Alright, Psalm 7. Let's read
these first two verses. And we'll just look at these
this morning. This is a verse, or a psalm of
judgment, a song of righteousness. David pleading for God to arise
to judgment and to do so righteously. Let's begin here in verse 1. 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 begins here and
he says, Oh Lord, my God, Oh Lord, this is Jehovah. There's
one true and living God and this is Jehovah, God of heaven and
earth. And He says, Lord my God, oh
Lord my God, Now this is the question we need to think about.
It's not the question for the person sitting next to me, it's
the question for me. It's the question for me to consider.
Is Jehovah my God? Is the Lord my God? Is He my God? Now, He says here
in verse 1, In Thee do I put my trust. In Thee. In God. Not in another. In Thee. Not in myself. In God only. And He says, In Thee do I. No one else can do this for me. Do I, this is what I must do,
this is what you must do. In thee do I put my trust, my
trust. When will I put my trust in God?
When will you put your trust in God? Verse 1 there, he says,
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's none
to deliver. He says, save me. A sinner will
put his trust in God when we need to be saved. When we need
to be saved. When we need salvation. He says,
deliver me. Only when we need to be snatched
out of the hand of the enemy will we put our trust in the
Lord. He says there at the end of verse
2, there is none to deliver. But this is when a sinner will
know he needs salvation. When a sinner knows he needs
to be delivered is when he knows there is no other. Salvation
in no other. There is no other that can, is
able to save than the Lord. It's only when we see that God
only can save that we will trust God. When will Christ be all
to somebody? When Christ is all you've got.
When you've got nothing else. When we shut up to Him and can
see Christ is all, is when we'll see that all salvation is in
Him. Now, let me give you some background
here. Someone had accused David of treason to King Saul. And King Saul, as well as a bunch
of his companions, were pursuing David unto death. They were pursuing him unto death
for this crime. Now somebody accuses you and
me of treason against God the King. Somebody accuses us of
that. Satan is the accuser. And he
accuses before God, accuses everyone before God of being guilty of
trying to dethrone God. And that's what we're guilty
of until God makes us come and bow to Him. We're guilty of trying
to dethrone God. But He's not the only one. God's
holy law, His holy and just law says of every sinner in ourselves,
guilty, guilty. There's another line. Look over
at Psalm 50 verse 22. Psalm 50 and verse 22. This is God speaking. Now consider
this, ye that forget God. Lest I tear you in pieces and
there be none to deliver. Lest I tear you in pieces and
there be none to deliver. Now, I want you to picture this. You picture of running from a
lion. A lion is after you. A lion is
barreling down on you. He's running after you. You're
running for your life from a lion. And you can't run fast enough.
You're not going to outrun him. You're running as hard as you
can and you can't outrun him. You can't get away. And you cry
out, Lord, save me. Snatch me out of the hand of
this lion. Snatch me out of his grip. Save me, oh Lord. Why? There is no other deliverance. There is no other. Is our situation
that bad? Is it that bad? Is it that bad
for all who are not trusting Christ? Is it that bad? The Lord
God says there is none righteous. There is none righteous. There
is none righteous. David needed to be justified. This whole Psalm is a song of
David needing to be justified. We're going to look more at it
later in another day, but this psalm is about justice. This
psalm is about righteousness. David needed to be justified
of these charges. We need to be justified. David
needed to be declared righteous. We need to be declared righteous.
God says there's none righteous. No, not one. None righteous. David had one defense. He had
one defense. That's all. Look down at verse
10. Verse 10. Oh, He said, My defense
is of God. My defense is of God, which saveth
the upright in heart. God judgeth the righteous. And
God is angry with the wicked every day. He had one defense,
and that defense was God. He did the one thing He could
do. And the one thing he could do
was flee to the Lord God and cry out, Oh Lord, my God, save
me. In thee do I put my trust, save
me from all them that persecute me. And that's the only thing
any sinner can do is flee to God who alone justifies. He sent forth his son for this
reason. I want you to see this in Romans
3 and you can be sure to hold your place in Romans. We'll come
back here in just a moment. But look at Romans 3 and look
at verse 26. This is why God came forth in the Lord Jesus Christ, this
is why, to declare at this time His righteousness, that He might
be just and that He might be the justifier. He's the one who's
just and he is the justifier of all of him that believeth
in Jesus. He's the one. He's the only place
we can find this refuge and this safety. And David did the one
thing that pleases God. This is the one thing that pleases
God. Do we want to please God? You know, the man that doesn't
want to please God only wants to please one, himself. We either want God to be pleased
or we want ourselves to be pleased. Everybody else be damned. That's
the attitude of the self-deceiving, self-righteous, carnal heart.
