WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.320 Oh, great triune, God, you are our anchor to our souls individually and corporately. 00:00:12.500 --> 00:00:14.280 God, we need you desperately. 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:22.760 God, we're so grateful that you are unshakable in who you are and unshakable in your commitment 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:23.260 to us. 00:00:23.260 --> 00:00:32.460 Lord Jesus, you say that you are the source of living water. 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:38.500 And this morning we come to you as a people who are thirsty. 00:00:42.299 --> 00:00:48.980 God, I pray that this morning you would call out a people from the desolate, parched places 00:00:48.980 --> 00:00:50.200 of trusting in man. 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:58.820 And God, you would call them to the oasis where there is the fountain of living water, 00:00:58.940 --> 00:00:59.760 Jesus himself. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:01.719 You beckon us, come. 00:01:03.800 --> 00:01:07.520 God, would you use your word to beckon us to come. 00:01:09.140 --> 00:01:10.740 Pray this in Jesus' name. 00:01:11.579 --> 00:01:11.859 Amen. 00:01:12.980 --> 00:01:13.840 You may be seated. 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:19.520 Children, you are now dismissed to learn about this great God. 00:01:23.980 --> 00:01:26.680 We're going to be looking at a passage in the book of Jeremiah. 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:31.420 Jeremiah 17, verses 5-8. 00:01:31.420 --> 00:01:40.900 And if you're looking at one of the NIV, the blue Bible in your pew, turn to page 1201. 00:01:41.019 --> 00:01:42.320 I think that's what it is. 00:01:42.659 --> 00:01:43.560 I wrote it. 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:46.159 So it's around 1200 somewhere. 00:01:47.540 --> 00:01:51.719 And if you're looking at the ESV, the white, it's page 546. 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:56.000 We read, 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:58.780 Thus says the Lord, 00:02:00.260 --> 00:02:04.039 Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, 00:02:05.260 --> 00:02:07.599 whose heart turns away from the Lord. 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:12.960 He is like a shrub in the desert and shall not see any good come. 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:15.300 He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:18.039 in an uninhabited salt land. 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:21.359 Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, 00:02:22.019 --> 00:02:23.639 whose trust is the Lord. 00:02:23.739 --> 00:02:25.560 He's like a tree planted by water 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:28.419 that sends out its roots by the stream 00:02:28.419 --> 00:02:30.099 and does not fear when heat comes, 00:02:30.519 --> 00:02:32.899 for its leaves remain green. 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:35.359 It's not anxious in the year of drought, 00:02:36.060 --> 00:02:38.239 for it does not cease to bear fruit. 00:02:38.340 --> 00:02:43.099 O God, would you just please anoint your word this morning. 00:02:44.379 --> 00:02:46.719 Give us ears to hear, hearts to receive. 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:50.159 God, address us as your children. 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:52.199 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:02:55.659 --> 00:03:00.599 Well, if you think about American culture as a religion, 00:03:01.659 --> 00:03:04.399 who would be the object of worship? 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:13.159 If our culture was teaching us to trust in someone, 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:17.740 who would our culture be teaching us to trust in, 00:03:17.860 --> 00:03:19.819 to rely on? 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:22.719 And when I mean by rely, 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:26.500 I mean ultimate reliance. 00:03:27.780 --> 00:03:31.240 Whose voice are you ultimately obeying? 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:36.219 Who is defining who you are? 00:03:37.100 --> 00:03:39.300 Who determines how you live your life? 00:03:40.640 --> 00:03:43.719 Who says what is the most dangerous thing you face? 00:03:44.780 --> 00:03:47.939 And who says the way of deliverance? 00:03:49.660 --> 00:03:54.080 Who says is our destiny and how we reach it? 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:59.380 Whose voice are you ultimately relying on? 00:04:02.540 --> 00:04:05.380 If you think about American culture as a religion, 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:10.180 Americans worship the triune God of me, myself, and I. 00:04:11.460 --> 00:04:13.980 We are an individualistic culture. 00:04:14.200 --> 00:04:15.700 We are a humanistic culture. 00:04:15.699 --> 00:04:19.620 We are raised to be self-reliant. 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:24.800 And it shows up in whose voice we ultimately obey. 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:27.819 Who defines us? 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:29.740 How we walk? 00:04:29.980 --> 00:04:30.680 How we live? 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:36.099 Another way to talk about this ultimate self-reliance 00:04:36.099 --> 00:04:38.659 is to call it trusting in man. 00:04:39.599 --> 00:04:43.539 That's how the prophet Jeremiah describes it in Jeremiah 17. 00:04:43.540 --> 00:04:45.620 To trust in man. 00:04:47.460 --> 00:04:49.100 It's the air we breathe. 00:04:50.819 --> 00:04:52.939 But it's just not outside of us. 00:04:53.020 --> 00:04:54.300 It's inside of us. 00:04:55.879 --> 00:04:57.920 This ultimate self-reliance, 00:04:58.020 --> 00:04:59.620 this ultimate trusting of man 00:04:59.620 --> 00:05:02.420 is like a taproot in us 00:05:02.420 --> 00:05:03.780 that goes down deep. 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:06.439 It's called pride. 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:12.259 We think we're at the center of everything. 00:05:12.259 --> 00:05:16.300 We oppose God at our very core. 00:05:17.060 --> 00:05:19.099 And what the Bible uses again and again 00:05:19.099 --> 00:05:21.379 is the word to describe our core 00:05:21.379 --> 00:05:23.219 is the word heart. 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:26.879 And in Jeremiah 17.10, 00:05:28.039 --> 00:05:29.339 God says this. 00:05:29.420 --> 00:05:31.339 Now notice, it's God saying this. 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:33.899 He says, 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:36.659 the heart is deceitful above all things 00:05:36.659 --> 00:05:37.800 and desperately sick. 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:41.420 You see, the self-reliance, 00:05:41.540 --> 00:05:42.500 the trusting in man 00:05:42.500 --> 00:05:44.300 that our culture prizes, 00:05:44.660 --> 00:05:45.840 even promotes, 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:48.120 and even protects, 00:05:49.400 --> 00:05:51.000 has a fatal flaw. 00:05:53.259 --> 00:05:55.900 In our pride, we think we can define ourselves. 00:05:56.100 --> 00:05:57.040 We think we can 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:02.259 make ourselves the ultimate authority. 00:06:02.259 --> 00:06:05.060 We think we know what's best for us. 00:06:05.139 --> 00:06:06.899 We think we can determine our own ways. 00:06:09.899 --> 00:06:12.000 In Jeremiah 17.5-8, 00:06:12.099 --> 00:06:14.339 we are presented with two groups of people. 00:06:16.139 --> 00:06:18.259 One group, those who trust in man, 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:18.980 they have a motto. 00:06:20.259 --> 00:06:21.459 In man we trust. 00:06:22.939 --> 00:06:24.219 And then the other group, 00:06:25.099 --> 00:06:26.500 those who are God-reliant, 00:06:26.719 --> 00:06:27.980 those who trust in the Lord, 00:06:28.099 --> 00:06:28.920 their motto is, 00:06:29.019 --> 00:06:30.620 the Lord is our trust. 00:06:30.620 --> 00:06:33.459 Two groups of people with two mottos. 00:06:34.899 --> 00:06:36.000 In man we trust, 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:38.899 and the Lord is our trust. 00:06:41.780 --> 00:06:45.060 Those who persistently trust in man 00:06:45.060 --> 00:06:47.259 experience God's curse. 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:49.860 But those who trust 00:06:49.860 --> 00:06:51.959 ultimately rely again and again 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:52.860 in the Lord, 00:06:53.780 --> 00:06:55.480 they experience God's blessing. 00:06:56.620 --> 00:06:58.519 So let's look at these two groups 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:00.399 and what we'll see 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:04.259 is that there are two ways to live. 00:07:06.259 --> 00:07:07.560 So first group, 00:07:07.740 --> 00:07:09.699 this in man we trust group. 00:07:09.799 --> 00:07:13.180 We see this described in verses 5 and 6. 