Our scriptural text today is just one verse of scripture.

It's not about how much you read.

It's how far you go.

It's about how deep you go.

Like when you go fishing.

We're going deep sea fishing today.

This is Psalm 118 and verse 8.

This is the central verse of the whole Bible. It's the center, literally the center of the Bible. This is the center. It is a center. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

So I'm speaking today from the subject centered, centered, because this literally is the central verse.

It is the center of the whole Bible. Psalm 118 is the central verse. It is the center of the whole Bible. Psalm 118 is the central chapter in the scriptures. There is an even number of chapters before this and an even number of chapters after this. In fact, Psalm 117 that precedes it is the shortest chapter in the whole Bible.

And Psalm 119 that follows it is the longest chapter in the whole Bible.

But here we are in the center of the book and God hid for us a central message that ought never to be lost

in Psalm 118 and verse 8 to trust it's better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man

and this is not gender specific.

He's talking about mankind.

In other words, human being.

But God allows us to see failure and frailty in human beings so that we do not put a trust

and a confidence in another two-legged human being that only belongs to God.

I mean, you can think the world of your mama and your daddy, and as you get older, you'll begin to start seeing, you know, cracks in their armor.

Anybody that you've ever said, you know, when a mother has a child and she just think that her baby is just God's gift to the whole world and after a while that baby will

grow up and start saying something and give her some looks and leaving his or her

room dirty and failing to take the trash out and and to do something then and the

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