Let's look at these first two
verses again. If you have a heading there above Psalm 7, it says
Shigion of David. That means a rambling. This was
a song. This was a prayer that he sang,
but it didn't really rhyme. It seemed like a rambling. It's
recorded for us. It's important to it. which he
sang unto the Lord concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite. There's a reason something happened
to make David write this song. And it wasn't roses. He didn't
win the lottery. He didn't have some wonderful
horse to show up and good breeding stock. Something good didn't
happen to David for him to write a song in our hymnal, the church's
hymnal, a prayer to the Lord that's been preserved for thousands
of years. Something bad happened. Cush came to him at Benjamin
Island. He says, Oh Lord my God, here's what he cries out, Oh
Lord my God, in Thee do I put my trust. save me from all them
that persecute me and deliver me. Lest he tear my soul like
a lion, rending it in pieces while there is none to deliver."
He starts out with, O LORD my God, who is David, friend? The
capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D. The Lord Jehovah,
the Lord of hosts. There is but one true and living
God, Jehovah. He's holy. He's righteous. He's just. That's who David's
speaking to. And he says, Lord, O Lord my
God. Not O Lord a God. O Lord my God. Is the Lord my
God? That's a good question, isn't
it? The psalmist says, O Lord my
God. This is the question we need to answer about ourselves.
Is the Lord my God? That's how Christ taught us to
pray. Our Father who art in heaven. He said after this pattern you
pray. Not to a father or the Father, our Father. My Father. Is this my Father? Is this my
Lord? That's something we need to answer for ourselves. I need
to answer for me. I can't answer that for you. You can't answer
that for the person sitting next to you. That ain't none of your
business. Ain't none of their business. Ain't none of my business. It's
one-on-one. Is the Lord my God? It's a question
for me to answer for myself. Do I, me, about myself, do I
put my trust in Him? Is He mine, the Lord, and do
I put my trust in Him? I say it, don't I? Do people
say that? You ever heard somebody say, well, I just trust in the
Lord. You could say the exact inflection and output of, I'm
just walking the dog. Couldn't you? I'm just going
to the grocery store. I'm just trusting the Lord. You
put your trust in Him. You call out to Him, oh Lord,
my God, in Thee do I put my trust. Do we trust Him? He says, in
Thee. In thee. Who? In God. Not in a God. Not in multiple
gods. Not 95% here, but we'll reserve
5% for that unknown God just in case we miss the mark. We'll
spread our investments out even. We'll diversify our portfolio.
No. In thee. In thee. And not in myself. Not in myself. They ain't my co-pilot. They
don't need my help in thee. And he says, in thee do I. No
one else can do this for me. He says, I. In thee do I. This
is who I need and who you need to put your trust in. I want
to trust something. I want to lean on something.
I want to have some assurance and confidence. I want to stand on something.
This is who you need and I need, all mankind needs to put their
trust in. And he says, do I? That's also in the present tense.
You know, David wasn't concerned about yesterday. He said, Lord,
yesterday I trusted you. He didn't say something for the
future. Lord, or in the past still. Lord, I remember I got
baptized. I remember whenever I got made
a profession of faith. I remember whenever I took the Lord's table.
I ate unleavened bread. I drank the wine. He says, I
do, right now, and not in the future. Once I get through this,
then I'll start going to church. Once I get the kids raised, once
I get a better job, once I grow up a little bit, once I sow my
wild oats, I's 20, I got some living to do. I want to see this
world. And then, you know, when I settle down and get a family
and stuff, I'll start going back to church. Do, right now. right now, in thee do right now
I, me alone, put my trust. What a statement. That's just
a few short words we can read over that quick. What a statement. Oh Lord my God, in thee do I
put my trust. When will I put all my trust
in God? When will any sinner put all
of our trust in God alone? It's called salvation. When is that going to happen?