00:07:13.939 --> 00:07:15.199 And what I want you to see 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:16.459 as we talk about 00:07:16.459 --> 00:07:18.180 in man we trust this group, 00:07:18.539 --> 00:07:20.159 there are four realities about this 00:07:20.159 --> 00:07:20.959 I want you to see. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:23.259 Reality number one is, 00:07:23.259 --> 00:07:25.599 those who say in man we trust. 00:07:25.939 --> 00:07:28.639 That motto is built on lies. 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:33.920 There's a fatal flaw. 00:07:35.259 --> 00:07:38.920 It assumes man can ultimately rely on man 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:40.240 for ultimate answers. 00:07:41.420 --> 00:07:43.620 But let me just give you some data. 00:07:46.740 --> 00:07:47.899 According to the Bible, 00:07:47.899 --> 00:07:51.339 human beings are created. 00:07:53.060 --> 00:07:54.159 Not the creators. 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:57.399 We are dependent. 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:00.500 We are dependent on God 00:08:00.500 --> 00:08:01.419 for our next breath. 00:08:03.859 --> 00:08:07.060 We have some severe limitations. 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:08.939 Significant limitations. 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:12.439 Limited by place and time. 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:16.079 We can't be more than one place at once. 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:17.719 No matter how much we'd like. 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:20.899 We're limited in our knowledge. 00:08:21.359 --> 00:08:22.759 We don't know everything. 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:24.459 There's not one person 00:08:24.459 --> 00:08:25.699 on the face of the earth today 00:08:25.699 --> 00:08:26.500 that knows everything. 00:08:28.620 --> 00:08:30.539 And then if we kind of combined 00:08:30.539 --> 00:08:32.659 all human beings for all of time 00:08:32.659 --> 00:08:34.659 and then we measured how much we know, 00:08:34.899 --> 00:08:36.139 we still wouldn't know everything. 00:08:36.899 --> 00:08:39.220 Nor will we ever know everything. 00:08:41.460 --> 00:08:42.559 Limited in knowledge. 00:08:43.340 --> 00:08:44.179 Limited in power. 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:45.939 Did anybody eat this morning? 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:49.879 Did anybody sleep last night? 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:58.040 We get worn out under fears and anxieties. 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:05.860 When we make man our strength, 00:09:05.980 --> 00:09:07.440 human flesh our strength, 00:09:08.259 --> 00:09:09.540 man, we suffer for it. 00:09:09.539 --> 00:09:13.419 There's these limitations, 00:09:13.740 --> 00:09:15.039 but then there's also this 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:18.240 deep-seated taproot of sin. 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:21.500 This pride that goes down deep 00:09:21.500 --> 00:09:22.459 in each of us. 00:09:23.219 --> 00:09:24.480 It motivates us. 00:09:24.579 --> 00:09:25.379 It affects us. 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:26.759 There's nothing that we do 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:27.919 that is pure in motives 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:29.620 because this sin runs so deep. 00:09:29.620 --> 00:09:32.600 And so at best, 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:34.120 our motives for doing things 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:34.639 are mixed. 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:39.019 So human justice is mixed. 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:40.720 That's why our government 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:41.759 has checks and balances. 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:45.919 Our love is mixed. 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:48.740 It runs deep. 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:54.000 So the lie here is that 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:56.759 human beings 00:09:56.759 --> 00:09:59.039 have all the answers. 00:09:59.500 --> 00:10:00.639 We know what's best. 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:02.519 The flail flaw is 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:04.519 we don't. 00:10:09.319 --> 00:10:11.379 It's wrong to believe, 00:10:12.319 --> 00:10:13.199 biblically speaking, 00:10:13.319 --> 00:10:15.179 that the ultimate authority 00:10:15.179 --> 00:10:16.659 on all things is man. 00:10:16.659 --> 00:10:23.240 In man we trust 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:25.819 is built on lies. 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:28.939 It's built on something 00:10:28.939 --> 00:10:31.019 that can't sustain our trust. 00:10:32.379 --> 00:10:34.059 But there's another reality 00:10:34.059 --> 00:10:34.839 I want you to see. 00:10:35.779 --> 00:10:36.759 In man we trust, 00:10:36.879 --> 00:10:38.299 this motto of a people 00:10:38.299 --> 00:10:40.179 who trusts in man, 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:41.220 in man we trust, 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:43.639 it goes by another name. 00:10:46.659 --> 00:10:52.819 What trusting in man really is 00:10:52.819 --> 00:10:55.139 is a turning of one's heart 00:10:55.139 --> 00:10:56.879 from the living God. 00:10:57.779 --> 00:10:58.519 Would you look at 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:01.679 chapter 17, verse 5. 00:11:02.459 --> 00:11:03.379 Cursed is the man 00:11:03.379 --> 00:11:04.299 who trusts in man 00:11:04.299 --> 00:11:05.659 and makes flesh his strength, 00:11:06.579 --> 00:11:08.879 whose heart turns away 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:10.659 from the Lord. 00:11:12.179 --> 00:11:15.079 Whose heart turns away 00:11:15.079 --> 00:11:16.279 from the Lord. 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:16.980 Now just a little 00:11:16.980 --> 00:11:17.980 historical background. 00:11:18.860 --> 00:11:19.939 Jeremiah was written 00:11:19.939 --> 00:11:21.179 by the prophet Jeremiah. 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:23.620 And it was written 00:11:23.620 --> 00:11:24.740 to the people of God 00:11:24.740 --> 00:11:27.519 who were persistently 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:29.679 disobeying God's Word. 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:32.120 They kept on arching. 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:34.679 They kept on resisting God. 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:37.939 And so at this point 00:11:37.939 --> 00:11:39.879 in Judah's history, 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:41.480 Babylon was on the scene. 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:43.779 And so in Jeremiah 39, 00:11:44.319 --> 00:11:45.199 there is an account 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:47.100 of the fall of Jerusalem. 00:11:47.700 --> 00:11:49.240 And what we have leading up to it 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:51.259 is all that preceded that. 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:52.540 Jeremiah. 00:11:53.220 --> 00:11:55.660 God using to warn His people 00:11:55.660 --> 00:11:56.420 again and again, 00:11:56.860 --> 00:11:58.060 don't go that way. 00:11:58.200 --> 00:11:59.240 Come back to Me. 00:11:59.420 --> 00:12:00.500 Turn back for Me. 00:12:00.740 --> 00:12:02.700 He has some really strong language 00:12:02.700 --> 00:12:04.100 to talk about His people. 00:12:04.259 --> 00:12:05.480 He calls them a whore. 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:08.200 Come back to Me though. 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:13.180 One of the areas 00:12:13.180 --> 00:12:14.800 where God warns His people 00:12:14.800 --> 00:12:16.200 at that time was 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:19.180 Judah sees Babylon coming 00:12:19.180 --> 00:12:20.120 and what do they do? 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:21.800 Where do they turn? 00:12:22.560 --> 00:12:23.759 They turn to Egypt. 00:12:24.420 --> 00:12:25.540 They turn to Assyria. 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:27.120 They look for help 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:28.080 from man. 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:32.960 And God says, 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:34.060 no, don't go there. 00:12:35.020 --> 00:12:35.660 Turn to Me. 00:12:35.659 --> 00:12:41.459 You see, 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:43.639 in man we trust, 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:46.379 goes by another name. 00:12:48.740 --> 00:12:50.039 I want to tell you something 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:50.719 about your heart. 00:12:51.459 --> 00:12:52.319 Biblically speaking. 00:12:53.019 --> 00:12:53.699 Your heart. 00:12:53.819 --> 00:12:54.899 It's your heart 00:12:54.899 --> 00:12:55.919 that 00:12:55.919 --> 00:12:58.899 kind of assesses things. 00:12:59.980 --> 00:13:02.100 It determines something's worth. 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:03.659 It's value. 