Let me read Psalm 71 to us this
morning. This is a Psalm of David, as
far as we know. I think that would be all right
for us to assume that. The title doesn't say, but I
think that this is David. And I think everyone else probably
would agree with us that knows more about these things than
I do. Do I put my trust? Let me never
be put to confusion. Deliver me in Thy righteousness
and cause me to escape. Incline Thine ear unto me and
save me. Be Thou my strong habitation
whereunto I may continually resort. Thou hast given commandment to
save me, for Thou art my rock and my fortress. Deliver me,
O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of
the unrighteous and cruel man. For Thou art my hope, O Lord
God. Thou art my trust from my youth.
By Thee have I been holding up from the womb. Thou art He that
took me out of my mother's bowels, my mother's belly, her womb. My praise shall continually be
of Thee. I am a wonder unto many, but
thou art my strong refuge. Let my mouth be filled with your
praise and with your honor all the day. Cast me not off in the
time of old age. Forsake me not when my strength
faileth. For my enemies speak against
me, and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
saying, God has forsaken him. persecute and take him, for there
is none to deliver him. O God, be not far from me. O my God, make haste for my help. Let them be confounded and consumed
that are adversaries to my soul. Let them be covered with reproach
and dishonor that seek my hurt. But I will hope continually and
will yet praise thee more and more. My mouth shall show forth
your righteousness and your salvation all the day, for I know not the
numbers thereof. I will go in the strength of
the Lord God, I will make mention of His righteousness, thy righteousness,
even of thine only. O God, thou hast taught me from
my youth, and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous Now also, when I
am old and grey-headed, O God, forsake me not, until I have
shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to
every one that is to come. Thy righteousness also, O God,
is very high. Who has done great things, O
God, who is like unto thee? Thou which hast shewed me great
and sore trouble will quicken me again. and shall bring me
up again from the depths of the earth. Thou hast increased my
greatness and comforted me on every side. Thou shalt do it. Thou shalt increase my greatness
and Thou shalt comfort me. I will also praise Thee with
a psaltery, even Thy truth. O my God, unto Thee will I sing
with the heart, O Thou Holy One of Israel. My lips shall greatly
rejoice when I sing unto Thee, and my soul which Thou hast redeemed. My tongue also shall talk of
Thy righteousness all the day long, for they are confounded,
for they are brought to shame that seek my hurt. The title
this morning and this afternoon of what I want to look at from
this psalm is really found here in verse 1. In thee, O Lord,
do I put my trust. That's what I want us to think
about today. In thee do I put my trust. What it means, what
is it to trust the Lord Jesus Christ? I think all of us have
seen written somewhere, maybe on some embankment or some overpass,
or on a sign somewhere, where someone has scribbled those two
words, Trust Christ. Have you ever seen that? Trust
Christ. I've often wondered, some of
the places I've saw that written on, who wrote that? What would
have compelled someone to have got up on an embankment or a
bridge or climbed down and written those two words? I've often wondered
that, haven't you? If they even understood what
they were saying. If they knew what it meant to
trust Christ. I have no idea what motivates
people to do what they do. I don't know. I don't know if they knew what
they meant when they said trust Christ. But when you and I read
this great king making this statement, in the Lord do I put my trust,
you and I can bet this man knew what it meant for him to trust
the Lord Jesus Christ. This word trust is a very interesting,
very telling word. It means a strong belief that
someone or something can be depended upon. A strong belief that someone
or something can be depended upon. So then David is saying
this, Lord, I strongly rely upon you. I depend upon you. I put my confidence in you. My confidence, all of it, totally
is in the Lord. I have no confidence in myself.
