Trusting God Through Trials Results in Blessing – Psalm 31
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TITLE: Trusting God through Trials Results in Blessing – Psalm 31
SUBJECT: Psalms
PROPOSITION: We can trust in God because 1) He is Our Refuge, 2) He Sees Our Reproach, 3) He Provides Rescue, 4) He Delivers Results.
OBJECTIVE: Each hearer will learn that only by trusting in God in times of trial may we receive blessing.
INTRODUCTION: Trusting God through Trials Results in Blessing – Psalm 31
1. Read: Psalm 31:2
2. About the Text:
1) David trusted in the Lord.
2) He had a tremendous number of trials.
3) Saul chased David all over the Judean wilderness.
4) In this Psalm David expresses his trust in God for deliverance.
3. Ref. to S, T, P, O, and A.
DISCUSSION: Trusting God through Trials Results in Blessing – Psalm 31 because . . .
I. He is Our Refuge (1-8)
1. We can trust (1-3).
1) God’s righteousness (1).
2) God’s protection (2).
3) God’s guidance (3).
4) Proverbs 3:5-6
2. We can commit (4-6).
1) Our lives to God’s power (4).
2) Our spirits to God’s truth (5).
3) Our minds to rejecting false standards (6).
4) Notice Luke 32:46
5) “Commit your way to the LORD, ??Trust also in Him, ??And He shall bring it to pass” (Psalm 37:5).
3. We can rejoice (7-8).
1) In God’s mercy (7).
2) In God’s knowledge (7).
3) In God’s placement of our lives (8).
4) Philippians 4:4
II. He Sees Our Reproach (9-13)
1. The trouble (9-10).
1) Tears (9).
2) Grief (10).
3) Guilt (10).
2. The rejection (11-12).
1) By enemies (11).
2) By neighbors (11).
3) By the community (12).
4) “He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him” (Isaiah 53:3).
3. The slander (13).
1) Rumors (13).
2) Fear (13).
3) Conspiracies (13).
4) “If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.” (1 Peter 4:15).
III. He Provides Rescue (14-18)
1. When we own Him as God (14-16).
1) We prioritize Him (14).
2) We give Him our lives (15).
3) We acknowledge His grace (16).
4) Matthew 6:33
2. From the wicked (17-18).
1) Who do not call upon God (17).
2) Who have lying lips (18).
3) Who are proud (18).
4) Who blaspheme the righteous (18).
5) “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Romans 8:37).
IV. He Delivers Results (19-24)
1. Because He is good (19-20).
1) To those who fear Him (19).
2) Prepared for those who trust Him (19).
3) To shield from the plots of men (20).
4) “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning” (James 1:17).
2. Because He hears prayer (21-22).
1) He provides a safe place (21).
2) He answers prayers in His time (22).
3) “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us” (1 John 5:14).
3. He Saves the faithful (23-24).
1) He is worthy of our love (23).
2) He deals with the proud (23).
3) He strengthens the heart (24).
4) He gives us hope (24).
CONCLUSION: Trusting God through Trials Results in Blessing – Psalm 31
1. “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18).
2. We can trust God because . . .
1) He is our Refuge
2) He Sees Our Reproach
3) He Provides Rescue
4) He Delivers Results
3. Invitation