David says at the end of verse 1, Save me from all them that
persecute me and deliver me, lest he tear my soul like a lion,
rending it in pieces while there is none to deliver. When will
we lay all our trust on the Lord? It's going to be when we cry
out in earnest, Save me! Save me! A sinner will put their
trust in God only when they have a need. And they say that, see
that need of salvation. Save me, not some help. Every
one of us need help all the time. Let me help you. Hey, can you
come help me move this? Can y'all help me a little bit
today? We all need help, but I can do part of it. I saw some men
get saved one time. I saw a man got hurt, and another
man went up and grabbed him and yanked him off that battlefield,
and he was still shooting. Well, you know what the talk
of the town was? That man was shooting back while he was getting
drug off a battlefield. He got help, didn't he? He got
the glory. He got an award for that. I saw
some other men that were unconscious from smoke. They were dead trespassers
in sin. They couldn't do nothing. Unconscious,
on the verge of death. All he's doing is breathing.
And a man went in and got a hold of them and took them out. They
weren't helped. They were saved. All his praise
went to the one that drug him out of that. That's what happened,
isn't it? When a person sees they need
saved, they need salvation, they'll cry out to the Lord. They'll
trust Him. We'll lay our trust on the Lord. When we cry out,
deliver me. Deliver me. Only when we know
we need to be liberated out of the hand of our enemy. I can't
fight that enemy. I can't win. They're going to
chew me up like a lion. I always say this. Well, if we was on a deserted
island, there wouldn't be no lions. I need deliverance from this
enemy. Lord, you need to save me and keep me from myself. I need life and I need deliverance.
A sinner lay all their trust in the Lord when they're made
to know there is none to deliver. What's that mean? They're going
to put all their trust in God only when they realize that the
only one who's able to deliver them, who's able to save them,
is Him. He's the only one that's able.
When will a sinner declare Christ is all? When are you going to
say Christ is all? When you ain't got nothing else. when they are shut up to their
sin and their only hope is Christ alone. I have no ability to save
myself. I can't deliver myself. Ain't
nothing I can do for myself. Mama and daddy can't do it. My
best friend can't do it. My wife can't do it. My kids
can't do it. I need God. That's when you say Christ is
all. That's all of our salvation. He's all of our deliverance.
It's in a person that's in him alone, just him. And he'll receive
all the glory for it. And we wouldn't have it no other
way. If I was unconscious in a fire and I woke up in a hospital,
and one of y'all drug me out of there, I'd say, I don't want
no award. You give it to him. When that happens, all the glories
will go to him. I want to give you some background on David
writing this psalm. We remember Israel. They didn't
have a king. And they said, we want to be like everybody else.
Give us a king. And that prophet warned them,
you don't want that. Listen to me. You don't want to be like
everybody else. You don't want somebody coming
in here and ruling over you. The Lord's ruling you right now.
He's got you a prophet here to preach to you, a high priest,
and all these things. We can see these things, see
Christ right in front of us all day, all these pictures and types
and shadows right in front of us. You don't want to be like
everybody else. That's the other way to do it. And if it's bad,
we'll deal with it. Okay, well you got Saul. It was fine for
a minute, and then it turned south, didn't it? Well, Saul,
he was out fighting them Philistines, and he'd come back from the war,
and he was waiting because they had to perform a sacrifice. They
had to give a burnt offering to the Lord. And he waited seven
days for Samuel to show up. And Samuel didn't show up. And
seven days is a pretty good time, isn't it? I bet he thought, it's
been seven days. I waited in perfection on the
Lord. How many times we confuse ourselves because we try to do
something for God's glory and our ignorance, don't we? What
man knows. And so he said, you all go get
that stuff. We're having to burn offering to the Lord. And the
second they got through, Samuel showed up. And he said, what
have you done? And he said, you're the king
here, but you ain't going to be. God's going to dethrone you.
Your rule is over. And he's going to raise up one
after his own heart. He's going to put his king in
this spot, this billet that everybody else wanted. God said, that's
fine, you can have it. I'm going to show you what it's
like whenever man does it, and then I'm going to put my man
in there. And so what did Saul do? Just like everybody else. He said, I'll just kill him.
