Go ahead and open your Bible
with me to 1 Samuel chapter 17. 1 Samuel chapter 17. We'll begin
reading in verse one. 1 Samuel chapter 17, verse one. Now the Philistines gathered
together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at
Soco, which belonged to Judah, and pitched between Soco and
Azekah and Ephes-Dammon. And Saul and the men of Israel
were gathered together and pitched by the valley of Elah and set
the battle in array against the Philistines. and the Philistines
stood on a mountain on the one side and Israel stood on a mountain
on the other side and there was a valley between them. And there
went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines named
Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. And he had a helmet of brass
upon his head and he was armed with a coat of mail coat of armor,
and the weight of the coat was 5,000 shekels of brass. And he
had greaves of brass upon his legs and a target of brass between
his shoulders, and the staff of the spear was like a weaver's
beam, and his spear's head weighed 600 shekels of iron, and one
bearing a shield went before him. And he stood and cried unto
the armies of Israel and said unto them, why are you come out
to set your battle in array and not I of Philistine and you servants
to Saul? Choose you a man for you and
let him come down to me. And if he's able to fight with
me and to kill me, then will we be your servants. But if I
prevail against him and kill him, Then shall ye be our servants
and serve us. And the Philistine said, I defy,
that word is defame, the armies of Israel this day. Give me a
man that we may fight together. And when Saul, pay attention
to verse 11. And when Saul and all Israel
heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly
afraid. Look down at verse 23. And as
he, speaking of David, talked with him, behold, there came
up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out
of the armies of the Philistines and spake according to the same
words. And David heard them. And all
the men of Israel, how many of them? All of them, when they
saw the man fled from him." Now that in my margin there, it says
fled from his face. They wouldn't dare look him in
the eyes, basically what that means. And we're sore afraid,
very afraid. Goliath here is issuing a public
challenge. He's taunting the Israelite army
and he's provoking fear and asserting dominance. He's mocking them,
but He's not just mocking them, He's mocking their God. He's
mocking the God. And He's saying, why are you
all lined up like you're ready to fight when none of you have
the courage to face me? And this was a former challenge
to single combat. It was ancient practice. This
happened very often in olden times, where two warriors would
fight to determine the outcome of a larger conflict. And this
was very often designed to avoid mass bloodshed. Goliath is demanding
a one-on-one battle to settle the conflict. nor any man in his army. And
I'm sure there were some valiant men there except this challenge. And even the courageous Jonathan
remained quiet. I thought about that. Why? Because
David is the chosen one. David is the one whom God determined
before the foundation of the world would be the seed of the
Lord Jesus Christ. So let me ask you a question.
I've often thought about this. What would you do if you were
challenged to do hand-to-hand combat with a known warrior who
was between nine foot nine inches tall to 11 foot three inches
tall? Now we see these basketball players
today, seven foot, and I mean, they just dwarf us. Can you imagine
someone two foot taller? than seven foot, maybe four foot
tall. Would you fight one whose spear
was close to 26 feet long and had a 20 pound metal iron spear
on the end of it? Would you face one whose armor
alone weighed as much as I do, 190 pounds or so? Would you be afraid of this mate? Of course you would, and so would
I. That word dismayed, it means
broken down. Their will to fight this giant
was broken. Dismayed means to be utterly
discouraged. They were discouraged. It means,
dismayed means to be fearful, fearful for your life. And fear
is so debilitating and weakening. We often fear it's just a weakening. The kind of fear that I'm speaking
of is a fear of the world, not a fear or reverential respect
for God, but it's a fear for the world and the things of the
world and including man. This kind of fear that most every
time stems from one thing. Unbelief. That's right. A lack of trust. A distorted view of God. Scriptures
consistently tell us that God's people are not to fear because
the obvious reason, God is sovereign. God is omnipotent. He's present
and He's faithful. And He's out to do you good,
and He is not going to let harm come to you, not His people.