00:13:03.659 --> 00:13:06.000 And from your heart as well 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:08.259 comes your willful choice 00:13:08.259 --> 00:13:09.459 to live for it. 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:11.659 And so you determine 00:13:11.659 --> 00:13:13.079 what is of value, 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:14.219 ultimate value, 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:16.319 and your heart also says, 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:17.360 I'm living for it. 00:13:17.860 --> 00:13:19.019 That all takes place 00:13:19.019 --> 00:13:19.480 in your heart. 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:20.779 That's why 00:13:20.779 --> 00:13:22.319 there's such a huge emphasis 00:13:22.319 --> 00:13:23.639 in the Bible 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:24.699 on your heart. 00:13:24.700 --> 00:13:27.300 your heart 00:13:27.300 --> 00:13:29.280 is where you worship from. 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:33.720 And just to heighten this 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:34.379 a little bit more, 00:13:34.460 --> 00:13:35.700 if you flip a couple pages 00:13:35.700 --> 00:13:36.980 to the left in your Bibles 00:13:36.980 --> 00:13:38.680 to Jeremiah 2, 00:13:39.340 --> 00:13:41.900 to get at the situation 00:13:41.900 --> 00:13:42.900 a little bit more, 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:45.520 Jeremiah 2.13, 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:49.639 God warns His people. 00:13:52.079 --> 00:13:53.779 And He uses, again, 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:54.620 vivid imagery. 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:56.159 He says, 00:13:56.220 --> 00:13:57.199 for My people have committed 00:13:57.199 --> 00:13:58.000 two evils. 00:13:58.460 --> 00:13:59.840 They have forsaken Me. 00:14:00.500 --> 00:14:01.740 They have turned their back 00:14:01.740 --> 00:14:02.399 on Me. 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:04.220 And then He calls Himself 00:14:04.220 --> 00:14:05.740 the fountain of living waters. 00:14:05.740 --> 00:14:08.879 They have forsaken Me, 00:14:08.940 --> 00:14:10.159 the fountain of living waters, 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:11.700 and hewed out cisterns 00:14:11.700 --> 00:14:12.360 for themselves, 00:14:12.560 --> 00:14:13.460 broken cisterns 00:14:13.460 --> 00:14:15.740 that can hold no water. 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:18.639 And what we see Jeremiah 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:19.940 talking about is 00:14:19.940 --> 00:14:21.700 His people 00:14:21.700 --> 00:14:23.759 turning away from Him 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:24.940 the fountain of living waters, 00:14:25.019 --> 00:14:26.019 the One who gives life. 00:14:26.740 --> 00:14:27.779 The One who sustains. 00:14:27.940 --> 00:14:29.060 The One who strengthens. 00:14:29.379 --> 00:14:30.759 The One who is for them. 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:32.320 They turn from Him 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:33.980 and they turn to 00:14:33.980 --> 00:14:36.180 things of their own making. 00:14:37.620 --> 00:14:38.060 Cisterns. 00:14:38.420 --> 00:14:39.740 Designed to hold water, 00:14:40.340 --> 00:14:41.460 but these are broken. 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:42.620 They don't deliver. 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:43.840 They don't give them 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:44.580 what they want. 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:46.960 They built them themselves. 00:14:48.060 --> 00:14:49.080 Do you know what it's a picture of? 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:51.560 It's a picture of idolatry. 00:14:53.620 --> 00:14:56.700 This trusting in man, 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:57.740 in man we trust, 00:14:57.740 --> 00:14:59.820 the other name for it, 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:01.440 is idolatry. 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:03.200 That's what it is. 00:15:03.980 --> 00:15:06.680 It's the creating of something else 00:15:06.680 --> 00:15:07.320 to worship 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:09.480 in the place of God. 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:14.440 Ultimately, 00:15:15.060 --> 00:15:17.519 what is being gotten at here 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:19.879 is that idolatry 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:22.740 is relying on something else 00:15:22.740 --> 00:15:24.200 ultimately. 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:26.879 You're going to that 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:29.480 because you want strength from it. 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:31.920 You want hope from it. 00:15:32.680 --> 00:15:34.139 And it's not God. 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:38.620 In man we trust, 00:15:38.659 --> 00:15:39.539 it's built on lies. 00:15:39.700 --> 00:15:40.539 In man we trust, 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:41.700 goes by another name, 00:15:42.100 --> 00:15:42.800 idolatry. 00:15:43.340 --> 00:15:44.659 And in man we trust, 00:15:45.259 --> 00:15:46.200 is cursed. 00:15:47.800 --> 00:15:49.500 Cursed is the man 00:15:49.500 --> 00:15:51.920 who trusts in man. 00:15:51.919 --> 00:16:00.479 God's response 00:16:00.479 --> 00:16:03.439 to persistent disobedience 00:16:03.439 --> 00:16:05.579 from His Word 00:16:05.579 --> 00:16:06.419 to His Word 00:16:06.419 --> 00:16:09.799 is what cursing is. 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:11.419 It's the negative consequences 00:16:11.419 --> 00:16:13.399 for persistent disobedience. 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:15.099 That word curse is lifted. 00:16:15.459 --> 00:16:16.860 It's calling us back 00:16:16.860 --> 00:16:18.179 to Deuteronomy 28 00:16:18.179 --> 00:16:20.179 where God has saved a people 00:16:20.179 --> 00:16:20.819 and He says, 00:16:21.219 --> 00:16:22.639 if you want to move forward, 00:16:22.719 --> 00:16:23.759 you're going to have two choices. 00:16:24.319 --> 00:16:25.559 Either obey My Word 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:26.739 and be blessed. 00:16:27.139 --> 00:16:28.099 Experience My blessing. 00:16:28.439 --> 00:16:29.639 Or disobey My Word 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:31.479 and experience curse. 00:16:32.339 --> 00:16:34.019 The negative outworkings 00:16:34.019 --> 00:16:36.759 of your sinful choices. 00:16:39.199 --> 00:16:40.620 But I just want to let you know, 00:16:41.659 --> 00:16:44.319 our God is a wonderful God 00:16:44.319 --> 00:16:45.179 and He is patient. 00:16:46.059 --> 00:16:48.479 And so in a passage like Exodus 34, 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:50.399 6, and 7 where He reveals Himself, 00:16:51.460 --> 00:16:53.680 He says that He is slow to anger. 00:16:54.680 --> 00:16:55.600 Slow to anger. 00:16:55.740 --> 00:16:57.480 He is patient with His people. 00:16:58.259 --> 00:16:59.720 Patiently calling them back. 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:02.700 And Jeremiah repeatedly calls 00:17:02.700 --> 00:17:05.640 His people back to God. 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:08.319 But God's patience 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:10.200 eventually came to an end. 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:16.420 He eventually handed them over 00:17:16.420 --> 00:17:18.140 to what they wanted. 00:17:19.140 --> 00:17:19.860 Romans 1. 00:17:20.740 --> 00:17:24.480 He allowed for their consequences 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:25.539 to come upon them. 00:17:27.700 --> 00:17:28.840 They tasted 00:17:28.840 --> 00:17:31.500 and experienced 00:17:31.500 --> 00:17:34.640 the outcome of their sinful choices 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:35.720 and their disobedience 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:36.700 to God's Word. 00:17:37.259 --> 00:17:38.759 And that's a bad place to be. 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:42.799 In Jeremiah 17, 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:44.240 verse 6, 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:46.960 we have a very vivid picture 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:48.339 of that place. 00:17:52.220 --> 00:17:53.240 Let me read it for you. 00:17:54.299 --> 00:17:55.539 He is like a shrub. 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:57.039 Those cursed. 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:00.119 He is like a shrub in the desert 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:01.640 and shall not see any good come. 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:03.259 He shall dwell in the parched places 00:18:03.259 --> 00:18:04.039 of the wilderness 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:07.119 in uninhabited salt land. 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:10.099 It's a picture of desolation. 00:18:11.619 --> 00:18:14.239 It's a picture of barrenness. 