Whoever this person is that's going to come up, we'll run them
off, we'll imprison them. The Lord has a plan to do something,
but we'll just get rid of that. So somebody told you, he said,
if you knew for sure the Lord was going to kill you with a
Toyota pickup, will you be at the plant saying, hey, make it
no more Toyota pickups. I'm going to burn every one of
them I can find. We laugh at that, right? What would Herod
do? Kill every one of them children. What would Pharaoh do? Moses
said, kill everybody. Get rid of them. We'll throw
babies off of cliffs. David said, let's go hunt this
fella down. I'm gonna kill him. And then I can stay king. That's
nature, isn't it? That's our nature. So Cush, the
Benjamite, same tribe as Saul, he accused David of treason against
Saul. Saul's like, I think it's David,
but let's see if there's any other options out there we can
go after. And Cush said, it's David. He's trying to dethrone
you. Let's go kill him. He had 3,000
of his best men to go hunt him down. That's some opposition. There's someone that accuses
the Lord's children of treason to God our King. Do you know
that? Satan's the accuser of the brethren.
He's called a roaring lion. There in Job, the Lord asked
Satan whenever he reported to those other children of his,
and he said, where have you been? He said, I've been going to and
fro throughout the earth. I've been going up and down it.
I've been going all over. The Lord didn't ask him that for
information. He made Satan give an account of what he was doing.
He's like a lion seeking whom he may devour as he travels that
earth. And that lion says of you and me. He says of the Lord's
children. Oftentimes he says it to the
Lord's children. That's the one guilty of high treason right
there. That's the one trying to dethrone God. Now you've got something to do.
You've got to do something. There's a remedy and it's in
you. You need to be circumcised. You must be baptized. You must
do this. You must keep a holy day. You
must make yourself more holy. You're bad and you know it. But
you've got to do something. The remedy's in you. That's a
great... Coach probably said, David, all
you've got to do is go up there and just surrender. I'll advocate for
you. He won't kill you. Eve, you go
eat that fruit. It ain't going to kill you. You'll
know something. You'll gain wisdom. You'll gain
pride. That's a great accuser, isn't
it? That's not a halfway accuser.
That's a slick profession. Turn over to Psalm 50. That's
the false accuser. But we have a true accuser as
well. God's own holy law. His just law. It says of every
sinner, guilty. God says in His law to every
man, woman, and child, guilty. But the remedy ain't in you.
You broke the law. I don't say, now you just start
keeping it better. Now you try harder this. No it
doesn't. You broke the law. Death. That's the way he adjourned. Look here in verse 50. Here's
a true line. I don't want to try to bite you.
I don't want to get you. Psalm 50 verse 22. Now consider
this. Ye that forget God, lest I tear
you in pieces and there be none to deliver you." Are you afraid
of earthly enemies? Are we? Do I trust the Lord? Am I afraid of my government
or my politicians or my car breaking down on the way over here? Am
I afraid of my back going out before I get up here? Do I fear
things in this world or do I fear God? Do I trust the things of
this world or myself or do I trust God? Am I afraid of a physical
lion or am I afraid of that lion of the tribe of Judah? He's the one mankind has sinned
against, that we offended, and we are in a desperate situation. Picture running from a lion.
I saw on the news that a serval in North County, I'd look it
up what it was, I thought it was a cheetah or something. And
people was videotaping that thing in their backyard. It was like
a 50-pound cat. Some wild cat from Africa running
around North County. They can't catch it. Oh, I want
to go find it. I don't want to find it. I don't
know what that thing eats. It may think I'm a mouse or something,
trying to bite me. I can't outrun it. Imagine being
chased by a lion on those prairies. And you are running with everything
in you, with gazelle intensity. You're trying to get away from
that lion. What's your hope? You going to outrun it? No, you
ain't going to outrun it. You going to scream, God, save me.
Lord, deliver me. I have no help. That's a desperate
situation, isn't it? Is our case that desperate? Do
I trust the Lord and cry unto Him because I'm that desperate?
