Where is Your Confidence

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Who Do I Trust?
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Who Do I Trust?

• Biblical key to a meaningful life living by
  faith in God

• Gods work is by faith. 1 Tim.14
• Without faith, its impossible to please God.
  Heb.116
• Pursue righteousness faith. 2 Tim.222
• Take up the shield of faith Eph.616
• We live by faith, not by sight. 2 Cor.57

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Who Do I Trust?

• Biblical key to a meaningful life living by
  faith in God
• My natural bent is to trust myself instead

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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own ABILITIES!

• Big temptation for gifted people

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1 Samuel 9
page 269
page 192
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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own ABILITIES!

• Gods always at work behind the scenes (96-17)

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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own ABILITIES!

• Sauls faith is limited to his own abilities

God affirms his assignment by 3 signs (102-7)
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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own ABILITIES!

• Sauls faith is limited to his own abilities

God affirms his assignment by 3 signs Saul tries
to avoid any faith stretching (1014-24)
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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own ABILITIES!

• Gods given spiritual gifts, to serve beyond my
  abilities

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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own ABILITIES!

• Trust Test Gods power or my abilities?

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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own RESOURCES!

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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own RESOURCES!

• If only I had more I could trust God more to!

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WORLD POWERS IN O.T. TIMES
Hittites
Assyria
Canaan
Babylonia
Egypt
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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own RESOURCES!

• Philistine resource superiority
• Great cultural advantages

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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own RESOURCES!

• Philistine resource superiority
• Great cultural, geographical, technological
  advantages

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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own RESOURCES!

• God promises all needed resources if I live by
  faith

God will meet all your needs according to his
glorious riches in Christ Jesus. Phil.419
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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own RESOURCES!

• Trust Test Gods promises or my resources?

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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own SMARTS!

• Big temptation for well educated people

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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own SMARTS!

• Gods ways dont always seem logical (135-8)

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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own SMARTS!

• Sauls faith killers

Impatience over Gods timing (139)
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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own SMARTS!

• Sauls faith killers

Impatience over Gods timing Excusing
disobedience (1310-14)
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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own SMARTS!

• Sauls faith killers

Impatience over Gods timing Excusing
disobedience Root problem intellectual pride
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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own SMARTS!

• Gods remedy is an obedient heart (1522)

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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In My Own SMARTS!

• Trust Test Gods wisdom or my understanding?

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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In Other Sources of
• SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE!

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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In Other Sources of
• SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE!

• Saul consults a medium (chap.28)

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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In Other Sources of
• SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE!

• He was a religious syncretist

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Who Do I Trust?

• Dont Trust In Other Sources of
• SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE!

• Trust Test Gods guidance or somewhere else?

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Dont Trust In

• My ABILITIES!

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Dont Trust In

• My ABILITIES!
• My RESOURCES!

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Dont Trust In

• My ABILITIES!
• My RESOURCES!
• My SMARTS!

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Dont Trust In

• My ABILITIES!
• My RESOURCES!
• My SMARTS!
• My SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE!

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Dont Trust In

• My ABILITIES!
• My RESOURCES!
• My SMARTS!
• My SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE!

Put My trust in God, Who richly provides us
with everything for our enjoymentso that you may
take hold of the life that is truly life. 1
Tim.617,19