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better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes (Ps
118:8,9; Ps 146:3). Human beings cannot be trusted as they
tend to change their mind and break their promises. They are
mortal and we cannot have the assurance of help from them.
Man's life is temporary like a vapour that appears for a little
time and then vanishes away. He who puts his confidence in
man cheats himself. He shall be like a shrub in the desert and
shall not see when good comes (Jer 17:5-6). Our Lord is eternal
and living. “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and
whose hope is the Lord” (Jer 17:5-8).
ii) Money
We should never put our trust in money. Generally
people think that money can solve all our problems. This view
point is not correct. Though money is needed, it is not
everything. Paul exhorts Timothy to encourage rich people not
to put their trust in uncertain riches but on the living God (I Tim
6:17). Nothing in this world is permanent. Job was a rich man
but a sudden calamity took all his properties and his children
away. He said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb and
naked shall I return there” (Job 1:21). Those who have riches
need to do good and be rich in good works and ready to give and
willing to share (1 Tim 6:18).
iii) Mind
Trust not in your wisdom or intelligence or talents.
Solomon the wise said, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways
acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not
wise in your own eyes” (Prov 3:5-7). Trusting God is the
marrow of true wisdom. Everyday we should lay down our
plans and surrender to His plan. His ways are higher than our
ways as the heavens are. God is the fountain of everything good
including wisdom. If we need wisdom, we need to ask Him and
He will give liberally (Jas1:5). Seek God's help even for small
issues.
iv) Munitions
Trust not on your weapons. The Psalmist says, “Some
trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of
the Lord our God. They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand
upright”(Ps 20:7,8).
“God is not delighted in the strength of the horse, nor his
pleasure in the legs of a man, but the Lord takes pleasure in
those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love” (Ps
147 : 10,11).
“Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the
Lord of hosts” (Zec 4:6).
“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong”
(Ecc 9:11).
“The weapons of our warfare are not carnal” (2 Cor
10:4).
Goliath was strong and experienced but David was
young and inexperienced. David relied in the name of the Lord
but Goliath relied on his sword and spear. David's desire was to
show to the world that the battle belonged to God. (1 Sam
17:47). God helped him to prove it.
4. Opposing False Doctrine
The church at Thyatira was commended by the Lord for
their love, service, faith, patience and for the good works (Rev
2:19). They were also growing in Christian maturity. But
Christ's charge against them was that they were tolerating the
false prophet Jezebel. She had not been commissioned by God.
Her words did not agree with God's Word. She misled and
deceived Christ's servants. She condoned sexual immorality
and eating of food sacrificed to idols (Rev 2:30) which the
Bible condemns. The Apostles exhorted the Gentile believers
in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia to abstain from food sacrificed to
idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from
sexual immorality (Acts 15 : 28,29). Paul reminded the
Corinthian church to flee idolatry (1 Cor 10:14). While
narrating the signs of the end times Jesus said, “See that no one
leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am
the Christ,' and they will lead many astray” (Matt 24: 4,5). “He
who endures to the end shall be saved” (Matt 24:13).