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Commit All Into Christ's Hand

Psalm 31:1-8
Clay Curtis November, 9 2017 Audio
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Alright brethren, now let's go
to Psalm 31. In this psalm, we see the perfect
faith by which every believer is saved. Those that God gives the gift
of faith believe on Christ, It's not the quality of our faith
or the quantity of our faith by which we are saved. It's Him
who is the object of our faith. And His faith is perfect faith. And that's what we see in this
psalm. Now, this, as we've seen in the
other psalms, is Christ speaking. In Psalm 31.5, He says, Into
thine hand I commit my spirit. You know on the cross that our
substitute's last words were these very words. In Luke 23,
46 it says, When Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father,
into thy hands I commend my spirit. And having said this, he gave
up the ghost. Now no doubt David experienced
the things that he writes about in the Psalms. and he was writing about things
he experienced and things he knew. But these things he wrote
did not come from David and they're not about David. They came from the Holy Spirit.
In 2 Peter 1.20 it says, we know this first, that no prophecy
of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. This wasn't produced
by David. This lone man privately produced
this scripture. But the prophecy came not in
old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as
they were moved by the Holy Ghost. So this is Christ speaking. And
also understand this, that Christ did not only commend His Spirit
into the hand of the Father on the cross, But He did so all
the way through His earthly ministry. It's on the cross that we see
Him trusting the Father most. It's where we see Him committing
His Spirit into the hand of the Father. But He did so throughout
all the days He walked this earth. What did Christ mean when He
said, into thy hand I commit my Spirit? Back in verse 1 we
see, He says, In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust. That's what it means. Christ
committed the salvation of His Spirit. That is the salvation
of His entire self as a man. He committed the salvation of
Himself into the hand of God the Father. He did that from
His birth all the way until the death of the cross. As the substitute of His people,
Christ came down and humbled Himself and took the form of
a servant. That means He's doing this as
the head representing His people. And so as the head representing
His people, Christ had to walk this earth as the one faithful
man. entirely, perfectly trusting
the Father for His people. And that's what Christ was doing.
He redeemed His people from the curse of the law on the cross.
That was why it came. That was necessary. He was redeeming
us from the curse. He was justifying us from our
sin. And He was declaring God just.
But in order to do that, He had to have perfect Faith toward
God. Perfect faith toward God. As
He suffered separation on the cross, He had to depend entirely
upon God the Father. And He's doing that representing
His people. We not only need to be justified
by Christ, we not only need to be made holy by Christ, we need
not only to be made righteous by Christ, we need to be made
perfectly faithful by Christ. And it's Christ's perfect faith
by which we're made perfectly faithful. As the head of His
people, Christ's faith in the Father, just like His righteousness
and His holiness, is that by which His people are saved. As Christ representing His people,
as the head of His people, as He trusted the Father perfectly
unto the death of the cross, Just as His holiness is our holiness
and His righteousness is our righteousness, His perfect faith
is that by which we are saved. Now let's look at these first
five verses and see how fully Christ committed His Spirit to
the Father in perfect faith. And let's see what it is for
us to do so. Now first of all, Christ committed
his spirit into the hand of the Lord, trusting the Lord would
never let him be ashamed for doing so. He says there in verse
1, In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust, let me never be ashamed. Now when he says there, In thee,
O Lord, do I put my trust. Now we're talking about the faithful
one. We're looking here at a perfect
example of perfect faith. He did not say, I'm trusting
in myself in any way. He didn't say, I'm trusting my
works. And His works were perfect works. He didn't say, I'm trusting
my works. He had the perfect will. The
one man with the perfect will. He didn't say, I'm trusting my
will. He even had perfect faith, but He didn't say, I'm trusting
my faith. He said, In Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust. You talk about being all in. You talk about being entirely
shut up to somebody. Putting all your eggs in one
basket. Our Lord on the cross, through
His whole life and on the cross, He trusted one. He trusted the
Lord God, our Father. And so he said, let me never
be ashamed for doing so. You know, it's a terrible thing
to trust somebody and then betray your trust and you feel ashamed
for trusting them. That's an awful feeling. That's
awful. It makes you into a fool for