I'm going to have what I want. I don't care what anybody else
said. That's the heart that's in man. And that heart is manifest
towards everybody we come in contact with. We don't really
even love anybody. So God puts love in us and makes
to see who love is. That's right. We use and abuse
and do whatever we can for selfish gain. David here has nobody else
to flee to. David has, he's persecuted. He's
being prosecuted. He's being pursued for capital
punishment, for the death penalty to be executed upon his head,
to die. That's where we are. That's where
we are. We're on death row. just awaiting
the jailer to come and open a jail cell and take us down the hall,
and it's over. That's where we are. And we need
to be justified, and justification is nowhere but in God, in His
Son. So David does the one thing he
can do. Flee to the one who says, all
I require is just come to me. Isn't that amazing? God said,
just come to me. Just come, just come to God.
He'll do the justifying. Well, verse one, he says this,
Oh Lord, my God, in thee do I put my trust. Now let's focus on
this word trust just a moment. This word trust. What is trust? We look at these words like this
and we think, well, I know what that is. And it's an easy enough
word, but when will I trust? When will I trust God? When will
you trust God? Trust involves confidence, my
confidence, my hope. It's to seek refuge, it's to
seek refuge in Him. It's to trust that God is worthy
to be trusted. It's to trust that God is able
to do that for which I'm entrusting him to do. And it also includes
this. It includes what I'm entrusting
to God. My trust is my entire estate. That's what my trust is. My entire
estate is my trust. My trust is my eternal soul.
My trust is my eternal well-being. My trust is, it's all that I have, all that I am. I trust
it into God's hand, my trust. Well, I was thinking about this
word this week, trust, my trust. And I began to be blessed as
I began to think of a trust fund, a trust fund. And I want you
to think about this. A trust fund, in the simplest
form, is this. It's when property is transferred
by one party to be held by a second party for the benefit of a third
party. In the simplest form, a trust
is an estate being entrusted to a second party for the benefit
of a third party. Now, let me give you an example
that illustrates the gospel. You take a father. He has an
estate. He has something he's going to
leave as an inheritance, give as an inheritance for his children. So he takes his eldest son, And
he says, I'm making you my trustee. I'm putting all my trust in you.
And I'm putting all my stake in your hands. I'm trusting this
to you. So that you perform the work
of this trust. And you give what I've given
into your hands. You give it to my children at
the appointed time. Now God is the, he's the trustor,
he's the first, he's the one who trusted his son, who gave
his son this trust. He gave it over into his hand,
he's the first party, he's the trustor, the settler that has
something to give. This is the trust. And he gives
this trust into the hand of his son, Christ Jesus, God the Son,
Christ Jesus the Lord, He is the trustee into whom the whole
estate of God was entrusted before the world ever began. And while
we're thinking about that, I saw this too when I was looking this
word up. There's such thing as a self-declared trust, where
the person who's entrusting is also the one who's the trustee.
And God the Father and God the Son are one. They're one. This is a self-declared trust.
God swore when He could swear by no greater. He swore by Himself. He entrusted this work into His
own hand when He entrusted it into the hand of His Son. And
when Christ came forth, God the Son came forth in human flesh.
He trusted the Father. I want you to see what trust
is. God the Father trusted His Son. And His Son came forth. And as He walked this earth as
a man, He trusted the Father. If we're going to understand,
it's just like every other aspect of learning anything that's true. We're going to have to look to
God to understand it. So you have God the Father's
the trustor and God the Son's the trustee. And God did this
for the benefit of a third party. He did it to glorify His name.
It's the only way His name will be glorified. And He did it for
the benefit of a third party whom He chose and gave to His
Son. His children that He gave to
His Son. That's why He did all of this.
