Trust

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Trust is broken through lying, deception, broken promises, betrayal of confidence, infidelity, or or hypocrisy. There it is. Yeah. Hip I wanna Yes. Yes. And there's other things too. But broken trust can take years to repair and may even be irreparable. Yep. This is why trust is such an important word. It's all real it because it's all relational. It's between us and God, but it's between us and each other. It's really, really important. Here's a note or some interesting sentences. Forgiveness releases the debt, but trust evaluates reliability. Come on. Just because you forgive them, doesn't mean that you're you're gonna give yourself to them. Makes sense? And then the next one. Forgiveness is commanded, Oh. Mhmm. So some discernment we're asking the Lord for in the people that we meet and we fellowship with. [00:33:22] (75 seconds)  #ForgivenessButDiscernment Download clip

Just because the word trust is up there and we're teaching on trust doesn't mean you need to go around trusting everybody you see. Right. There are untrustworthy people that you don't need to trust. Isn't that interesting? And, oh, I thought we're supposed to love everybody. Yeah. But it didn't say you had to trust everybody. Right. Hallelujah. I'll show you something that I never really saw, but it's the New Living Translation of this, which uses this an interesting term, John chapter two verses 23 through 25. You can read that. [00:30:35] (41 seconds)  #DontTrustEveryone Download clip

You can read these bullet points here. Alright. So it's trusting his wisdom when we do not understand. Yeah. It's trusting his goodness when circumstances are challenging. Yeah. It's very important. It's trusting his promises even before they are fulfilled. That is trusting in the Lord. Lord. Amen? Amen? Amen. Amen. It's really, really important concerning our relationship with him. Amen? Yeah. Amen. So he wants to know that we're trustworthy, and we definitely know he's trustworthy. Amen? Right. Trusting him with all our hearts means with every area of our lives, our thoughts, [00:16:00] (35 seconds)  #TrustHisWisdom Download clip

You know, what does that have to do with trust? Well, go to Psalm 49 and verses six through nine. I'm a tell you what, wealth and riches, you really have to be careful with. And this is speaking. If you're not wealthy and rich and rich right now, well, that's fine. I mean, god wants us to prosper. But anybody, whether they're poor or rich, can get messed up with the operation of money Right. And things. Or the pursuit of it. Or the pursuit of it. Yeah. That's right. And so let's look at Psalm forty nine six through nine, New King James version. You can read this. This is pretty strong. [00:20:43] (51 seconds)  #BewareOfWealth Download clip

Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Amen? Say everybody say trust in the Lord. Trust in the Lord. How much? All your heart. Your heart. Do not depend on what? Your own understanding. Your own understanding. Now that's a big division we need to make. We need to make a decision between what we know and understand and what the Lord says. Yeah. It may be different, and we have to be open to trust in the Lord no matter what we think we understand. Right? And then in verse six, read that one. [00:05:32] (30 seconds)  #TrustWithAllYourHeart Download clip

Oh, well, we did. But seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. How many want advice on which path to take, what to do here or there? Well, this is why you need to trust in the Lord and not to depend on your own understanding because you're fallible and Jesus' word is not. Amen. Amen. So here's some questions I have. How much do we actually trust god? How much do we actually trust him? How much do we trust others? [00:06:02] (28 seconds)  #SeekHisWill Download clip

Hope you know each other. Hope you know each other or you get to know each other and it doesn't then fail you because that's Hope heard from god. It's not that that can't happen. Yeah. But, typically, trust takes time. Yes. Mhmm. Typically. Typically. Trust is closely related to faith. In scripture, trusting God means to rely on his wisdom rather than our own understanding, and reflects humility and obedience to him. If fear is the opposite of faith, then unbelief is the opposite of trust. Because if you trust someone, you believe in them. If you distrust them, [00:08:45] (43 seconds)  #TrustTakesTime Download clip

in your chair or your airplane is different than trusting in your spouse or your friend or your pastor, you know, that kind of thing. Amen. It's it's much more serious. Well, it you know, all of those are pretty serious. You trust in the airplane. Belief. Yeah. It's a belief. This plane better be in good shape. That's right. You're trusting a lot of things to go there. King Solomon wrote this in Proverbs chapter 22 verse 19. I'm reading from the New Living Translation. He's is what he says. I'm teaching you today. [00:14:05] (29 seconds)  #DifferentKindsOfTrust Download clip

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