trusting somebody that couldn't be trusted. So he prays there,
let me not be ashamed. We're in a terrible time in this
country and in the world, really. And I suppose every generation
has considered their generation to be the very worst. And I consider
mine to be the very worst. This is the worst I've ever seen
it in my lifetime. And it's worse than my grandfather
saw it. It gets so bad at times that
even ungodly worldly sinners realize it's bad. And then they all start talking
about a solution. But the thing is, is ungodly
men think the solution is ungodly man. They think the solution
is that we can fix it. And so their solution is to regard
lying vanities. Now lying vanities sound like
that's a pretty bad thing to regard. But they don't sound
like lying vanities. Here lately I've been hearing
folks give speeches about coming together and loving one another
and unity and all these different things. And they're pretty powerful
things I've heard men say. And it gets you stirred up and
you begin to think that's what we need right there. I'm not
saying not to try to love one another and be united so as not
to be at each other's throat in this world, but that's not
the solution. The faith of Christ was so perfect
that He didn't look to anybody in this world for any help. He said in verse 6, ìI have hated
them that regard lying vanities, but I trust in the Lord.î ìI
have hated them that regard lying vanities, but I trust in the
Lord.î So you see, he wants to know that the Lord is not going
to make him ashamed for trusting Him. Christ trusted the Lord to make
good on His covenant promise. And Godís covenant promise was
He would never be ashamed for trusting Him. So He said, ìLord,
let me never be ashamed. In Thee, O Lord, do I put my
trust. Let me never be ashamed.î If you listen to this worldís
speeches and the things theyíre saying and how theyíre saying,
ìWe broke it. We can fix it.î And you buy into that and you
start trusting these things that men are trying to organize and
get going in the world to fix it. Iím telling you, brethren,
I'm saying it's worse than it's ever been. But these things aren't
new. These things have been going on forever. And man's never fixed
it. If you do that, you'll be regarding
lying vanities. And you know what will happen?
You'll be ashamed for trusting in man. But if you trust the
Lord God, you'll never be ashamed. If you put all your care into
the hand of Christ, you'll never ever be ashamed. I know that
so because Christ wasn't ashamed. The Scripture says, Whosoever
believeth on him shall not be ashamed. And God didn't make
him ashamed. He trusted the Father perfectly. And God did not make him ashamed. He put His Spirit in the hand
of the Father to save him entirely. And the Father did not make him
ashamed. He upheld His covenant promise
and was faithful to His Son. Now let's remember this, when
we see Christ raised, and you see Christ, that God heard Christ
and raised Him, remember this, God never will make any sinner
ashamed for trusting the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus was not
ashamed for trusting the Father. He'll not let one of His people
be ashamed for trusting His Son. He will not. He will not. You'll never be ashamed for trusting
Christ. Trust this world, regard lying
vanities, you'll be ashamed. They'll fail you. But trust Christ,
you'll never be ashamed, ever. Now secondly, so the first thing
to commit our spirit into Christ's hands is trust Him to never let
us be ashamed. Trust that He'll never confound
us for trusting Him. Now secondly, he committed his
spirit into the hand of the Lord by trusting the Lord to deliver
him according to God's righteousness. He says there in verse 1, In
Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust. Deliver me in Thy righteousness. Deliver me in Thy righteousness. Deliver me in Your rightness. Deliver me in Your character
of one who always does what's right. That's what he's saying.
Deliver me as the righteous judge who only does what's right. That's
what Christ is declaring. Now the Son of God came to fulfill
all righteousness. That's what He came down here
for. Whenever He went there for John to baptize Him, Brother
Art just read that in another one of the Gospels, John didn't
want to baptize Him. Can you imagine? And John is
saying, I have need of you baptizing me. I can't baptize you. And
Christ said, no, thus it behooves us. in fulfilling all righteousness. Don't you like that verse? It
behooves us to fulfill all righteousness. Christ was being baptized as
the perfect believer for His people, fulfilling all righteousness. Even just something as simple
as even the fact that He was baptized. He was baptized in
perfect righteousness. When you were baptized, sin was
mixed with me doing the baptizing if I baptized you or if any other
preacher baptized you. And sin was mixed with you when
you were baptized. Not Christ. He did it perfectly
with no sin. His people did it in Him with
no sin. That's why we don't look to our baptism. If you want to
look to something, look to Christ and His baptism. He did it righteously
in righteousness. But it meant more than that.
