Sunday Worship the July 16th

We do continue this morning with our series of we've been in the practice of pleasing, God. Are maned wolf versus what we're going to be in Proverbs chapter 3 verse 1 through 2 verse 8 and it'll be I think was it 5 6 7 and 8? That are main virtual pop that up in just a minute but this main subject of this lesson is the subject of trust. And trust is a Well, for some people, it's very fragile thing. Once it's broken, it becomes incredibly difficult to repair. Especially in relationships with one another. And yet trust is absolutely needed and we do practice it on a regular basis as we'll talk about more than just a moment. But trust is something as Christians really need to focus on when it comes to living by faith. If you remember as this spring is unfolded, we did a less series of lessons on increase our faith and I suggested three pillars. Three characteristics that saving faith has to have. One is humility. The kind of humility that is. I'm here to serve not to be served as Jesus was the other second pillar would be surrender where we surrender our will to his and then probably the most crucial of all three is Trust. We're willing to put our trust completely in God. Now, wisdom is the title of this lesson. I put has it God's wisdom needs a trusting heart to function We had a little bit of discussion this morning as we close class about the heart. And the necessity of doing things from your heart, not from the physical, but from the heart, Jesus taught it, that whatever is in the heart is going to come out as Behavior now, he pointed it out and in a lot of negative ways the FAFSA dull trees, murders and so on, are in people's hearts and they come out as such and he was talking about it in the lesson, we're scribes and Pharisees had put aside his disciples for not washing and he pointed out. It's not unwashed hands that defile a person. But what comes in out of the heart, what's in the heart?

Jesus was all about. Getting us his people to do what the Old Testament, people of God rarely did, and that is to do his will from the inside out. And so when we study wisdom, which we've been doing, we covered 1 and 2. We're going to cover a good part of three this morning. In this section of three, trust becomes absolutely essential And we'll have a few thoughts, of course. But let's remind us of something. Our texts Proverbs 3 5 through 8. This is our main text trust in the Lord, with all your heart. Do not lean on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him, He will make straight your pass at be not wise in your own eyes. The Lord Turn Away From Evil, it will be healing to your flash and refreshment to your bones. And we've got us a number versus to go through as we journey through this opening. Part of chapter 3 and get 2 verses 5 through 8.

I want to remind us of what Jesus said. We looked at it last week in Matthew 7:24. When he said everyone, who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. I use that passage to point out to us. Wisdom is not knowledge. and vice versa there two separate things, knowledge is the content of what you know, Wisdom is how you put what you know into action. And so, look what we have here is like a a mathematical formula knowing God's will or his word plus, doing God's will his word and you will be practicing.

From our study or for our study this morning, we want to break wisdom down into three categories to help us understand it even more. And that is where wisdom has a category of persuasive. Trust are on site, break, trust down. In three categories persuasive, cross-functional trust and personal trust. Let me talk about what those are. Persuasive. Trust involves a belief in the validity of a message that the Integrity of the and the Integrity of the messenger. So that ideas accepted, or a product is bought acceptance of the appeals of the politicians. Evangelist and salespeople requires this kind of trust

It's where were you? Get persuaded. That something is actually true and therefore you take action and do it. Car salesman will try to persuade you that whatever vehicle you go where they want to show you. Actually, many times is the absolute right, one for you and they'll list some facts as to why there's is better and why there's is good and so on politicians they want your trust although I'm still having trouble finding one that's really worth trust but they want to persuade you and most the time it's well, I'm going to make change. We need to get rid of the corruption. I'm going to make change and and people fall for it and then we end up with continued corruption but politicians needs to have persuasive. Trust evangelist need to exercise and have persuasive trust over those. They preach to Do you believe what the preacher of the teacher saying? Why do you believe what the preacher teacher saying for myself? I've said it many times, don't trust the preacher. Trust book chapter and verse trust what is written in God's word? And if you're going to do a good job of preaching or at least have a hope of doing a good job, it has to not rely on the individual that has to rely on God's word that would be persuasive trust and then there's functional Trust. Functional trust is like well and his confidence in the capacity and expertise of the one being trusted, you completely fulfill a function such as flying an airplane or doing surgery. You have to have some functional trust in the end to get on an airplane and our government. And most governments have set standards for Pilots to fly different airplanes at different levels. There, certain things they have to accomplish insurance companies, tell the airline's, you can't have a guy who's qualified to fly an Airbus 330. Flying a force it for a Boeing 747 unless they've been checked out and blowing. So it goes on and on, but those requirements are there so that we can get on the plane and trust that the person or persons operating, the plane are trustworthy that Doug can do the job. That's called functional trust. If you're headed out to have surgery and I'm going to go do it. You need to have some functional trust in the surgeon. I don't know if they all surgeons like to be questioned about their credentials, but he has a patient. You have the right to do. That asked questions, how confident are you? You don't want someone who's never held a scalpel. Go cutting into your body. So functional trust becomes really important. And then there's personal trust. This is the expectancy that you have that another person will accept voluntarily, disclosed, intimate information. And that might sound a bit complicated that definition. But what it means is you might have a friend or a husband-wife friend or two that you can sit down and tell them your secrets. And they will hold your secrets and not spread your secrets slander. And so, on Gossip all over the community, that is called personal trust and it's necessary more than one kind of trust. May be expressed toward another person Trust of one type. May facilitate all the other types in certain situations and I'm not saying this is the end all definitions of trust, but for our purposes, these three items of persuasion function in personal covers. The subject of trust that we have here in our book study of proverbs.