That's the reality of it, isn't it? God says there's none righteous
and no not one. David, as we go through this
psalm, we'll see David need justified of all his charges. You and I
do too. David need to be declared righteous. You and I do too. We can't do
that ourselves. God's the only one who is the
justifier. And God's the only one who has
the wisdom to justify according to the justice, to His justice,
which we need to be justified by. Not in our own thoughts,
not in our own legal system we've got outside our head, but what's
true and right by Him. Paul wrote to us in Romans, said,
to declare, I say at this time, His righteousness, that He might
be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Back in our text there in Psalm
7, David needed a defense too. He needed a defense against those
accusers and those liars. He says in verse 10, Psalm 7,
10, My defense is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
God judges the righteous. God is angry with the wicked
every day. David knew that. So David did the one thing that
pleases God. The one thing that God requires
of sinners. He put all his trust in the Lord. By asking God to save him and
deliver him. That's what he did. Knowing he
had that defense. The Lord put David in the position. You listen
to me. I'll pause for effect. The Lord put David in this position
where he had no option And His providence, a God that controls
every atom that moves on this earth. He controls light. He
controls life. He controls death. He controls
everything. He put David exactly where He
wanted him. Where he had no chance of making
it out. He was absolutely desperate. Made David to know it. And that
the only thing that David could flee to was our Lord. The only place he could go was
across our city of refuge. His whole life had led up to
this point. David's in the back. Couldn't the Lord just hit the
eject button and pull him out of there? Uh-uh. This is on purpose.
This is providence. This is the will of God for him.
Put him right where he wanted him. And that's just pit of despair.
Crying on that bed at night. You're swimming in your bed and
it ain't going to do no good. Get up and go to the couch. Now
the couch is wet. Crying all night. You can't escape
him. It's called hedging somebody about. You think Job was the
only one the Lord ever hedged about? He hedges about every
one of his children, don't he? Puts them right where he wants
them. And so David cries out, right? Everybody else is looking
down, that ain't a child of God, what did he do? He's a horrible
mess. He cries out in verse 1, O Lord
my God, in thee do I put my trust. What a good place to be. The
Lord brings us there to put our trust in Him. The best thing
that ever happened to us. world might not think so, but
you will. So what's trust? What's trust? I want to focus
on this just a little bit, and I'll try not to keep you long.
It involves my confidence. Trust involves my confidence.
It involves my hope, that full expectation. I have confidence
and I have a complete expectation that this is what's going to
happen. It's not just a wish. It's not just 95%. I got a 95%
chance. If I get on an airplane, there's
a 99% chance I'm going to make it. No, it's not that. Full confidence,
full hope, full assurance. And it's to fully believe that
he's able to save me and deliver me and to rest in Him. And I
trust that God is worthy of trusting. We trust that He's worthy of
being trusted because He's able, don't we? It has to do with what
I have, my trust, but it also has to do with what I'm entrusting
to God. I entrust my entire estate, my
entire soul, my eternal soul, all of me. Everything. Everything in Providence, everything
inside of me, everything outside of me, everything yesterday,
today, and forever. It's what I count to Him against
that day, as Paul said. I know in whom I have believed. And He's able. I want to explain
this. I had a long series of events
that brought me to this. Like I said, I had a message
for this whole chapter, but I just got stuck on these first two
verses. We all know what a trust fund baby is, don't we? I thought
maybe a little bit of humor. We start talking about money,
people wake up and they might listen a little bit. We know
what a trust fund baby is, don't we? I had a friend of mine, I worked for
him, he's a lieutenant. And his family was wealthy. I've met
a lot of rich folks, I've met a lot of people that think they're
rich, and I've met a lot of wealthy folks too. They was wealthy. They used the season as a verb. They summered in France. They
wintered in another place. And folks had money, didn't he?
