He is trustworthy
Category: Faith & Trusting God
Key Passage: Psalm 118
Speaker: Paul Chisgar
Date: February 10, 2025
Turn your Bibles, if you would, to Psalm 118, Psalm 118 in God’s Word. I felt all week that the Lord wanted to cover this subject. I’m not sure why. I think a lot of preachers could do a whole lot better job with this subject than I, this type of message.
I pray the Lord will be an encouragement to you, a blessing to you, help to you. It’s one of those messages you need a Joe Arthur to preach it, you know. How do you know who Joe Arthur is? Yeah, he’d do a good job with that one. But we’ll just see what the Lord will do, amen. Brother Steve, go for it. He knows old Joe Arthur. He can preach pain off the walls, amen. He’s a good guy.
Psalm 118, just two verses, as a way of introduction to the message. We’ll try to focus on this word a lot tonight: Trust. The title would be, He is trustworthy. He is trustworthy.
Psalm 118, just two verses, as an introduction: verses eight and nine. Would you please stand as we read those together? Psalm 118, verse number eight: “It is better to trust in the Lord as Jehovah than to put confidence in man.” It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.
It’s interesting, the book of Psalms uses the word “trust” 50 times. Forty-eight of those 50 times, it’s talking about trusting the Lord, all through the book of Psalms. Let’s just do this: I’ll tell you what, we’ll pray, and let you sit. I think it’s probably easier for you to do it sitting. So let’s pray. We’ll get going on this thing. Father, Lord, would you…
…grow our trust in you, Lord. Father, I want to trust you for everything. Lord, I know for my reactions, many times I don’t trust you like I want to, like I think I do. Father, I pray that you grow us tonight in trusting in you. Lord, help us to take all of our trust—everything, all of our lives, everything—and Father, would you send your Spirit just helping us, taking all that and putting it in your hands and trusting you? Grow us tonight in our trust of you. And we’ll thank you, Lord, for what you do, and it’s in the name of Jesus we ask. Amen.
Thank you so much for standing. Look over there in the beginning of Psalms. I said 50 times this word “trust” is in the book of Psalms; 48 of those are about trusting the Lord. Let’s just read some of those, starting with the very first time. Look in Psalm 2, look at verse number 12, would you please? Verse number 12: “Kiss the Son.” By the way, notice that capital S—that’s Jesus. “Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.” Look at chapter 4, the chapter before, look in verse number 5: “Offer the sacrifices of righteousness and put your trust in the Lord.” Chapter 5, look at verse number 11: “But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice, let them ever shout for joy because thou defendest them. Let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.”
Look in chapter 7, verse number 1: “O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust; save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me.” Look over in chapter 9, verse number 10: “And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.”
Look in chapter 11, verse number 1: “In the Lord put I my trust. How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?” Look over in chapter 16, verse number 1: “Preserve me, O God, for in thee do I put my trust.” If you don’t get the hint yet, I don’t know what’s going to work for you. That’s seven from the beginning of Psalms. He wants us trusting in Him.
Can I say this tonight? He’s worthy of your trust. Amen? He’s worthy of every single bit of trust I have, putting it all in Him. Let me ask you tonight, who are you trusting in? When it boils down, okay, you trust your vehicle to run, but below that, if it breaks down and whatnot, who are you trusting in? Maybe you have a good job. Maybe you’ve been there for years. Maybe it’s a very solid career. All right, if that were to fall apart tomorrow, who are you trusting in? By the way, that does happen, you know. Who are you trusting in?
It’s very interesting. The Hebrew word typically that is used for trust in the Old Testament, Chasah, it simply means to flee to protection or for protection. “The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous runneth into it for safety.” Do you flee to the Lord for protection? Do you trust in Him?
