trust 679 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,199 in God by the way that we worship. 680 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:48,000 Verse #47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, 681 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,400 which I have loved. My hands also will I lift up 682 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,080 unto thy commandments, which I have loved. 683 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,719 And I will meditate in thy statutes. 684 00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,600 How long is the list of the things that you really get 685 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:04,640 excited about? Oh, you can say, well, I, I love 686 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,440 church more than anything else. But then you go to a football 687 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,280 game and you act like a wild nut cheering for the team. 688 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,320 Oh, that's something that you definitely get excited about. 689 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,680 Or your your favorite show I got to be home to watch this thing 690 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,280 or, or they're coming out with a new episode of this or that or 691 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,440 this movie is coming out and I kind of see it as soon as it 692 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,840 comes out. Tax rebate. 693 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:26,840 Yeah, a lot of people get excited about that more than 694 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:31,000 church. Where does God fall in that? 695 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,800 List of the things you get excited about. 696 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,760 I know you're going to show up. You're going to be here for 697 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:37,520 church. You're going to be here when the 698 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,200 doors are open. You're going to have your Bible 699 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,000 and you can be dressed up and you're going to be you're going 700 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,080 to be here in church. But how excited are you to be 701 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:49,280 here or as many times I got to go to church again today because 702 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,240 they're going to ask me where I was at if I don't show up, don't 703 00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:55,280 want to be there. But I just got to got to punch 704 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,760 the clock and be there at church. 705 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,320 Got to check that off my list so I can go do the rest of the 706 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,840 things that I want to do with Sunday. 707 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,160 Got to be able to say I went to church today. 708 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,440 So so I don't feel bad for not going. 709 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,480 But when we. Trust God with all of our 710 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:13,680 hearts. It's not going to be it's not 711 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,080 going to be hard at all to put God at the top of that list. 712 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:21,080 Not just things that you endure, not just things that maybe you 713 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,680 enjoy a little bit here and there, but things that you get 714 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,400 excited about. Delight. 715 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,760 He says, my hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, 716 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:36,200 verse 47 and I will delight myself in thy commandments. 717 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,120 Delight means to have an intense emotion toward. 718 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,120 Do you have an intense emotion toward God's commandments? 719 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,400 Do you have an intense emotion toward God's Word? 720 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,960 Do you have an intense emotion toward the things of God? 721 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,720 Do you have an intense emotion towards sharing the message of 722 00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:53,760 the gospel? Where's your delight? 723 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,160 Is it in the worshipping God? Is it in the opportunity to come 724 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:57,800 to his house? Is it coming to church? 725 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,560 Just something that we do as a way to make ourselves feel 726 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:05,120 better on Sunday mornings. Many people across the country, 727 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,200 and maybe even you sitting here this morning are in that exact 728 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,160 position. I got to do my duty, got to show 729 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,440 up at church, got to be there just to make sure that I can 730 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,760 check that box off and make God happy for a couple hours and 731 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,040 then I can go live my life the way that I want to for the rest 732 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,320 of the week. This is something we really look 733 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,640 forward to, and when we don't make it to a service, we feel 734 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,080 like we truly miss something. We can't wait to make it back 735 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:30,680 for the next service. Now, I'll tell you what happens 736 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,880 with most people. The baby has a runny nose and so 737 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:39,000 everybody has to stay home. Amazing how that works, isn't 738 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,080 it? Oh, if you were going to a ball 739 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,160 game, doesn't matter what the baby's got going on, the wife 740 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,400 can stay home, right? Well, I'm, I'm going on 741 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,200 vacation. I'm leaving Monday so I got to 742 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,200 stay home on Sunday to pack and I'm going to get. 743 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,120 Back on Sunday, so that way I don't have to be at church and I 744 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,360 can just pick everything up with my life on Monday. 745 00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:59,680 Oh, that's the way a lot of people live their lives. 746 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:03,120 They're not excited about being in church and oh, I missed it 747 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:04,920 again. Oh well, I'll catch it next 748 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,680 week. That's not delighting in the 749 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:12,560 worship of God, that's enduring the worship of God. 750 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,640 And most Christians just endure it. 751 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,840 They don't delight in it. And that proves that our trust 752 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,320 is not in him. It's in all the other things 753 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,440 around us. It's in all the other things 754 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,080 that we rather be doing than sitting here in church right 755 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,520 now. All right, I'll go to church 756 00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:30,760 this morning. It's a good thing there's no 757 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,800 football games on at 10:00. They don't come until one or two 758 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:35,240 or something like that in the afternoon. 