He did it to glorify His name. If you were to, if I were to
entrust my estate into the hand of my son, I would do it in order,
and stress this to my son, I'm doing this so that you will glorify
my name in carrying out my trust. glorify my name in doing so that
I know my children will get that which I purpose to give to them
so I know they get it and God did this to glorify his name
in the person of his son look back at Romans 8 Romans 8 Romans 8 29 Let's begin in verse 28. We know
that all things work together for good to them that love God. And we love God for this reason,
to them who are the called, who have been called. And this wasn't
done by accident, according to His purpose. This is what we're
talking about. Let me get your attention here
real quick. Let me, let me, let's just put
it like this. All right, let's say today your
father, your earthly father, has just an amount of riches
that you can't even count them. There's so many. And let's say
your father has said, I've put this in trust to a trustee, and
he's gonna give it to you. He's gonna give it to you. Are
you gonna listen to your father? You gonna pay attention to what
he has to say? You gonna listen to see, find out, who's this
trustee? I better find out where he is
and who he is, because that's where I'm gonna get this inheritance,
is through him. My father's determined I'm not
getting it anywhere but through him. And the father's giving
you, he's giving you one condition, just one. You don't have to work. He's done all that. It's laid
up for you, this inheritance. You don't have to work. He's
done that. He's trusted this work to his trustee, and his
trustee has executed his will perfectly. You don't have to
do anything. What you have to do, though,
is you have to listen to your father and trust him. Trust him. Trust him and trust
his trustee to make good on everything he's promised to you. If that's all I had to do, and
I'm going to receive riches beyond measure from my father, you know
what I would at least do for my father? You know what I'd
at least do? And I think everybody here, naturally speaking, I think
we'd do this. I think we'd listen to him. I
think we'd at least pay attention and hear what he had to say and
find out who this trustee is. Find out who he is. Well, here's
why he did it, Romans 8, 29. For whom he did foreknow, he
also did predestinate. conformed to the image of his
son for this reason, this is why he did this the way he did
it, that he, his son, might be the firstborn among many brethren. That he would get the glory and
the Father's name would be glorified in this trustee. And he said,
moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom
he called, them he also justified, and whom he justified, them he
also glorified. You see, there's nothing in there
for you to do. He did it. He did the foreknowing. He did the predestinating. He
did the calling. He did the justifying. He did
the glorifying. He has nothing else for you to
do. And He did this in His Son that He might be the firstborn
among many brethren. He's the trustee. Now He says,
look to Him. Trust Him. Trust Him. Listen
to Him now. Alright now, in God the Father
and in His Son Christ Jesus, we see perfect trust. Perfect trust. The command here
is, the call here is to trust God. Trust His Son in Him. How am I going to know what trust
is? We see perfect trust when we look at God the Father and
God the Son. God the Father promised His Son
glory with the Father. He promised Him excellent glory
with the Father. He promised Him an inheritance. He promised he would be the firstborn
among many brethren. This is an amazing trust we're
talking about. This trust not only gives the
trustee the work to do, it makes the trustee an inheritor of everything. It makes the trustee to be the
one who's going to come to the throne of the Father, and who's
going to sit down and be the king over his kingdom, and the
head over his house, and receive glory for what he's done, and
be the firstborn among many brethren. And these brethren are his inheritance. They're his reward. And Christ came forth. That was
the promise of the Father to the trustee, to Christ. And Christ
came forth and he accomplished this work that he was given to
perform. to execute this work. He came
forth and he accomplished salvation. He established righteousness
and he justified his people. This is what David's needing.
He needs justice. I need justice to be satisfied.
I can't do it. God has told me there's none
righteous. That includes you and I can't do it. I need God
to justify me. I need God to make me righteous.
And His Son came forth and trusted with His work and He performed
it by His life, by His death, by His obedience to God, even
unto the death of the cross. He performed it and perfected
it. And when He did this, when He
came forth, He's, now listen to this, He's not only the trustee,
He's also the beneficiary. And He's trusting the Father.
He's showing us what trust is. Just as the Father trusted Him
perfectly, He trusted the Father perfectly. Look at John 17. This is what He prayed. John
17. This is why he did this work.
This is what he prayed. We see him trusting the Father.
As we go through this psalm, we're going to see a beautiful
picture of Christ in David. And David's praying, Oh Lord,
my God. As a man, he's the perfect, faithful,
holy one, and he's crying out, Oh Lord, my God, in Thee do I
put my trust. Look at what Christ prayed. John
17. These words spake Jesus and lifted
up His eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify
Thy Son, that Thy Son also may 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. You see, This power of the trustee
was given to his son, and it's a power to give. It's a power
to give. It's a power to give this inheritance
to as many as the Father gave to him. And he says, and this
is life eternal. Here's the inheritance. Here's
the riches. This is life right here, that
they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom
Thou hast sent. And he said, I have glorified
thee on the earth, I have finished the work which thou gavest me
to do. And now, O Father, you see him trusting the Father,
O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory
which I had with thee before the world began. And Christ went
to that cross and He laid down His life and He accomplished
the work. And the Father honored the Son.
The Father was true to His Word. And He raised the Son from the
dead. And He raised Him and He gave Him the inheritance. All of it. He gave it to Him.