Think about it. I have to think about it. Am I trusting in money? Well, I got my house paid off. I got a little money in there. I got a little next day. I got retirement. I got all that. Are you trusting in money? Jesus addresses this in the New Testament about trusting in money. He’s talking about, hey, it’s hard for a rich man to get saved. Harder for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man.
Jesus says this, and the disciples were astonished at His word, but Jesus answereth again and saith unto them, “Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God?”
1 Timothy 6:17: “Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy.”
I think this is interesting how God words it in Proverbs 23:5: “Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.”
Hey, friend, be careful of trusting in money. It won’t carry you; it’ll fly away. We just think about flying away as an eagle to heaven, but He’s talking about flying away. Your money flies away like that sometimes. Oh, man, don’t trust in that.
Hey, am I trusting? Am I taking all of my trust and putting it in the Lord? How much am I trusting, you know, really? And some of my trust that should be in the Lord is in our country. Man, we’ve got the greatest nation on the face of the earth. Praise the Lord for the changes up in D.C. Man, I like it. Hey, we’re not sending thousands over to some country to have a transgender opera. What about that? Praise the Lord, we’re debunking that. Defunding it. Ooh, I like that. Promoting filth around the world. What do you think God thinks about that while we’ve been doing that? You know? And I like it. Praise our Lord for it. I like to get some warriors in the military again. We’ve had a lot, but we’re losing. Praise the Lord. I like to get warriors back in there, amen. That’s what they’re there for, friend. You know, I like all that.
But you know that, those two texts, verses in Psalm 119, verse number 9: Did you notice what it said? “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put your confidence in princes?” That’s leaders.
Well, my confidence is in the Constitution. We know our forefathers told us if that Constitution ends up in the hands of immoral men, it’s no good. They told us that, and they’re right. Friend, at the end of the day, our trust ought to be in the Lord Jesus Christ, all of our trust.
Well, I’m young. I got good health. I eat right. I exercise. I like all that. We ought to take good care of the temple of God. But, friends, you get 90, 100 years old, you’re going to be old. Brother Frank just said the other day, he said, “Man, the golden years ain’t got much glitter.”
Hey, old age ain’t for wimps, you know. Knee replacements just don’t go real good, especially after you have one on top of the same one in the same knee, you know. I just, I don’t care who they are, muscle up, man. Hey, they’re going to get old. They’re going to shrivel up like a raisin one day. It just happens.
Now, friend, if you’re putting your trust in your health—I thought about it—a man years and years ago, a big old fella. I’m talking, I don’t know, I’d say six-foot-six, something like that, and solid—I mean solid. He played for the Tennessee Titans. Well, he wouldn’t be solid. Okay, he played for… No, I’m joking about that. Big old fella, he didn’t play in the NFL, but he could have; he was just a big old fella. And he came and settled in a back row over here, a couple chairs down from Mr. Jennifer. Mr. Jennifer was sitting there. No, it was way before Mr. Jennifer’s time. He was sitting on the back row. I went back, shook his hand, got to know him a little bit. Boy, he just kind of shaking, looking up like that. He felt like a little kid, you know, “Hey, how are you doing there? You hope you’re a nice man,” that type of thing. Sitting in the back row, so I think I talked to him about being our church’s bouncer, you know, and he enjoyed it. He was a good man.
But just a little while later after that, it was a cold day, and he went to go out, and there was a little ice, and he fell. And he fell on that ice, and he hit the back of his head, and got up. He said, “I’m tough, I’m fine.” Everybody’s like, “You’re okay, you’re okay.” “I’m fine.” Went to the store, came back, my brother had to rush him to the hospital. See, one time back then, the next time I saw him, he was in the ICU, fleeting on the brain.
I talked to him a little about the Lord, but I didn’t get to fully give the gospel, and they had all those brainwave machines on there. It seemed like he could hear so much, so I gave him the gospel. Family all ran there, and I wanted to give the gospel for him, but everybody else was in the room listening in. I wanted to give the gospel. Let him in prayer. I don’t know if he prayed or not. I’ll find out one day in eternity, but my simple thing telling that story is that big old man—I wouldn’t want to meet him in an alley when he’s mad at me. Oh, my goodness. There’s a fight. I won’t even on my team, you know. Man, the biggest, as strong as the healthiest person, friend, just boom—a little slip, just a little bit of slip—and it’s all over.