And he didn't have the same care as all the people around him,
all of us around him, everybody in that platoon. He didn't have
the same care as we did. And I'll tell you what, that man
was smart. He worked hard. He knew what he was doing. We
trusted him. We liked being around him. Oh, he gave full effort
in everything he had in his job. He was good at it. But he didn't
have the same concerns that other people had. Why? He had a trust. He had a trust fund. had a little
bit of relaxation and freedom in it. I looked this up, a trust
fund, the definition of it. It's when property, either tangible
or an idea, when property is transferred from one party to
be held by a second party for the benefit of a third party. Lord in you I put my trust. I
hope we can enter into this. I'd like to be a blessing for
you. This example, this illustrates the gospel. That's what it is,
isn't it? A father makes his eldest son
a trustee of his whole estate, everything he has. He gives it
over to his son. The father trusts the son and
the son gives the inheritance to the rest of the children,
the eldest gives it to the rest of the children at the appointed
time by the will of the father on his instruction. We learn
what trust is by looking to God the father and God the son. We
learn why God is the one who is worthy to be trusted. And
by seeing this great work God's performed, because when we see
this, when we see what He's done, now we're persuaded to put our
trust in Him. Now we're persuaded to put all
of our confidence and our hope in everything. Not just two days
a week. When you're hurt, when you've
got pain and you can't feel your feet or whatever it is, trust
Him. There's three active parts in
that. There's the trustor. God the Father trusted God the
Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to glorify His name, to honor Him,
to honor His will in the salvation of chosen sinners. God the Father
is the first party. He's the trustor. Then you've
got the trustee. Christ the Son of God, He's the
second party, the trustee. He's the one that God entrusted
to. Looking this up, there's also
a thing called a self-declared trust. We know those by college
funds. If you put money aside because
you're still alive, you take your money and give it to yourself
to distribute to a third party later down the road whenever
they get up. That's called a self-declared trust. And that's what we see
here, too. God the Father and God the Son are one. They are. The blessing, the benefit, and
all of it's wrapped up in the same. Christ is God and man. And then in Christ, in Him, God
makes His children one with Him. We'll see that later on, joint
heirs. So we've got the trustor, the trustee, and the beneficiaries.
That's the third party. God's trust was made fulfilled
by His Son, His firstborn, for the benefit of a third party.
The elect children chosen of God and given to Him. God saves
His children in Christ to glorify His own name in His Son. Turn over to Isaiah 48. When a firstborn child is a trustee
of an estate or the executor of a will, they honor their father
by performing the intent, the will, by executing that will
that was put in their hands to do so. People always say, well,
you honor my wishes. We say that that quick too, don't
we? That's what a trustee does. It honors the trustor. And in
doing that, that firstborn, that trustee brings honor to themself
that the other children don't have. Because they carried out
the Father's will. They executed the Father's will.
They did exactly what they thought was right, wrong, don't matter.
That's what Daddy wanted. That's what we did. They have
their own honor in that, don't they? They honored the Father
and they honored themselves. Look here at Isaiah 48, verse 9. Here's our confidence. People
say, I want assurance. And they look to themselves,
they look to the world, they look to an event, like, well,
I remember, I don't know what that person was preaching, but
I believed whatever it was. That's dangerous, isn't it? That's
like handling dynamite. What's my assurance the Lord
saves His people? Look here in Isaiah 48, verse
9. For my name's sake, It ain't your good works. It
ain't your decision. It ain't anything that you've
experienced. It ain't none of that for my namesake. That offends
most people. But I quit buttin' like a goat
and bow. for his name's sake." Oh, the child of God says, yes,
Lord, for your name's sake. Honor yourself. For my name's
sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain
from thee that I cut thee not off. I'll save you. Behold, I have refined thee,
but not with silver. I have chosen thee in the furnace
of affliction. right where David was. Why did
the Lord do that? Verse 11, for mine own sake,
even for mine own sake will I do it. For how should my name be
polluted if you touched it? And I will not give glory to
another. Is there anything that a man or woman could add to the
salvation that the Lord has provided in Christ? Can we improve on
it? Can we do something for him?
Does he need our help? He said, it ain't going to be
polluted by you, because it's for my name's sake and I ain't
going to give no glory to nobody else. It's mine. He's jealous
about it. I wouldn't have it any other
way. They said, Kevin, you're so harsh. I said, I'm telling
you good news. All that other stuff's a bill of goods. That ain't nothing. It's death.