It meant everything that he came to do was to fulfill all righteousness
for his people and for God. That's why he came. Let's look
at some scripture. Turn to Romans chapter 3. Romans
chapter 3. I want you all to remember now.
Some of you know these scriptures and you think, well, we turn
to these same scriptures, look at these same scriptures. Well,
first of all, just like Paul told the Philippians, it's not
grievous for me to repeat myself over and over and for you it's
safe. But also remember there's new
believers, there's folks that have not been given faith to
believe, and you don't ever get tired of turning to the same
scriptures because this is our gospel. So we turn back and see
these things. Now by the faith of Christ, we're
talking about Christ's perfect faith, He declared the righteousness
of God. That's what He was doing. He
fulfilled the law without any works from His people declaring
God's righteousness. Look here in Romans 3 in verse
19. We know that what things whoever
the law says, it says to them who are under the law, that every
mouth may be stopped, all the world may become guilty before
God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh
be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of
sin. The law wasn't given for you and me to try to fulfill
it. The law was given to declare us guilty, but now the law was
given to bear witness to something else though. When Christ came
and fulfilled the law, the law was given to bear witness. There's
my righteousness. You want to see the righteousness
of the law? You want to see the one who kept it perfectly with
no sin? The law points to Christ and
says, there He is. He's the only one. Look here,
Romans 3. Verse 20, Therefore by the deeds
of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight, for
by the laws of knowledge is sin. But now the righteousness of
God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and
the prophets. The law of God and the prophets
look at Christ and say, this is the one we've been declaring
the whole time. Now watch this. even the righteousness of God
which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that
believe for there is no difference for all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God." Hold your place right there. Don't
leave Romans 3. You see, Christ came and fulfilled
the law because we all came short of the glory of God. We couldn't
fulfill it. We came short of the glory of
God. He came and fulfilled it for His people. And it says,
It's manifest, the righteousness of God. And the righteousness
of the law of God points to Christ and says, there's my righteousness.
He's the righteousness of God. He's the righteousness of God
manifest in the law. It's not by our righteousness,
it's by His faith, His perfect faith, the faith of Christ. And
then look at this, He declared the righteousness of God because
justice was carried out and he justified his people. Look down
at verse 24. Being justified freely by his
grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, were
justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is
in or was accomplished by Christ. Now look at verse 25. Whom God
hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood to
declare His righteousness. That's what this thing is about,
to declare the righteousness of God for the remission of sins
that are passed through the forbearance of God. To declare, I say, at
this time His righteousness. What's he talking about? It's
what Christ came to do. He shows us by His faithfulness
on the cross that God is just and God is the justifier of him
which believeth in Jesus. That's what Christ manifests
by His perfect faith in God. Right there. Now look, when you
think about that though, remember this. In order to declare God's
righteousness on the cross, Our sin bearer, the sin bearer of
His people, in order to declare the righteousness of God on the
cross, justice had to be poured out on Him. That means God had
to separate Himself from Christ and leave Him entirely alone. With every enemy of righteousness
trying their best to turn Him into unbelief. And our faithful
Redeemer had to remain perfectly faithful toward God that whole
time He suffered on the tree. Justice required that of Him. Justice required He die, be buried
in a tomb where sinners suffer corruption. And Christ had to
trust the Father that the Father would deliver Him from the grave. You talk about letting go of
everything. You talk about taking your hand off of everything and
entirely trusting another. He had to trust God. That when
God plunged him into justice, into darkness, into separation,
into that second death, and then into the ground, in the grave,
that when God was satisfied, God would raise him. He had to
trust the Father. You know what he trusted? That
God is righteous. He trusted God is righteous.
Our faith is tried. Your faith is going to be tried.
