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Caleb Hickman

Trust in the Lord

Proverbs 22:15-29
Caleb Hickman April, 29 2026 Video & Audio
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Caleb Hickman
Caleb Hickman April, 29 2026
Trust in the Lord
Prov. 22:15-29

In this sermon titled "Trust in the Lord," Caleb Hickman addresses the doctrine of divine trust anchored in the immutability and truthfulness of God, as illustrated in Proverbs 22:15-29. He argues that societal deceit and human pride challenge one's ability to trust, insisting that true hope lies solely in the unchanging promises of God, which cannot lie. Scripture references, particularly Proverbs 3:5-6 and various passages exploring the nature of salvation, reinforce the idea that true faith is a gift from God that transcends human effort or understanding. The sermon's practical significance revolves around emphasizing reliance on God's sovereign choice in salvation and the vital importance of trusting Him completely, rather than any works or self-righteousness.

Key Quotes

“If I'm trusting man, I'm trusting the flesh, I'm trusting my works, or am I trusting the Lord?”

“We trust his choice because our flesh would not choose him.”

“Our problem in the flesh is our depravity. It causes us to look at things that are physical.”

“How do I know if I'm a believer? He's made me to believe.”

What does the Bible say about trusting in the Lord?

The Bible encourages believers to trust in the Lord with all their heart, as stated in Proverbs 3:5-6.

Scripture consistently emphasizes the importance of trusting in the Lord over our own understanding. Proverbs 3:5-6 instructs us to trust in the Lord with all our heart and not lean on our own understanding. This reflects the need for reliance on God's wisdom rather than our often flawed human perspective. In a world filled with uncertainty and deception, trusting in God’s immutable character becomes essential for faith and assurance of salvation.

Proverbs 3:5-6, Proverbs 22:15-29

How do we know that God's promises are true?

God's promises are true because He cannot lie and does not change, as affirmed in Hebrews 13:8.

The reliability of God’s promises is rooted in His unchanging nature. Hebrews 13:8 tells us that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, demonstrating that God’s character is constant and trustworthy. Since God cannot lie, His promises are guaranteed, providing us hope and assurance. This belief encourages believers to maintain their trust in Him, especially during trials and uncertainties, confident that His word will never fail.

Hebrews 13:8, Numbers 23:19

Why is trusting in God's choice important for Christians?

Trusting in God's choice is crucial as it highlights His sovereignty in salvation and our reliance on His grace.

For Christians, trusting in God’s choice in election underscores the idea that salvation is entirely of grace, not based on our own works or decisions. This understanding alleviates the pressure of self-reliance and leads to a place of humility, as we recognize that we are saved not by our choice but by God’s sovereign will. It reassures believers that their salvation is secure in the hands of an all-powerful God who actively chooses to save His people, highlighting the depth of His love and grace.

Ephesians 1:4-5, Romans 9:15-16

What does it mean to trust in the Lord for regeneration?

Trusting in the Lord for regeneration means relying on His power to bring us to spiritual life.

To trust in the Lord for regeneration refers to the belief that spiritual rebirth is solely the work of God. John 3:3 emphasizes that one must be born again to see the Kingdom of God, and this rebirth is not something we accomplish ourselves. Instead, it is an act of God's grace where He imparts spiritual life and faith to His chosen ones. This trust reassures believers that their ability to believe is not based on their own efforts but on God’s divine intervention, reinforcing our dependence on Him for both life and sustenance in faith.

John 3:3, Ephesians 2:1-5

Sermon Transcript

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We're in the book of Proverbs this hour, if you'd like to turn there. Proverbs 22. We live in a world, a society, where it's hard to tell what you can believe. It's hard to tell what is true and what's not. The only thing that we have that is guaranteed truth is the written word of God. That's all we have. If you go on news, you don't know if the news is telling you every fact or all the whole story, leaving out part of it, making themselves look good, or making that person not look as good. We don't know.

If you go talk to people, you don't know if they're telling you the truth in some of the things they're saying. Because we naturally, by nature, we like to stretch Our stories, you ever heard of the, I'm sure everybody here probably has known a fisherman or a hunter at one time that said, man, you should have seen that thing. That fish was 24 inches long when really it was only like 15 inches, but you just had to look good. You know what I mean? Why is that? Well, it's because it's our nature. It's our nature to desire attention. It's our nature to look good, to look good. It's pride. What it comes down to is pride.

