Trust - Reliability

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The 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

God’s character and nature are reliable

Deuteronomy 32:4 NKJV
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

Deuteronomy 7:9 NKJV
“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

Psalm 89:1–2 NKJV
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

1 Kings 8:56 NKJV
“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

Deuteronomy 31:6 NKJV
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

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God’s words are reliable

John 8:26 NKJV
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

Genesis 8:22 NKJV
“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

Reliability in witness

Isaiah 8:2 NKJV
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

Proverbs 22:20–21 NKJV
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

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Examples of reliable people

Abraham

Moses:

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Caleb:

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men working on the temple; Hanani; Priests; Levi; Timothy; Epaphras; Tychicus and Onesimus; Luke

Warnings against unreliability

Examples of unreliable people

Psalm 78:57 NKJV
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:

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Judaisers; Israel’s kings

Examples of things proving unreliable

Jeremiah 17:5 NKJV
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:

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false dependence upon human scheming

False dependence upon human effort to achieve salvation:

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