Isn't that what he's saying? If all our confidence is in the
Lord Jesus Christ, then it means we have no trust in ourselves. Lord, I put my trust in You. And notice three things here
about what he says in verse one. Notice how personal this is. I don't know if my family will
be saved. I don't know who's going to be
saved. I hope my family, I hope my children are saved. But whether
or not anybody else is saved in my family is not first and
foremost my concern. My concern is this, do I put
my trust in him? And that's what David said. Look
at it. In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust. See how personal that
is? Here was an old man, an old king,
a mighty king, one of the richest kings Israel ever knew. One of
the most beloved kings. And he said, I have my trust
in somebody outside myself. My heart, my soul, is trusted
in the Lord Jesus Christ. In Thee, O Lord, do I put my
trust. But notice something else that's
very important, and we'll look at this sometime, hopefully in
the course of the message today. Notice this about this present
trust. Did you notice how he said that?
In the Lord do I put my trust. I'm sure David could have gone
back many, many years and said, I did put my trust. But you know,
we need a present trust. A true trust is a present trust. That we don't have to go back
ten years ago, or twenty years ago, or fifty years ago, and
talk about when we came to trust. True trust is a present trust. Do we trust Him now? In the Lord
do I put my trust. And then, of course, look at
the object of His trust that's very evident, isn't it? In the, The. In The. Oh Lord, do I put my trust in
Thee, in Thee. David said it's better to trust
in the Lord than to put your confidence in man. Trust in the
Lord. There's two scriptures that I
love, and I love to think about them. I love what they teach
us concerning trust and the object of trust. One of them is found
in Romans chapter 15, where the Apostle Paul was quoting the
prophet. And he said, there shall be a root of Jesse, a root of
Jesse. He come out of Jesse's lawman,
the son of David, Christ the Lord. And he shall rise. He shall rise from the dead.
They crucified him. They buried him. But he arose
from the dead and ascended to reign over the Gentiles. He's a risen, reigning Lord. And listen to what Paul says,
ìIn Him shall the Gentiles trust.î Whoís the object of our trust?
The object of our trust is God in Christ. The Christ who rose
from the dead and who is reigning. He shall rise to reign over the
Gentiles. We trust a King, a Lord, a risen
Savior. Thatís the object of our trust.
ìIn Him shall the Gentiles trust.î But then, in Matthew chapter
12, he uses this same word, trust, again. And here's the way he
says it in Matthew 12. A bruised reed shall he not break,
and smoking flats shall he not quench, until he hath sent forth
judgment into victory, and in his name shall the Gentiles trust. We have Jesus Christ set forth
here. Two ways. A reigning king, a
sovereign Lord who has obtained redemption and reigning. Then
we have a meek and lonely Savior who won't even break a bruised
reed. It's almost like you're going
through a swampy area where the big reeds grow up and you look
at a reed and here you can tell something has happened to it.
Something has hit it. Something has injured it. And
it looks as if it's almost ready just to break open. You ever
feel that way? You ever feel like you have bruised
reeds? He is so meek and so lowly. Jesus Christ is so gentle and
so tender. He's such a nurse. to the bruiserie,
that not only will he not break it over, he'll never suffer it
to be broken. Smoke and flax. Have you ever
piled newspapers on top of each other and set them on fire? And
really there's no flame there anymore, just smoke. And sometimes you either have
to stir it all up, or if you want to get rid of it, you've
just got to bring a whole bucket of water and pour it on there
and soak it and douse it. and get rid of the smoke. Smoke
is sometimes irritating, isn't it? But you know what? The grace that's in your heart,
it may have reached a place where it doesn't even put out any heat.
It's just smoking. Do you ever feel that way? Well,
here is such a meek and lowly Savior that He won't quench smoking
lacks. The grace that He's put in your
soul may be so diminished that it can hardly be seen, but it
will never die because He upholds it. He will never quench it. So we have a great Sovereign
that obtained redemption. We have a meek and holy Savior.
And what do we do? We put our trust in Him. In Thee, O Lord, do I put my
trust. He's the object of our trust. At the same time, he says that
all power is given to me in heaven and in earth. At the same time,
he's still true to that invitation. Come unto me, all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. He's the object
of our trust. Let me give you some elements
of trust. Let's begin with this, and look
in verse 17. Look in verse 17. Here's the
first thing that I want us to look at concerning trust. We see it here in verse 17, and
we compare it to verse 5. Look in verse 17. This tells
us something about David. O God, thou hast taught me from
my youth. You have taught me from my youth."