There's life. That's a nail in a short place.
You can hang your hat and your whole life on it, your whole
soul on it. If you imagine having an earthly father, it's very
wealthy. And they tell you, I'm going to give you all my riches,
but I've put them in a hand of a trustee to give it to you when
I want, according to my will, as I say. I've set this up so you can't
pollute it, and you can't run it down, and you can't extinguish
it. That's what they said. What's the first thing I'd want
to do? When that father's gone, I want to know who that trustee
is. I want to know where they are. I want to be in contact
with that person. I want to make sure they know
me. You got my number? I'll come by. Let's go eat lunch.
I want to get to know you. The father's purpose, this inheritance,
was only going to be given through one person. There's nothing for
the child to do. You didn't work for it. You didn't
earn that inheritance. If you had it, it'd be yours.
Wasn't it? Something given. All you had
to do was trust the Father, and trust the one He's chosen to
be the trustee, and that's it. You believe your Father? Do you
trust Him? That's the way we look to it.
You think He picked the one that'd do right for you if He loved
you? He picked the only one that could do right. Our Heavenly
Father did, didn't He? We read in Romans 8.28, we know
that all things, that's everything, all things work together for
good to them that love God, to them who are the called according
to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He
also did predestinate to be conformed to the images of the Son. He
said, I'm going to make you just like my son. That He, that Christ,
might be the firstborn among many brethren. He's going to
be that trustee. He's going to receive double
honor, isn't he? In God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, we
see perfect trust. We see perfect confidence, perfect
assurance. And we see the faithfulness of
God in Christ. Christ honored the Father. He
accomplished the justification of His people through that death
at Calvary when He died. We were justified. We were made
His righteousness. That's what David's begging for,
justice and righteousness. He justified us. We've received
double for our sins, haven't we? Sin's gone and a holy nature's
been put in us that cannot sin. He did it. He did it. And when
Christ came forth in the flesh as a man, He trusted the Father
perfectly. We are too. I don't. I want to. I have a desire to.
My new man does. That new man in me does. But
this old flesh is just so wishy-washy, isn't it? But Christ, from a
cradle to the grave, and now, sitting right here, trusted the
Father the entire time. Turn over to John 17. We'll look
at this high priestly prayer. says in verse 1, John 17 verse
1. These words speak Jesus and lifted
up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour has come at
a point in time. Glorify thy son that thy son
may also glorify thee. As thou hast given him power
over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many
as thou hast given him. He has the power to give that
inheritance. Prescribed by the father that's
what's put in his hand to do and here it is in verse 3 and
this is life eternal That they might know thee the only true
God and Jesus Christ whom now has sinned What's our inheritance? People say oh, I'm gonna walk
on streets of gold. We're gonna have mansions. We'll have all
these rich things a person's our inheritance. I Those things
will perish, they'll burn. I don't want that stuff, I want
him. We're going to know him, see him face to face, know him
as he is. What a gift. What an inheritance. Somebody
had to die for that to happen. You can't get an inheritance
unless there's death. And the trustee is the one that did it.
What a thought. He says in verse 3, This is life
eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and
Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent. I have glorified Thee on
the earth. Lord, I have accomplished the
will that You laid out. I have finished the work which
Thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify Thou
me with Thine own self, with the glory which I had with Thee
before the world was. The Father honored the Son. He
prayed for it right there. And He honored Him. He raised
Him from the dead, raised Him from that grave, and gave His
Son the inheritance He promised Him. That was God's will and His good
pleasure that all things be gathered together in heaven and earth
in one in Christ. All things be gathered together
in Him. And that we receive that inheritance through Christ. who
both God and His people are gathered in one. Where do we meet God?