And it's nothing but unbelief when we do fear man. What man
or woman that has God on their side should be afraid? In 1st,
excuse me, 2nd Timothy chapter 1 verse 7, Paul wrote, For God
hath not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love,
and of a sound mind. Isaiah 41 10, God says, Fear
thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed. There's that
word again, for I am thy God. I'm your God. Now, People in
religion today have a right to fear because their God is not
the God of the Bible. He's not the God that rules and
reigns and does what he wills in the army of heaven and among
the inhabitants of the earth. He's a little mealy-mouthed God
that's trying to save people, wants to save people, but man
has to let him have his way. That's not the God and that's
not my God. And to be in fear, having a God
like that would be understandable. But not for the believer who
knows the God of the Bible. In Joshua chapter 1, verse 9,
the Lord said to Joshua, Have not I commanded thee to be strong
and of good courage? Be not afraid, neither be thou
dismayed. Don't be broken down. Don't be
discouraged. Fear, for the Lord thy God is
with thee. Wheresoever, withersoever thou
goest. In Psalm 23, four, we know the
Psalm well. David's son, yea, though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil.
Why, David? Because thou art with me. God,
you're with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort
me. The Lord Jesus directly confronted
fear in his ministry. And he tells us in Matthew chapter
10, verse 28, fear not them which kill the body, but are not able
to kill the soul, but rather fear him which is able to destroy
both soul and body in hell. The only person that we're to
fear is God. And that is talking about a reverential
respect for the one who loved us. and gave Himself for us.
In Mark chapter 4 verse 40, after calming the storm, you remember
that? The Lord said, why are you so fearful? God was in the
boat with them. Why are you so fearful? How is
it that you have no faith? See, this is the cause. Fear is caused by unbelief. Why don't you have any faith?
Why don't you believe? And here the Lord ties fear to
a lack of faith and trust in God's power and of God's care. The fear of God leads to wisdom,
worship and obedience, but the wrong fear, the fear of man,
the fear of circumstances, the fear of death is rooted in unbelief
and it leads to cowardice. And that's what we see with the
army of Israel. This is something that scripture
repeatedly tells us to reject, fear, fear not. The consistent command from the
scriptures is fear God and you won't have need to fear anything
else. The fear of God is what makes
you afraid of sin. If you fear God, you're afraid
of sin. And it's the fear of looking
anywhere but to Christ, as we often say. It's the fear of looking
to anything contrary to His mercy and grace. But what Saul and
the men of Israel's army was experiencing was the fear of
unbelief. When you get right down to it,
that's all it was. God had delivered them. They
had heard stories all their life about how God had delivered Israel
out of Egypt, the miracles, the plagues that God sent, the parting
of the Red Sea, all the miracles that he did in the wilderness
for them. Over 60 times in the scriptures,
the Bible says to fear not. And over 30 times it adds, and
be not dismayed. Fear takes on the form of many
things. And I know, and I'm guilty of
it, just like the next person. We fear, most of the time, we
fear things that never happen. Why do we cause ourselves so
much grief? What about this? What about that?
What if? What if this? What if that? We
fear what might happen in our old age with our retirement.
We fear how we're going to make ends meet if this happens or
that happens. And what about the economy? And
what about who's president? And what about so many things
that fear takes on so many different objects. What if I don't know
the Lord? What if I just have convinced
myself that I'm saved? What if the Lord don't save my
family? I just, the fear of the Lord
not saving my children. We're all dismayed. That word
dismayed means distressed. We're all distressed over many
things, aren't we? Why? Sin. Sin, unbelief. I think sometimes, actually often,
we forget whose children we are. We forget who our Heavenly Father
is. John, writing to believers in
1 John 3, verse 1 said, Behold what manner of love the Father
hath bestowed upon us. This is talking to believers,
not to the world. He said, what manner of love,
how much love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should
be called the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth us
not because it didn't know him. And David wrote in Psalm 103,
13, like as a father pitieth, loves with compassion. That's
what the word means. Loves his children. So the Lord
pitieth them that fear him. You know, I felt, I feared my
father. It wasn't in a way of being scared. It was in a way of disappointing
him. I didn't want to disappoint him. And we don't want to disappoint
our heavenly father. The Lord Jesus said, therefore
take no thought saying, what shall we eat? What shall we drink?
