Trust in the Lord. Notice the contrast. First it says don't
worry, don't fret, don't, don't fear. Then it says trust in the Lord.
Don't, don't fear. Don't get all bent out of shape because of evildoers.
So, stop looking at them. But now it says trust in the Lord. That's the first antidote right there.
The antidote to fear is not trying not to be afraid.
The antidote to fear is trusting the Lord.
The more, the antidote to worry ... is more and more trusting ...
The more you trust, the less you can fear. The more you trust in God the less you can
live in anxiety. It keeps on contrasting. Be anxious for nothing but, in everything
bring it to God ... What are you looking at?
You're looking at the evildoers? You're gonna be filled with anxiety.
Looking at the problems? Anxiety. Looking at God? No anxiety. We think that the answer
is getting ... the fear is we, we want to get rid of
the problem and then we won't be afraid. But that's not the answer. The antidote is faith, trust.
The Lord is my shepherd I will not fear. I shall not want
and I will fear no evil. Remember, the English word that comes from faith, that we don't
really always realize it does but it's crucial here. There's a word we have,
which is the word confidence. Are you confident? Are you a confident person or not?
I don't mean confident in yourself. Are you confident because of God?
Because the word, if someone is confident they're not afraid. God wants you confident.
He doesn't ... confidence. You see, the word confident is con fi dense. Con, with.
Fi, faith. What does confidence mean? Faith. With faith. If you have faith you are
to be confident. If you're confident, if you're not confident there's something
lacking in faith. God wants you to be a person of confidence this year. He wants
you to enter this year, deal with everything with confidence. Not in you
but in him. You and him okay. I mean it could be confidence of his work in you,
but it's him. And here the word for,
in Hebrew where it says trust in the Lord is much stronger than our English word trust.
It's even, you can say it's even more than we, what we just think of faith.
even though that's what it is. The word here ... is the word batach.
Try it. Batach! It literally means, it doesn't just mean trust. It means
confidence. It means boldness in that confidence.
... it's a strong thing here. It means assurance. Certainty. Not just, I believe
that this is the truth. But that I am confident, bold. So many believers do not
live, the faith they live in is not that. And that affects whether you're
victorious or not. Their faith is I hope so. I hope God will come through.
You know, I believe it's true, but I'm dealing with all this.
That's not batach! Batach is confidence, sureness ... secure and bold.
And even the word sounds like it. Batach! What does it mean? In the Lord it is not just
trust here it means full-on confidence. You're sure. I am sure of his Word.
I am sure, I am secure in my salvation. If you're worrying every day, if you're
saved or not that's not holy. That's a lack of faith. Because it's not a faith
in how you're doing, it's ... on how he's doing.
Faith. Bold. Bold, am I secure? Bold in the Word. Bold in my salvation. I am sure of it.
Not because of me, because of him. And even I don't feel it, I'm, choose to be
sure of it. I choose. It says I will trust
in the Lord. It's a verb. So it's not just well do I have faith, or not have faith?
I will trust. I will batach. I will be sure in God. I'm gonna stand on God even if
I don't feel like it. Even if I don't feel it, I'm gonna stand in it. Batach. Trust. Bold.
Trust. Batach in Adonai. Batach in the Lord. I am bold. And you know some
people preach faith. Our faith is not about faith. Our faith is about God.
It's not faith. I don't have faith in my faith. I have faith in God who is bigger than
my faith, you understand? It's not so ... when you have enough faith ...
It's, yeah, yeah there's, there's a truth to the more faith you have, but not
in faith, but it's faith in God. Trust. Have faith. In God. Not in myself but in God.
But in him I can be confident in how he's doing ... to me. I am confident of what?
That he's gonna do whatever I ask? No. As some people preach. But that he
is good. And that he is mighty. And that he's mighty good. And he loves me.
He loves you and his love is strong. I've got faith in that. I have faith in his Word.
I have faith in the, put your faith, your batach in the promise of God.
Not just that I believe and I hope, but I am sure of it. It said it. So Lord I'm
stepping out of the boat. I'm going with it. Be batach about
his goodness. I, I don't have to understand what's happening. Maybe I don't like
what's happening. Maybe there's something in my life I don't, I say why, God?
It's not that you can't say why, God? But. I don't have to understand it, at the end
of the day I put my batach in God. God is right. I may not understand it.
I will at the end. When we used to bring our little, when he was little, Eliel to the, to the doctor,
at the first he didn't realize it. But then he started, then he got wise.
He couldn't talk yet he was like, you know like two years old, or one. But then he
got wise and he recognized the doctor's office. And as soon as we pulled up
he's like trying to get out. I think, and then we, we went into the doctor's office and
he's doing everything ... He couldn't talk. He's pointing to the door.
Let me out of here. Let me out of this place. Well he, and he's gonna get a shot.
He could never put it together why we were torturing him. But it was for his
own good. He knows it now. And so with us. What I'm saying right now is that,
you know, very often you can't understand it. Batach is I trust you Lord. Even though
I don't understand, and even though I may not even agree with it except that
I know that you're right. But I will, I will still ... especially when
it's hard to trust in the Lord. That's when the trust means the most
to him and that's when it produces the greatest growth in your life. Batach!
When I don't feel it. Batach! But I insist on it, I stand on it, when I don't see it.
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