But we live in a society where It's hard to tell what's true or what's lie. It's hard to trust people in things, especially as the Lord's people, because we see things around us as dying. We see ourselves as dying. We see other people as dying. We have been given the ability to look at the world and say, I'm a dying man talking to another dying man, or I'm a dying man talking to another dying woman. We see through that lens.

Nobody else sees through that like the Lord's people do. Everything is fading. And everyone, the reason we don't trust is because everyone has a deceitful heart, has a deceitful heart. But there is hope in this world, but it's not of this world. And the hope is found in the Lord's word. The hope is found in his promises. Why is that hope?

Well, because he can't lie. He can't lie. So you can trust him. You can believe him, whatever he says, you can believe him because he cannot lie. Another part that I love about our God is that he cannot change. Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. I am the Lord, I change not, therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. So he can't lie and he can't change. You can trust. the Lord. Trust His word. Trust His words. Trust His promises. Trust His covenant. Tonight we're going to be looking at trust in the Lord. Trust in the Lord is what I've titled this message. Let's read this together.

Proverbs 22, 15. Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich shall surely come to want. Bow down thy ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

For it is a pleasing thing if thou keep them within thee. They shall withal be fitted in thy lips. That thy trust may be in the Lord. That's where our title came from. Trust in the Lord. That thy trust may be in the Lord. I have made known to thee this day, even to thee, have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge that I might make thee known the certainty of the words of truth and that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee.

Rob not the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate, for the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoil them. Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not go, lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul. Be not thou one of them that strike hands of them that are sureties for debts. If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set. Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before kings. He shall not stand before mean men. Trust in the Lord. I have a simple message tonight. I know I say that often, but it's a simple gospel.

But the question is this, am I trusting in the Lord? Am I completely trusting in the Lord as all my salvation, as all my salvation, or am I trusting self? Am I trusting self? Because that's the only two possible options that there are. That's the only two possible options. Am I trusting self or am I trusting the Lord? If I'm trusting man, I'm trusting the flesh, I'm trusting my works, or am I trusting the Lord? His body that was broken for his people, his finished work, his blood that was shed alone, am I trusting in that? Or is there something else I'm looking to? Can't be both, you can't serve two masters, the Lord said. Can't serve two masters, you'll love the one and hate the other.

Is my confidence in my doing, what I can do or what I can't do or what I have done, what I haven't done, or isn't it what he has done for his people? Is that my confidence? Can I trust him for that, what he has done? Proverbs 3, 5, and 6, a very familiar passage, says, trust in the Lord with all thine heart, lean not to thine own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge him, He shall direct your path. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. How do you do that?

Well, it can't be with this heart of flesh. Heart of flesh hates God. He has to give a new heart, one that looks to him by faith. That's what we're referring to when we talk about being a new creature, the Lord making us and giving us a new nature. That nature looks to him in all things by faith. That's the ability to do so.

Our problem in the flesh is our depravity. It causes us to look at things that are physical. We're always drawn to things that are physical, not spiritual. A good example of that is as soon as you leave here, you go back into the world, you're looking at things around you that is physical. While you're sitting here, you're not moving. You're not... distracted by the things that are moving around you. We're sitting here attempting to worship. That's spiritual.

We're asking the Lord to send His Spirit and power, open up our eyes that we may see Him. But our flesh must see things. And the Lord's constraining grace, I'm so thankful for that because He's the one that keeps us. He's the one that keeps us from looking for evidences of our salvation. Sometimes, I remember in false religion definitely we would look at evidences.

We would say, I'm better today than I was yesterday. I've gotten, they would always talk about exercising your faith as if it's like going to the gym or something. You know what I'm saying? And I didn't, that's not what it is. No, it's faith looks to Christ. Faith looks to Christ. Faith looks to the spiritual, not the physical. It's not what we see. So I can't have any confidence in my flesh because I can see my flesh. I can't have any confidence in what I do because I can see what I do. I can't have any confidence in anything around me because I see it with these eyes. Our confidence and our trust goes to the Lord whom we cannot see.

He's made it that way. Men desire to place their trust in themselves, in their good deeds, in their works, their kindness to others. They trust what is seen naturally. And here's the reason why Psalm 49, 11, their inward thought is that their houses shall continue forever and their dwelling places to all generation. They call their lands after their own names. They believe they're going to live forever.