Or what shall we be clothed with? Or after all these things that
the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knoweth
that you have need of all these things. He's going to provide
every one of them for you. James 117, James said, every
good and perfect gift cometh from above. It's from above and
cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness,
neither shadow or turning. Listen, the Lord isn't this way
one day and another way the next. He's out to do you good today.
He's out to do you good tomorrow. He's out to do you good all the
days of your life because He is your Father. And He loves
you with an everlasting love. No reason for us to fear, yet
we do. And it's because of sin. Whatever comes our way in this
life, our Father's in control of it all. Do we believe that?
We say we do. Do we act like we do? Most of the time, not. Just truth
of the matter. Lord, I believe, help thou my
unbelief. I say that all the time, and
I'm making it. Lord, I do believe, but I'm so full of unbelief. I'm so full of doubt. I'm so
full of fear. Ought not be. When the Lord says,
be not afraid, be not dismayed, we can be assured that he goes
before us in omnipotent power. We have no reason to be afraid.
Not if we look at Him that can do all things. It seems that
in our text, David here was the only one who knew this and truly
believed this. And he is our example in the
study tonight. This wasn't anything new for
David. Well, just as a young shepherd boy, he trusted the
Lord when he faced that bear and when he faced that lion.
And this Philistine giant was no different. No different. David didn't look at him being
11 foot tall. David looked at him as being
an uncircumcised Philistine that hated God, that defamed God. David said, he's
talking about our God. May God enable us to know what
David knew. For the Lord your God is he that
goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies to save
you. Deuteronomy 20, verse four. Well, who are our enemies? Well, our biggest one besides
sin is ourself. We blame a lot on Satan and he
is no doubt our adversary, but he doesn't need to, He doesn't
have to exercise much authority or power to derail us. We're pretty good at doing it
ourselves. But our main enemy, the giant enemy against us is
sin, and the Lord's gonna deal with our enemies just as the
Lord dealt with Israel's giant. My sins that defy me, harass
me, and oppress me, and depress me, The Lord's gonna deal with
them every single one. Well, He already has. Child of
God, it's not left up for us to deal with our sin. What are
we gonna do about it? We can't do anything. Why, if
we spend eternity in hell, wouldn't pay for the first sin? Many people,
even believers, even those who love God as their father, fear
death. I think everyone does to some
degree if they're honest. Oftentimes we say, well, I'm
not afraid to die, but deep down we are because of unbelief. Because if we truly believe what
God says about death, we'd be looking forward to it. We'd see
it for what it is, it's a departure, it's a promotion. That's why Israel feared this
giant Goliath. They knew that he could kill
them. Goliath was big and strong enough to kill them and they
knew it. But they forgot that God was bigger than Goliath.
And we forget that God is bigger than our sin. The only thing that should cause
us to fear death is our sin. Sin that hadn't been taken care
of, but as believers, our sin's been taken care of, hadn't it?
God will deal with your giant enemy of sin. He has already,
knowing that what is there for us to fear. Hold your place here
and turn with me to Romans 6. It's the only place I'll turn
you. tonight, Romans 6, and look at verse 20. Let's read four
or five verses here. Romans 6, beginning in verse
20. Paul says it this way. For when
ye were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those
things whereof ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is
death. But now, being made free from sin and become servants
to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting
life. And then the passage that we
all know so well, for the wages of sin is death. And I have often
said this, I'm glad that Paul didn't stop there. Because the
wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal
life. And that eternal life is through
Jesus Christ, our Lord. To doubt and to fear is so dishonoring
to God. It really is. For when we doubt
and when we fear God, we're questioning Him who is faithfully promised. We're saying, God, I know you.
I know you can do all things. I'm just not sure you can do
that for me. I know folks that don't have
any problem at all believing that God can save a wretch like
me, but they have trouble believing that God can save them. That's
unbelief. That's all it is. God can save
whom He will. He has mercy on whom He will.
He has compassion on whom He wills, and whom He wills, He
hardens. That's God. And to say that, well, I just
don't think he can save me is nothing but unbelief. It's fear.