And His Son gives that inheritance. to those that His Son has made
joint heirs with Him. Co-heirs with Him. This is what I trust is. This
is what true trust is. And the Gospel, the good news
is this. This is what the good news is. God calling His children. God calling His children. to
put all their trust in Christ so that we can say, in thee do
I put my trust. God trusted his son. His Son
trusted the Father, and God calls on us to trust Him, and to trust
Him by trusting His Son. Now, let's put all this together
and see it in God's Word. Ephesians 1, Ephesians 1, and look at verse 9. having made known unto us the
mystery of his will. This was God's will before the
world began. According to his good pleasure
which he hath purposed in himself. See, this was a self-declared
trust. He purposed this in himself. God the Father and God the Son
are one. that in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might
gather together in one in this trustee. All things, who is that
trustee? In Christ. Both which are in
heaven and which are on earth, even in him. In whom also we have obtained
an inheritance. That's what this thing's about.
It's about the trustor giving to the trustee an inheritance. And this is where we obtain this,
in him, an inheritance. Being predestinated according
to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel
of his own will. You won't be around, you won't
even know it if If your father establishes a
trust for you, you won't know it. He'll do it. According to the counsel of his
own will. And then he'll make it known to you. That's what
God the Father's done. He's gonna make this known in
all the hearts of his children. Make it known that we should
be to the praise of his glory who first trusted in Christ. I know that I know that Paul
was called and he trusted Christ before these Gentiles he's speaking
to trusted Christ. But God's the one who first trusted
Christ. In whom ye also trusted. After
that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation.
All eyes in heaven and in earth are on the trustee, on Christ
the Lord, all of them. Now, those who put their trust
in Christ, called by His grace, back there in Romans 8, let me
show you what they are. Now, watch this. Do we get more
excited when we think about an earthly trust and earthly riches
given to us than we do this one? This is unsearchable riches.
This is unsearchable riches. These are riches that can't be
counted. But here's what his children
are. These that he's done this for, those he calls, those he
brings to trust him. Verse 17, Romans 8, 17. If children,
then heirs. These are the beneficiary heirs. This is the third party. If children,
then heirs. Heirs of God. Heirs of God. What does God own? There's nothing he doesn't own.
Heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. Do you see that? Joint heirs with Christ. What
does Christ own? What does he not own? Joint heirs
with Christ. If so be that we suffer with
him, that we may be also glorified together. And I've got one more
scripture, Isaiah 54. Isaiah chapter 54. Now, when
we go through this psalm, we're going to see David fleeing to
God because he needs to be justified. He needs to be made righteous.
He needs to have his name completely clear. before the accuser who's
prosecuting him and persecuting him and ready to put him to death.
He needs to have his name cleared and this law needs to be upheld. He doesn't want this at the expense
of justice. He doesn't want it at the expense
of righteousness. He wants this done in justice
and righteousness. That's what David's pleading
for. Now look at what God says to
all those that He brings to trust Him. He says, verse 17, Isaiah
54, 17. No weapon that is formed against
thee shall prosper. That means any, in the earth
or in heaven. Every tongue that shall rise
against thee in judgment. Do you see this? David's being slandered. Some
people call this Spurgeon called this the slandered saint being
slandered He says no weapon that's formed against thee shall prosper
every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou
shalt condemn Man you mean there's absolutely no weapon that's gonna
prosper against me. There's no tongue that's gonna
be able to condemn me How can that be how will that be accomplished
I Need this I God showed me I can't accomplish this myself. David
had no place else to flee, and he fled to the only one who could
crush all the weapons against him and shut every mouth against
him, the only one. How am I going to have it? We've
been talking about a trust, that which God entrusted to his son,
that which his son accomplished. How are we going to have it?
He said it's by inheritance. This is the heritage, the inheritance
of the servants of the Lord. And their righteousness, God
said, is of me. It's of me, saith the Lord. I've
done it. Now, when you look back to our
psalm now, we'll end here, but do you see what a trust is? This
is what trust is. We've got to look to God and
see Him trusting His Son, His Son trusting the Father, and
this work accomplished fully, justifying His people, making
His people righteous. And now God says, this is the
inheritance that's given to the beneficiaries. Their righteousness
is of Me. Now the gospel is this, put your
trust in God. Trust Him. Trust Christ Jesus who's accomplished
this work. You mean I don't have to build
the house? I don't have to go out and earn
all the riches? I don't have to do any of those
things? What's an inheritance? It's a
gift, worked out by another and given freely. That's what this
is. And David said, oh Lord my God,
in thee do I put my trust. Save me from all them that persecute
me and deliver me. God's never rejected anybody
that said, Lord, I'm trusting you only. Save me, deliver me. He's done just that for everyone. And he will. He will. I can say
that without reservation. Because that's all God calls
on his people to do. Trust him. Trust him. Amen.