Thanks for reading the sermon this week. It has been a difficult week. I've been in poor health again and was not able to post midweek. I hope that you are all doing well.
This week, we are once again studying the attributes of God. This week and next, we are going to focus on the fact that God cannot lie. He always tells the truth, and He will always keep His word. For this week's message, I want to focus on the basic idea of the fact that God is truth and cannot lie, and focus on ways that God showed Himself to be faithful and to keep His word and His promises in the Old Testament. Next week, I want us to focus on the way the Jesus is the embodiment of the truth and cannot lie and will always keep His promises. We learned a little bit about this when we focused on the fact that God in unchanging, but I want to go into more depth and be a little more specific.
To begin with, lets look at a few of the verses in the Bible that speak about God's attribute of truthfulness:
Numbers 23:19 -- "God is not a man that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Has He said and He will not do it? Or has He spoken, and He will not fulfill it?
Titus 1:2 -- "In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began."
Psalm 89:34 -- "I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips."
Joshua 21:45 -- "Not one of the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel failed, all came to pass."
There is no falsehood in God. He always speaks the truth, and it is not in His nature to lie. He is not at all like human beings who seem to have a very difficult time telling the truth and keeping the promises and the pledges that they have made.
There are four events in the Old Testament that I want us to see that demonstrate that God keep His word and does not lie. First of all, when Adam and Eve rebelled against God, God made a promise that one day a deliverer would be born. He would crush the power of Satan and evil. God kept this promise by sending His Son the Lord Jesus. Through His death and resurrection, Jesus has crushed the power of death, hell and the grave.
After God destroyed the world by a flood in the time of Noah, God made the promise that He would not flood and destroy the world again. God has kept and will keep this promise.
One of the great promises of the Bible is the covenant the God made with Abraham. God told Abraham that through Abraham would come a great nation. Through the seed of Abraham all the nations of the world would be blessed. This covenant promise was ultimately fulfilled through Jesus Christ who is the descendant of Abraham. Through Jesus, all can receive salvation. When Jesus comes again, all will be restored, and the whole universe will be blessed through Him.
There is another great promise that God has kept, and that is His covenant promise to David. God promised David that a member of his lineage would reign forever. Jesus is the Son of David. He will rule and reign forever on the throne of David. The kingdom of Jesus will have no end.
These are just a few of the ways that God demonstrated His truthfulness in the Old Testament continuing right to our time and into the world to come. We can have total confidence in what God says. He has told us that if we will repent and come to Him that He will receive us. I hope that you will take God at His word and come to Him today. Amen.
Prayer Requests
As I mentioned, I am not doing very well again. Please keep praying. Thank you.
Please pray for an end to the war in Ukraine. What is happening there is just terrible. We also need to keep praying for peace in Syria and Yemen.
The people in Turkey and Syria still need our prayers.
For are prayer focus countries this week, let us pray for those in the nations of the Czech Republic and Estonia. These countries have fewer than 50 percent of the people claiming to be Christians.
Next week, we will continue in our series. I will post the verses on Monday. I don't know if I will post midweek. May God bless you all.
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