What ingratitude it is not to believe God. Unbelief is a horrific
sin. There's nothing worse. You know
why? Because every other sin comes
from it. Every other sin comes from sin.
In Exodus chapter 14, God delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt
with a mighty hand. I've already referred to that
once. And when the Israelites were
trapped between the Red Sea and Pharaoh's army, approaching army,
they panicked in unbelief. And so would we. So would we. We look and we've got the Red
Sea in front of us. We hear the chariots and the
thundering of the horses behind us. And here we are, we don't
know how to fight. We know how to make bricks. We
know how to build buildings, but we don't know how to fight. And Moses stands and he makes
a declaration of faith in the deliverance of God. And they,
in unbelief, said to Moses, well, here we are, here we are. I guess
there were no graves enough in Egypt that you've taken us out
here to die in the wilderness. This place that we're in is just
one big graveyard. We're all going to die right
here. Why have you dealt with us this way? Why did you carry
us forth out of Egypt? And we do the same thing. Lord, why this? And why did that
happen? But Moses causes the people to
trust and remain steadfast. He tells them to witness God's
intervention. And the stage is set for one
of the most dramatic and supernatural deliverances in all the word
of God, the parting of the Red Sea. What did Moses say? He said,
fear not. Stand still and see the salvation
of the Lord. See the salvation of the Lord
provided for you. It's provided for you. Doesn't
say see the salvation of the Lord if you do this or if you
do that. No, it's provided for you. And you shall see your sin no
more. So he said, fear not, stand still,
see the salvation of the Lord, which He will show to you today.
For the Egyptians who represent sin, whom you've seen today,
you shall see them no more forever. And he says the same concerning
our sin. Our sin's gone and it's gone
forever. You know, there's another story in the Scriptures when
Judah faced a massive coalition army Instead of panicking, Jehoshaphat
sought the Lord, and God responded through the prophet Jehoshiah,
I think that's how you say it, the son of Zechariah, and he
said, ye shall not need to fight in this battle. Set yourselves,
stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you. You don't
have to raise a finger. Stand ye still, set yourselves. O Judah and Jerusalem, fear not,
nor be dismayed. There it is again. Tomorrow go
out against them, for the Lord will be with you. The Lord fights
our battles for us. Why do we insist on fighting?
Why do we insist on fighting battles that have already been
won? Why do we fear the things that have already been accomplished
and determined for us? You know the answer. Unbelief. Unbelief. And unbelief's not
a minor issue. It's a sin that has far-reaching
consequences. Unbelief is not intellectual
hesitation. You know, bright people, they
don't jump into things, and we shouldn't. We should pray about
them. But even intelligent people that
don't know God, they don't make hasty decisions. They think about
it. But that's not what this is.
It's a spiritual failure to trust in God. It's a refusal to believe
who God is, to believe what God has said, and to believe what
God has done. It's rebellion against God, first
and foremost. Hebrews 3.12 calls it an evil
heart of unbelief. in departing from the living
God. Unbelief will cause you to depart from God. Unbelief,
God considers it evil because it rejects God's character, it
rejects God's truthfulness, his power, his goodness, it's disobedience
in the fullest extent. They heard God's promises, they
saw his work, yet they said, we will not have this man rule
over us. It's flat out rebellion, disobedience. Secondly, unbelief makes God
a liar. That's what John wrote in 1 John
5, 10. He that believeth not God hath
made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave
of his Son. We don't believe God is telling
the truth about who He is. Thirdly, unbelief is the root
of all sin. In the garden, Eve didn't just
eat a fruit. She doubted God's Word. Unbelief
always, always precedes disobedience. Sin is not believing God. Sin, unbelief says God's not
enough, or that His way is not best, and it always leads to
death. Fourthly, unbelief rejects Christ. The Lord Jesus said very plainly
in John 8, 24, I said therefore unto you that you shall die in
your sins, For if you believe not that I am He, you shall die
in your sin. It rejects Christ. Rejecting
Christ is rejecting the only hope that we have for salvation.
