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Do you really trust God? Trust Him with all things? Now many people will say I trust God, after I

die with my eternity, where I'm going to be forever and ever. Yes, I give God that aspect of my

future. But what about now, many people are uncomfortable letting God control their lives, they

do not submit. They're not interested in obeying. They want to be in control until they die and

then they're willing to hand over everything to God. Now, of course, that is so foolish. God is

sovereign. He is supreme. And therefore, a wise one will want God ruling controlling every

aspect of our life, not just after we die. And a great example of someone who truly trusted in

God was King David. Now think of King David for a moment before he was in that position. We

need to remember that he was the eighth son of a man by the name of Yishai or Jesse in

English. And I'm sure you'll recall that when Samuel the Prophet came to to Bethlehem to the

house of Yishai to anoint the next king of Israel.

There is one true living God, the God of the Bible. And it's only through scriptural truth, God's

revelation from heaven, that we can make the right decisions we need to understand, biblically

speaking, our God gives choices to creation. And I say creation, I'm speaking about all of

humanity, both Jew and Gentile. And in order to make the right decisions, the right choices, we

must rely upon God's truth, his word, scripture, when we do so we're going to find those wise

decisions are going to have eternal consequences, which will bring us joy, that will bring us the

promises of God, His blessings into our life again, for eternity. But if we are foolish, and we

reject God's counsel, ignore His revelation, fail to apply scripture to our life, then, likewise,

they're going to have eternal consequences. But this time, they're going to be disastrous,

they're going to be a source of sadness, sorrow and suffering forever. So our decisions really

amount to something they matter greatly.

This is a very poetic Psalm from a couple different perspective. What I mean by that is simply that we

see great symbolism in the language that is chosen by the author. And the author here is, of

course, King David. So look at what it says, And there's an inscription. So we're going to be off

one verse, because my first verse in the Hebrew texts, begins this way, to the chief musician or

the choir director. And then we have two words, the phrase in Hebrew, which means if we

translate it, do not destroy. Now, that's interesting, because we see something, do not destroy,

but David is going to pray for destruction by means of God's judgment very quickly. And what

we can glean from that is when we look at the rabbinical commentators, they point out this do

not destroy meaning, do not allow them to destroy me. David is at a point. And this is important

that we see this, that he feels it's either them or him that his enemies have come to the point

where they want to destroy him.

Paul speaks frequently about Jews and Gentiles. At the end of last week's study, he made a

very significant statement. And that is, if you take an uncircumcised man, a Gentile, but

nevertheless, that individual is sensitive to the Word of God. He listens to his conscience, and

he responds in obedience to the Word of God, to the purposes of God. Paul says, even though

this one is uncircumcised, God is going to see him as circumcise, meaning a covenantal

member of the family of God, he is going to see that right heart as a circumcised heart. And

conversely, the Jewish individual, even though according to the letter, according to

circumcision, they are a covenant member. But here's the problem. If they are transgressing

the Word of God, God's instruction, God is not going to see that circumcision as relevant. In

fact, the Scripture says He is going to render that in His mind.

Each of us were created by God. There are no second class creations, God loves each of us.

And He wants us to be a recipient of His love. Now, when we look at the Scripture, we see

something, God does not evaluate us by looking at the external, meaning how we look in a

mirror how people see us. But the Bible is very clear. It says that God looks to the inner person,

to the heart. Why? Because a heart is synonymous with the very essence of a person, how we

think, and we know how one thinks is going to dictate how they believe. We need to be an

individual, that through the redemption of Messiah, that our mind is change, that we have the

mind of Messiah. And when we do, and we don't rebel, we are going to do the works of Messiah.

And those external things are indeed important

We've all heard people say, Don't judge me. The Bible commands us judge not less you be

judge. So judging someone is very serious. But we need to realize there is a difference between

judging someone. And simply evaluating someone's behavior according to biblical truth, and

sharing with that person in love, and wanting the very best for that person. So you share

something in love. So that person can know the truth and make that change. It's not that you

are condemning that person. It's not that your behavior towards that person has changed. But

simply you want that person to know the truth, so that God will bless him that is not judging

that is evaluating. And we see that, for example, good example is a court case, you have a jury

which evaluates the behavior, but they don't give the sentence they don't administer the

punishment. It's the judge.

When it comes to humanity, I am speaking about both Jew and Gentile. We all have something

in common, left to ourselves, we are heading for experiencing the wrath of God. Now we

learned last week, is there an advantage for having the Torah? Yes, there is. It is God's

revelation. And therefore with that, we can have a greater understanding of what one needs to

do. But the Torah itself, as we'll see later on, the Torah is not an instrument that brings about

redemption. It doesn't change our spiritual condition. And that's true. Jew or Genta, we left to

ourselves are in the same situation. We are heading for God's wrath. And in regard to

humanity. There's only one way and I want to emphasize that fact. There's only one way if

there's any other way that we experience God's forgiveness, His mercy, that we can enter into

a relationship with Him and be received into His Kingdom

One of the most important things that God has ever done is that he has justified those who

receive the gospel. And that justification is forever because of the sufficiency and even we can

say the perfection of messiahs work, he was successful, and therefore we receive the eternal

benefits. Take out your Bible and look with me to the book of Romans and chapter three. In this

passage, Paul is going to make a very clear case for rightly understanding the law and how one

is justified. Now, in the biblical language, there is a relationship between being justified and

being righteous. In the New Testament language, Greek, it is the same word. So when we are

justified, we become righteous, and therefore we can be in a relationship with God, we will be

invited into His kingdom where we will spend eternity with Him. So He wants to reveal to this

congregation in Rome.

As believers in Messiah, we know something, we know that one is justified not by good deeds,

but rather by faith. Now, what may be surprising to some is this. They think that that is

Revelation only from the New Testament meaning this until you're sure that his Jesus Christ

came, and the apostles, that concept of being justified by faith was was non existent. But when

we look properly at the Word of God, we see that being justified by faith was something that

did not originate in the New Testament. But in the Old Testament, specifically, in what's called

the Torah. The Torah is the first five books of the Old Testament