Faithfullness

Introduction

I am so happy that each and everyone of you are here tonight.

And I am personally so excited to talk about tonight‘s topic

A while back, Lilli and I were talking about what we should go through for this study.

And after a while we finally landed on attributes of God.

And as I began to think and study each attribute I noticed a theme

The Gospel, the good news perfectly reveals and represents the full character of God.

So as we learn more and more about who God is we should also start to have a better and better understanding of what the Gospel is.

Hey, so tonight’s attribute is the faithfulness of God.

Throughout all scripture, we see a thread, faithfulness, unbroken by God

In the garden of Adam and eve, after the fall of man, God gave a promise

Genesis 3:15 ESV

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."

This passage is is our first picture of the gospel

God is telling the devil, that he will be crushed, by the seed of a woman

God is telling the devil and promising, but he will be destroyed by Jesus

And God is faithful to his promises

As we move along to Abraham

God calls him out of the land of his fathers to follow him

God promises Abraham a family and inheritance that is unable to be counted

Genesis 12:1-3 ESV

Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. [2] And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. [3] I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

Again, we see another picture of the gospel

The Lord made a promise to Abraham

That he would make his name great

That he would make his descendants many

And that through his lineage, all nations will be blessed

God is faithful to keep his promise to Abraham, and his promise is fulfilled in the gospel through the gospel through Jesus, who is a descendent of Abraham, all Nations have been blessed, and are continuing to be blessed today

And God continued his covenant his promise, and remain faithful

From Abraham to Isaac to Jacob

God continued to be faithful to his people forming the nation of Israel

And then we see God make a covenant with David a promise to king David

He would establish his throne forever

And then we see the Messiah, will come to the sead of David

And this is God, being faithful to his promise back in the garden, God, being faithful to his promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and God, being faithful to his promise to David

God has never failed. God has never wavered. God is nothing but faithful it is who he is.

I want to go through and read several different scriptures to see the vast faithfulness of God the scripture

Hebrews 10:23

23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

24 The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.

Deuteronomy 7:9

9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.

Psalms 36:5

5 Your love, LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies

Psalms 89:8

8 Who is like you, LORD God Almighty? You, LORD, are mighty, and your faithfulness surrounds you.

Psalms 119:90

90 Your faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth, and it endures.

2 Timothy 2:13

13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot disown himself.

So why does this matter if God is faithful and that is who he is how does that affect our lives?

How do we see that in the gospel?

God doesn’t change his mind about his promises

The Bible says God is not like man, that he would lie.

If God is faithful, God is trustworthy

If God is faithful, the promises he has given us will come to fruition

John 10:14-18,26-30 ESV

I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, [15] just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. [16] And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. [17] For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. [18] No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father."

Later on in the passage Jesus says this

[26] but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. [27] My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. [28] I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. [29] My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. [30] I and the Father are one."

If God is faithful to do what he says, when he says my father has given them to me, and no one will snatch them out of my hand

We can have confidence that we are secure in Christ if we confess him as Lorde, and have believed in our hearts, and God raised him from the dead,

If we have repented and believed in Christ, we are his forever

And no matter how many times did the Devil with this world tried to convince us otherwise, we are secure because he is faithful

And the faithful one will provide us the faith that we need to get through this life

We can look through history throughout the Bible, and have confidence that God has never failed to be faithful to his people

Even when they were not faithful to him

Several times the Israelites tried to run away from God

And there was punishment consequences, but ultimately God was faithful because it is who he is

And that is true for us today

In Matthew 16

Jesus says

Matthew 16:24-25 ESV

Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. [25] For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

I want to be understand God is faithful

Once we understand that God has never failed to fulfill the promise

Then, when we see Christ, promise, eternal life

When we believe when the Bible says “he is faithful, and just to forgive us all our sins”

We can believe him, and live and die for him

God is faithful and caused us to be faithful as well by the power of his spirit

And when the faithfulness of God enters a man, he can use us mightily for his kingdom.