God is Faithful

• God is always faithful. • “Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the

faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations” (Deut 7:9).

• “Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant” (1 Ki 8:56).

• “Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds” (Ps 36:5).

God is Faithful

• God is always faithful. • “It is of the LORD‘s mercies that we are not consumed,

because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness” (Lam 3:22-23).

• “God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord” (1 Cor 1:9).

• “That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us” (Heb 6:18).

• “Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator”(1 Peter 4:19).

God is Faithful

• God’s faithfulness says that God will keep His promises. • God has promised to comfort the afflicted (Rev 21:4).

• God has promised to exalt the humble (Lk 14:11).

• God has promised to reward those who care for the neglected (Lk 14:14).

• God has promised to refresh the penitent (Acts 3:19).

• God has promised to answer prayer (Jn 14:14).

• God has promised to help those who are tempted (1 Cor 10:13).

God is Faithful

• Because God keeps His promises, we can put are trust in Him. • “What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. In God I will

praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me” (Ps 56:3-4).

• 2 Cor 1:9-10.

God is Faithful

• Because God is faithful, Scripture—His revealed Word—is absolutely trustworthy. • “For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven” (Ps 119:89).

• “The scripture cannot be broken” (Jn 10:35).

• “All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you” (1 Pet 1:24-25).

God is Faithful

• I ought to be faithful to be fellow man. • “They reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they

delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully” (2 Ki 12:15).

• “Let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil” (Matt 5:37).

• Part of being faithful means that I always tell the truth. • “A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies

shall perish” (Prov 19:9).

• “Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another” (Eph 4:25).

God is Faithful

• I also need to be faithful to God. • “I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the

palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many” (Neh 7:2).

• “My beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Cor 15:58).