The trials and tests of this life have a way of revealing what we’re most confident in. When we lose someone or something we love, when our health fails us, when we’re betrayed by someone close to us, these and so many more, challenge what we place our confidence in and can leave our lives shattered and unstable. In the midst of one of the darkest days of David’s life, which we looked at last Sunday, David composes Psalm 52, which unpacks the source of our confidence, God himself, and what he promises to those who trust in him. Although it’s David’s response to the horrors of 1 Samuel 21-22, the words he writes have deep and abiding application for our lives today. It’ll be a great time studying this together.

Series: The Great Exchange

Jordan Coros

Message 7- From Betrayal to Confidence - part 2

Harvest Bible Chapel

Text: Psalm 52

October 27, 2024

I can be confident amid all the brokenness knowing…

Evil: abounds (v. 1-4)

Luke 6:45

God: vindicates (v. 5-7)

Hebrews 10:31

Matthew 5:44

Hebrews 10:30

Right now it seems as if the unrighteous always prosper and the righteous always get kicked in the teeth! However, the final judgment against sin will be so horrible that it can only be described rightly in contrast to the hyperbolic language of the laughter of the righteous, with whom the unrighteous will be forced to switch places. –Jim Shaddix

I: flourish (v. 8-9)

1 Samuel 22:2

I will flourish when...

1. I am secure in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Ephesians 2:22

2. I'm trusting in God's love.

3. I'm grateful for God's grace.

Colossians 3:15

4. I'm confident in God's goodness.

David declares, therefore, that it was entirely owing to the divine protection that he had escaped from the treachery of Doeg, and from all his subsequent dangers, and promises to retain a grateful sense of it throughout the whole of his life. –John Calvin

Romans 8