Trust - Reliability
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· 9 viewsThe quality of consistency and dependability which is the basis for confidence and reliance. It is exemplified by God in his changelessness and is required of God’s people in their service and witness. Scripture gives warning, too, of those things which may prove unreliable.
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The reliability of God
The reliability of God
God’s character and nature are reliable
God’s character and nature are reliable
He is the Rock, His work is perfect;
For all His ways are justice,
A God of truth and without injustice;
Righteous and upright is He.
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God is faithful to his covenants
God is faithful to his covenants
“Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
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God’s love is reliable
God’s love is reliable
I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever;
With my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all generations.
For I have said, “Mercy shall be built up forever;
Your faithfulness You shall establish in the very heavens.”
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God’s promises are reliable
God’s promises are reliable
“Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses.
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God’s presence is reliable
God’s presence is reliable
Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.”
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God’s strength and protection are reliable
God’s strength and protection are reliable
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God’s words are reliable
God’s words are reliable
I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.”
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The reliability of times and seasons
The reliability of times and seasons
“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”
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The reliability of God’s people
The reliability of God’s people
Reliability in witness
Reliability in witness
And I will take for Myself faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”
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Reliability in teaching
Reliability in teaching
Have I not written to you excellent things
Of counsels and knowledge,
That I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth,
That you may answer words of truth
To those who send to you?
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Reliability of character
Reliability of character
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Examples of reliable people
Examples of reliable people
Abraham
Moses:
Moses:
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Caleb:
Caleb:
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men working on the temple; Hanani; Priests; Levi; Timothy; Epaphras; Tychicus and Onesimus; Luke
Warnings against unreliability
Warnings against unreliability
Examples of unreliable people
Examples of unreliable people
But turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
See also David was trusted by Achish, but was secretly deceiving him; the people of Israel
False prophets:
False prophets:
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Judaisers; Israel’s kings
Examples of things proving unreliable
Examples of things proving unreliable
Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man who trusts in man
And makes flesh his strength,
Whose heart departs from the Lord.
See also false dependence upon Egypt
False dependence on military strength:
False dependence on military strength:
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false dependence upon human scheming
False dependence upon human effort to achieve salvation:
False dependence upon human effort to achieve salvation:
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