00:18:16.639 --> 00:18:17.879 That word shrub 00:18:17.879 --> 00:18:19.979 can also be translated naked, 00:18:20.219 --> 00:18:20.839 believe it or not. 00:18:21.959 --> 00:18:22.339 Barren. 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:23.479 Exposed. 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:31.160 We see here that 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:34.440 there is a hopelessness 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:36.000 to those who 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:38.120 persist in their disobedience 00:18:38.120 --> 00:18:38.720 to God. 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:43.019 Shall not see any good come. 00:18:44.620 --> 00:18:46.240 It's a lonely place 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:48.539 in uninhabited salt land. 00:18:49.259 --> 00:18:50.759 It's a parched place. 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:52.700 No water. 00:18:55.619 --> 00:18:57.180 Doesn't see the good come. 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:00.579 And when the heat of life arises, 00:19:01.779 --> 00:19:03.799 there's no place to run to. 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:07.759 No place to hide. 00:19:09.579 --> 00:19:11.259 It's a really hard place. 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:15.500 No shelter from the heat. 00:19:15.500 --> 00:19:18.660 We've all tasted 00:19:18.660 --> 00:19:20.440 of the curse. 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:21.980 We've all tasted this. 00:19:25.900 --> 00:19:27.880 Maybe you've binged on pornography. 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:30.599 You know that place afterwards? 00:19:32.019 --> 00:19:33.420 It's a parched place. 00:19:33.539 --> 00:19:34.519 It's a lonely place. 00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:36.740 It's an empty place. 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:38.279 Desolate. 00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:40.640 Maybe you've binged 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:42.380 things get hot in your life 00:19:42.380 --> 00:19:43.779 and you go shopping. 00:19:43.779 --> 00:19:44.500 And afterwards, 00:19:44.740 --> 00:19:44.980 you're like, 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:45.379 what? 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:46.500 This is empty. 00:19:47.619 --> 00:19:48.500 Parched place. 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:50.119 This doesn't satisfy me. 00:19:50.700 --> 00:19:51.899 This is a broken cistern. 00:19:55.500 --> 00:19:57.200 Maybe a web of lies. 00:19:58.359 --> 00:19:59.379 It's a bad place. 00:19:59.460 --> 00:20:00.420 Hard place to be. 00:20:01.399 --> 00:20:02.779 We all know this place. 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:04.819 I know this place. 00:20:04.819 --> 00:20:07.919 This is a hard place. 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:16.079 When you trust in man, 00:20:16.619 --> 00:20:19.139 you turn your heart from the Lord 00:20:19.139 --> 00:20:23.019 and you experience the consequences 00:20:23.019 --> 00:20:25.240 for disobeying His voice. 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:29.120 It's a hard place to be. 00:20:32.700 --> 00:20:33.299 And man, 00:20:33.380 --> 00:20:34.940 we trust is a cursed place. 00:20:37.220 --> 00:20:38.059 Would you look at 00:20:38.059 --> 00:20:39.700 chapter 17 again, 00:20:39.759 --> 00:20:40.380 verse 13? 00:20:40.380 --> 00:20:43.000 O Lord, 00:20:43.060 --> 00:20:43.940 the hope of Israel, 00:20:44.660 --> 00:20:45.780 all who forsake You 00:20:45.780 --> 00:20:46.880 shall be put to shame. 00:20:47.600 --> 00:20:48.840 Those who turn away from You 00:20:48.840 --> 00:20:50.800 shall be written in the earth, 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:51.780 reference to death, 00:20:52.380 --> 00:20:54.360 for they have forsaken the Lord, 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:56.660 the fountain of living water. 00:20:56.760 --> 00:20:57.540 There it comes again. 00:20:57.660 --> 00:20:58.920 The fountain of living water. 00:20:59.260 --> 00:21:00.200 Not only have we seen it 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:01.000 in chapter 2, 00:21:01.360 --> 00:21:02.500 now we see it showing up 00:21:02.500 --> 00:21:03.360 in the very passage 00:21:03.360 --> 00:21:04.240 that we're looking at. 00:21:04.860 --> 00:21:05.820 God is the fountain 00:21:05.820 --> 00:21:06.600 of living water. 00:21:06.599 --> 00:21:08.839 And so, 00:21:08.980 --> 00:21:09.899 in man we trust, 00:21:10.019 --> 00:21:11.099 we experience curse. 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:15.539 We miss the waters. 00:21:18.379 --> 00:21:19.039 And so, 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:20.019 the last reality 00:21:20.019 --> 00:21:20.939 I want to show you 00:21:20.939 --> 00:21:21.459 is this. 00:21:23.859 --> 00:21:25.419 It's a call to those 00:21:25.419 --> 00:21:27.399 who are trusting in man. 00:21:29.139 --> 00:21:30.079 It's a call 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:32.279 to the fountain of living water. 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:35.139 It's a call to turn away 00:21:35.140 --> 00:21:36.820 from trusting in man. 00:21:36.940 --> 00:21:38.420 From self-reliance. 00:21:39.540 --> 00:21:40.560 How do we respond? 00:21:40.900 --> 00:21:42.400 If you find yourself 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:43.620 in the parched place, 00:21:43.820 --> 00:21:44.940 how do you respond? 00:21:45.940 --> 00:21:47.520 You turn from it. 00:21:48.180 --> 00:21:49.380 You turn from it 00:21:49.380 --> 00:21:51.100 and you turn to your God. 00:21:51.980 --> 00:21:53.200 You turn to the fountain 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:54.040 of living water. 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:56.460 Turn from trusting in man 00:21:56.460 --> 00:21:59.620 and turn to God. 00:22:00.820 --> 00:22:02.120 Come out of the cursed, 00:22:02.340 --> 00:22:04.240 parched place. 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:05.859 Come out of there. 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:09.620 Stop trusting in man. 00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:11.079 Stop trusting in yourself. 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:13.440 And come to the oasis. 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:15.660 The blessing 00:22:15.660 --> 00:22:17.720 of trusting in the Lord. 00:22:17.819 --> 00:22:18.839 Of drinking deep 00:22:18.839 --> 00:22:20.099 from the fountain 00:22:20.099 --> 00:22:21.740 of living water. 00:22:24.140 --> 00:22:25.599 Can I tell you something awesome? 00:22:27.460 --> 00:22:28.960 Flip over in your Bibles 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:31.079 to Galatians 3. 00:22:31.079 --> 00:22:31.180 Galatians 3. 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:46.160 Galatians 3. 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:46.339 Chapter 3. 00:22:46.339 --> 00:22:47.599 Verse 13. 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:57.140 Christ Jesus, Christ, 00:22:57.539 --> 00:22:58.740 redeemed us 00:22:58.740 --> 00:23:00.720 from the curse of the law 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:04.339 by becoming a curse for us. 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:06.680 For it is written, 00:23:06.860 --> 00:23:09.360 cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree 00:23:09.360 --> 00:23:11.339 so that in Christ Jesus, 00:23:11.940 --> 00:23:15.319 the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles. 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:15.860 That's us. 00:23:18.360 --> 00:23:19.620 Are you in the parched place? 00:23:22.120 --> 00:23:26.880 Jesus took on your curse on Himself 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:30.980 so that you could experience God's blessing. 00:23:36.760 --> 00:23:38.780 Who do you ultimately trust in? 00:23:39.900 --> 00:23:41.960 Whose voice do you ultimately believe? 00:23:42.280 --> 00:23:43.160 Who's defining you? 00:23:44.620 --> 00:23:45.980 We're being shown here, 00:23:45.980 --> 00:23:47.420 don't trust in man. 00:23:48.620 --> 00:23:49.640 Turn to God. 00:23:49.740 --> 00:23:54.000 And now let's turn to verses 7 and 8 of Jeremiah 17. 00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:57.400 Let's turn to the fountain of living water. 00:23:57.539 --> 00:24:00.019 Let's turn to the One 00:24:00.019 --> 00:24:02.579 who is the source of our strength, 00:24:02.660 --> 00:24:03.319 our hope, 00:24:03.940 --> 00:24:05.599 and even in the midst of heat and drought. 00:24:09.859 --> 00:24:12.180 We are not to trust in man. 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:14.519 The cry of our hearts 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:17.839 is the Lord is our trust. 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:19.660 Four realities. 00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:22.359 The Lord is our trust. 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:23.460 Verses 7 and 8. 00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:26.700 The Lord is our trust. 