so turn your bibles if you would numbers 20. 2 through 13. We're going to look at this incident. Under the microscope of frost, and especially the three qualities, especially the first two qualities. There, there, this incident that takes place is towards the end of The Exodus. And once again, God's people are grumbling against Moses. They're out in the desert and they find themselves as they always have for years without water. First 12 through 20 in other was no water for the congregation. They assemble themselves together against Moses and against Aaron in the people quarreled with Moses and said, would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord, I think it's safe to say these folks really didn't have any trust in that Moses and Aaron Now, they have reason to be persuaded that Moses and Aaron could be trusted. They've been traveling around the desert while they, they've gone through the 10 plagues in Egypt. They've gone through the Red Sea being parted. They've gone through water being spoken out of a rock. They've gone through, getting a Manna From Heaven. They've gone through God supplying with Quail when they needed it. They've gone through different rebellions and God has put down the Rebellion fight, noticeably different peoples, earth, swallowing them up, fire happening by. Now, you would think these people would after many, many years in the desert would have realized Moses and Aaron could be trusted. These folks have chosen not to trust the course they're in. When you have a statement like here would that we had perished with our brothers before the Lord or like they had died. There really are. So in the moment, we don't see any water so we don't have it and we're going to complain.

Why have you brought the Assembly of the Lord Into the Wilderness that we should die here? Both we and our cattle. If they had some trust, they wouldn't be asking these questions. They would have been confident that Moses and Aaron will take care of this problem. God will take care of the problem, but they don't have it. And why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It's a place where no grain or fig Vines are pomegranates and there's no water to drink.

The Jewish nation has always fascinated me. With how quickly they can turn Andre Bell. And if you remember, they had gotten right on the door of the promised land sent the 12 Spies into spy out the promised land. And this is long before I see this event, I believe they went in the spies and spies came back out of the 12 Spies only two setups. 10 said know, if you got Giants in that Promised Land? Yes, it's a land of milk and honey. That's true. It's free. It's all of those things except you got the Giants and we can't beat the Giants. And of course they pay the price for that. Accursed got put on the Trent ten and not just the ten but put on the whole group that was over the age of 20 that God said you, because you rejected going the promised land you're going to die out here in the wilderness and it's going to take a long time. They supposedly if you were looking at the actions, this group of people took, you could say they repented and said, let's go in the promised land, we'll get together. We're going to go ahead and go up and do what God asked to do. And a group of them go up to do about 3000, I think, and they get slaughtered because they really didn't have any repentance. They really didn't have any trust in God. They're really just kind of caught up in what they can physically see and they didn't really do a good job of believing what they physically had seen, no trust.

And then we come to Moses and Aaron. Did Moses. And Aaron went from the presence of the assembly, to the entrance of the tent of meeting fell on their faces and the glory of the Lord appeared to them. And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, No, Moses did the right thing. He puts his trust in God, he goes right. Straight to God. Me and Aaron and God tells him. Here's what you need to do. Take the staff assemble, the congregation you and Aaron and your, your brother. Tell the rock before their eyes to yield. Its water. So you should bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle. And Moses took his staff from before the Lord. As he was commanded to do. What God's got planned is amazing Miracle which is already done it, just like it before back and thinks in Exodus the 17th chapter. I think that's around where it's at where Moses did speak to a rock and it brought forth water. And so God's going to do it. Here's the people complaining speak to the rock rocks. Going to give you its water and all will be okay. But Moses here, trips up him and Aaron then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock. He said that I'm here now. You rebels, shall we? Bring water for you out of this rock and Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice and water came out abundantly in the congregation drank and their livestock