Hey, don’t put your trust in your health and your body and all that. Put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s where it ought to be. “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart,” the Bible says.
I’m just asking tonight, us, me too: Let’s gather up everything in our lives, everything. Gather up your vehicles. Gather up your marriage. Gather up your kids, your grandkids, your money, your health. Gather your reputation. Your bills. Gather it all up—your worries, your concerns about these situations. Gather all that up, everything. Let’s gather it all up. And let’s say, “Lord, I trust you. I’m going to put it in your hands.” That’s what I’m trying to get us to do, me too. That’s what the Lord wants. “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart. Lean not unto thine own understanding.” Psalm 62:8: “Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.”
You know, when you gather everything up, you just get it all kind of like getting all your eggs and putting all them in one basket. You know what that leads to? Peace. A whole lot more peaceful putting it in His hands than if it’s in your hands—worry, fear, what’s tomorrow going to happen? What about the economy? How’s it going to go? The tariffs? What about that test? What about this biopsy? What about, what about, what about, what about what they’re saying?
Friend, the best we can do, and it’s a daily thing, but the best thing we can do is just gather it all up and say, “Lord, I’m going to trust you with it.” Peace. I don’t know what tomorrow holds, but I know who holds tomorrow, amen. For I’m sheltered in the arms of God. It brings that peace. I just trust it. Not everything—everything.
I’ve had the privilege of being with, I don’t know how many people, at their deathbed, and they’re just, “I’m ready.” And the story is told—I don’t know how true it is, I don’t know—but the story is told that somebody put a gun to John Rice and was mugging him, going to try and take his money. And they said, first of all, the story goes, they put the gun to his stomach and said, “I’m going to blow your brains out.” And he said, “Well, my brains aren’t down there; they’re up here,” you know. Then the next thing, he said, “Hey, you can’t scare me with heaven.”
Ms. Mona’s sister nearing the end, and they asked her about it, she said, “I’m not scared of heaven. Who would be afraid of going to heaven? I’m ready.” Trust of the Lord brings peace. Yeah, the Bible’s all full of us trusting. He’s trustworthy.
It’s interesting. Miriam Webster says trustworthy: worthy of confidence, dependable. Boy, He’s dependable for sure. Oh, you can bank on it. He said He cannot lie. Have He said it in His Word, old friend? It’s always true. Why is He so trustworthy? He even knows the future. Someone said, “Has it ever occurred to you? Nothing’s ever occurred to God.” He knows the end from the beginning. Hey, He’s worthy of our trust.
I like it over there in Matthew. Jesus told them He was about to ascend to the Father. He had kind of been back and forth with those 40 days, and He says, “Hey, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.” Wow. He didn’t just say all power; He said all power is given in heaven and in earth. He’s got it all. He’s worthy of our trust.
Don’t worry too much about what everybody is saying and if you’re keeping up with all their trends and everything. Hey, trust in the Lord. I like what Jeremiah has said when he’s praying to the Lord. He said, “O Lord God, thou hast made heaven and earth by thy great power and stretched out thine arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee.” I like that.
Trust in Him for justice. You know, some of us are just wired a little bit where justice is a big deal to some. And in your mind, you have such a sense of justice. And if someone is wronged, maybe you’re wronged or someone else, then justice isn’t served, it can really put you out of balance and it bothers you. It’s kind of like just something unsettled until justice—they’re lying about someone, all that—it just really can take our peace. But can I say this? Trust Him for justice.
