Big Thought: We trust in God when we God’s promise, His terms, and on His timing.
1. God’s Promise.
Genesis 49:10 (ESV) – The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
1 Samuel 13:14 (ESV) – But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought a man after His own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be prince over His people ,because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.”
2 Samuel 7:16 (ESV) – And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before Me. Your throne shall be established forever.
Luke 18:38 (ESV) – He called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
2. God’s Terms.
Deuteronomy 17:14-20 (ESV) – When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’ you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’ And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold. And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.
Mark 1:14-15 (ESV) – Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
3. Our Response.
a. Do we trust…
i. God’s
1. The of His promise.
2. The of His promise.
b. ?
1 Samuel 8:7 (ESV) – And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them.”
If “yes” to “Do We Trust?”
- the promises of God.
- the terms of God.
- on the timing of God.
If “no” to “Do We Trust?”
- You the promises of God.
- You the terms of God.
- the timing of God.
Therefore, you “ God”