Your faith and my faith is going to be tried. And we go through
some trials that to us are pretty severe trials. But we'll never
have to suffer what Christ suffered. His faith was tested in that
he had to undergo separation of divine justice from God. You
won't have to bear that, you and I who believe. Because we're
believing on Christ who already bore that for us. That's what
our faith's laying hold of. We won't have to ever bear that. He makes you feel like sometimes
He separated Himself from you. He makes you feel that way just
for a moment, just to teach you something about what Christ did
for you, make you appreciate what Christ did for you and trust
what Christ did for you. But we'll never be separated
and left entirely to ourselves to uphold and to maintain and
to remain faithful to God by ourselves. But when Christ did
it, we hear His cry right here and His cry was this, That was his cry. God, deliver
me in your righteousness. God delivered Christ in His own
righteousness. That's why He did it. That's
why He brought Him out of the grave. He delivered Him in His
own righteousness. Why? Because Christ fulfilled
all righteousness and He is God's righteousness. He is God's righteousness. God is so righteous He could
not leave His Son in the grave. He put away sin. The wages of
sin is death. He died the second death and
He died the physical death for His people so that the law says
satisfied. So it's righteous for God now
to bring Him out of the grave because He's satisfied. Righteousness. He manifests God's righteousness.
And so for God to bring him out of the grave is a further manifestation
of God's righteousness, that He will not leave this Holy One,
this just One in the tomb. He brought Him out because God's
righteous. You see, everything about Christ
is showing the righteousness of God. He came because God's
righteous. He went to the cross and was
made sin so that God would be righteous and pour out justice
on Him in place of His people. and then having satisfied the
justice of God for His people, God raised Him because God's
righteous. He made Him bear sin so God could pour out justice
on Him because He's righteous. He bore sin to justify His people
because God's righteous. And God brought Him out of the
tomb because God's righteous. Everything was to show God's
righteousness. It would have been unjust for
Him to do otherwise. So now, as sinners, the only way we'll
be delivered in God's righteousness, the only way you and I can call
on God and say, God, deliver me in your righteousness, there's
just one way. Listen carefully now, listen
to me. There's one way we can be saved by God's righteousness. That's by believing on God's
righteousness. Casting all your care into the
hand of Christ, that's the only way. Go down to Romans 3.30.
seeing it is one God which shall justify the Jew by faith and
the Gentile by faith. Do we then make void the law
through faith? If God's justifying us, that
means He's establishing the law. That's what justification is.
Seeing it's one God which shall justify the Jew by faith and
the Gentile through faith, are we making void the law by believing
on Christ? Justification is to have the
law fulfilled, is to have the law established. If we're casting
all our care on Christ and believing on Christ, whether Jew or Gentile,
we're saying, He's my righteousness, He's the fulfillment of the law
for me, He fulfilled the law, He made He made the law righteous
and honorable. I believe He fulfilled it. That's
what I'm trusting. I'm trusting He's the righteousness
of God. How on earth is that making void,
the law? That's the only way a man can
establish the law. And when you preach to men, we're
not under the law, that the only way we establish the law is through
faith in Christ, the first thing they say is, you're just saying
we can go out and sin. No, I'm saying that's all you
ever do is sin. You've never done anything but
sin. And what you think is your best righteousness is your very
worst sin. There's only one who ever established
the law. That's Christ. And the only way
a dead dog, ungodly sinner like me fulfills it is trusting Him
who did it for me. Look at what it says. Do we make
void the law through faith? God forbid, yea, through faith
in Christ we establish the law. That's what he's saying. And
that's the only way. And I'll show you that's what
he's saying. Keep reading. What shall we say then? That
Abraham, our father, as pertaining to the flesh, is found. For if
Abraham were justified by his works, he would have somewhere
to glory, but not before God. God won't allow it. What says
the Scripture? Abraham believed God, and God
counted him righteous. See that? That's what He's saying. The only way you're going to
be made righteous and I'm going to be made righteous is trusting the
faith of Christ who by His faith fulfilled the law. And Allah
looks at him and says, there's the righteousness of God. It's
not you and it's not me. It's not that fellow walking
around that's claiming he's holy and he's righteous by his works.
No, no. It's Christ and Him alone. Look to Him. So secondly, committing
our spirit into God's hand is to trust Him to deliver us in
Christ His righteousness. It's to believe on Christ. Commit
it all into Christ's hand as being the only one who could
fulfill all righteousness and make me righteous, Him alone.
And then thirdly, Christ committed His spirit to God, trusting the
Father to hear Him and be His rock and lead Him and guide Him. Look at verse 2. Bow down thine
ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be thou
my strong rock for a house of defense. Be my rock for a fortress
of defense to save me because you are my rock and my fortress.