I mean, when you see injustice in this world, and you will see injustice in this world, what is over there in Romans 12? He said, “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” When God says something, He’s going to do it for Him. It might not all pan out down here, but in eternity it will. And when He said, “I will repay,” don’t fret over it, don’t worry over it. Trust in the justice of God.
I think this is a wonderful passage. I haven’t thought about it in a while. God popped it in my mind. I’m going to take it to the Lord. It’s over in Ecclesiastes. Look it up. I don’t know if I could quote it or not. I used to could, but Brother Robert, can I steal your Bible? Oh, he’s got one of those iPads. We ain’t going to steal that. Ecclesiastes. Praise the Lord. I’m loving what’s going on in D.C., but it’s not always like that. And by the way, hey, things change. It’s a great verse. When Obama was in, this was such an encouraging verse. Ecclesiastes chapter 5, and oh, let me see, let me see if I can find it.
Oh, verse number 8, verse number 8. Ecclesiastes 5 and verse number 8 right there: “If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be a higher than they.”
Hey, if you will, when you see all that, and you will see all that, hey, hang on, somebody else sees all that. At the end of the day, He’s just free. There’ll be higher than the newscasters, amen. Higher than CNN, CNBC, all the rest of them. So don’t get me out of shape. Trust Him. Trust Him for everything. Everything. Every single thing, just trust it.
Trust Him in hard times. This morning we were listening a little bit on our phones, or on my phone, to “Rejoice in the Lord Always,” by Ron Hamilton. How many know that one? Boy, otherwise known as Patch the Pirate. How many of you either grew up on Patch the Pirate or your kids grew up on Patch the Pirate, anybody? I remember just my younger brother riding to school, me and him, listening to Patch the Pirate. Mr. Slippery River Race, is it? Yeah, what’s your favorite one? Anybody? Come on now. What’s your favorite one? Somebody tell me the Patch the Pirate, all their different ones. Somebody, you’re shaking your heads but can’t remember each one. I don’t know which one’s my favorite one. Patch the Pirate goes here, there, yonder, all those, the patch, you know, they got on the radio now. Ms. Jennifer, what’s your favorite one? We’ll have to check that one now. I don’t think I know that one. I’d tell you.
But I thought about old Ron Hamilton. I worked in a local church and worked in the music ministry like Mother Adam does. And he got a problem seeing. Just what’s going on? Went to the doctor. He had cancer in his eye. And they said, really, to save you, we’re going to have to take that eye out. And it’s not like I got an uncle with a glass eye, and always kind of weird, he’d pop that thing out and put it in his mouth. Amen. Some of the ladies said, “I just lost my appetite there,” you know. But Patch the Pirate, you know, they couldn’t have to take more out, and he had to wear a patch.
But he said, “You know, I’m just going to trust the Lord. Got a reason for it.” Kept singing for the Lord. And where that patch, the kids at church, everybody started calling him Patch the Pirate. And God turned that thing into a great national, really, ministry and music ministry. That’s really when it just kind of took off in a lot of ways. Hey, trust in Him, even when it’s a dark time, the night time you can’t understand it. Trust in Him.
Trust in Him about your reputation. You know, sometimes with it, well, I got to keep my reputation good. You can’t do that. Jesus didn’t do that. You think about it. And Jesus had a whole lot of people talking about Him. I mean, a whole lot of people trying to smear His reputation. You know, God took care of it. I mean, but your reputation sometimes it gets—oh, I got to—let God take it. He can take care of it.
Jesus was betrayed, accused, lied about, convicted, and executed. But you know what God says about that? Talk about Jesus: “He humbled himself, became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” But the next verse, it says that at the name—He’s talking about God—He’s going to highly exalt Him because of that, “That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.” God took everybody’s reputation that got smeared and slandered, but you know there’s more books, more songs, more poems about Jesus than any other person. God took care of it.
