THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD

INTRODUCTION

FAITHFULNESS means: - Dependability, loyalty, and stability particularly as it describes God in His relationship to human believers. The faithfulness of God and His Word is a constant theme in the Bible. It is particularly prominent in Ps 89 and 119. God is "the faithful God who keeps covenant" (Deut 7:9) and chooses Israel (Isa 49:7); great is His faithfulness (Lam 3:23). It is not surprising that this aspect of God's nature should also belong to the Messiah, who would be clothed with faithfulness (Isa 11:5) and who is described as the Faithful one (Rev 19:11), the "faithful witness" (Rev 1:5; 3:14), and the "faithful High Priest" (Heb 2:17; 3:2).

God's faithfulness is the source of the Christian's deliverance from temptation (1 Cor 10:13); assurance of salvation (Heb 10:23); and forgiveness of sins (1 John 1:9). He is faithful to His children because He is first of all faithful to Himself (2 Tim 2:13) while Faith is in general the persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true (Phil. 1:27; 2 Thess. 2:13). Its primary idea is trust. A thing is true, and therefore worthy of trust.

Points to Know

"Change and decay in all around I see, O Thou who changest not, abide with me."

A: - THE LEVEL OF GODS FAITHFULNESS

DEPENDABLE AND TRUSTWORTHY
This means two things. In the first place it means God won't lie to us. Speaking of the faithfulness of God in Romans 3 and the possibility that God could lie or be untrue to himself Paul remarks - "By no means!" That would be utterly impossible (for God to lie) it beggars thought: "Let God be true and every man a liar!"
God won't varnish the truth about us to make it more palatable. God won't call "peace, peace!" when there's no peace. God won't run away from the facts about us or let us run away from them!! This is part of His faithfulness. He won't ever lie to flatter us.


We shall continue this series tomorrow......


till then, pray this prayer!


lord Jesus, grant me the grace to live by faith totally on you this year 2011 in Jesus name. amen.


See u at the top..




Pastor Mike