All The Feels | Week 8 | Bill Bush · Rewind

Pastor Bill Bush · May 30, 2021 · 83 min watch · 3 min read

All The Feels | Week 8 | Bill Bush

Big Idea

Trust is built when our ways match our words — and God, whose Word became flesh in Jesus, is the perfect model of that.

True trust is both a noun and a verb: a bold confidence that expresses itself in action. Pastor Bill traces this idea through Psalm 119 and the friendship of David and Jonathan, showing that God is the only perfectly trustworthy One because His Word and His ways are one. By anchoring our deepest relationships in a shared trust of God — and by understanding that broken trust requires sacrifice, boundaries, consistency, and faith to rebuild — we can become the kind of people whose ways genuinely match our words, just as Jesus, the Word made flesh, perfectly modeled for us.

Key points

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1Trust is both a noun and a verb — a bold, confident security that must be followed by action; if you want the feeling of trust, you have to see it lived out.
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2Psalm 119 sits at the center of Scripture and declares from A to Z that God's Word is completely trustworthy and should be the central anchor of our lives.
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3Our deepest relationships should be with people who also want to trust God, because as we both focus on Him we naturally grow closer together and build real trust.
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4Jonathan's willingness to hand David his robe and sword — symbolically surrendering his claim to the throne — shows that real trust costs something and requires checking our ego against God's plan.
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5Saul's double-mindedness — saying he trusted God while refusing to accept God's plan — made him unstable, jealous, and ultimately untrustworthy in all his ways.
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6Rebuilding broken trust requires four things: establishing boundaries, making sacrifices (usually of pride), demonstrating consistency over time, and ultimately stepping out in faith.
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7God proved Himself the most trustworthy by giving His Son for people who had nothing to offer — the cross is the ultimate reason to trust Him with every area of life.

Application

Pastor Bill calls everyone to an honest self-examination: where do your words say 'I trust God' while your ways tell a different story? The first step is to look up — toward the cross, toward God's Word — instead of turning away in fear. Practically, this means letting Psalm 119 become the daily anchor of your life, not just a resource for easy moments. It means building your closest friendships with people who are genuinely heading in God's direction. And if trust has been broken in a key relationship, it means doing the hard, ego-checking work of setting real boundaries, making real sacrifices, staying consistent, and eventually stepping back into faith. God modeled all of this first: He gave everything for people who had nothing to offer. That is the reason — and the power — to trust Him with your money, your relationships, your habits, and your whole life.

Take it into your week

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Scripture in this message

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“there is a Psalm that's all about trusting God in his word, trusting his word. And and it's Psalm one nineteen. It's the longest psalm in in in in the in in the book of Psalms, 176 verses”
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“Verse one thirteen says, I hate those with divided loyalties. It's divide there's a word for double minded is what it says in the New Testament”
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“you think I like the throat punch? Look at verse one nineteen. You skim off the wicked of the earth like scum”
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“we're gonna go back to to to, first Samuel chapter eighteen and nineteen. I'm only gonna read a few verses out of each chapter and tell the story”
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“So here we go. Chapter 18 verse one. After David finished talking with Saul, he met Jonathan, the king's son. There was an immediate bond between them for Jonathan loved David”
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“And then it says in verse five, whatever Saul asked David to do now it's time to Saul. Whatever he asked David to do, David did it successfully”
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“Chapter 19 verse one. Saul now urged his servants and his son Jonathan to assassinate David”
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“But Jonathan, because of his strong affection for David, told him what his father was planning. So handing him the sword was kind of a a a a ego”
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“Says, why should you murder an innocent man like David? There's no reason at all for it. Verse six, so Saul listened to Jonathan, vowed, here he is, saying the words again, as surely as the lord lives”
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“in the end, I think it still goes back to what we read in Psalm 119 about how if we're gonna do that, the best way to learn to build trust and have the model for trusting relationships”
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“Because in Psalms one nineteen, wanna read one more verse, one forty three, it says this, as pressure and stress bear down on me, I find joy in your commands”
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“It's John three sixteen. You probably know it. And it says this, for this is how God loved the world. He gave his one and only son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life”
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“All of us have sinned and fall short of the glory of God as the Bible says. And yet here he says, God loved us anyways”

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Pastor Bill opened with a simple but striking idea: trust is both a noun and a verb. It isn't only a feeling you carry around — it's something you live out. The quiet confidence you're looking for doesn't arrive before the action; in many ways, it arrives because of it. Psalm 119:113-114 gives us a picture of what that looks like from the inside: 'I hate those with divided loyalties, but I love your instructions. You are my refuge and my shield; your word is my source of hope.' The psalmist isn't describing a person who occasionally glances at God's Word for reassurance. He's describing someone whose whole orientation — what he hates, what he loves, where he runs — is shaped by it. That's trust as a verb. It's worth sitting with the honest question Pastor Bill raised: where do your words say 'I trust God' while your daily rhythms tell a different story? Not as a verdict — just as an honest starting place. The invitation here isn't guilt; it's clarity. Because once you can see where the gap is, you can begin to close it, one small act of lived-out trust at a time.

For reflection

Where in your daily life do you notice the biggest gap between saying you trust God and actually living like you do?

Pray

Pray for honest eyes to see the gap between your words and your ways — and for the courage to close it.

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Small-group discussion guide

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This message explored what it really looks like when our words and our ways actually line up — and who in history has ever pulled that off perfectly.

Discussion questions

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Pastor Bill described trust as both a noun and a verb — a bold confidence that has to express itself in action. Looking at that idea, what do you think is the connection between the feeling of trust and actually seeing it lived out?
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Psalm 119:113-119 holds God's Word up as a completely reliable anchor — not just a resource for hard moments, but the center of a whole life. What does the psalmist seem to understand about God's Word that makes that kind of total reliance feel reasonable rather than reckless?
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In 1 Samuel 18:1-4, Jonathan hands David his robe and sword — symbolically giving up his own claim to the throne. What does that gesture suggest about what real trust costs, and how ego and God's plan tend to run into each other?
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By contrast, 1 Samuel 19:1-6 shows Saul saying one thing and doing another — affirming David and then turning on him again. Pastor Bill connected that double-mindedness to Saul becoming unstable and jealous over time. What does that pattern reveal about what happens to a person when their words and ways keep pulling in opposite directions?
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Pastor Bill outlined four things that rebuilding broken trust usually requires: setting real boundaries, making sacrifices (often of pride), staying consistent over time, and eventually stepping back into faith. Which of those four do you think people most often skip, and why might that one feel the hardest?
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Pastor Bill pointed to John 3:16 and said God proved Himself trustworthy by giving everything for people who had nothing to offer. How might that picture of the cross shape the way a community of people tries to trust one another — and tries to become trustworthy themselves?

Pray together

Ask God to close the gap between our words and our ways — and thank Him that He already closed it perfectly for us.

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