Now the question arises, what had God taught this man? And
we find it back up in verse 5. Look back up in verse 5. Thou
art my hope, O Lord God. Thou art my trust from my youth. David says here, Lord, I'm an
old man, and you have taught me from my youth. And he said
in verse 5, Thou art my trust from my youth. So what had God
taught him in his youth? To trust. Is that not what he
said? You have taught me to trust in
my youth and from my youth. So it's evident that David is
saying, Lord God, you have taught me to trust from my youth." God
had taught him to trust in his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
what he's saying, isn't it? You've taught me from my youth?
You've taught me from my youth? Oh God, thou hast taught me from
my youth? And he says, in thee have I put
my trust. Why is it necessary? for the
Holy Spirit to teach us to trust. Why is it important? Why did
David even say, you have taught me to trust from my youth? Is
it because by nature we know nothing of what it means to trust
the Lord Jesus Christ? We don't know Him. We don't know
how to put our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. No man ever trusted
Christ savingly until God teaches that man to trust Him. The first
aspect, then, of this business of trust, in Thee, O Lord, do
I put my trust, is that we are taught of God the Father to put
our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. And I call upon everybody here
this Clarence taught us on confessing Christ. I would call upon everybody
here this morning. I don't care how old you are,
young, boy or girl, man or woman, everybody in here this morning.
I would call upon you to do the same thing that David did. Put your trust in the Lord Jesus
Christ. And having said that, I know
from the Word of God that we will not do it and cannot do
it until God teaches us to do so. Listen to what he says in
John 6, 44, 45. No man can come to me except
my Father which sent me draw him. It is written in the prophets. Listen to what is written in
the prophets. Here is what the prophets believed and taught.
They shall all be taught of God." Isn't that what David's saying?
You've taught me from my youth. And your Lord Jesus says, still
to this very day, you cannot come to me savingly to believe
on me and trust me as all your salvation until God teaches you. It's written in the prophets,
they shall all be taught of God. Every man that hath heard and
learned of the Father, he comes to me. He comes to put his trust
in me when the Father teaches him to do so. We can conclude here from
these two verses, verse 5 and verse 17, since it's God who
teaches us to trust. then this trust is not a blind
trust. It can't be a blind trust, can
it? Bruce, why do you say that? Because we have to be taught
to put our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. By nature, we're
ignorant. By nature, we just don't know
how to trust Christ. We must be brought to the place
where He is made unto us trustworthy. We cannot and will not trust
somebody we do not know. This is why it's necessary for
God to teach us that His Son is trustworthy. He's trustworthy. Listen to what the Apostle Paul
said, and God had obviously taught him to put his trust in the Lord
Jesus Christ. And listen to what he said. I
know whom I have believed. In that word there is trusted.
I know whom I have trusted, and I am persuaded. I am persuaded. Somebody had persuaded this man
of something. And here is what it was. I am
persuaded. that he is able to keep that
which I have entrusted to him against that day." What would
bring this man, the Apostle Paul, who was a self-righteous Pharisee,
what would bring him and persuade him that he could put all his
trust in the love of Jesus Christ, in the merits of Jesus Christ,
in the power of Jesus Christ? in the obedience of Jesus Christ,
in the blood of Jesus Christ. Who was it that taught him and
persuaded him that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is trustworthy? God taught him that. God taught
him that. The first problem I think that
you and I face, brothers and sisters, is we don't know how
to trust Christ. We just absolutely don't know
how to trust Him. We may think we do, until we
come right down to where the rubber meets the road, and then
we don't know. We don't know. God has to teach
us, just like He did David, to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Here's the problem that you and I face, and here's why God must
teach us. We come into this world and we
live our lives not knowing the Lord Jesus Christ as He is revealed
in the Holy Scriptures. We have to be taught of Him. We have to be taught about His
person, who He is. We have to be taught about the
power that's in His blood. Oh, I've told you so many times,
I went for years trying to save myself. Trying to figure some
way how to get this guilt off of my pocket. How to atone for
my sins. And I did all of that because
I was ignorant of the atoning blood of the Savior. Until God
finally convinced me, persuaded me, there's power in His blood. Trust Him. Put all your trust
in His blood. When I see His blood, I'll pass
over you. But I thought I had to add something
to that blood. I didn't know what that blood
was. I didn't know it was given to God to atone for my sins before
God. I didn't understand that until
God taught me that I could trust that. If someone asks you how
you could help them if they truly believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,
ask them this question. This will help them if they truly
believe. Who is your faith? It is your faith in His blood.