I had, uh, I've seen somebody before, people don't think of death. I haven't talked to many people that's thought of death that's not believers. I'm just being honest. But every believer that I've ever spoke to, every one of them, an elect child of God that I've spoke to, death is brought up eventually in the conversation. And what is your hope in death? That's what's brought up. And it always points to Christ.

But I've seen before a man denying that he was going to die up until his very last breath. It's appointed unto men once to die, and after this, the judgment. It's appointed unto men once to die, and after this, the judgment. He's gotta reveal it, though. He's gotta reveal it, otherwise we'll.

We think about you, you see yourself getting older. This man I was speaking of, he was a very old man and he thought he would get better, I guess, but he didn't. The point I'm making is we can see ourself getting older. That's called dying. That's what that is. We're literally dying. Every second, we're getting closer. Every second. We come from the womb, dying creatures. That's just how it is. So I can't trust this. because there's no life in it of itself.

The Lord has to give life. The Lord has to give spiritual life, and that's what he does to his people. Here's the good news of the gospel. Look at verse 17 to 21. Bow down thine ear and hear the words of the wise and apply thine heart unto my knowledge for it is a pleasant thing if thou will keep them within thee. They shall withal be fitted in thy lips that thy trust may be in the Lord. I have made known to thee this day, even to thee have I not written to thee excellent things and counsels and knowledge, that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth. that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that sinned unto thee.

He makes his people know the truth. He makes his people trust the truths. Well, what is the truth? Remember Pilate asked the Lord that. Pilate said, what is truth? Talking to the truth right there, I couldn't see it. Truth is a person. It's the Lord Jesus Christ. The truth is the written word of God, which is Jesus Christ in written form. He is truth.

But unless he reveals it, we remain lost. Unless he gives us wisdom, we remain dead. We won't be able to figure this out. We will look at what we see and trust evidence for our salvation, but thanks be to God, what we just read here tells us that God makes his elect look to Christ. He makes us to know truth. We know him. Not just of him, we know him and he knows us as his people. We look to Christ for everything God requires. We look to him, we trust him in election. that before time he chose a people that he would redeem. He chose in mercy and in grace to save some sinners, some sinners.

He says, I've set my affection upon you. I have called you by name, I've redeemed you, you're mine, you're mine. He said, not for your sake am I gonna do this, but for my sake. The Lord chose to elect a people unto himself. We trust his choice in election. Because it was by his choice, that was the beginning of our salvation. His choice, not my choice. I told somebody one time, salvation is a choice. Yes, absolutely. It's just not my choice or your choice. It's God's. It's God's choice. And to the believer, to the elect child of God, that's a comforting word to hear. But to a non-believer? I mean, I think that person might have wanted to fight. I mean, they hated it so bad, but it's the truth, isn't it?

It's the truth. Salvations of the Lord, all of grace, it's His choice. I trust His choice. He has made me thus. I think that's very important to mention that, but for the grace of God, there go I, I wouldn't believe. So he's the one keeping me. It's not me that has, I've decided to trust him. No, he's made me trust him. He's proven to me that he is the only thing, the only one trustworthy. You can't trust even our vehicles. You can't trust that. Sometimes they break down. You can't, there's no way to trust anything in this world But you can trust Him. He won't let you down. He'll never leave you nor forsake you. What comfort it is to the believer to know we have, our God's trustworthy. Our God's trustworthy.

He knew, knows all things, purpsed all things. that we would choose ourself, just like Eve did in the garden, just like Adam did in the garden. You wanna know, man talks about having free will. Well, that's what it looks like. It's not free, it's bound to our nature. And you all know that, but the only time the Lord ever gave man a choice to make when it had something to do spiritually, we blew it, didn't we? It's exactly what happened. Eve took the fruit knowing it was not supposed to be eaten.

Why? Because she wanted to be like God. To be like God. So would we choose God if he gave us a choice? No, we'll choose the fruit. We'll choose the fruit. If our father Adam did it, we certainly will do it as well. I was wondering why this was Difficult for me to see, I kept leaning forward and it's because it was all the way up there. We trust his choice because our flesh would not choose him.

Was it the Samaritan woman's choice that saved her? Or was it the Lord Jesus Christ's choice when he said, I must needs go to Samaria and he went right to the well where she was at And she spoke to her, he spoke to her and told her, as she puts it, all things ever I did is this not Christ.

