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What Happens When We Don’t Trust God with Our Lives?

• Unbelief (Hebrews 3:7-19)
  
• Selfish Ambition (James 3:13-16) 

I. The Premise of Trusting God (v5)

• Trusting God means to rely on and place confidence in who He is
• Trusting God must start from the inside out
• We must trust that God is:
  1. Sovereign
  2. Infinite in wisdom
  3. Perfect in love

II. The Pitfall to Trusting God (v5)

• The pitfall to trusting God is relying on your own insight
• Relying on your own insight is having a human observation apart from a biblical interpretation (Ps. 73)
  
• Relying on your own insight alone leads to self deception, self protection, self centeredness, and self promotion (Prov. 14:12)
  

III. The Process of Trusting God (v6)

• We must acknowledge God in every aspect of life
• To acknowledge God means to acquire God’s instruction for every aspect of life (Matt. 6:33)
  
• To acknowledge God means to obey God’s instruction in every aspect of life (Matt. 7:24-27)
  

IV. The Promise of Trusting God (v6)

• God promised to make our way of life straight if we acknowledge Him
• To make our way straight means to make us morally upright, productive, and satisfied (Ps. 37:6, John 15:1-5, Matt. 5:6)
• God did not promise freedom from failure, freedom from trials, freedom from problems; nor did He promise material riches, or realization of all our expectations (Eccl. 7:14, 20, John 16:33, Proverbs 13:12)
  
  
   

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