Tuesday, 18 August 2020

In Whom do you now trust?


Scripture reference 

2 Kings  18:19  And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?   
Isaiah  36:4  And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

Trust is not mere belief, it is involved with faith and complete dependence on that thing.

World trusts lots of things.

1. They trust in worldly security

Deuteronomy  28:52  And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.   

2. They trust men

Psalms  118:8  It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.   

Jeremiah  17:5  Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.   


3. They trust their chariots 
Isaiah  31:1  Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!   

4. They trust their wicked ways
Isaiah  47:10  For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.   

5. They trust their vanity
Isaiah  59:4  None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.   

6. They trust their lying words
Jeremiah  7:8  Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.   

7. They trust in the lands
Jeremiah  12:5  If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?   

8. They trust their riches

Jeremiah  49:4  Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?   

Mark  10:24  And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!   

9. They trust themselves 
Luke  18:9  And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:

Godly people trust

1. The rock of God
2 Samuel  22:3  The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.   

2. His word
2 Samuel  22:31  As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.   

Isaiah  26:3  Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.   

3. In his mercy

Psalms  13:5  But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.   

4. In his right hand

Psalms  17:7  Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.   

5. In his ways
Psalms  18:30  As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.   
 
Psalms  37:5  Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

6. His holy name
Psalms  33:21  For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.  

7. In his wings
Psalms  61:4  I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah. 
Psalms  36:7  How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.  

8. In prayers of brothers 
Philemon  1:22  But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.

9. In the gospel

2 Corinthians  1:9  But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:   
Ephesians  1:13  In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

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