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:27.619 Is our model. 00:24:28.220 --> 00:24:29.900 It's what we proclaim. 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:32.480 It is the banner over us. 00:24:33.980 --> 00:24:35.240 And I just want to show you 00:24:35.240 --> 00:24:39.539 that this motto is built on a foundation of truth. 00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:40.579 Not lies. 00:24:41.980 --> 00:24:43.839 God is the Creator of all. 00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:46.680 All things depend on Him. 00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:48.640 We depend on Him. 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:50.799 He does not depend on us. 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:54.779 He is unlimited in terms of place and time. 00:24:54.859 --> 00:24:55.799 He's omnipresent. 00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:58.159 He is unlimited in His knowledge. 00:24:58.319 --> 00:25:00.859 He knows all things all the time 00:25:00.859 --> 00:25:02.159 and He doesn't sweat it. 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:05.359 He's unlimited in His power. 00:25:06.539 --> 00:25:08.919 There's nothing that God cannot do, 00:25:09.059 --> 00:25:09.940 so He wills. 00:25:12.339 --> 00:25:13.759 He is holy. 00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:16.720 He doesn't have a deep root of sin. 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:18.339 He's holy. 00:25:19.059 --> 00:25:20.900 He's perfect in all that He is. 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:24.140 He's gloriously good 00:25:24.140 --> 00:25:26.259 and right and true. 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:29.220 And that shows up in His justice. 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:31.099 His justice is always pure. 00:25:31.500 --> 00:25:32.740 That shows up in His love. 00:25:33.099 --> 00:25:35.339 He always loves purely. 00:25:35.339 --> 00:25:38.879 God is great. 00:25:42.039 --> 00:25:43.759 Now, if you were wondering 00:25:43.759 --> 00:25:45.740 who to choose at any given moment 00:25:45.740 --> 00:25:47.599 to trust in, man or God, 00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:49.119 if you do the math, 00:25:49.199 --> 00:25:50.199 it's pretty obvious. 00:25:51.139 --> 00:25:52.759 God is worthy of your trust. 00:25:54.259 --> 00:25:56.179 But there's a step of humility, isn't there? 00:25:56.879 --> 00:25:59.659 There's a step of coming under God's authority. 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:02.819 And that's where our pride can trip up. 00:26:02.819 --> 00:26:06.419 I just want to help you to see. 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:08.240 If you do the math, 00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:11.179 God is worthy of your trust. 00:26:12.379 --> 00:26:16.220 He is able to bear your ultimate reliance. 00:26:16.539 --> 00:26:17.279 He's big enough. 00:26:17.980 --> 00:26:19.659 Nothing or no one else is. 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:21.659 He is able to carry you. 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:23.759 The Lord is our trust 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:26.359 is a motto established on the truth 00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:28.460 of who God is 00:26:28.460 --> 00:26:30.899 and what He's done in history. 00:26:33.379 --> 00:26:36.019 The second reality I want you to see is this. 00:26:37.339 --> 00:26:38.480 The Lord is our trust 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:39.659 goes by another name. 00:26:42.419 --> 00:26:44.919 If you look at v. 7, 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:45.339 you see, 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:47.619 blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord 00:26:47.619 --> 00:26:49.019 whose trust is the Lord. 00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:51.740 There's a little emphasis there. 00:26:51.859 --> 00:26:52.639 He goes from 00:26:52.639 --> 00:26:55.500 blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord 00:26:55.500 --> 00:26:57.980 to whose trust is the Lord. 00:26:58.939 --> 00:27:00.259 So maybe think about it this way. 00:27:00.259 --> 00:27:02.000 What we're called to here 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:04.160 is not to trust in your trust. 00:27:05.319 --> 00:27:08.079 To not have more faith in your faith. 00:27:08.779 --> 00:27:11.640 It's not about how much faith you have. 00:27:11.940 --> 00:27:15.319 It's about who you are trusting in. 00:27:16.220 --> 00:27:17.400 And what we're seeing here, 00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:20.119 it's the Lord is our trust. 00:27:21.019 --> 00:27:22.359 He is our confidence. 00:27:23.879 --> 00:27:25.619 On Him we rely. 00:27:25.619 --> 00:27:30.199 Remember, trust is reliance on God 00:27:30.199 --> 00:27:32.179 as an ultimate reliance. 00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:34.139 He defines who we are. 00:27:35.739 --> 00:27:38.179 He determines how we are to walk. 00:27:38.519 --> 00:27:39.399 He lets us know 00:27:39.399 --> 00:27:40.739 what our greatest danger is. 00:27:41.059 --> 00:27:42.059 He let us know. 00:27:42.179 --> 00:27:43.279 He shows us 00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:45.239 where deliverance is to be found. 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:45.819 Jesus. 00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:48.319 And He ultimately 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:50.539 determines our destinies. 00:27:50.539 --> 00:27:55.180 The Lord is our trust 00:27:55.180 --> 00:27:56.460 goes by another name. 00:27:57.579 --> 00:27:58.940 Did you know that your heart 00:27:58.940 --> 00:28:01.480 is designed for something? 00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:06.359 God designed it for something. 00:28:07.379 --> 00:28:09.599 It's designed to recognize 00:28:09.599 --> 00:28:11.000 something of worth. 00:28:11.940 --> 00:28:14.240 It's designed to give 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:15.500 kind of 00:28:15.500 --> 00:28:17.799 credence to it 00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:18.639 and follow it. 00:28:18.819 --> 00:28:19.680 To live for it. 00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:21.660 God designed your heart. 00:28:22.100 --> 00:28:23.799 He designed your heart 00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:24.519 for Himself. 00:28:26.060 --> 00:28:27.660 He designed your heart 00:28:27.660 --> 00:28:28.920 to recognize 00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:30.480 His glory 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:31.860 and 00:28:31.860 --> 00:28:33.340 live for it. 00:28:33.900 --> 00:28:35.120 That's what your heart 00:28:35.120 --> 00:28:36.160 was designed for. 00:28:45.380 --> 00:28:46.440 These words, 00:28:46.560 --> 00:28:47.539 the Lord is our trust. 00:28:47.539 --> 00:28:47.579 trust. 00:28:48.579 --> 00:28:49.759 This goes by another name. 00:28:50.339 --> 00:28:51.480 And it's not idolatry. 00:28:52.059 --> 00:28:52.940 It's worship. 00:28:53.659 --> 00:28:54.720 True worship. 00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:56.879 Trusting in the Lord 00:28:56.879 --> 00:28:58.740 is an act of worship. 00:28:59.539 --> 00:29:01.079 Recognizing His worth 00:29:01.079 --> 00:29:02.180 and then 00:29:02.180 --> 00:29:03.879 living for it 00:29:03.879 --> 00:29:05.240 with all that you are. 00:29:06.980 --> 00:29:07.940 Calling back 00:29:07.940 --> 00:29:09.659 from Jeremiah 2.13. 00:29:09.660 --> 00:29:10.660 The Lord is our trust. 00:29:10.660 --> 00:29:12.920 The Lord is our trust. 00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:17.220 It's kind of putting away 00:29:17.220 --> 00:29:18.740 the cisterns 00:29:18.740 --> 00:29:19.640 that we make. 00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:21.740 It's putting away 00:29:21.740 --> 00:29:22.800 of the places 00:29:22.800 --> 00:29:23.660 we go to 00:29:23.660 --> 00:29:25.160 to find strength 00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:26.220 that's not God. 00:29:26.380 --> 00:29:27.600 It's putting away 00:29:27.600 --> 00:29:28.560 of idolatry. 00:29:28.779 --> 00:29:29.900 It's putting away 00:29:29.900 --> 00:29:31.240 of things that we look to 00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:32.100 for deliverance. 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:33.800 And it is 00:29:33.800 --> 00:29:34.779 drinking deep 00:29:34.779 --> 00:29:35.440 from the fountain 00:29:35.440 --> 00:29:36.120 of living water. 00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:37.879 it's depending 00:29:37.879 --> 00:29:38.799 on God 00:29:38.799 --> 00:29:39.859 as our source 00:29:39.859 --> 00:29:40.439 of strength. 