What do you think about His blood? If you would have been down in
that house, down in Egypt, about midnight, when the wrath of God,
the death angel, was coming through, where would your faith and your
confidence have been? If someone says, What is going
to protect you from that death angel? When about midnight you
hear all these screams and you're the first born, what's going
to protect you from death? You know what they would have
said every last one of them? My faith's in that blood. We
kill that lamb, his blood is over the door post and on the
side, lintels of the door. My faith's in that blood. We have to know that, don't we?
God has to teach us to trust in the blood of His Son. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son, cleanses us. Cleanses us. If you had a million dollars,
and you had a million dollars in cash, would you go find the first person
you ran into? and say, can I trust this million
dollars to you? I don't know you, never seen
you before, but here's this stack of money. Here's one million
dollars. Would you give it to that person?
You wouldn't, would you? Why? You don't know him. Let's
get more personal. Let's make it better than that. I bet you this is so. You shiver
to even think about this. I bet you, Stacy, if she needs
somebody to babysit with her little infant, you think she
would run outside her house and saw the first old truck that
came by and flagged him down, and there sat an old beardy,
scraggly-looking man in an old rusted-out truck, and she would
hand her little darling child into him and say, I've got some
business I've got to take care of. Would you watch my precious baby?
Don't you shiver to think of that? We wouldn't trust our money with
somebody we don't know. We wouldn't trust our precious
infant with somebody we don't know. How much more our souls,
our eternity bound souls. We've got souls that are precious
to us. Hopefully they are. And we cannot
bring ourselves to put our souls in the trust of somebody else
until God teaches us. God has to teach us. The scribes and the Pharisees,
they never could bring themselves to put their trust in the Lord
Jesus Christ. And you know why. They had such
a bad opinion of him. They said, well, he's a Samaritan.
We don't even believe he's a Jew. He's a deceiver. He may even
have a devil. You can't trust Christ if you
don't believe he's trustworthy. You can't trust him if you don't
believe that he's able to save and secure your eternity-bound
soul. This is one of the great miracles
about the Apostle Paul coming to say, I believe he's able to
keep that which I've entrusted to him against that day. Paul
felt the same way about the Lord Jesus. Oh, he said, I hated him. Did he not say that? I wanted
to do many things contrary to His name. And I did them. I wanted
to stomp out His name. I wanted to stomp out His people.
I had a low opinion of Him. And God had to teach him who
Jesus was. That He's trustworthy. He's able. He's able. This brings us to another problem
we face as far as this business of trust, I think, is concerned. We're not precious to ourselves.
This is one of the problems that we face. It's not only that we
must be taught of the trustworthiness and preciousness of Christ, but,
you know, we're not precious to ourselves. We have a lot of
this self-esteem today. I know, man, I know that's running
rampant. Self-importance. We've got plenty
of that, don't we? Self-love. We've got all kinds
of that. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about we're ignorant
that when we come into this world, we possess these precious souls. And what makes them precious
is that they were created in the image of God. And when I'm
talking about our souls, I'm talking about who we are. God
made us in His image. We're not animals. We're not
horses or cows that come into this world a few days and cease
to be. Though we have sinned and we've
lost this image of God for the most part, yet we have these
eternal beings. When we are born into this world,
we shall never cease to be. Our bodies shall go back to the
dust, but who we are within, our souls, our spirits, shall
live on somewhere, either in eternal misery or eternal heaven
and life. But do we even appreciate that?
