When you have a god who's infinitely gracious and trustworthy, the most fearful, awesome, terrible thought you could have is to distrust him in his promise.

What does it mean to trust our promising God?

John Piper turns Somalicai 3, 13 to 18

to answer that question in this episode of Light and Truth.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on December 13, 1987.

Verse 13.

Your words have been stout against me, says the Lord.

Yet you say, how have we spoken against thee? Now let's just pause there and think about this

for a moment. God is listening in on these people as they talk to one another. The Hebrew word implies that they're talking to each other here.

They're not talking to God, and you can see that.

If you look at verses 14 and 15, it doesn't say to you, it says to him,

it doesn't pay to serve him. they're talking to each other here and

God is listening in to their conversations in the restaurants and at home and on the streets.

Now there's a lesson just in that sheer fact for us that I want to highlight before I get

into verses 14 and 15 what they're saying.

The lesson is this, all of your life is a stage, and this world

is a theater. And whether it's the kitchen or the car or the bedroom or the street or the bar.

God sits in the front seat of the front row and that place is a stage and he doesn't miss a line. Not one line does

God miss in the drama of your life. He heard them. They weren't talking to him, but he heard them. The only thing

that matters about your conversation, you know, no matter where it is or to whom it is spoken is what it implies about God.

Measure it, always. about God.

Measure it, always. What does my conversation imply about God?

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