00:29:47.959 --> 00:29:48.519 Augustine 00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:50.039 said it this way. 00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:51.739 Our hearts 00:29:51.739 --> 00:29:52.399 are restless 00:29:52.399 --> 00:29:55.599 until they find 00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:56.419 their rest 00:29:56.419 --> 00:29:57.079 in you. 00:29:58.079 --> 00:29:59.159 Until they find 00:29:59.159 --> 00:29:59.739 their ultimate 00:29:59.739 --> 00:30:00.739 reliance 00:30:00.739 --> 00:30:02.639 in you. 00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:03.920 ultimate 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:05.040 worship 00:30:05.040 --> 00:30:06.580 in you. 00:30:07.180 --> 00:30:07.680 Ultimate 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:08.720 trust 00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:10.000 in you. 00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:10.820 The Lord 00:30:10.820 --> 00:30:12.100 is our trust. 00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:13.920 Goes by another name. 00:30:14.300 --> 00:30:14.680 Worship. 00:30:16.520 --> 00:30:17.580 The fourth reality 00:30:17.580 --> 00:30:18.540 I want you to see 00:30:18.540 --> 00:30:19.640 under this banner 00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:20.800 the Lord is our trust 00:30:20.800 --> 00:30:22.300 is the blessing. 00:30:23.320 --> 00:30:24.800 How God responds. 00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:27.160 When we trust 00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:27.700 God's Word. 00:30:27.780 --> 00:30:28.460 This is back to 00:30:28.460 --> 00:30:29.540 Deuteronomy 28. 00:30:29.900 --> 00:30:30.900 Blessing and curse. 00:30:31.020 --> 00:30:31.980 When we trust 00:30:31.980 --> 00:30:32.860 God's Word. 00:30:33.539 --> 00:30:34.420 When we rely 00:30:34.420 --> 00:30:35.420 on what He says 00:30:35.420 --> 00:30:37.099 blessing follows. 00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:38.579 The positive consequences 00:30:38.579 --> 00:30:40.000 to relying on 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:40.900 God and His Word. 00:30:43.079 --> 00:30:44.099 We see the picture 00:30:44.099 --> 00:30:45.200 of it in verse 8. 00:30:45.980 --> 00:30:46.740 He's like a tree 00:30:46.740 --> 00:30:47.779 planted by water 00:30:47.779 --> 00:30:48.559 that sends out 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:48.940 its roots 00:30:48.940 --> 00:30:49.720 by the streams. 00:30:49.819 --> 00:30:50.480 It does not fear 00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:51.099 when heat comes 00:30:51.099 --> 00:30:51.720 for its leaves 00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:52.380 remain green. 00:30:53.019 --> 00:30:53.640 It's not anxious 00:30:53.640 --> 00:30:54.480 in the year of drought 00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:55.480 for it does not cease 00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:56.279 to bear fruit. 00:30:57.160 --> 00:30:57.920 It's a picture 00:30:57.920 --> 00:30:58.559 of life. 00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:00.059 It's a picture 00:31:00.059 --> 00:31:01.000 of vitality. 00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:02.279 It's a picture 00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:02.880 of a tree 00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:03.920 planted by streams 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:04.299 of water. 00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:04.940 That should ring 00:31:04.940 --> 00:31:05.279 a bell. 00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:06.180 Psalm 1. 00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:08.599 It's a picture 00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:09.480 of vitality. 00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:11.200 This tree 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:12.539 sends out its roots 00:31:12.539 --> 00:31:13.700 by the streams 00:31:13.700 --> 00:31:14.480 of water. 00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:16.119 It's a very 00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:16.960 vivid picture. 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:19.380 Water gives life. 00:31:20.539 --> 00:31:21.599 Water sustains. 00:31:22.740 --> 00:31:24.279 We all need water. 00:31:24.279 --> 00:31:24.319 water. 00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:27.559 It's in sharp contrast 00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:28.980 to the shrub 00:31:28.980 --> 00:31:30.079 in the desolate 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:31.059 parched places, 00:31:31.119 --> 00:31:31.500 isn't it? 00:31:32.220 --> 00:31:33.319 Quite a contrast. 00:31:33.740 --> 00:31:34.940 Contrast in pictures. 00:31:38.339 --> 00:31:39.599 What makes 00:31:39.599 --> 00:31:41.139 verse 8 00:31:41.139 --> 00:31:42.500 so wonderful? 00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:43.500 This blessing, 00:31:43.859 --> 00:31:46.359 this vitality 00:31:46.359 --> 00:31:47.000 of living 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:48.779 is the water. 00:31:48.779 --> 00:31:48.899 water. 00:31:51.460 --> 00:31:51.720 And 00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:53.339 Jeremiah 00:31:53.339 --> 00:31:54.299 seems to have 00:31:54.299 --> 00:31:55.399 water on his mind 00:31:55.399 --> 00:31:56.859 because 00:31:56.859 --> 00:31:57.960 he references 00:31:57.960 --> 00:31:58.980 water in 8 00:31:58.980 --> 00:32:00.339 and then in verse 13 00:32:00.339 --> 00:32:00.960 again, 00:32:01.139 --> 00:32:02.019 I pointed this earlier, 00:32:02.139 --> 00:32:02.899 for they have forsaken 00:32:02.899 --> 00:32:03.379 the Lord, 00:32:03.480 --> 00:32:04.000 the fountain 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:05.639 of living water. 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:06.680 What's the water? 00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:10.339 The water is our God. 00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:13.940 He's the fountain 00:32:13.940 --> 00:32:14.759 of living water. 00:32:14.859 --> 00:32:15.359 It's a picture 00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:16.240 of a thriving 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:16.960 oasis. 00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:20.240 in the midst 00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:21.180 of stifling 00:32:21.180 --> 00:32:21.880 Middle Eastern 00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:22.620 heat 00:32:22.620 --> 00:32:24.460 and drought. 00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:26.680 With God 00:32:26.680 --> 00:32:27.500 as our trust, 00:32:28.100 --> 00:32:29.019 we thrive 00:32:29.019 --> 00:32:30.059 even when 00:32:30.059 --> 00:32:30.960 the heat comes. 00:32:31.059 --> 00:32:31.579 Did you notice 00:32:31.579 --> 00:32:32.180 the references 00:32:32.180 --> 00:32:33.299 to fear 00:32:33.299 --> 00:32:33.960 and anxiety? 00:32:34.460 --> 00:32:35.319 To heat 00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:35.960 and drought? 00:32:36.900 --> 00:32:37.759 Those can make you 00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:38.360 a little fearful. 00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:39.640 A little anxious. 00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:42.840 But with God 00:32:42.840 --> 00:32:44.019 as our trust, 00:32:45.100 --> 00:32:46.740 our leaves 00:32:46.740 --> 00:32:47.440 remain green. 00:32:47.980 --> 00:32:48.859 We bear fruit 00:32:48.859 --> 00:32:50.200 even when the heat 00:32:50.200 --> 00:32:50.680 comes, 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:51.700 even when there's 00:32:51.700 --> 00:32:52.019 drought. 00:32:54.019 --> 00:32:54.620 God 00:32:54.620 --> 00:32:56.220 is our 00:32:56.220 --> 00:32:57.240 fountain 00:32:57.240 --> 00:32:58.900 of living water. 00:33:02.019 --> 00:33:03.140 We experience 00:33:03.140 --> 00:33:03.819 heat regularly. 00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:05.279 We experience 00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:05.599 drought, 00:33:05.700 --> 00:33:06.220 and when we see 00:33:06.220 --> 00:33:06.640 it coming, 00:33:06.779 --> 00:33:08.160 we can be afraid. 00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:09.620 We can be anxious. 00:33:09.619 --> 00:33:12.119 ISIS is in the news. 00:33:12.779 --> 00:33:13.179 And so, 00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:13.979 I'm guessing 00:33:13.979 --> 00:33:14.519 many of you 00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:15.000 are thinking, 00:33:15.159 --> 00:33:15.339 okay, 00:33:15.399 --> 00:33:15.739 where are they 00:33:15.739 --> 00:33:16.399 going to hit next? 00:33:17.139 --> 00:33:18.000 What's going to happen? 00:33:18.159 --> 00:33:18.959 Who's going to die? 00:33:19.059 --> 00:33:19.799 How many people? 00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:21.000 It can start 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:22.379 making you anxious. 00:33:22.739 --> 00:33:24.739 It can make you fearful. 00:33:25.739 --> 00:33:26.679 Syrian refugees 00:33:26.679 --> 00:33:28.259 coming to Wisconsin. 00:33:28.579 --> 00:33:29.119 How do you 00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:29.939 respond to that? 00:33:32.219 --> 00:33:33.039 It can raise 00:33:33.039 --> 00:33:33.939 questions of fear 00:33:33.939 --> 00:33:34.399 and anxiety 00:33:34.399 --> 00:33:35.000 because you start 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:35.539 wondering who's 00:33:35.539 --> 00:33:36.299 coming in with them. 00:33:36.299 --> 00:33:39.500 As Christians, 00:33:39.619 --> 00:33:40.259 we're to respond 00:33:40.259 --> 00:33:41.200 compassionately 00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:42.039 and wisely. 