We had somebody a little upset with us, saying—I don’t want to go into it all—and while they started putting all kind of bad reviews in on our church, some of you may have noticed that. What’s the world is going on? And “Pastor doesn’t care about people,” and all the rest of that. Hey, God’s got all that. Don’t get too flustered over that. Trust in Him. “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me.”
Now, all of you aren’t going to go on our church’s reviews and start looking at them now. Amen. You don’t even know what’s going on. It is pretty much past. But that’s all right. God’s got it. And somebody, oh, maybe six months or a year ago, somebody was just going after me, you know. What are you going to do? God’s got it, and He does. Just trust Him. This whole world has got all the kind of temporary injustice. But, hey, that’s the Judge up there. “Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, I will repay.” And He will. Just and right is He. I love that, Deuteronomy 32:4. Just and right is He. I never messed up one time.
Trust in Him because He’s proven He loves you. I think I preached a little bit on it a while back, 1 John 4:9. Look over there, if you would. 1 John 4 or 9. I mentioned, maybe it was the Lord’s Supper, one of the ones recently. I mentioned this, but it’s really since they’ve been good for me, and I’ve been thinking a little bit. It’s helped me to, in a new way, focus on His love. Look over there in 1 John 4, look at verse number 9. 1 John 4:9: “In this was manifested [or shown] the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.”
And here’s the thing a little different for me: we’ll focus on Jesus dying for us, and that’s right, Galatians 2:20: “He loved us, gave himself for us.” But actually, this verse here is not necessarily talking about that part of it, as you will still my Father, a dad, God the Father, giving His Son, and that to really show you, manifest. And I’ve been thinking about my son. He—he’s hopefully he’s not watching. He’s probably not. By the way, I texted him, “Dad, said, ‘Who’s going to win?’” That’s all I said, you know. And he said, “Dad, I don’t watch those earthly games. I’m too heavenly minded.” And he sent me the next text. He said, “Ha, ha,” you know. And he told me who he’s cheered for. We had fun with it.
But anyway, John, if I ever went this way when John was here, he said, “Dad, don’t—you need to let me go.” I understand it. But sometimes I try to think, can you imagine? I have a hard time just even going up thinking about it—giving my son. I think about laying down my life, but giving my son? Wow. And God gave His Son. He loved me so much more than just dying for us. Yes, “There is no greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,” yes, but it’s beyond that. Over here, He has manifested His love, showed His love by God giving His Son, and that’s what He did for me. That’s what He did for you.
He gave His Son. He watched His Son be beaten and His beard plucked and the crown of thorns and the scourging. He watched all that in His Son. He watched His Son going through that because He loves you. Now dwell on that for a bit. Wow. Trust Him because He’s proven He loves you by giving His only begotten Son. Wow. Kind of think He’s trustworthy, amen? You better believe somebody’s going to give His only begotten Son. He’s worthy of every single drop of trust I have, friend. Trust Him. Just trust Him. Take all your worries, all your anxiety, everything. Just take it all and wrap it up. The best we can, just wrap it up in your arms, put it in your arm, and say, “Lord, I trust you with it all.”
Someone said, “Everything God gives you, keep putting your hand—while it’s open—keep it open. Trust Him.”
Trust Him because of His power. I’ve already mentioned all power is given Him in heaven and earth. Trust Him; He’s got all power. “Nothing too hard for thee” (Jeremiah 32:17). Nothing too hard for Thee. I love this: that the Bible says, “Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool.” Can you imagine? God’s so big, He just kind of sits back; heaven’s His throne, and He says, “Well, I’ll just prop my feet up on earth,” no problem at all. That’s how big your God is.
He spoke the world, the whole universe, He spoke it all into existence in seven literal days. He just spoke it into existence—just boom, spoken. He says He put the water, by the way, what’s the earth? 71, 72 percent water—and He said He put the water in the hollow of His hand. Just God’s so mighty, so big, He said, “I just, I’ll put the waters of the oceans in my hand.”
