Trust in the LORD

In this part of the sermon: Martin begins exploring the 'climate' of the text, first focusing on the biblical doctrine of God, emphasizing that understanding Proverbs 3:5-6 requires a robust view of God's…

Martin uses the metaphor of flying over a forest in a helicopter to see the whole before examining individual trees, illustrating the need to grasp the 'climate' of the text before delving into specific commands.

Look at the text itself like a beautiful forest. And before we go in to examine the various trees in the forest, we're going to get in a helicopter and we're going to fly over and around it a few times and just look down because we want to see the forest before we see the trees. We don't want it said of us with this text. We couldn't see the forest for the trees.

7:17 - 7:36 Read in full sermon

The point: The key to complying with this command is having right views of this God. If you have any suspicions about the genuineness of his love, of the infinite scope of his wisdom, or any questions about the good intentions of h…

Martin shares a personal anecdote about his daughter Bethy's fear of being left alone in the house, using it to illustrate how lack of trust stems from questioning the good intentions of a loved one, and how this applies to trusting God.

of the infinite scope of his wisdom, or any questions about the good intentions of his heart, you'll find it very difficult to trust him with the whole heart. We had a classic example of this in our own home tonight and I promised the children I wouldn't tell on them and embarrass them by giving too specific a detail about how it happened. But it was a classic illustration. My wife had just been talking with me about some thoughts that had been going through her mind in this area and I had been working over the message upstairs and then something happened that was a perfect illustration.

32:00 - 32:34 Read in full sermon

The point: The key to complying with this command is having right views of this God. If you have any suspicions about the genuineness of his love, of the infinite scope of his wisdom, or any questions about the good intentions of h…

Martin uses the example of having absolute confidence in a person's intentions (not to hurt, conquer, or undercut) as the basis for loving to be with them, applying this to the absolute trust required for God.

Now, it illustrated the very thing my wife was talking to me about just prior to that. In trying to analyze why it is that certain friends of my son at school, everybody loves them and wants to be with them. The principle that she mentioned was this, when we have absolute confidence in the presence of a person that they're not out to hurt us, they're not out to conquer us, they're not out to show us up, they're not out to undercut us, they are the kind of people we love to be with. Why?

33:28 - 33:53 Read in full sermon

Driving home: It is childlike unwavering confidence in our Father's well-proven wisdom faithfulness and love.

Martin uses the analogy of a father pleading with his children to jump from a burning house into his arms to illustrate 'childlike unwavering confidence in our Father's well-proven wisdom, faithfulness, and love' as the essence of trust.

What does it mean to trust in the Lord with all our hearts? It means to exercise childlike unwavering confidence in our Father's well-proven wisdom faithfulness and love. Let me illustrate. The Father comes home from shopping perhaps with the wife and they've left some of the children at home the oldest being such that it would be proper to do so and they notice that the house has begun to be consumed with flames and the children as yet have not noticed it because they're coming up from perhaps the garage and sweeping across the roof and they yet are not aware of it on the inside and the Fathe...

37:17 - 38:02 Read in full sermon