00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:47.559 Financial strain. 00:33:48.879 --> 00:33:49.359 Unemployment. 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:53.339 Conflict with loved ones. 00:33:54.099 --> 00:33:54.980 Huge decisions. 00:33:55.339 --> 00:33:56.559 What is the next step 00:33:56.559 --> 00:33:57.220 we're going to make? 00:33:57.919 --> 00:33:59.359 Difficult work environments. 00:33:59.700 --> 00:34:00.740 When you look at yourself 00:34:00.740 --> 00:34:01.180 in the mirror 00:34:01.180 --> 00:34:02.019 and you start fearing 00:34:02.019 --> 00:34:02.539 what other people 00:34:02.539 --> 00:34:03.279 are going to think about you. 00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:04.480 It's all different 00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:05.159 kinds of heat, 00:34:05.220 --> 00:34:05.539 isn't it? 00:34:06.299 --> 00:34:10.000 We've been going 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:10.579 through some heat 00:34:10.579 --> 00:34:11.239 as a church. 00:34:13.179 --> 00:34:14.800 And it can expose 00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:15.679 who we trust. 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:17.000 I know it does with me. 00:34:18.759 --> 00:34:20.079 The Lord is our trust. 00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:22.440 He is our ultimate reliance. 00:34:23.579 --> 00:34:24.880 When we experience 00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:25.860 this kind of heat, 00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:26.539 we're tempted 00:34:26.539 --> 00:34:27.739 to go to places 00:34:27.739 --> 00:34:29.199 trusting in ourselves, 00:34:29.380 --> 00:34:30.279 trusting in man. 00:34:31.219 --> 00:34:32.440 We go to the Lord 00:34:32.440 --> 00:34:34.019 who is our trust. 00:34:34.019 --> 00:34:34.159 Trust. 00:34:36.300 --> 00:34:37.820 The Lord is our trust. 00:34:39.120 --> 00:34:40.680 There is where blessing is. 00:34:41.580 --> 00:34:42.780 There is where life is. 00:34:43.460 --> 00:34:44.920 When God turns up the heat, 00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:46.140 we send our roots 00:34:46.140 --> 00:34:47.039 to the streams 00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:48.100 of living waters. 00:34:49.420 --> 00:34:50.980 The Lord is our trust. 00:34:52.220 --> 00:34:53.420 The fourth reality 00:34:53.420 --> 00:34:54.280 I want you to see 00:34:54.280 --> 00:34:54.780 under this 00:34:54.780 --> 00:34:58.140 is that word water. 00:34:58.140 --> 00:34:58.220 Water. 00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:03.320 Planted by streams of water. 00:35:03.320 --> 00:35:04.140 It sends its roots 00:35:04.140 --> 00:35:05.200 out by the streams. 00:35:06.100 --> 00:35:06.740 I've already made 00:35:06.740 --> 00:35:07.220 the connection 00:35:07.220 --> 00:35:08.519 with verse 13 00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:09.500 of chapter 17 00:35:09.500 --> 00:35:10.880 that God is the 00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:12.280 fountain of living water. 00:35:12.460 --> 00:35:15.180 He is the one 00:35:15.180 --> 00:35:16.140 who gives life. 00:35:17.940 --> 00:35:18.420 Did you know 00:35:18.420 --> 00:35:19.500 later in Jeremiah, 00:35:20.600 --> 00:35:21.980 Jeremiah 31, 00:35:22.240 --> 00:35:23.300 Jeremiah speaks 00:35:23.300 --> 00:35:24.440 of a future 00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:25.360 when God will make 00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:26.039 a new covenant 00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:26.980 with a new people 00:35:26.980 --> 00:35:28.340 and He'll write 00:35:28.340 --> 00:35:28.860 His word 00:35:28.860 --> 00:35:29.639 on their hearts. 00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:32.380 We learn from 00:35:32.380 --> 00:35:33.179 Ezekiel 36 00:35:33.179 --> 00:35:34.500 that that new covenant, 00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:35.980 the Holy Spirit 00:35:35.980 --> 00:35:36.960 will come upon 00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:37.679 God's people 00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:38.440 in a new 00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:39.599 and pronounced way. 00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:42.860 A new covenant 00:35:42.860 --> 00:35:43.960 with a new people 00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:44.900 with new hearts. 00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:47.280 And what we learn 00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:48.360 from our New Testaments 00:35:48.360 --> 00:35:48.920 is that 00:35:48.920 --> 00:35:50.380 it's Jesus 00:35:50.380 --> 00:35:52.199 that inaugurated 00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:53.139 the new covenant. 00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:54.860 His life, 00:35:55.019 --> 00:35:55.219 death, 00:35:55.219 --> 00:35:55.879 and resurrection. 00:35:57.059 --> 00:35:58.659 It was by His blood 00:35:58.659 --> 00:36:00.019 that He shed 00:36:00.019 --> 00:36:01.480 that we are now 00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:03.119 living in the new covenant. 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:08.980 And so now 00:36:08.980 --> 00:36:10.339 on this side of the cross, 00:36:11.179 --> 00:36:13.019 we're reading back 00:36:13.019 --> 00:36:14.319 through Jesus 00:36:14.319 --> 00:36:16.379 Jeremiah 17. 00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:19.259 We're reading back 00:36:19.259 --> 00:36:21.019 through the establishing 00:36:21.019 --> 00:36:21.879 of the new covenant 00:36:21.879 --> 00:36:22.439 in Jesus. 00:36:22.859 --> 00:36:23.539 A better covenant 00:36:23.539 --> 00:36:24.779 built on better promises. 00:36:25.219 --> 00:36:26.239 We're looking at it 00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:28.299 through Jeremiah 17. 00:36:28.399 --> 00:36:28.899 We're looking at it 00:36:28.899 --> 00:36:29.879 through the cross. 00:36:30.059 --> 00:36:30.599 Through Jesus. 00:36:32.899 --> 00:36:34.099 And so when we read 00:36:34.099 --> 00:36:34.959 a passage like 00:36:34.959 --> 00:36:36.359 John 4, 00:36:36.359 --> 00:36:38.919 where Jesus meets 00:36:38.919 --> 00:36:40.179 a woman at the well, 00:36:41.459 --> 00:36:43.079 He says this 00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:44.480 and it takes on 00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:45.379 new significance 00:36:45.379 --> 00:36:46.959 in light of Jeremiah 17. 00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:50.559 this is John 4, 00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:51.500 verse 10. 00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:54.900 The Samaritan woman 00:36:54.900 --> 00:36:55.820 just asked Jesus, 00:36:56.119 --> 00:36:56.679 hey, can I get you 00:36:56.679 --> 00:36:57.320 a drink of water? 00:36:58.019 --> 00:36:59.220 Jesus answered her, 00:37:00.340 --> 00:37:00.699 or actually, 00:37:00.780 --> 00:37:01.619 He asked her for it. 00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:02.760 If you know the gift 00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:03.800 of God and who it is 00:37:03.800 --> 00:37:04.679 that is saying to you, 00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:05.500 give me a drink, 00:37:05.940 --> 00:37:07.300 you would have asked Him 00:37:07.300 --> 00:37:09.440 and He would have given you 00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:10.980 living water. 00:37:12.980 --> 00:37:13.820 Later on, He says, 00:37:13.820 --> 00:37:15.160 everyone who drinks 00:37:15.160 --> 00:37:15.920 of this water 00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:16.539 will be thirsty 00:37:16.539 --> 00:37:19.980 again from that well. 00:37:20.340 --> 00:37:21.160 But whoever drinks 00:37:21.160 --> 00:37:21.660 of the water 00:37:21.660 --> 00:37:22.440 that I will give him 00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:23.700 will never be thirsty again. 00:37:23.780 --> 00:37:25.000 The water that I will give him 00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:26.400 will become in him 00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:27.440 a spring of water 00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:28.220 welling up 00:37:28.220 --> 00:37:29.420 to eternal life. 00:37:31.140 --> 00:37:32.160 John 7 says 00:37:32.160 --> 00:37:32.920 that water 00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:34.000 is the Holy Spirit 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:36.300 living inside of us. 00:37:37.140 --> 00:37:38.539 New covenant reality. 00:37:38.539 --> 00:37:40.980 When we put our faith 00:37:40.980 --> 00:37:41.519 in Jesus, 00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:43.320 we are indwelled 00:37:43.320 --> 00:37:44.300 by the Holy Spirit. 