Power Power of Trust

Power

Power of Trust

The Power of Trust

Placed in the Eternal Rock

Will

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

We have a strong city;

God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.

2 Open the gates

that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.

3 You will keep in perfect peace

him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.

4 Trust in the LORD forever,

for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.

Power of Trust

Power is strength.

Without power you have weakness.

There are many things that make us strong…

Things that give us power.

The power of strength of

any structure is its foundation.

I love the beach.

When the leaves start to turn…

The weather starts to turn cold…

My mind thinks of the warm

beaches in Florida every day.

As much as I love the beach, I

would never build a house on the sand.

The word hurricane brings fear to

anyone who has real estate on the beach.

You cannot trust sand not to move.

It is this word “Trust”

that makes the difference.

I trust the sandy beach to walk on

but not to build my house on.

There are a lot of things

in life we trust in every day.

Many of those things we don’t think about.

Some of those things we put too much trust in.

When those things fail we become weak.

You probably have heard Jesus’ parable

about the wise and foolish builders.

The foolish man builds

his house on the sand.

While the wise man builds

his house on the rock.

Over time and changing conditions

the house on the sand falls but

the house on the rock remains strong.

Isaiah spoke about the Foundational Rock.

Isaiah says there is a Foundation for a City.

He says…

Trust in the LORD forever,

for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.

Isaiah 26:4

On this Eternal Rock Isaiah says…

We have a strong city;

God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.

There are gates to this city…

Open the gates that the
righteous nation may enter,

the nation that keeps faith.

A “nation”…

 The Hebrew word indicates

a foreign or Gentile nation.

There are a lot of beautiful real estates

I could never afford to build on.

There are those who live in crime filled

neighborhoods that can never afford to move.

Isaiah has good news.

Gentiles with righteousness and

faith can enter the gates to the

city built on an “Eternal Rock”.

 

  There on the “Eternal Rock”…

You will keep in perfect peace

him whose mind is steadfast,

 because he trusts in you.

That is where I want to live.

On the Eternal Rock where I can have

“perfect peace” and a “steadfast mind”.

Verse 5 tells us what happens to the others

who do not put their trust in the “Eternal Rock”…

He humbles those who dwell on high,

he lays the lofty city low;

he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust.

6 Feet trample it down —

the feet of the oppressed, the footsteps of the poor.

As Gentiles we have been invited

to “trust in the Eternal Rock”.

To enter the City of God

with righteousness and faith.

And sing the song of Isaiah 26…

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

We have a strong city;

God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.

2 Open the gates

that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.

3 You will keep in perfect peace

him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.

4 Trust in the LORD forever,

for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.

Scripture Reading

Isaiah 26:1-6 NIV

26:1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

We have a strong city;

God makes salvation

its walls and ramparts.

2 Open the gates

that the righteous nation may enter,

the nation that keeps faith.

3 You will keep in perfect peace

him whose mind is steadfast,

because he trusts in you.

4 Trust in the LORD forever,

for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.

5 He humbles those who dwell on high,

he lays the lofty city low;

he levels it to the ground

and casts it down to the dust.

6 Feet trample it down —

the feet of the oppressed,

the footsteps of the poor.