And it's not simply tragic, but it's eternally damning. And no good works or no moral
living can make up for the sin of refusing to trust the Son
of God. Fifthly, unbelief keeps you from
entering God's rest. Hebrews 4.2, for unto us was
the gospel preached as well unto them, but the word preached did
not profit them. Why didn't the gospel profit
everybody? Because it wasn't mixed with
faith in them that heard it. Some believe, some don't believe.
Some have faith, others don't. And the faith that God gives
is as much a gift as the grace that God gives. Because you're
saved by grace through faith, it's not of yourself, it's a
gift of God, not by works, lest any man should boast. Unbelief
shuts the door to peace, it shuts the door to joy, it shuts the
door to rest, and it shuts the door to eternal life. It's not
just that unbelievers miss out on God's blessings, They remain
under God's wrath. God is angry with the wicked
every day, but child of God, He's no longer angry with you,
because He sees His beloved Son when He looks upon you. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the Son shall
not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. It's not
that we just get a few more blessings or a little nicer residence in
heaven than one that don't believe. It means that we'll see Christ
face to face in glory. The believer and the unbeliever
is going to spend eternity in torment and separation from God. And sixly, God calls us to repent
of unbelief. The Lord Jesus in Mark chapter
one said this, the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at
hand. Repent and believe the gospel. You can say you're sorry
all you want to, but if you don't believe the gospel, there's no
everlasting life for you. Unbelief's not just a minor flaw. It's the heart of human rebellion.
It mocks God, it blocks salvation, it fuels every other sin. And
the only remedy for unbelief is the gospel. That's it. Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. That's it. Unbelief's not a weakness, it's
a wickedness. Unbelief is not just ignorance,
it's resistance. It questions God's truthfulness.
Isn't that what the serpent said to Eve? Have God really said? Is that what God really said?
Is that what God really meant? Well, you shall be as God's.
Before Israel disobeyed, they disbelieved. That's what comes first. All
sin flows from a heart of unbelief, a heart that doesn't trust God.
Romans 14, 23 says, for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. That's pretty plain, isn't it? Whatever's not of faith is sin.
Unbelief is sin. May God enable us to hear his
counsel concerning his sovereign deliverance. That's what salvation
is. God divinely intervening, God
divinely and sovereignly saving sinners. And his counsel is stand
still and consider the wondrous works of God, Job 37, 14. And every believer has. We've
considered, God's shown us that there's no other way to be saved
than His wondrous work for us. And David understood what none
in Israel seemed to. If God be for us, who can be
against us? David practiced that before Paul
ever wrote it. Paul asked five questions in
Romans 8. that every believer needs to
consider. You know it well enough, I won't turn you there. But when
it comes to the matter of trusting the Lord to deliver us, there
are five questions that he asks. The first one we just mentioned,
if God be for us, who can be against us? Greater is he that's in us than
he that's in the world. If God's for us, nobody can be
against us. Secondly, shall God not freely
give us all things in Christ? That's what he said. Yes, he
shall. He's promised to do so. Thirdly,
he asked, who shall lay anything to our charge? God's people,
God's elect charge. No one can, because it's God
that justifies. If God makes me holy, if God
justifies me, who's gonna question him? Who's gonna refute his, Finally. Fourthly, who is he
that condemns us? Nothing to no one. It's Christ
that died and rose again. If Jesus Christ shed his blood
to put my sin away, my sin's put away. I don't have any sin. Nobody can condemn me. And fifthly,
who shall separate us from the love of God? Nothing, no one. Why? Because it's in Christ Jesus,
our Lord. Who shall separate us from the
love of God, which is in Christ Jesus. That's where it's at.
God doesn't love anybody apart from Christ. But Jesus loves
me, this I know. If it's not in Christ, he don't. God said in Isaiah 41, I read
it a moment ago, verse 14, fear not, Thou worm, Jacob, and ye
men of Israel, I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer,
the Holy One of Israel." Scott Richardson once said, you can't
take a promise from God to and for yourself unless you personally
fit the character of the one to whom it was promised. God
said, fear not, worm. Fear not, thou worm. Jacob, and
folks will say, well, I'm no worm. The word means maggot. Well, I'm not a worm. Then that
promise wasn't for you. If you're not a worm, if you're
not a sinner, then you don't have no redeemer. Only one lost
needs a redeemer. Only one sick needs a physician. Only one dead needs a savior. It's the lost that God helps.