He measured the heavens. We can’t get really to the edge of the universe. It may be expanding because God’s an infinite God. I’m not sure about that, but they can’t get the edge. They don’t know. They change about every 10 years on that. You understand that, friend? And God says, “I measured it with my span.” A span is the tip of your thumb to your pinky there. God says, “I measured the heavens. I don’t need a Stanley 100-foot tape, whatever it is, 300-foot. I don’t need all that.” God says, “I measure it with my span of the universe.” It’s how big your God is, how powerful your God is. And I worry about a little bit of things. Shame on me.
Trust. By the way, He’s got a pretty good record, didn’t He? I think His record—I was looking up, I ever once in a great while I watch boxing or something good, and I had an eye—and I looked up to see if any good boxing matches are coming on. And this guy from the Ukraine, heavyweight champion, I can’t remember his name, can’t say it—it’s probably the problem—but anyway, he hasn’t lost. He hasn’t lost a fight yet. Hey, he’s only fought about—I had a little 30 or 40 of them. Hey, he’s been fighting for decades and eternity; He’s never lost a fight. God, amen. He’s got a pretty good record. I can trust Him. Yeah. Yeah, just trust Him.
Look at those that have trusted Him. What about old Job? Lost his kids—ten of them at one time. My goodness, these poor families have lost a son and a son of all, and all—how tragic. I can’t imagine, wow, the hurt and the pain. But Job lost ten in one day. And then his finances—he is a wealthy man who lost it all. Lost all his money. Lost his health. I mean, you know your health, but his health shot. His wife, the most trusted confidante, his wife, they’re by his side, and she’s grieving too, but she said, “Hey, won’t you just curse God and die?” Then his friends—now if those are friends, who needs enemies? You know what I’m saying? His friends! They don’t just, you know, curse God. No, they come after him. They turn on him. They’re just shooting at him. “You big liar, you hypocrite. You got sin sitting alive.” No matter my experience with all the rest of that.
And old Job, you know what Job says? Amazing. “Though he slay me, yet will I trust him.” Wow. Wow. All that going on, sitting out on basically the trash dump in the ash. They burned their stuff with a pocket knife just popping those boils and getting the pus out of there. Ms. Marlene says, “Can you talk about something else there?” Everybody against him pretty much, if you will. And he says, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust him.”
But let’s look over there in chapter 42. You don’t have to turn there. We’re just talking. I had to go over there for Job in chapter 42, wouldn’t he? God said, “Hey, I ain’t going to listen to those boys over there. Those boys over there. You get Job to pray for you. I’ll listen to old Job.” Job began to pray. God turned the captivity. Isn’t that interesting? You ever feel like you’re just in prison? Every angle you go, you’re just stuck. Job knows about that.
God turned the captivity of Job. Ten more kids? I don’t know. We won’t know all until we get to heaven, but the first ten kids, man, he was offering sacrifices up a whole lot for them. Maybe they weren’t the best kids. I don’t know. Those next 10 kids, at least the three girls, man, those names—the friendliest girl around, the prettiest girl around, the best personality around—basically the names. I’m just kind of a little bit lightly. I mean, you talk about He gave him 10 more. Goodness. You love them all, no matter what, but He gave him 10 more. Twice as much money, financially just blessed him twice as much, twice as many friends. It was friends that were giving him money. Twice as much influence for the Lord.
And all these thousands of years—typically we say Job was the oldest book in all the Bible—all these thousands of years, how many millions, probably billions of Christians have got encouraged by Job? Hey, it worked out pretty good for him trusting the Lord, didn’t it? All sure. Everybody that trusts the Lord works out good for everybody.
Abraham. I know you live for me, but I want to give you a test. See how much if you really, really trust me with those things you value the most. Abraham, won’t talk to you about your son, Isaac. Your only son. The other one is shipped off. The only one through Sarah. And I want you to offer him up, take him up that mountain. And bring the wood and the fire and all that. Don’t, don’t, don’t… “God will provide himself a lamb,” that’s what He told him. Oh, Isaac. No, I want you… You know, Hebrews tells us, Abraham said, you know, if I kill my son, God will bring him back to life. He just trusts Him.