We look out for the needs of these bodies to feed them and
clothe them and entertain them. But what do we think about this
immortal soul that we possess? I tell you, the first thing that
God has to teach a man is that you are possessed of a precious
soul. You are a precious soul and you
are going to live on somewhere for eternity. You won't be annihilated. You
have an eternal existence. And I tell you when He shows
us that we stand a chance of losing ourselves. Losing ourselves. That's one
of the most awakening thoughts that anybody could ever have.
And men are not concerned about putting their trust in a great
Savior, a meek and lowly Savior who is willing, who is able to
save them. They are unconcerned about that
because they have not yet fully realized, if at all, of their
preciousness, of their preciousness. Oh, if you and I could talk as
Abraham did to that rich man in hell this who has been there
now for at least 2,000 years, if we could speak to him and
listen to him this morning, that he is still saying, I am tormented
in this way. Some mother's son who lived and
breathed and worked just like you and I do upon this earth,
who lived his life, 60 or 70 or 80 years, And then he died just like you
and I shall. And he's perishing in hell today. His soul is being tormented in
that flame of hell. And you know something? You and
I are precious. We don't have to take our word
for it. The Lord Jesus Christ said you
possess something that is worth more than the world. What would
a man give in exchange for his soul? I tell you, people are
given a lot less than this world for their souls. This is our
problem, isn't it? How precious are you? How precious
is your soul? I never will forget John Warburton's
wife. John Warburton was an old preacher. And the Lord had saved him, and
he was a poor man, a common man. And his wife, they'd had two
or three kids, and his wife was unconverted. And the Lord convicted
her and began to teach her of the preciousness of her soul.
And she come to think that, oh, I've lost myself. I've lost myself. I'm going to be lost for eternity.
If I lose myself, I've lost everything. And she became so afraid. And
she had just lost a child. She had just lost a child that
was still in her womb. And her husband went to her and began
to talk to her, and he thought she was upset because she had
lost a child. And you know what she said? She
said, I don't care about that child. That child is not my concern. I'm not upset about the child
that I lost. What would make a woman not to
be upset about a child that she had just lost from her womb?
the preciousness of her soul. I'm telling you, when God begins
to teach you that you have an eternal being, from the time
you come into this world, you'll never cease to be. You'll spend
somewhere in eternity. When He begins to teach us that,
nothing else will matter. It won't matter who thinks what
about you. It won't matter what you'll do. I'll tell you what
you will do if God is teaching you. You'll bring your soul and
you'll put your trust in the same one David put his trust
in. In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust. Not only do we have the problem
that we're not precious. We can't bring something we don't
value. and trust somebody else with
it. We just won't do it with them. But there's something else,
and there's this whole matter of misplaced trust. Of false trust. Doesn't the Bible
teach us that there are people who put their trust in chariots?
There's people who put their trust in the strength of the
horse, or in the bow. Boy, I can shoot a bow. Man,
I'm accurate. They put their trust in the Lord.
