00:00Hello everyone. Hello everyone. This is William Chambers. It is good to be here with you all
00:04today. Great is our God. Shout out to my YouTube family. Shout out to everybody that listens to
00:11me on social media. It is great to be here today. If we had a title for today's topic, we
00:17would call
00:18it the dangerous mistake of trusting people too much. Oh, we can trust people too much. We can
00:30place too much on people. We have the ability to place on people what we ought to place on God.
00:39When we place an expectation on somebody that should only be placed on God, we end up disappointed
00:44because the person can't meet that expectation. And the person that we're placing the expectation
00:49on feels crushed by the weight of our expectation. Let us get into Texas. See, look what I'm talking
00:57about. The Bible says, put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man in whom there is
01:04no help.
01:06This text is telling us to redirect our trust. It's telling us to put no trust in princes. This text
01:16begins by a correction, confronting how we naturally operate. We like to put our trust in people. We like
01:25to put our trust in things. But this text is telling us not to do that. The issue starts with
01:32where we
01:32place our trust. That's where most of our hurt comes from. Have you ever placed your trust in the wrong
01:40person? Oh, have you ever put on people the expectations that should be only for God? Lord
01:51knows I've done that too many times. When we need people's responses to feel stable, then they are
01:59becoming our source. When we need people's presence in our lives to feel secure, I need you by me so
02:07I
02:07feel okay. Then they have become our source. When we need people's approval in our lives so we can feel
02:15valuable or validated, they become our source. And God never designed men to become our source. God is the
02:24only one that can be our source. So when people fail to meet these expectations, when they are not always
02:30there for us, when they're not always validating us, when their presence is not always by our side, we
02:36sometimes feel betrayed. But the real problem was, we trusted people as our source. We put too much on
02:44people. Put not your trust in princes, nor the son of man. So when we're talking about princes, it's talking
02:51about
02:51people that look like they're strong. Princes have resources, they have influence, they have power,
02:58and it looks like they can help us. But they can't be our ultimate source, no matter how resourceful
03:04they are, no matter how much power they have. They are still limited resources. What do I mean by limited?
03:10People can love you deeply, but still fail you consistently. No matter how much they love you,
03:18no matter if it's a leader, a family friend, a child, a spouse, no matter who they are, we're not
03:24to
03:24place our soul trusting them. Because people are limited. They're limited in strength. They're limited
03:31in wisdom. They're limited in consistency. They're not always there for us. They're limited in emotional
03:37capacity. They can't love you through everything you go through. I help today. People can only do so
03:47much. So this is saying don't trust princes or the son of man. The son of man is just including
03:53everybody. People sometimes look like they can help you with your life and we want to put our trust in
03:58them. But that is only the illusion. Whenever you look to somebody as a source, that is an illusion of
04:05a source. It cannot supply you ultimately. And I'll get to that in a minute. I'll talk about ultimate
04:10supplying who we are. When we expect people to heal us completely. Restoring me what's broken in me. Heal me
04:19completely. When we expect people to validate us constantly. Always tell me good things so I feel good
04:26about myself. When we expect people to never ever fail us. You better always come through and never betray me.
04:34Never ever let me down. When we expect people to always understand us. Oh we're setting ourselves up for failure.
04:44You are placing a divine expectation on a human vessel. That's a setup for failure. You're going to be disappointed
04:55there. People have limited emotional, spiritual, mental, and consistency capacities. People have
05:04emotional limits, spiritual limits, mental limits, and consistency limits. What do I mean? They get tired.
05:13They don't know everything. They're not all knowing. They can't know everything about you.
05:18They don't always understand what you're going through. Nobody, no matter who they are at their best day,
05:23they can't understand everything about you. And sometimes people change. They grow. They fluctuate.
05:30So therefore we're not to ask men to operate beyond their design. No human should be our ultimate
05:39anchor. I don't care who they are. This verse is teaching us to properly assign our source.
05:49Put the proper source on God. We are to assign the way unto God. Or we should put God in
05:58his proper
05:59place. Only God can know us fully. Only God can support us emotionally completely. Only God can
06:07spiritually and mentally satisfy us completely and be consistent every time. Only God can do that.
06:13Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, and whom there is no help. Now, the
06:20text says no
06:21help. This text is not saying that people can't help us at all. It's saying that they cannot provide
06:27ultimate help. What am I talking about? People can assist you. People can encourage you. People can
06:38support you. They can. But it's limited in what they can do. What am I saying? They cannot sustain your
06:45souls. They can't totally sustain you. They can't carry your identity. They can't tell you who you are.
06:55They cannot secure your future and make sure that you are in the right place at all times, holding your
07:01hand everywhere you go. They cannot do that. And they ultimately what I'm saying is they cannot replace
07:07God. You're setting yourself up for failure. There's danger in trusting people too much. Help us God not to
07:16do that. Again, I'm not saying that people are useless. I'm saying that they cannot be your ultimate source
07:22source. Because people only can help you sometimes. People can only help you partially. People can only
07:30help you temporarily. But they are not to be your ultimate source where you go to all the time.
07:37They're like batteries. They run out. But if you plug into God, you plug it into the wall, it has
07:44a
07:44constant source. It don't drain out. A battery can help you limited for a limited amount of time.
07:50But when you plug it into the wall, if you paid your bill, you got a constant source. God is
07:56a constant
07:57source. Meaning we want people to support us at the soul level. People can't always do that. They can't always
08:05rescue you. They can't always deliver you from what you're going through. They cannot always give you
08:09sustaining support. Help us. I think I made this point. In people, you cannot be stable. Let me get off
08:17that
08:17point. There is no help in man in the ultimate sense. So therefore, we should not build our
08:25expectations on them because people are unconstant, people are inconsistent, and people are frail.
08:33All I'm trying to say is there's a danger in putting too much confidence and trust in men.
08:40We should put our trust solely upon God for he will not let us down. In Jesus name, I pray
08:47that we do
08:48that. Amen.
08:53Well, that was the word for today. And I pray that you take this word with you, that you stay
09:00grounded,
09:01that you stay steady. And I pray that God helps us to do this. And I will see you guys
09:06next time. God bless.
09:10God bless.
Comments