Tied him up, put him on that altar there, was willing. He trusted God so much, He was willing to offer his son up. What a picture, amen.
How did that turn out for Abraham? Well, God said, “Oh, he’s reaching out there to get that knife. Let me get the knife.” Why? “I’d do it.” And God said, “Hang on there. Hang on there. Look over there.” Bush is right there. Ram. You know, those—anybody ever been butted by a sheep or a ram? Anybody have been? Man, don’t go on the sheep pen and turn your back on them if there’s a ram; they’ll go get you. I mean, I remember going in the sheepfold of the Stills house, and you turn your back on them, you’re going to be on face first pretty soon there, you know. Watch them, man. But you can get a hold of those horns, you can kind of hold them there, you know. I’m thinking, “Dang, I won’t kill you,” you know. You grab hold their horns, and the guy, and his horns caught in the thicket. And I said, “Go get that boy over there.”
And after Abraham trusted the Lord—notice that, trusted the Lord with his most precious, his only son, Isaac at the time there—God said, “Hey, Abraham, I already told you I’ll bless you, but in blessing, I’m going to bless you now. And in multiplying, we’re going to multiply.” I mean, what I was going to do, man, it’s amplified. It’s multiply. We’re really, really going to be blessed now. You know what’s amazing to me? In 2025, all these countries over there, even the Muslim countries, all of them, they all like to be associated with Abraham. Witness to a Muslim, they want to say Abraham’s our… Everybody wants to be known as Abraham’s seed. All those years ago, he trusted the Lord. God said, “And in blessing you, I’m going to bless you.” Thousands of years later, Abraham’s name is… Wow. Everybody wants to claim it. We’ve been thinking about in chapel sometimes, “Father Abraham.” Amen. How many ever sang “Father Abraham”? How many ever been worn out, “Father Abraham”? How many ever have been born out, “Father Abraham”? No, I mean, Father, yeah. He trusted the Lord during the toughest of times.
Of course, the ultimate example in everything: Jesus. He’s in the garden. He knows; He knows what’s about to come. He’s told Peter and the rest of them; He’s about to suffer and bleed and die. He knows from Psalm 22 that Old Testament prophecy; He’s going to have to say, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” He knows that. They stared at His bones. He knows that He’s going to be filleted and bones be hanging out here and there. He knows that. He knows all His bones are going to be out of joint. He knows His hands and the feet are going to be pierced. It’s all prophesied in Psalm 22 in other places. He understands He is the Messiah. And He’s there praying so intense that He’s sweating great drops of blood. A battle, I think, just a great battle is going on. Of course, Jesus never lost one of them.
But He said, “Father, not my will, but thine be done.” You know what you call that? Trust. Trust with everything. He’s going to lay down His life. By the way, He’s going to take all our sin. He, He who knew no sin, became—that’s amazing—became sin. He’s going to become murder and rape, filth and trash, all that. I think that’s the shame of the cross, a great part of it. He’s about to go to that. It can spin your mind for sure. “I’m going to take all this. I’m going to become sin for them.”
Yet Jesus said, you know what? So intense this battle, He’s sweating great drops of blood, but basically He said, “I’m going to trust you.” And He trusted God the Father. Hey, what came out of that? Your salvation, my salvation. Salvation for all mankind. The greatest victory of mankind has ever experienced came when Jesus said, “I’m going to trust Him.”
Hey, friend, He’s our example. Trust Him with everything. All the bitterness and just worry and situations, just take it all, whatever may be, and just put it in His hand. I trust you. Financial problems, car problems, anybody? You’re still like me; I’m still wondering if the cars are blessings or a curse. They mean—might get a horse; He’ll probably break a leg, though, you know. Praise before zip ties, right, Brother Gary?