Now, Moses has been using his staff in the prep, has four different things and for some reason, he and Aaron and this particular incident did not trust what God had said. In fact, he will later ride and Deuteronomy will God will tell him. You broke Faith with me. And the problem is Moses, is it going to get to go into the promised land? The Lord said to Moses and Aaron because you did not believe in me to uphold me is Holy in the eyes of the people of Israel. Therefore, you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I've given them. These are the Waters of meribah with the people of Israel quarreled with the Lord and through them he showed himself wholly So water came out. God's mercy and Grace, giving them water, I assumed. But why such a flowing water water? A success cost Moses and Aaron their entry into the promised land. And it does Moses when you file the rest of the story plead with God, to let me go in, I'm sorry. I did that. Let me go in and God said, no, you're not going to get to go. You got to go for the hilltop, and you can look over and see it, but because you broke Faith with me, see you. There was no persuasive Trust. The reasons to trust were there, but they didn't take those reasons and turn them into trust. They did not allowing themselves to be persuaded by everything that had been going on long before this would happen. There's no functional Trust. There's every reason to trust that Moses could do what God asked him to do. Why? Because he had been doing it for years and there's no personal Trust No sharing with God, their Intimate Secrets are doubts or whatever, there's none of that going on or recorded for us. So what you have is no trust, no face, no Promised Land. Pretty big consequence for not trusting God, in the moment for Moses. Not Yes, just remember God does or dead and he still does. There are consequences for Disobedience, not trusting him in the moment. In this we know later, Moses is going to show up at the Transfiguration, so I would think that he would be making it into heaven, but he paid a price here in the physical world. David paid a price here in the physical world for not trusting God's law on adultery and murder it by way of what happened with the shiba. Both of these individuals broke Faith with God by, not trusting him, and both paid an incredible high prices here in the physical world. There are consequences that will happen for us. By not trusting what we're talkin about this morning is trusting in God's wisdom, not our own It should be persuasive. Has given us every reason in the world to trust him. He's never lied. It's functional. Can. Accomplish what he didn't want tells us he's going to do. Yeah he raised Jesus from the dead and is it personal. We're going to read a passage from the psalm that got through the song list had, to share your deepest parts of your soul in your heart with him. You can take every secret, he'll never violate that confidence. So we push on and take a look. Trust in God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is to be constantly practice without such Frost. We like that those of Exodus like Moses and Aaron will fail miserably in our efforts in the practice of pleasing. God. On the other hand. If we do practice complete trust with him is he's asking we will ensure that we please God reap the benefits of his wisdom and his promises. So first thoughts in our study of Proverbs chapter 3 verses 12 as we go along here, my son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart, keep my Commandments that we talked in this morning, about the fact that so much of the Old Testament physical stuff. But here's a place that told the Jews. You need to be doing this God's wisdom from your heart.

So it's written, proverbs 31, and to my son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart, keep my Commandments for length of days and years of life and peace will be added to you. It is possible. It is possible. As we just seen to be have lots of zeal for God. Moses had it there and had it. It is possible to have it and to trip up Hebrews 3, 12 to 13. Take care Brothers. They're still be in any of you and evil unbelieving. Heart leading you to fall away from the Living God. Let exhort one another every day. As long as it is called today, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Will there be, or could there be a consequence for you? And I in this life immediately to not trust in God. Sure, could be could come in any number of different ways, might not keep you out of heaven. But it keeps you from in the moment, pleasing. God In this passage does have a little hint as to why you want to make sure. But it doesn't happen. And if it does that, you correct it. Repent. Cuz you don't want yourself that your heart, be hardened by sin, Those Who start down the path, will begin to racks, rationalize their behavior to themselves and you can get so far in the stand and it's rationalization that you could be just like those Jews who died in the desert because they simply refused to believe what God had actually done in front of their eyes.

