All The Feels | Week 8 | Bill Bush · Rewind

All The Feels | Week 8 | Bill Bush · Rewind

Pastor Bill Bush · May 30, 2021

Big Idea

Quoting the message: Trust is when our ways match our words, end quote. — and the only 100% trustworthy One is God, whose Word became flesh in Jesus.

God is completely trustworthy because His words and His ways are the same thing — Jesus, the Word made flesh. When we learn to trust Him first, even under pressure and stress, we find the model for building real, anchored trust in our deepest human relationships.

Key points

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1Trust is when our ways match our words
Pastor Bill defines trust from both the dictionary and the biblical languages: a bold, confident security combined with action based on that security. Someone is trustworthy when what they say lines up consistently with how they actually live.
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2God is the most trustworthy because His Word became flesh
Because Jesus is the Word incarnate, God's words always match His ways — His word is His way. Pastor Bill turns to Psalm 119, the longest psalm, laid out from the Hebrew alphabet's first letter to last, to show God's Word is trustworthy from beginning to end.
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3Our deepest relationships should be built with people who are also trusting God's word
Working through Psalm 119:113-120, Pastor Bill shows the psalmist rejecting double-minded people who say one thing and do another, choosing instead people who genuinely want to obey God. He warns against seeking allies who affirm what we already want instead of friends who lovingly challenge us with truth.
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4David and Jonathan show what trust anchored in God looks like
Using 1 Samuel 18-19, Pastor Bill shows Jonathan giving David his robe, sword, and bow as a symbolic act of trusting God's plan over his own claim to the throne. Love is the context, commitment is the promise, but trust is the anchor — and Jonathan's trust in God let him check his ego and be there for David even at cost to himself.
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5Saul shows what happens when we refuse to trust God
Saul benefited from David's trustworthiness until David's success threatened his pride, and because he wouldn't trust God's plan, jealousy curdled into attempts to kill David. Jonathan risked his own life warning David, appealing to his father's own history with God's faithfulness, but Saul's ways never matched his words for long.
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6Rebuilding broken trust takes boundaries, sacrifice, consistency, and faith
Pastor Bill lays out four practical steps for repairing broken trust in relationships such as marriage, using pornography recovery as an example: forgiveness is not the same as trust, boundaries must be honored with real sacrifice (often to one's pride), the trust-breaker must show consistency over time, and the trust-builder eventually has to step out in faith to trust again.
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7The cross is the proof God is trustworthy
Pastor Bill points to John 3:16 and the Lord's Supper, showing that God gave everything through Jesus while we could give nothing in return, and that every sin traces back to Adam and Eve being tricked into not trusting God. Looking to the cross is the reason we can trust Him with our money, time, relationships, and every area of life.

Application

Pastor Bill's charge is to stop looking down and getting soap in your eyes, and instead look up and let God's love wash you clean.

Trust God first, especially under pressure
Let your words of trust in God actually be followed by your ways this week, especially in the areas — like money — where pressure tempts you to stay in control yourself.
Choose your inner circle carefully
Build your deepest, trust-anchored friendships with people who are also pursuing Jesus and will lovingly challenge you with truth rather than just agree with what you already want to do.
Set real boundaries if trust has been broken
If someone has broken your trust repeatedly, forgive them, but don't confuse forgiveness with automatic reconciliation — require honored boundaries and real sacrifice before rebuilding closeness.
Be consistent if you're the one who broke trust
Get help (counseling, recovery groups, accountability software), and understand that rebuilding what you broke takes sustained consistency over time, not a quick apology.
Look to the cross and respond to Jesus
If you've never trusted Christ, turn from being king of your own life and put your faith in what He did on the cross; if you know Him, bring the Holy Spirit the places your words and ways don't match.

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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”

7-day devotional

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Day 1

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.

Small-group discussion guide

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Open

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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Topics

Broken Trust and Rebuilding David and Jonathan God's Faithfulness Living Out Your Faith Trust in God

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