The Truthfulness/ Faithfulness of God

How do we define God’s truthfulness/faithfulness? God's truthfulness means that He is the one true God and there is no other. God can only speak the truth, and because He can only speak the truth, He is faithful. Because He is faithful, He will carry out all of His decrees faithfully.

Jeremiah 10:10-11, “But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and everlasting King. At His wrath, the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure His indignation. Thus shall you say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”

These gods are idols created by men’s imaginations. The LORD is the true God; does not mean there are untrue Gods (except in the imaginations of men). It means He is the only God. There is only one God, and when Christ returns, these little g gods will be purged from the earth. Those who believed in these little g gods will be sent to their punishment. Those in Christ will receive their reward. That was the first part of the definition given.

Definition part two; go back and look again at the blog on omniscience. To say that God’s knowledge is perfect, is to say that it is never wrong. God’s decrees are based on His perfect knowledge; therefore, His decrees will always be true, and His decrees will always be accurate.

Numbers 23:19; “God is not man, that He should lie, or the son of man, that He should change His mind. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not fulfill it?” 

God is reliable and will never be proven wrong. Because God is true, he is also faithful. Unfaithfulness is probably one of the most glaring sins of humankind. Our sin is evident in our politics as our elected officials continually lie to the people, and their debauchery rivals the sins of Rome. Marriages are dissolved, and new partners found as quickly as changing your socks. Many do not even bother with the institution of marriage anymore. We walk away from the love of our youth, and we walk away from our children like they are disposable. Mothers, in many cases, murder their babies in abortion clinics and then brag about it like they did something great. In a world like this, how refreshing to have a God who is reliable, True, and faithful.

Deuteronomy 7:9, “Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations.”

The scriptures are filled with demonstrations of God’s faithfulness, and all one needs to do is look. But there are two sides to every coin as someone once said. God is not just faithful to keep His promises to those who He sovereignly decreed He would redeem through the sacrifice of our risen savior. He will also fulfill His decrees concerning those who do not believe. Eternal damnation awaits. So, if you feel God’s calling on your life seek Christ while he may be found, don’t wait, don’t sleep on it, but with all urgency seek Christ until He gives you assurance that you are saved. The alternative is eternity under God’s wrath.

 “There is no greater message to be heard than that which we call the gospel. But as important as that is, it is often given to massive distortions or oversimplifications. People think they’re preaching the gospel to you when they tell you, ‘you can have a purpose to your life,’ or that ‘you can have meaning to your life,’ or that ‘you can have a personal relationship with Jesus.’ All of those things are true, and they’re all important, but they don’t get to the heart of the gospel.

The gospel is called the ‘good news’ because it addresses the most serious problem that you and I have as human beings, and that problem is simply this: God is holy, and He is just, and I’m not. And at the end of my life, I’m going to stand before a just and holy God, and I’ll be judged. And I’ll be judged either on the basis of my own righteousness–or lack of it–or the righteousness of another. The good news of the gospel is that Jesus lived a life of perfect righteousness, of perfect obedience to God, not for His own well being but for His people. He has done for me what I couldn’t possibly do for myself. But not only has He lived that life of perfect obedience, He offered Himself as a perfect sacrifice to satisfy the justice and the righteousness of God.

The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn’t concerned to protect His own integrity. He’s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you is a very costly matter. It cost the sacrifice of His own Son. So valuable was that sacrifice that God pronounced it valuable by raising Him from the dead–so that Christ died for us, He was raised for our justification. So the gospel is something objective. It is the message of who Jesus is and what He did. And it also has a subjective dimension. How are the benefits of Jesus subjectively appropriated to us? How do I get it? The Bible makes it clear that we are justified not by our works, not by our efforts, not by our deeds, but by faith–and by faith alone. The only way you can receive the benefit of Christ’s life and death is by putting your trust in Him–and in Him alone. You do that, you’re declared just by God, you’re adopted into His family, you’re forgiven of all of your sins, and you have begun your pilgrimage for eternity.” (RC Sproul)

What he said; if you are feeling called, then seek until you have found.

For those who do believe, when you start to wander, God is faithful to chastise and bring you back in line. This chastisement is not to be considered mistreatment by God; it is His loving correction that he brings to you. Because He is faithful, you will in no way be lost.