He gave her repentance and he gave her faith because he told her, she said, well, when Messiah comes, he'll set all things straight. And he said, I am, I am. And by the power of his words, the words of his power, she lived. The Lord called her out of darkness into light. She saw the King right then. Was it her choice that did that? Doesn't say she made a choice. Actually, it says she did make a choice. She left her water pot behind. That's the choice she made. But it was because, well, the Lord made her do it.

I mean, he gets all the glory in this. Was it the choice of the impotent man at the pool of Bethesda? that allow him to be healed? He'd been impotent, what was it, 30-something years? He's at the pool, he said, sir. Lord said, wilt thou be made holy? He said, sir, I have no man. He was confessing the same thing we confess, that we can't trust the flesh. Paul said, having no confidence in the flesh, no confidence. He said, sir, I have no man when the pool is troubled to put me in before somebody jumps in front of me and gets in the pool.

And I love what the Lord said. He said, take up thy bed and walk. Take up thy bed and walk. And immediately, he received strength. That's the word of his power. Now, later on, he actually, he didn't just heal him on the outside. He healed him on the inside, too, later on when he sees him later. But he rebuilt who he was then. But was it his choice that caused any of that? Was he made whole because he said, I'm going to let you make me whole?

Think about an arrogant statement, that is. Hmm. No, Lord, have mercy upon me, the sinner. Come to where I'm at. Choose to save me by your power because I'm powerless. It's not my choice. I trust your choice. I trust your way. I trust your truth. Salvation is God's choice because it belongs to him. He's the author and finisher of faith. He is absolutely sovereign. He has all power, both in heaven and on earth, and we don't have any power.

You know why this building's not packed out tonight? Because people don't like this message. It completely dethrones the flesh, and it puts it in the dirt where it belongs, and it shows us that that's what we are, is dirt. And yet the Lord people love it that way because we see that he's got to be the one that saves me.

And the good news is he delights in showing mercy. He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. So this is a faithful saying and worthy of all the acceptation. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sin. That's exactly what he did. He is the author and finisher of faith. He is sovereign and all-powerful. He alone has the words of eternal life. Remember the Lord talking to his followers about him being the bread of life?

He said, my body is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed. Except you drink my blood and eat my flesh, you shall have no part with me. They thought he was talking about cannibalism by the way they responded. Towards the end of that, and I'm skipping over a little bit of things that were said, but they said, this is a hard saying, who can hear it?

And it says, and his disciples departed and never came back. The 12 disciples stayed there with him. And he looked to them and said, the Lord Jesus Christ looked at them and said, wilt thou also go away? And what did Peter say? Lord, to whom shall we go?

Thou hast the words of eternal life. You have the words of, I trust you. You're the only one with words of eternal life. If you don't say live, I'm gonna remain dead. Oh, we trust his choice because of his power, because of his character, because of his person.

Was it the choice of the maniacic Gadara that caused him to be found clothed, seated, and in his right mind? This man is out of his mind. He has a legion of demons in him. He's cutting himself daily. which is a picture of false religion, penance and false religion and not doing certain things or doing certain things in order to try to pay for sin. Catholics do that a lot. Not picking on anybody, it's just facts. It's not good, it's not of the Lord, it's demonic.

It's obvious because he was out of his mind, because he had demons in him, that's what was causing him to do it. But they tried to bind him with chains and fetters and he broke them. I mean, he was breaking chain. Well, that's another picture of false religion.

We make promises to God, Lord, if you help me this one time. Remember praying that in false religion? If you help me this one time, I promise I'll do this and this from now on. I won't miss a Sunday this whole year. We've made the silliest promises to God. And we broke them. Broke them. Why? We don't trust that now we know not to trust our promises to Him, but His promises to us. Now we know not to try to fix the sin that we are. We look to His blood alone to fix that. We look to His sacrifice alone to fix that.

We trust Him. The Lord went all the way down. to Gadara. He was at the very, very top of that sea. And he goes all the way down. It's a picture of his condescension, becoming a man. He goes right to where that maniac is. The maniac runs to him, falls on the ground and does worship, scripture says.

And he said, what will I have to do with thee, Jesus? Thou son of David, are you here to torment me before the time? And Lord asked him what his name was. He said, Legion, for we are many. And he begged the Lord. He said, don't send us out of the country, please. I love that, that the demons had to beg the Lord. He has all power, all power.