Therefore, for Thy name's sake, lead me and guide me. Pull me
out of the net that they've laid privily for me, for Thou art
my strength." Do you see how far down Christ descended? Do
you see how far down He condescended? When He prayed to the Father,
He asked the Father, bow down and hear me. Bow down and hear me. This is
Christ speaking. This is how low He descended
to save His people that He prayed to the Father, bow down to hear
me. We live in a world that is full
of arrogant, proud, haughty sinners. And sadly, you and I have a whole
lot of pride and arrogancy in us and our sin nature. But God doesn't condescend to
hear haughty, arrogant sinners. He does not. He never has, He
never will. Scripture says, God resisteth
the proud, but He gives grace to the humble. He said in Isaiah
66, 2, To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and
of a contrite spirit and trembles at my word. And I'll tell you
that the humble man, the man poor and of a contrite spirit
that trembled at God's word, the man to whom God looked to
build his house is the God-man, Christ Jesus. He's the God-man. Go to Philippians 2 and look
at this. Philippians 2. Look at verse 5. Let this man
be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the
form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. That means
he's equal with God. That means he's God. But he made
himself of no reputation. He took upon Him the form of
a servant and was made in the likeness of men and being found
in fashion as a man. He humbled Himself. And He became
obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. You know
what He was doing by all that? Highly, highly exalting God. By trusting the Father and trusting
Him perfectly. That's what all that is saying
is He committed His Spirit into the Father's hand all the time. That's what that verse is saying.
And by doing that, He highly exalted God. Don't your kids
highly exalt you when they trust you? That's why we want them to trust
us. We realize that's exalting me
for them to trust me. When He trusted the Father, He
highly exalted the Father. And you know what the Father
did? He said He resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.
You know what He did? Look at the next word. Wherefore God
also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is
above every name, that in the name of Jesus every knee shall
bow, and of things in heaven, things in earth, things under
the earth, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord to the glory of God the Father. Because he humbled himself
so lowly, go back with me now to Psalm 31. Because he humbled
himself so lowly, trusting the Father, Christ praised and exalted
God highly, highly. When you and I, when we get proud
and we think we can save ourselves or I'm going to show Him, I'm
going to get myself out of this net that men have laid for me
and you know, that's just pride and arrogancy. And that is not
exalting to God whatsoever. Not at all. It's pride. In fact, God will resist us in
it. God will make certain that we
don't succeed in that endeavor if we're His child. But when
you are humble, He exalted God. Look here, Psalm 31 too. Be thou
my strong rock. for a fortress of defense to
save me, for Thou art my rock and my fortress." That's Christ
speaking of the God the Father. When you see Him, the perfect
faithful man, humble, taking the form of a servant, being
obedient all His days, even to the death of the cross, that's
what He's doing. Everywhere He's walking, everything
He's doing, He's saying, You're my rock, Father. You're my fortress. You see, His people wouldn't
do it. We wouldn't say it. We wouldn't do it. And even now
that we have faith, we don't do it perfectly. So He had to
walk this earth perfectly, in perfect faith, exalting God to
the highest. You are my rock. You are my fortress. Look here. Therefore, for Thy
name's sake, lead me and guide me. You, Father, pull me out
of the net that they've laid privilege for me, for Thou art
my strength. And so by exalting Christ. He
highly exalted God by that. And God also highly exalted Him.
And by doing so, God proved that God is indeed our rock. That's
what He proved. God is our rock, in Christ our
rock. God is our fortress, in Christ
our fortress. Christ is His namesake by whom
and for whom Christ leads His people and guides His people.
And when God pulled Christ out of the net that His enemies had
laid for Him, He pulled all His people out of the net of our
enemies and declared, He's the only one that can do it. And
He did it in Christ. All this exalting of God was
to exalt God in what Christ was doing for His people. And He
didn't do it by coming here and waging war and striking down
people, he came here and made himself of no reputation. This world didn't even know what
was happening while he was here doing it. The Kingdom of God came without
observation. They didn't even know who this
man was, because this isn't the Messiah the world was looking
for. The world was looking for some mighty conquering king on
a mighty stallion. Well, I got news for the world,
that's how he's coming back. That's how he's coming back.