Trusting with everything. Just trust Him. He’s worthy. He’s trustworthy.
Would you bow your heads and close your eyes? I’m not going to have you raise your hands tonight, but I think it would be a great night for us, the best we can by the help of the Holy Spirit, by His grace, just wrap up everything we’ve got, everything. Your future, your dreams, your goals, your desires, wrap it all up. Take them all, the best we can. Just say, “Hey, Lord, I trust you with them. I’m going to put them all in your hands.” It might be a fitting night to just say, “Hey, Lord, is there some area I’m not trusting you in? I want to trust you in Him.” Just give them all.
Let’s just trust them with everything. Father, You’re worthy. Help me, help us tonight just to trust You. Lord, would You grow us, Lord, in trusting You? You’re worthy of it. Help us just to give it all to You tonight. Well, thank You for what You do, Lord Jesus, and we pray. Amen. Just trust it. Give it all to Him tonight. Wrap it all up.
“Trust and obey. There’s no other way to be happy in Jesus than to trust and obey.” Give it all to Him. Preacher got a biopsy coming back. What do I do? I know that’s tough. The waiting can be the toughest thing. Just trust Him. Trust Him. Got a grandchild away from the Lord. Got a child away from the Lord. Oh, that can be one of the heaviest burdens, heaviest burdens. What do you do? Trust Him. Trust Him. I’ve been praying for this thing for years and years, and it hasn’t happened yet. What do I do? Trusting. I’ve got this thing; it’s just killing me. It’s just bothering, just beating me up. What do I do? Trusting. That’s what Paul said: “A messenger of Satan to buffet me.” Everything. Just give it all to Him. Deny the Holy Spirit: Is there an area I’m not trusting You with? When it becomes so worrisome, so fidgety, trusting.
You know, sometimes you need a little peace. Good thing to do is just take everything, especially maybe the thing—“I got it. This is the thing that’s taking my peace”—take that thing, and almost visually in your mind, your heart, just, “All right, here it is, Lord. I’m going to trust you with it.” And it’s a daily moment-by-moment thing. I don’t know about you, sometimes the big things don’t bother as much as the little things. Little things can get my peace by. I trust the little thing. Just, just give it all to Him. Everything, every little bit, give it all to Him. He’s worthy. He’s trustworthy. And pray, Lord, have a God like that. Glad you’re here on church on a Sunday night, Super Bowl Sunday night. You’re right where God wants you. Amen.
I’ve told this story so many times—some of you folks tell it better than me—but behind the Iron Curtain, one of these countries back in the day, Russia, back in the day. And they were having church, and some fellas broke in. They had camouflage on, guns, you know. You deny the Lord, you can walk out of here. If you’re going to stay faithful, we’re going to get you, you know. And some people walked out. And then some people stayed. When those people stayed, it was all done. Those men in the camouflage put their weapons down, took the uniforms off, said, “We wanted to meet with some true Christians.” I want to make sure we’re safe. We’re good to go. Hey, let’s have church now, amen. I know everybody can’t come; I understand. But, hey, I’m with some true Christians. You’re here on Super Bowl night, amen? Glad you’re here and get to worship the Lord. I have some people who say what not; I understand that. But glad you’re here and thrilled to be in the house of God on Super Bowl night. And it’s the best place to be. Amen. Praise the Lord for what a blessing. What a blessing. Amen for. Good deal. Brother Adam, he’s been getting a lot of grace songs in there. I like that going with that theme choir and Sunday morning songs, whatnot. Man, I love that subject of grace. I just can’t beat that. Appreciate it, Brother Adam. Would you dismiss us with a word of prayer, please, brother?
Original File: Pastor Paul Chisgar ＂He Is Trustworthy＂ - Sunday PM 02⧸09⧸2025 [Pkc9g7-gv9I]