They wanted to go into the hogs, and so he bid them to go. He gave them permission to leave and go into the hogs. But when everybody got back, The farmers heard about it, everybody got over to see what happened. The hogs had drowned themselves in the sea and they found the maniac seated and clothed and in his right mind.

Was that because his choice or was that because the choice of the Lord? If the Lord Jesus Christ didn't go down to Gadara, that man had no hope, no hope. But the Lord condescended down. The Lord did all the work because he has all the power. That man was clothed in the righteousness of God. He was seated, resting on the Sabbath, resting in Jesus Christ, and he was in his right mind. He no longer thought it was his choice that mattered. He thought, I trust your choice. I trust your choice. Am I trusting my choice or God's choice in election? Secondly, Am I trusting my work as any part of my redemption?

After the father elected his people, he gave them to the son. He gave them to the son, and the son took the book and loosed the seals thereof. He was the only one worthy to do so, otherwise there would be no salvation. The Son redeemed His people, not by my choice, by His choice. He honored the Father with everything that He did. The life that He lived, the perfect life that He lived before the Father, the Father was well pleased. He said, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. And the Lord lived a perfect life unto His Father, because you and I couldn't live that life. Here's the glorious part, being in Christ before the world ever began, Our record was cleaned by him. Our record is now his record, because we died in him. So I don't have the same old record that I used to.

The sin's gone. He alone went to the cross with the choice to lay down his life freely for his people, satisfying the law's demands, satisfying God's demands, satisfying the Father. He made sure that when justice came forth, that it was satisfied. Justice had accomplished that which we deserved on the treaty that should have been ours. He took our place. He took our place. That's why we trust him.

He didn't go to Calvary to try to do something. He didn't go to Calvary to make a way for you to do something. He went to Calvary to do what he was born to do. to die for his people and redeem them back to God all by his grace. And that's exactly what he did.

The Lord poured out his eternal wrath upon his son and the son endured it until all the sin of all God's elect were gone. He cast them as far as the East is from the West, never to be remembered again. He said he cast them into the depths of the sea. I call that sea, the sea of forgetfulness. He don't remember anymore. He said, your sin and your iniquity, I will remember no more. This is why we trust Him. We don't trust our works, we trust His work. We don't trust our choice, we trust His choice. We don't trust our works, we trust His finished work. You know, our work's never finished in this life.

What do I mean by that? Well, all right, if you're gonna cook a meal and you get that meal done, and you eat it, you clean up the dishes, now your kitchen's clean again, Do you ever have to cook again? Or is it done? Do you understand what I'm saying?

Same thing with cars, they fall apart, they need new parts. Nothing in this world, the work is never, that's our curse as men, that's our curse, to work, eat bread by the sweat of our face. Nothing is ever truly fixed. We did a good job painting this building, the Lord gave us the ability to do that, but one of these days it's going to need to be painted again. It was painted before we painted it, right? So we had to paint it again, because the paint was fading or it was chipping, it was getting bad. What's my point? He's the only one to ever finish a work. You and I can't finish our work.

He sat down, that's how we know he's finished. Father said, sit thou here at my right hand until I make thy enemies thy footstool. He sat down, expecting until his enemies be made his footstool. As our intercessor substitutes surety, he sits, interceding for his people. I trust his work, not mine. His work's finished. I don't look at my works anymore. You don't look at your works anymore.

Do you don't say here's, here's the good deeds that I'm doing. And maybe the Lord will recognize me if I do good deeds or if I'm really nice to somebody, it's good to be nice to somebody. It's good to do good deeds, just not as any part of salvation, not as evidence or not as part. It's not good to do that. Do I trust my works or do I trust His works? Because I'll remind us what the Scripture says, our righteousness, our works, it's filthy rags. Filthy rags.

But oh, His righteousness is glorious. His righteousness is good. And you know what He named His bride? He gave her His name. Jehovah said, can you the Lord our righteousness? We have been made the very righteousness of God in Christ. When Christ took our sin upon the cross, he gave us his perfect righteousness. We trust his work.

We can't trust my work. Can't trust my choice. I can't trust my work. Lastly, am I trusting the Lord in regeneration and keeping me? Am I trusting in my doing something to be regenerated, or am I trusting Him doing everything in regeneration? Most false religions say you have to do A in order for B to be accomplished, in order for B to be attained, or B to be received, and that's not true, not when it comes to salvation.

