Learning to Trust God Completely

1. We must LEARN to trust God.
– God is teaching His people to trust Him.

1a. We learn that He is faithful and keeps His word
– Titus 1:2, Heb. 6:18, Num. 23:19, Ps. 89:34
1b. We learn that He has the power to keep His word.
– Is. 14:24-27, Matt. 19:26, Job 42:2, Is. 46:9-11
1c. We learn that He has all wisdom, so His plan is always best.
– Rom. 11:33-36, Is. 40:13-14, Is. 55:6-11
1d. We learn that He loves His children and will never leave them or forsake them.
– Matt. 28:20, Heb. 13:5, Deut. 31:6, Joshua 1:5
1e. We learn that death with Christ is much better than life without Him.
– Ps. 73:25-26, Ps. 84:10-11, Ps. 63:3, Phil. 3:7-11

2. We must learn to trust God IN ALL THINGS.
– God purposely guides His people into the worst possible position, so that He alone can save them.

3. We must learn to trust that God is doing something larger than we can see or imagine.
– God is doing many ‘big things’ through their predicament.
– He is setting a trap for Pharaoh in order to destroy Him.
– He is making so His people can proceed without fear.
– He is protecting His firstborn Son (the Seed of the woman).
– He is protecting the entire Gospel that will save many.
– He is directing a drama for His future Church to read about and thereby produce faith in them.
– He is casting a foreshadow of the cross and resurrection.
– He is doing mighty work in order to produce fear in the hearts of the future enemies of Israel.
– He is gaining glory for Himself before all the earth.

4. We must learn that this is the pattern of this ‘now-but-not-yet’ Kingdom…Victory comes out of defeat.
– Life comes out of death;
– New comes out of old;
– Blessing comes out of cursing;

5. We must learn that having to trust God is the very place where He wants us to be, because our faith in Him honors Him.
– God is engineering the entire ‘Exodus’ for His own glory.