How can we be reconciled to God? Brought back together? How can
we have at-one? It's got to be in Christ. That's
what the Lord purposed. That was His will. His will. That's trust, isn't it? Turn
over Ephesians 1, 9. Ephesians 1. This is mysterious
to people. But you know what, this ain't
mysterious, it's physical. I broke that down right before
I got up here. I said, God defied their purpose
to save people and make them just like his son. Give them
all blessings and heavenly places in Christ. We're gonna give you
a holy nature. Sin's gone. Like when he ate
that fruit, what happened? Nothing. She was represented
in the head. We'll see that this evening,
little Will. I didn't earn righteousness, Christ did. He did all the work. He saved. He delivered. He preserves for eternity. He
is the inheritance. And people say, that's just nonsense. If I came down and said, oh,
Jeff Bezos has had a will and it's in a trust and he's going
to give you everything he's got. Boy, we'd drop everything we've
got and go meet that man, wouldn't we? If it was physical, but it
was in this world, we'd jump on it. Spiritual things. Look here in Ephesians 1.9. having
made known unto us the mystery of His will according to His
good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself." It's His will. "...that
in the dispensation of the fullness of times He might gather together
in one all things in Christ both which are in heaven and which
are in earth in Him." In whom? Also, we have obtained an inheritance,
being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh
all things after the counsel of His own will, that we should
be to the praise of His glory, who first trusted in Christ.
in whom ye also trusted." We see Him trusting Christ, don't
we? We're salvation all wrapped up in. It's in Him. The Lord
trusted Him. He fulfilled everything. He's
the author and the finisher of our faith. And what do we do? We see that. We trust Him. Put
my whole self over to you. "...in whom ye also trusted.
After that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your
salvation." His Son gives that which He has
made, His people, a joint heir. He makes us joint heirs of good
news. That's the gospel. The good news
is God calling His children to put all their trust in Christ. That's what He does. In thee
do I put my trust, David said. Those who put their trust in
Christ, being born of the Spirit of God, they are joint heirs
with Christ. That's unimaginable to me. You
can't enter into those things. Paul wrote to us, he said, And
if children, then heirs. If you're a child of God, you're
an heir God. The trustee will give you the inheritance. Heirs
of God and joint heirs with Christ. If so be that we suffer with
him, that we may be also glorified with him. What an amazing thought. David was pleading in Psalm 7
for God to justify him to rise up in judgment that the Lord
commanded for his sake, for David's sake, and for the people's sake.
We'll see that picture of Christ next week, hopefully. He prayed
for those people, Lord, for your people's sake. Justification
and righteousness is an inheritance given of God the Father through
His Son to God's children. And God says this to everybody
that trusts Him. Turn here and we'll close. Isaiah 54. Isaiah 54. We need justification. We need
a righteousness. We need a defense. We need saved
and delivered on. And here's what the Lord says
of everyone that puts their trust in Christ. Isaiah 54. Isaiah
54 verse 17. Lord, there's lines and weapons
against me. He says here in verse 17, no
weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper. They're going
to kill me. No, they ain't. Not if the Lord
don't want them to. Well, what if they say something bad? It
says, no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper, and
every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou
shalt condemn it. Well, what a thought. You can't
say, who's going to lay a charge against God's elect? It's God
to justify. This is the heritage, or it means
an inheritance. This is the inheritance of the
servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of Me, saith
the Lord. He said, I have saved you and
I have delivered you from sin for eternity. And ain't no weapons
going to hurt you? No persons going to hurt you?
No tongues going to cut you? We might think so. It ain't going
to affect what He's done in Him, what He's done in Christ for
His people. You see that trust? When you see how God the Father
trusted the Son and how the Son trusted the Father, then here's
the command. Put your trust in the Lord. Put
all your trust in Him. We'll pray with David. O Lord
my God, in Thee do I put my trust. Save me from all them that persecute
me and deliver me. The Lord delights in those who
put their trust in Him. All that God requires of a sinner
is to trust God, His Son, Jesus Christ. And no one that's ever
trusted Him has ever been shamed. They've never come up lacking.
They've never come up short. And they never will. So that's
the command. Trust Him. We want to invite
and offer, command, hear him, believe him, trust him, put all
you got in him, and you won't be ashamed. Amen.