Four Links of Daisy says years of life and peace. They will add to you. Its quantity and quality is what he's promising here. And that's a promise. If you doing and I'm me. If we do pleasing God by exercising, this trust. I use Paul as an example, in Philippians, 4:11 to 13 and Paul's a good example to use because we know he'd sat at the feet of Camille. We know that he had been real, really well-trained and God's words. He knew what was in Proverbs and he began applying all that. Is he lived a life as a Christian in Philippians 4:11 to 13. He says this, Not that. I'm speaking of being in need. For I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound in any and every circumstance. I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need He says, I can do all things through him. Who strengthens me? I suggest that him. That is him. Practicing wisdom, life in peace, and those who walk in God's path, know that Paul spoke of a wide range of conditions. All the way from being completely Rich to completely poor and everything in between and we know from his life all the things he suffered and all of that, he continually put his trust in God and it is kind of amazing. Paul had a relatively long life for somebody who have been stoned a couple times been lost in the ocean in the Deep walked over 10,000 miles, preaching the gospel. I would say he had Length of days. And had an amazing quality of life because he lived it practicing God's wisdom. As he trusted from his heart, he did not trust his own. Next. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake. You we continue our March through the first few verses of Proverbs this time, verse 3 through in 4

It's written, let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake. You buying them around the neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

Now. My version using steadfast love and faithfulness. I know that the new international, the King King James, the new revised and The New American Standard can use a combination of different words. I put them up there and blue for you to see loyalty. Kindness love truth and faithfulness when you consider those various translations steadfast love and faithfulness. Do seem to possess the qualities of all these five wrapped up But what he's telling us is steadfast love and faithfulness. That's what you have to hold on to with love and faithfulness in God's word and you have to wind them together like threads. It's not explain that clearly in our translations but the words that he used to wrap them, buying them around the neck and write them on the heart. Literally are talking about taking strands. Of different kinds of threads and you win them together. You all know what happens when someone makes a rope, you take a whole lot of strands, you win them all up together and they based on the qualities of the different strands that are in the Rope. Give the Rope its characteristics stronger than they would be by themselves. Same things, true here, we're to take the quality of steadfast love and faithfulness or loyalty. Kindness and truth from the other translations and we wind them together. Where are Mike's something around? Our neck looks like you would wear some beads or some string or something that you hang on, put it in close to the heart. The other part is there to be written on the heart.

Write them on the tablet of the heart. This is a concept that is repeated over and over and over again in scripture, clear back into the Old Testament. Man in the new song by 119 verse 11, I stored up your word in my heart, that I may not send. That matches what Jesus taught. What you put in the heart determined to behavior and that case the right in the psalmist he said I put God's word in my heart. So I wouldn't send against in Hebrews. 10:16 says this is the Covenant I'll make with them. After these days, the clothes the Lord I put my laws on their hearts. I'll write them on their minds. Now, that's a quotation from Jeremiah 31 about the New Covenant. The one we live in and God wants those words. His will the will of the New Covenant, the last Testament, put into the heart written on the heart.

So, how do you do that? How do you get God's word? Really ingrained into your heart. It starts with trusting his word first, but I put a few things, it's necessary to write his words, into your heart meditation on his words, contemplation, thinking about them, sitting with them listening to them in your mind, listening to them in your heart. There's member ways to describe it. Memorization is a way most people these days don't like memorization, but it is one way to put his will into the heart to write it on the heart and prayer. Now there's possibly some other ways, but these really will, if a person applies himself, get God's law written on the heart. now, the thing we run into as adults, Who become Christians is. We've got a whole long past of childhood and Adolescence and maybe young adult life that didn't practice God's will that wasn't caught it or if they were many times, caught some air or hot in Miss Dunn way. And what we all every human being will do this is they from baby all the way on up every human being is going to take in information from their realities. I'm the world and they're going to have it in their heart. Now, if they're fortunate enough to have loving Terry, good Christian parents, they'll have that as a basis for what's in their heart, but most people aren't going to be Trust can easily be broken. A family that breaks up those children from a broken family, will probably have trust issues. Some people trust too quickly. They're gullible. Some people will never trust their in a constant state of fear. Cross is absolutely fundamental to doing God's Will and too trusting. His words. He's told us his word is alive and active. So when you put it into your heart, you're putting in his life force, his spirit in your heart and it will have the impact, but we have our part to do. You got to do some stuff, you got to do some prayer, you got to do some meditation and then the constant practice of letting God's word live in your life.