And while everybody that thought that Silas was going to come
up again and are going, oh now this is him, this is him. When
he comes back a second time, he's going to say, well I didn't
come for you. You missed me when I came before
low and humble and trusting my father as the perfect faithful
head for my people. You missed it. You wouldn't have
that king Because that king meant, I'm a totally depraved sinner
that needs another to save me. We wouldn't have that. But He
makes you to see Him, makes you to trust Him. And when Christ,
by Christ exalting and praising the Father, for delivering him. He exalted him asking him to
deliver him. And when he did deliver him, he exalted and praised
him more. Look here in verse 7. I'll be
glad and rejoice in thy mercy for thou has considered my trouble.
Thou has known my soul in adversity and has not shut me up into the
hand of the enemy. Thou has set my feet in a large
room. And believer, you that trust
Him, can't you say that? Can't you say that about our
God in Christ? That's what He's done for us.
That's what He did for His people when He raised Christ. He set
our feet in a large room. That's what He's doing for His
people every day. He's guiding us. He's our rock. He's our fortress. It's His mercy by which we're
saved. He knows my soul in adversities. Now listen to this again. God
resisted the proud. God gives grace to the humble. And when you commit your spirit
into Christ's hand, not trying to exalt ourselves in bombastic
pride and boasting in our faith and all that, not that. But when
you cast all your care into Christ's hand in humility, humbling ourselves,
casting all care into Christ's hand, trusting Christ to exalt
us in His time, That's highly exalting to Christ. Look here in 1 Peter 5.5. When
I read over there in Philippians, this is the passage I think about. It says, when he humbled himself,
he highly exalted God and God also highly exalted him. When
the time came, God highly exalted him. Now look at what 1 Peter
5.5 tells you and me. Verse 5, the end, "...Yea, all
of you be subject one to another, be clothed with humility, for
God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves
therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you
in due time." I tell you what you could put there, the same
thing they put in Philippians when they said, Christ humbled
Himself under the mighty hand of God until the death of the
cross and it said, wherefore God also highly exalted Him. He was highly exalted in God
and God also highly exalted Him. You could put right here, humble
yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God that He may
also exalt you in due time. Do you get what I'm saying? Humility, trusting the Father
for everything is highly exalted in Him and those that highly
exalt Him, He'll also exalt them. in due time. In due time. So that's what I'm saying. You
cast, see there the next verse, casting all your care upon Him
for He careth for you. Now here's my point in all of
this. We go to 2 Timothy and I'll wind it up. This is my point.
It's not the quality of your faith. It's not the quantity
of our faith by which we're saved. Christ said if you have faith
as a grain of mustard seed. Have you ever seen a mustard
seed? One of the smallest seeds there
is. It might be the smallest. I don't know, but it's a small
little seed. He said, if you just have faith
like a grain of mustard seed, you'll be saved. You'll do wonders. Why? Because that little grain
of mustard seed faith is not what's saving us. It's the one
that little grain of mustard seed faith is looking to, Christ. And this is His perfect faithfulness.
He saves in perfect faith. He committed the keeping of His
Spirit to the Lord and He never looked anywhere else. Have you
ever done that? You ever committed the keeping
of your soul to Christ and never looked anywhere else? You've
not once done it. Neither have I. That's why our
faith is so minuscule. But we don't look to our faith
to save us. We look to Christ. This is what Paul meant right
here. For Christ's cause I also suffer these things. Nevertheless,
I'm not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed. And I am persuaded that He is
able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that
day. I didn't tell you where it was,
did I? 2 Timothy 1.12. I know whom I have believed. And I am persuaded He is able
to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day. Even when your little old faith
won't keep it committed to Him. Even when our faith won't keep
it committed to Him. Even when our faith starts trying
to commit it to ourselves. And that's what happens, isn't
it? We turn from Him and start trying to take care of it in
our pride, in our arrogancy as if we can. But because He has
made you believe on Him and committed all to Him, He will even take
care of you when you are not committed to Him. Because He
is able. You get what I am saying? Cast
all into Christ's hand. We are saved by His perfect faith.
Amen.
Clay Curtis
About Clay Curtis
Clay Curtis is pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church of Ewing, New Jersey. Their services begin Sunday morning at 10:15 am and 11am at 251 Green Lane, Ewing, NJ, 08638. Clay may be reached by telephone at 615-513-4464 and by email at claycurtis70@gmail.com. For more information, please visit the church website at http://www.FreeGraceMedia.com.

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