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:45.940 He dwells in us. 00:37:46.019 --> 00:37:46.739 He fills us. 00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:47.679 He empowers us. 00:37:47.779 --> 00:37:49.119 He enlivens us. 00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:50.460 We're like a tree 00:37:50.460 --> 00:37:51.820 planted by a stream. 00:37:52.179 --> 00:37:53.380 We don't fear the heat. 00:37:53.460 --> 00:37:54.619 We're not anxious in drought 00:37:54.619 --> 00:37:57.139 because the Lord Jesus 00:37:57.139 --> 00:37:58.259 is our trust. 00:37:59.380 --> 00:38:00.300 He is the fountain 00:38:00.300 --> 00:38:02.099 of living water. 00:38:03.119 --> 00:38:04.199 To Him we turn. 00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:06.300 So when we read, 00:38:06.300 --> 00:38:07.660 blessed is the man 00:38:07.660 --> 00:38:08.700 who trusts in the Lord, 00:38:09.019 --> 00:38:10.720 whose trust is the Lord, 00:38:11.300 --> 00:38:12.560 we read that 00:38:12.560 --> 00:38:13.640 back through 00:38:13.640 --> 00:38:14.440 where we are. 00:38:15.200 --> 00:38:16.360 We read that 00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:18.240 through the cross of Jesus. 00:38:19.539 --> 00:38:20.660 And so we can say, 00:38:22.380 --> 00:38:23.400 blessed is the man 00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:25.320 who trusts in the Lord Jesus, 00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:27.960 whose trust is 00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:30.240 the Lord Jesus. 00:38:36.300 --> 00:38:40.860 the Lord 00:38:40.860 --> 00:38:43.160 is our trust. 00:38:43.580 --> 00:38:44.539 The Lord Jesus 00:38:44.539 --> 00:38:46.260 is our trust. 00:38:48.900 --> 00:38:49.960 We've looked at two ways 00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:50.519 to live here. 00:38:52.680 --> 00:38:53.120 Man 00:38:53.120 --> 00:38:55.820 is our trust 00:38:55.820 --> 00:38:56.460 and the Lord 00:38:56.460 --> 00:38:57.240 is our trust. 00:38:57.380 --> 00:38:58.260 I just want to 00:38:58.260 --> 00:38:59.760 do a quick 00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:01.600 three things of application 00:39:01.600 --> 00:39:02.320 and then close. 00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:04.760 the first thing 00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:05.260 in light of what 00:39:05.260 --> 00:39:06.000 we've been talking about 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:06.400 is this. 00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:09.039 The Christian life 00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:10.660 is a continual turning 00:39:10.660 --> 00:39:11.840 from yourself 00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:13.280 and turning to Jesus, 00:39:13.700 --> 00:39:14.780 the fountain of living water. 00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:16.240 There is the 00:39:16.240 --> 00:39:17.559 first initial 00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:19.260 repentance and faith 00:39:19.260 --> 00:39:20.600 where we're converted. 00:39:21.120 --> 00:39:22.300 But the Christian life 00:39:22.300 --> 00:39:24.000 is a continual turning, 00:39:24.539 --> 00:39:26.280 turning from broken cisterns 00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:27.480 and a turning to 00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:29.160 the fountain of living water. 00:39:29.159 --> 00:39:29.199 water. 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:31.319 Ongoing renouncing 00:39:31.319 --> 00:39:32.799 of false gods. 00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:34.099 Ongoing relying 00:39:34.099 --> 00:39:34.879 on Jesus. 00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:37.420 The true fountain 00:39:37.420 --> 00:39:38.159 of living water. 00:39:38.619 --> 00:39:38.799 So, 00:39:39.239 --> 00:39:40.199 we come out. 00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:41.859 We regularly come out 00:39:41.859 --> 00:39:42.819 of parched places. 00:39:43.359 --> 00:39:44.599 And we regularly go 00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:45.460 to the fountain 00:39:45.460 --> 00:39:46.239 of living water. 00:39:47.500 --> 00:39:49.019 It's par for the course. 00:39:49.139 --> 00:39:50.000 That's the life we live. 00:39:50.399 --> 00:39:50.799 Second, 00:39:52.879 --> 00:39:54.480 God uses heat 00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:55.159 to expose 00:39:55.159 --> 00:39:56.059 who we trust. 00:39:57.460 --> 00:39:58.779 What are you afraid of? 00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:00.719 What are you anxious over? 00:40:03.659 --> 00:40:05.059 God is using heat 00:40:05.059 --> 00:40:06.039 to expose 00:40:06.039 --> 00:40:06.980 who you trust in. 00:40:08.099 --> 00:40:09.579 He's been doing that with me. 00:40:11.539 --> 00:40:12.019 So, 00:40:12.139 --> 00:40:12.579 what do you do 00:40:12.579 --> 00:40:13.440 when the heat comes on? 00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:14.179 You turn to Jesus. 00:40:15.179 --> 00:40:16.079 You trust in Him. 00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:17.219 He's over it. 00:40:17.259 --> 00:40:17.619 He's in it. 00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:18.219 He's through it. 00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:19.920 Let Him lead on. 00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:21.699 So, 00:40:21.799 --> 00:40:22.619 we come out 00:40:22.619 --> 00:40:23.659 of the parched places 00:40:23.659 --> 00:40:25.379 and go to Jesus 00:40:25.379 --> 00:40:26.019 to drink 00:40:26.019 --> 00:40:26.839 of the fountain 00:40:26.839 --> 00:40:27.559 of living water. 00:40:29.159 --> 00:40:29.940 The final thing 00:40:29.940 --> 00:40:30.879 I want you to see 00:40:30.879 --> 00:40:31.099 is, 00:40:31.799 --> 00:40:32.759 in light of the culture 00:40:32.759 --> 00:40:33.559 we live in, 00:40:35.059 --> 00:40:36.079 the Christian life 00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:36.500 is 00:40:36.500 --> 00:40:38.359 counter-cultural. 00:40:41.039 --> 00:40:41.699 The motto 00:40:41.699 --> 00:40:42.379 we live by 00:40:42.379 --> 00:40:44.119 is a sharp contrast 00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:45.859 to that of the American culture. 00:40:46.539 --> 00:40:47.699 We live by 00:40:47.699 --> 00:40:49.460 our Lord's voice, 00:40:49.619 --> 00:40:50.839 by His strength, 00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:52.679 not our culture's voice. 00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:55.940 And so, 00:40:56.019 --> 00:40:56.699 there will be 00:40:56.699 --> 00:40:57.960 a standing out 00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:00.039 when we come out 00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:01.019 of the parched places 00:41:01.019 --> 00:41:02.039 and when we drink 00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:02.659 from the fountain 00:41:02.659 --> 00:41:03.319 of living water, 00:41:03.639 --> 00:41:04.579 we'll stand out 00:41:04.579 --> 00:41:05.339 in this culture. 00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:08.059 So, 00:41:08.139 --> 00:41:08.579 in close, 00:41:08.739 --> 00:41:10.699 whose voice 00:41:10.699 --> 00:41:12.299 are you living by? 00:41:12.460 --> 00:41:13.339 Who are you 00:41:13.339 --> 00:41:15.019 ultimately relying in? 00:41:15.859 --> 00:41:16.899 Jeremiah 17, 00:41:17.019 --> 00:41:17.739 5-8 00:41:17.739 --> 00:41:19.059 points to two ways 00:41:19.059 --> 00:41:19.500 to live. 00:41:19.500 --> 00:41:20.639 In man we trust 00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:22.579 or the Lord Jesus 00:41:22.579 --> 00:41:24.219 is our trust. 00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:27.059 He became a curse 00:41:27.059 --> 00:41:27.679 for us 00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:29.119 so that we can 00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:30.840 experience His blessing 00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:32.139 ongoingly. 00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:33.659 The difference 00:41:33.659 --> 00:41:35.239 is who you 00:41:35.239 --> 00:41:36.599 ultimately rely on. 00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:38.039 Let me pray. 00:41:38.039 --> 00:41:46.019 Lord Jesus, 00:41:47.219 --> 00:41:49.840 Lord Jesus, 00:41:49.980 --> 00:41:51.300 You are our trust, 00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:52.199 You are our confidence, 00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:53.420 You are our fountain 00:41:53.420 --> 00:41:54.259 of living water. 00:41:55.840 --> 00:41:56.300 God, 00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:57.219 You are our hope 00:41:57.219 --> 00:41:57.880 in the midst 00:41:57.880 --> 00:41:59.039 of hardship 00:41:59.039 --> 00:41:59.719 and heat 00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:00.199 and God, 00:42:00.279 --> 00:42:01.659 we look to You. 00:42:02.659 --> 00:42:03.239 And You, 00:42:03.599 --> 00:42:03.840 Jesus, 00:42:04.059 --> 00:42:05.380 we follow You. 00:42:06.380 --> 00:42:07.380 We look to You 00:42:07.380 --> 00:42:08.000 and trust You. 00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:08.740 In Jesus' name, 00:42:08.920 --> 00:42:09.160 Amen.