You'll find favor. He says, in good success. Psalm 111 verse 10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. All those who practice it. Have a good understanding. His praise endures forever. I want you to take a look at three examples of trust. 1st Samuel 2nd chapter is one. Now the boy Samuel. Continue to grow both in stature and in favor with the Lord and also with man. if you remember, Samuel's mother had a hard time conceiving. She prayed for a son, she swore, she got a son. He would dedicate that son to God service and that's exactly what she did at a very young age when she win him. She took him up to Eli at the Shiloh and there he grew up at the Temple of that time where the Tabernacle had been spread. In fact Samuel began his life very early on trusting. God God appeared to him. Eli one of the best things he ever said to Samuel, was you trust What God Says? And got it told him some pretty tough things that we're going to happen to Eli and his sons and Eli said, you tell me you just trust exactly what God Said. And we know, Samuel turned out to be an incredible profit and incredible influence on God's people. And he had a long life, another example, Luke 2nd chapter verse 52

You all know the story of Jesus. Going up to pass over about age 12 and left there, and the temple, and parents didn't know, he's around. Anyways, set on Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God, and man. No, we would all expect Jesus being the Son of God to do that, but Jesus went through growing just like you have. He went through the different stages. Infant toddler, child play, learning hits at this age and he's already growing in wisdom. In fact, we know from what said that his wisdom, confound it all the teachers at the temple when they parents found him. They had said that about it. Jesus practice trust Samuel. Did one, more example acts this time, the first chapter Verses 4 through 5. I would suggest to you. Here's three of those three elements here, being practiced by the apostles, Jesus has died. Jesus has been raised from the dead. He goes out to be raised up into heaven. And he says, and it says, while staying with them, he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the Father, which he said you heard from me for, John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now, and he was raised up and they were to go back to the Roseland and wait. Did they need to be persuaded? Yeah. They needed to be persuaded and they should have been persuaded. They were that lived with Jesus. They seen all the Miracles and what about functional trust is Jesus capable of sending back the Holy Spirit. Well, they had seen enough to believe that to all the things. He taught all the things he did, and by the way, he's raised from the dead. So, yeah, we got a lot of trust in what about personal, Trust? Do you think that they ever sit and talk to Jesus about things that were deep on their hearts? Absolutely and hear the apostles go back? And here's a key thing about trust. What your trust me is usually something you haven't gotten yet.

And you expect it to happen. But it hasn't happened yet. Jesus promise the Holy Spirit. He promised not many days from now. Well, guys, are we going to trust him? And what he said or not, and they did and they went back and they prayed and they meditated and then they were in the temple on the front of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit comes and baptize them and they receive all the miraculous gift that we might. We kind of like to say these days, they have the spirit without measure. The ability to not forget to bind, steadfast love and faithfulness riding them on the heart needs persuasive trust. Functional trust and personal trust in God's written word.

Not in any man, not in any woman. It has to be trust in what God has said. Not in what some man says book chapter and verse. And then we have the positive expectation, don't we? When you trust God's word, you read it. You believe it. There's coming I haven't is coming to judgment with all his people going to heaven, don't we have a positive expectation of that being fulfilled based on all the evidence. We've gotten from God in the past. Take us to verses five through eight where we've been headed this morning, it's written. Proverbs 3 5 through 8, trust in the Lord, with all your heart, do not lean on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths. Do not be or be not wise in your own eyes, fear, the lord Turn Away From Evil, it will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones. I doubt seriously, if anybody in here is ever actually trusted God this way. You'd have to say one though. It wasn't to Healing. I wasn't really refreshment. Yeah, it has been

trust in the Lord, Psalm 37. And these are two verses from Psalm 37. Y'all remember Psalm 37 that do not fret song. Psalm 37 3 and 4 trust in the Lord do good. Well in the land, befriend a faithfulness befriend faithfulness. It's to become your friend delight yourself in the Lord. He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:5 commit your way to the Lord. Trust in him, he will act. Artex says trusting needs. To means we seek to understand God's Commandments his warnings, his woes his promises Isaiah said it this way. It's Isaiah 212. Adverse to behold. God is my salvation. I will trust and will not be afraid for the Lord. God is my strength, my song he has become my salvation. In all your ways acknowledge Him. Jeremiah 9:23 through 24 says, thus says the Lord. Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom. Let not the Mighty Man boast in his might let not the rich man boast in his riches. But let him who boasts boast in this that he understands and knows me that, I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, Justice righteousness in the Earth for, in these things, I Delight declares the Lord

Don't lean on your own understanding.