759 00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:37,960 And at least I can go to church and then I can go home and watch 760 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,240 football. That's the thing that I really. 761 00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:43,200 Want to do? On Sunday, man, Sunday night 762 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,720 really messes up my schedule of watching all those football 763 00:38:45,720 --> 00:38:49,080 games right now. You would never say that out 764 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:55,440 loud, but that's where it's at. That's where you prove your 765 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,080 trust. In Him, that's where you prove 766 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:02,200 where your loyalty really lies. And maybe it's not football, 767 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,680 Maybe for you it's baseball, or maybe for you it's cornhole or 768 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:06,480 something. I don't know. 769 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,480 But a lot of us put a lot of things in front of our worship 770 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:15,480 of the Lord. Turn over, if you will, to 771 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,240 Isaiah chapter 12 and we'll be done. 772 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:27,080 We prove our love. Prove our love for and our trust 773 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,440 in God by the way that we worship him. 774 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,120 It's just as important on the inside as it is on the outside. 775 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:38,520 By the way, a lot of people worship on the outside and be 776 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:43,240 miserable on the inside. Isaiah chapter 12 and verse #2 777 00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:49,680 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid 778 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,720 for the Lord. Jehovah is my strength in my 779 00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:56,080 song. He also has become my salvation. 780 00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,040 There's a man that was being led by a guide over a very dangerous 781 00:40:01,240 --> 00:40:05,400 Alpine trail, and they came to a place where a rock jutted out 782 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:09,280 into the path and it only left about a little footstep worth of 783 00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,160 trail left. And so that guide, he had taken 784 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,320 people many times over that same exact trail. 785 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,760 He got down on his knees and he laid his arm down and his hand, 786 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,680 his elbow was up against that rock, and his hand was extending 787 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,680 out over the edge of that precipice. 788 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,440 And he told the man that he was guiding, step around this rock 789 00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:28,920 and go ahead and step in my hand and use that as your way to get 790 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,840 around. And that man, obviously he said 791 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,200 a little, little, little sketchy that I'm stepping on somebody's 792 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,080 hand instead of on something solid. 793 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:43,200 And that guide said this hand has never lost anybody yet. 794 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,720 That's exactly what Jesus Christ has done for us. 795 00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:50,640 That hand, that pierced hand of Jesus Christ has never lost 796 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,960 anybody. Yet he says no man is able to 797 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,760 pluck them out of my Father's hand. 798 00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:59,600 Nobody. He's not lost anybody yet. 799 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,640 When you know Jesus Christ as your Savior, you have that 800 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,320 eternal security. You know that you're on your way 801 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,640 to heaven. But then comes the opportunity 802 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,440 that you have to prove your trust in God. 803 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,680 AB Simpson wrote this. How often we trust each other 804 00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:21,080 and only doubt our Lord. We take the word of mortals and 805 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:24,760 yet distrust His word. But oh what light and glory 806 00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,520 would shine, or all our days if we would always remember. 807 00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:33,600 God means just what He says. We must trust in God for all the 808 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,400 details of our lives, but can't just be words, it has to be 809 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,080 backed up with our actions. We prove our trust in God by the 810 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:45,640 way that we wait. We prove our trust in God by the 811 00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:47,400 way that we walk while we're waiting. 812 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,800 We prove our trust in God by the way that we witness while we're 813 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,240 walking and waiting. We prove our trust in God by the 814 00:41:55,240 --> 00:41:58,720 way that we worship. What are those things prove 815 00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:03,640 about your trust in God? What are those things prove 816 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,880 about your trust in God? Let's pray. 817 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,120 Father, again, we thank you so much for your goodness to us. 818 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:13,080 Thank you that we have your word that we can trust. 819 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,720 We thank you that you're a God that will do just what he says. 820 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,040 Oh God, I pray that you'd help us to be people who fully trust 821 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:30,200 in you and that we'd prove it by the way that we wait, by the way 822 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,600 that we walk, by the way that we witness, by the way that we 823 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,960 worship you and God where we fall short. 824 00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:43,000 Would you help us? Help us to make the decisions 825 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:47,320 that need to be made this morning to put us in that 826 00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:51,240 position where we are completely trusting you with everything we 827 00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:54,880 have in our lives. God will thank you for all that 828 00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,360 you do for us in Jesus name, Amen. 829 00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,040 If you would stand at your seats with your heads bowed. 830 00:42:59,040 --> 00:42:59,840 And your eyes. Closed. 831 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,520 I want to give you an opportunity this morning to 832 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,560 respond to the message. If God spoke to your heart as 833 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:07,520 the piano plays, the invitations open, you come.