It's the sinner that God redeems. In Jeremiah 30, verse 10, the
Lord said, therefore, fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith
the Lord, neither be dismayed, O Israel. And there's that word
dismayed again. For lo, I will save thee from
afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity, and Jacob
shall return and shall be in rest and be quiet, and none shall
make him afraid." None shall make him afraid. Man, how wonderful
it is to be rest and be quiet. To be in rest, it says. In rest,
in a state of rest. Not just work all day and then
kick back in your recliner and rest, but to be in rest, in an
attitude of rest, in a state of rest. It's that same word
that Naomi used concerning Boaz when she said, he shall not be
in rest until he has finished this thing this day. Ruth, until
He redeems you and makes you His own, He's not gonna rest.
And the child of God can say the same thing. The Lord Jesus
Christ will not rest until His people, all of them, are brought
into the fold. Yet, and He's resting right now,
because His work's finished, and just in the process of time,
all of His sheep haven't come home yet. But they're all, it's
all been accomplished. Our great Boaz, the Lord Jesus
Christ, will not rest until our redemption is finished. Rest
is a response to a finished work. That's when you can rest, when
the work's finished. David, okay, I'm gonna wrap this
up. David, who was a shepherd over
a few sheep, said, the Lord is my shepherd. David said, I'm
an under shepherd. I'm watching over these sheep,
but my shepherd's watching over me. So he watched over my sheep
too. Christ is a good shepherd. He
gave his life for his sheep. Look at our text in closing,
back to 1 Samuel 17. Look at verse 25. And the men of Israel said, have
you seen this man that's come up? surely to defy Israel as
he come up. And it shall be that the man
who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches
and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free
in Israel. And David spake to the men that
stood by him saying, what shall be done to the man that killeth
this Philistine? And taketh away the reproach.
Notice that word, it taketh away the reproach from Israel for
who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies
of the living God. Now we see right here that David's
concern was to take away the reproach from Israel. The reproach
refers to the, Disgrace. It refers to dishonor brought
by Goliath's taunts and Israel's reaction to his taunts. It brought
dishonor to God. He said, I defy the armies of
the living God. I defame God. Your God is nothing. If your God was somebody, have
Him send somebody out here to fight me and let's see who wins.
And the Lord did. Sent out a little shepherd boy. And he won, didn't he? It's the same with the giant
named sin. Sin brings reproach on us. Proverbs 14, 34 says, righteousness
exalted the nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. Righteousness
referring to justice. Integrity is the way of the Lord. It exalts a nation. With justice
abiding, there's increased peace, rest, stability. and respect from other nations.
That's what David is saying here. Who's going to take away the
reproach of this uncircumcised Philistine? Do you not hear what
he's saying and who he's talking about? Oh, you think he's talking
about you? He's talking about your God.
Sin is reproached to any people, Solomon said. Corruption, injustice,
exploitation, it all brings shame. Disgrace. Those who allow it
are gonna utterly collapse under the weight of their own corruption.
But the standard of God is justice. God is a God of justice. David
said, is there not a cause? That's what he said right here
in this chapter. Is there not a cause? Is there not a worthy
issue? Isn't this something for us to
be concerned about? The glory of God is at stake,
is what David said. And so it was with Goliath, and
so it is with sin. The glory of God is the cause. The glory of God is the cause.
And the sin of man is a mockery. This giant was a mockery to God,
and so was our sin. It'll be dealt with either by
God's holy justice, or it'll be dealt with in mercy by the
Shepherd King, the Lord Jesus Christ. That's who David pictures
here. He pictures Christ, the Shepherd
King, who put away our giant called sin. Sin's one day very
soon gonna mock us no more. We shall not fear what men can
do to us. Because the Lord's our helper,
the Lord's our deliverer, the Lord's our Savior. He's a just
God and a Savior. He's the only one that could
be. A just God and a Savior. So, let's put our trust in He.