I told that we talked about early most of you ain't hear. No this but yesterday morning, I got up to discover that one of my credit cards have been stolen along with my Social Security and all this and Checking account information. And somebody had paid off the credit card out of my checking account which put me about $1,000 in the hole. And they went out and well, they actually when I talk to the credit card company, they said that they never say anything that happened. This fast. They they got the credit card. That got it, my information, they change my address, they change my email address, they requested a credit increase and I assume they got it. And they went out and started buying things right? And left that happened from Friday night into Saturday morning and I woke up Saturday morning with a email from the credit card company saying will, you just recently talked to Mike, can you rate rate how you? But how he did? And I went, I didn't talk to Mike about this card. I haven't called anybody on my name, my car So I called them and then I checked my bank account and then I was on the phone with Equifax putting in a fraud alert. It'll all get taken care of. It happened 10 or 12 years ago with a different card company, somebody at the card company, sells to the people on the darknet your information, they said on it for a while and then they one day cash in and buy a bunch of stuff that usually like to buy stuff in the next day. Take it back, get cash, all that kind of thing. You know, I got it all handled and not worry much about it but after it was all over. I was a bit disappointed. On the credit card company or Equifax. I was disappointed in that when I sit down to start tending to this disaster in the making, That I didn't pray first. I didn't go to God and say it, agog, I need your help. Cuz I've been through before, I knew what the bank's going to do. I knew what the card companies going to do, and I just had all the right answers in my head. So I jumped in and I was later, like I said disappointed, I hadn't practiced but I've been preaching. I can happen to any of us. Do not lean on your own understanding. I did. And yeah, came out. Okay, except I needed to go to. And ask forgiveness for not to talk to him first. Jeremiah 10:23. I know. Oh Lord the way of man's not himself that it's not in man who walks to direct his step. You may think it is. Before us is Christians. We need to go to God constantly. He says, in all our ways Frost and listen to him with your heart. So I'm 20 62 verse 8 trust in him at all times old people. Pour out your heart before him, God is refuge for us. Here is a statement about personal trust with God. you might not be able to tell all your secrets to another human being for whatever reason, but you can talk to God about everything in your heart and that talkin We'll build your trust with him cuz he's not going to spill your secret. He's not going to come and tell Terry what I did last night or whoever he doesn't do that. You pour out his, your heart to him and he holds I information for you and you put your his word back in.

It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones. Look at Jeremiah 17 verses 7 & 8.

Jeremiah said, blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream. Does not fear when heat comes for it. Leaves remain green and is not anxious in the year of the drought for. It does not cease to bear fruit.

That's a promise from God, he's never lied. Regardless of how crazy the world gets with all the stuff it does if we put our trust in him and actually do trust him, go to him talk to him instead of talking to self so much, putting your word, his word in your heart and I'm not saying people in this room, don't do that. I'm saying we all have to practice it and continue growing Summer, we don't trip. But look at this promise. Our text said, healing for your front flash refreshment to your bones. As much criticism as Christianity gets in this country by the liberal left. This last spring I came across three different surveys. Did Christians. First one had to do with husbands and wives being married for many years, we're happier than the rest of the group The World then I had to do with Christians live in a moral life. Those people are also happier and not just help you physically better. Because these Studies have looked at the things that happen to people. The illness is the problem and compare those with those who they serve. I'd surveyed, who practice God's. Will always the guy that group. God will came out on top happier, safer and healthier.

You'll be like a tree planted by the water. Always bearing fruit.

We're going to finish with this passage, Luke 22 verse 42 through 45. I put this passage in. Because we all need examples of trust. And to me, this passage with Jesus in the garden, praying sweating drops of blood is an incredible statement about trust. He knew what he was about to go through on the cross. His Apostles all falling asleep. It's late, he's been up for a long time already. He's about to be taken prisoner, go through the whole trial and nailed to a cross and he knew what was coming. He also knew that he was divine and he was about to take on the sin of the entire world throughout history.

The prayer same father. If you were willing remove this cup from me,

I asked the same thing knowing what's coming. You probably would too. Nevertheless, he said not my will but yours be done. There is humility. There is Surrender, there is Trust. And that what he was about to go through, was going to be worth all the pain. And there appeared to him, angel from heaven, strengthening him. Notice even though he's got an angel strengthening him and being in agony, he prayed more earnestly and his sweat became like drops of blood falling down to the ground. He rose from prayer to ask the apostles about sleeping and you know the rest of the story. They're in the middle of sweating drops and blood. They're in the middle of an Angel strengthening him. They're in the middle of divinity about to take on sin. Not my will, your will be done. Jesus leaves us an example of trusting in God's wisdom. Jesus was trusting completely. He volunteered to do this. He trusted that God's Plan of Salvation would be worth what he was about to go through and he went through it. And people have been receiving forgiveness and God's Grace, ever since people being saved, people being healed, spiritually and a whole inheritance is coming to him over, the faithful come Judgment Day. so, the invitation this morning,