The Lord Jesus told us about people who put their trust in
themselves. That they're righteous. Put their
trust in themselves. One of the most devastating things
that I can imagine for myself is this. To have to stand before
the Lord of glory on the day of judgment. And for Him to tell
me that I have misplaced my trust. Wouldn't that be awful? Wouldn't
that be awful? Lord, I preached in your name. That's a misplaced trust, ain't
it? I've done many wonderful works
in your name. I've cast out devils in your
name. I've given my goods to feed the
poor in your name. My trust was in these things
that I was doing, and I thought surely the door of heaven would
be opened to me because I'd done these things. And how it shocked
them when the Lord said, no, your trust wasn't in me. Your
trust was in what you were doing. Your trust was in who you were. You had a misplaced trust. Wouldn't
that be shocking? I tell you, they were shocked
because they just kept on knocking. Lord, Lord opened us. He said,
I tell you, I tell you, your trust was misplaced. It wasn't
in Me. A misplaced trust. Oh, God beat
us all. Save us from this misplaced trust. There is a church of Christ,
a Camelot church, between here and Tennessee where I go. And
every time I go through there, I think the same thing about
it. Its name is the Refuge Church of Christ. I tell you, that's no refuge,
is it? Refuge lies, Larry, isn't it? Mistrust. Refuge. God beat us all. A false trust is to put our confidence,
our reliance upon anything or anyone apart from the Lord Jesus
Christ. But it's not only that. It's
not only that. It's to put our confidence and
reliance upon anything apart from the Lord Jesus Christ and
Him only, but it's more than that. Him always. Him always. God never teaches us to trust
Christ and then share that trust with somebody else or something.
Oh, I trusted Christ for ten years, but I don't trust Him
anymore. Or I trusted Christ one time,
but I gone all of that straightened up. One time was enough. Haven't we heard people talk
about a 50-year-old trust? But they're not trusting now.
Not only coming to trust Him, but trust Him always. Always. David's trust, hear what he said.
He said here in verse 5. Look at what he said. You are
my trust from my youth. From my youth. You remember when
he took that old lion by the beard and slew him? And slew
the bear? You know how David did that?
Trusting the Lord. The Lord is my trust. And he
was probably, I look at him probably 10, 12 years old, just a lad. From my youth I have trusted
the Lord. And then he says down there in
verse 17, O Lord, thou hast taught me from my youth. And now in
verse 18, he says, I'm an old, grey-haired man. See that? I am old and grey-haired. And what's he doing? He's still
trusting. He's still trusting. And you
talk to this king, and there wasn't a time between his old
age and his youth that he said, I could cease to trust in the
Lord Jesus Christ. I trusted Him always. Trust in
the Lord at all times, ye His people. Pour out your heart before
Him, for He is a refuge for us. The man who used to trust Christ
and don't trust Him anymore, I'd say that's a misplaced trust.
God never teaches us to trust Him one time, and that's enough.
It's a continued trust. The man that used to come to
Christ and don't come to Him anymore, he never did come. The
man that says, I don't love Him now, but I used to, never did
love Him. This is not a one-time deal.
This trust is a trust with all the heart, and it's a trust continually. In Thee, O Lord, do I trust. And boy, we'll see this afternoon
why this is critical, why it's so important. David's trust had these three
elements about it. In the Lord alone, in thee, O
Lord, do I put my trust. The world says, boy, that's easy
to do. I tell you what, you can't do that. You can't do that. I know the world thinks that's
easy. But when your soul is hanging in the balance, your acceptance
with God where you're saved for all eternity or damned for all
eternity is hanging in the balance, go ahead and see if you can trust
Him. Go ahead and see if you can trust Him. You know what you'll be
saying? The same thing that old man said, Lord, I believe. Oh,
help me, help me, help my unbelief. Give me grace to trust. Give
me grace to trust. If you trust in the Lord Jesus
Christ alone, God is giving you grace to do it. That was this element. Not in
the Lord, not only in the Lord alone, but in the Lord completely,
fully. If you believe with all your
heart. Isn't that what the eunuchs say?
With all your heart. And David's trust was in the
Lord always, always. Instead of diminishing, it increased.
The more he knew about the Lord Jesus Christ, the more he trusted
Him. The more you and I know of the
Lord Jesus Christ, the more our knowledge of Him increases, the
greater our trust will be of Him. It always happens that way. This happens this way with the
young Christians. See if this is not your experience.
When the Lord first saves us, what do we know about Him? Very
little. Very little. We're like that fellow that said,
I'm a poor sinner and nothing at all. Jesus Christ is my all
in all. Ain't that about it? What do
you know? I'm a poor sinner. I know that.