The Lord is the Alpha and Omega. He does it all. And so, he, just like the maniac at Gadara, just like the man at the pool, think about the pool of Bethesda. All the people that would have been there, he walks by every one of them to go to that man. Why? He was an elect child of God, that's why.

And that's exactly what he does now, is he comes to where we are, when a gospel's being preached, and he opens up our heart. We sung that song, what did it say, Open My Eyes? Opened my ears, it said, we're dead. Lord, what hope did Lazarus have in his, he was dead and trespasses in sin. And then the Lord saves him and he dies. Now he's just dead.

So what hope did he have of becoming alive again? Could it be by his choice? Could it be by his work? Could it be by his doing something? No. It depended upon one thing, the Lord coming right to that grave and saying, Lazarus, come forth. And he came forth bound hand and foot. He didn't say, if you take the first step, I'll take the second. I need you to try to start wiggling or whatever. No. See how silly that sounds? He said, Lazarus, come forth. And Lazarus came forth.

Am I trusting the Lord in regeneration and keeping me, or do I do something that causes me to be regenerated? And the reason I put it that way is because that doesn't make sense. If I am unregenerated, I can't do something to become regenerated. Do we see that? You have to be made alive before you can do anything spiritually.

He says live, and he gives faith and repentance, the gift of grace. And we see him as God, and we see ourself as the sinner. We see him as the great savior. He regenerates us. He chooses to do that. It's not what we do, it's what He does. In the fullness of time comes, God sends His Spirit and power and says, live, arise, come forth. And one of the Lord's people take the first breath of faith. This is only for His people. Suddenly we find ourself alive unto him.

How do you know that you're a believer? Well, I believe. I don't, I don't have evidences. I just, Lord's causing me to believe right this second. I believe Jesus Christ is the son of God. I believe he put the, put away the sin of his people. I believe he was successful in everything that he did. How do I know if I'm a believer?

He's made me to believe, but my hope's not in me. My hope's in him. My hope's in him. It's not in my choice. It's not in my works. It's not in my doing. It's in him alone. He's got to regenerate me. And you know what else he has to do? He has to keep me. Boy, if he doesn't keep me, I'm in trouble.

Think about the times that he has refrained this flesh from something that we don't even have a clue that he restrained it for. Could have gotten a situation in a hurry, but our car wouldn't start or locked our keys somewhere. As we get frustrated over those little tiny incidences that happen, remember that that's the providence of God sheltering you from something.

He's keeping his people. He's not going to leave them to yourself. Might have had a wreck or something. We don't know. Whatever it is, we know that the Lord does all things well. That's why we trust him. I don't keep myself by self-control or self-denial. It's not what I do or don't anymore. He keeps his people by his power, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed at the last time. He keeps his people.

So my closing question is this, do I trust in the Lord or do I trust in self? Do I trust in the Lord's choice or my choice? Do I trust in the Lord's finished work or my works? Do I trust in the Lord everything that he did in salvation and redemption, regeneration and keeping us? Am I trusting his doing or am I trusting my own doing? These are critical questions that we must answer for ourself. Thank God, he says, I'm going to make them willing in the day of my power. I'm going to make them honest. Did you know the Lord's people are the only ones that are honest?

And I don't mean like physically all the time. We all tell white lies. I talked about the fishing story. There's a lot of other stories we could talk about. We're honest towards God about who he is and about what we are. He's made us thus. Nobody else is honest. He makes his people honest before him, completely naked, completely naked. He sees it all. Thank God he makes us honest and makes us willing in the day of power. And he causes us to trust him alone as all of our wisdom, as all of our righteousness, as all of our sanctification and all our redemption. We trust the Lord. Let's pray. Father, thank you for your word. We ask that you would take it and bless it to our understanding for your glory. Cause us to trust you evermore. Cause us to trust you. In Christ's name, amen.
Caleb Hickman
About Caleb Hickman
Caleb Hickman is the pastor of Oley Grace Church, at 761 Main St. Oley, PA 19547. You may contact him by writing to: 123 Nickel Dr. Bechtelsville, PA 19505, Calling or texting (484) 624-2091, or Email: calebhickman1234@gmail.com. Our services are Sundays 10 a.m. & 11 a.m., and in Wednesdays at 7. The church website is: www.oleygracechurch.net
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Joshua

Shall we play a game? Ask me about articles, sermons, or theology from our library. I can also help you navigate the site.

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