What do you know about Christ? He's my everything. He's my all
in all. But as we begin to grow in grace
and knowledge of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and begin
to read His Word and find out more about Him, you know we trust
Him more. And however He's revealed in
the Word, we trust Him for it. Look here in Psalms, chapter
71, and look here in verse 3. Here's what I'm talking about.
Look in verse 3. Look how the Lord was revealed to David. A
strong habitation. Be thou my strong habitation,
whereunto I may continually resort." A strong habitation. What is
a habitation? That's someplace where you dwell
in. Do you think that ark, when he
was floating up on the top of those waters, do you think that's
a strong habitation? That's what David's saying. Christ
revealed himself as a strong habitation. And what did David
say? He's mine. He's mine. Look what he said in the same
verse. Thou hast given commandment to
save me, thou art my rock. David said, He's my rock. Christ is a rock, yes. And when
he was revealed to David as a rock that you could get upon when
everything else around you was sinking and going down. Boy, you put all your trust in
Christ because He's made known to you as a rock. On Christ the
solid rock I stand. And look what else. Christ was
revealed to David as a fort. David said, Thou art my rock
and my or a defense from the enemy that I can run into and
I'm safe. Is there a place that you can
hide out from the wrath of God? There ain't but one place you
can do that. In Christ. You want to hide out
from the rage of devils? You want to hide out from your
sin and the judgment to come? You want to hide in place? There's
a sure hiding place. And it's Jesus Christ the Lord.
And when you find out He's a hiding place, you say, He's mine. I
trust Him. I trust Him. In verse 4, David
said, Deliver me, O God. He was revealed to David as his
God. And he says, He's my God. In
verse 5, it's hope. Christ is hope. David said, Be
my hope. You're my hope. You know what true trust does,
brothers and sisters. I'm just saying this. I'm not
getting too technical. I'm just saying this. If your
trust is true this morning, you trust Jesus Christ the Lord as
He is revealed in the Holy Spirit. When you find that He says, I'm
the shepherd, you know what you say? He's my shepherd. And you'll
depend upon Him as your shepherd. And you'll be saying, Lord, lead
me beside still waters. Lord, feed my soul. Lord, prepare
a table in the presence of my enemies. Lord, restore my soul. You'll trust Him as your shepherd. Is Jesus Christ revealed as the
righteousness of God for poor sinners? Then you'll trust Him
as your righteousness. Is He a faithful and merciful
high priest on the right hand of God? Then you'll trust Him
as your Is he an advocate for the poor fallen sinner? Then
you'll trust him as your advocate. Now, ever he's revealed in the
scriptures, you'll trust him. In his person, in his work, in
what he possesses, in all the fathers given to him as the mediator. Life, heaven, everything. Salvation. You'll say, he's mine. He's mine. All He is, all He's
done, all His merit, all His worth, He's mine. I trust Him. I trust Him. What does the Scripture
say He is? He's everything. He's everything. You trust Him
for everything? You're complete in Him? Accepted
in Him? You trust Him for that? That's
what true trust does. When He is revealed in the Scriptures,
oh, He becomes yours, your trust. And trust grows. It grows as
we learn about Him. You may talk to a young believer,
and he may say, In the Lord put I my trust. But let him grow
just a little bit, and you'll probably hear him say what David
said in verse 5, O Lord, Thou art my trust. At first he may
tell you the Lord Jesus has given him life, but after he's grown
a little bit, he'll tell you the Lord is his life. At first
he may say the Lord has saved me, but you talk to him a little
bit later on and he'll say the Lord is my salvation. As our knowledge of him grows,
so does our trust. And he says here in verse 1,
he tells us this wonderful thing. He says, those who put their
trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, they will never be brought to
confusion. They will never be disappointed.
They will never be ashamed. Not here or not yonder at the
judgment. Lord, I put my trust in you. Let me never. Let me never. You think the Lord is going to
hear his prayer? Yes, He will. And He'll hear
yours too. Yes, He will. Let's pray.