Who can find a faithful man?

Proverbs 20:6 (NKJV)

6 Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, But who can find a faithful man?

Everyone have certain attractive qualities, good qualties that they would be quick to proclaim before people and even before God.

God is looking for an individual with a faithful heart, and indeed this is a rare quality that the scripture poses it in a question mark.

Out of all the qualities that we can think of when we think of what will be benefitial to God and his Kingdom, the one quality that God is seeking after is faithfulness.

Why? Because only those who are faithfull will dwell with the LOrd

Psalm 101:6 (NKJV)

6 My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land, That they may dwell with me; He who walks in a perfect way, He shall serve me.

Dwelling is not refering to here on earth. It is reffering to the heavenly dwelling.

God will dwell with the faithful.

Revelation 17:14 (NKJV)

14 These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful.”

Those who are ultimately that are going to be with him at the end are those who are found to be faithful.

God will test how faithful we are to him.

Faithfullness involves two things

Unconditional commitmnent

Self denial.

Unconditional commitment

John 2:23–25 NKJV

23 Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did. 24 But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men, 25 and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man.

There is a difference beteween having faith in God and being faithfull to God.

These people after they saw the sign were full of faith, they believed Just like the 12 desciples,

However, Jesus did not commit himself nor his things to them because he found their heart to be unfaithful.

John 6, many of the desciples would depart from him, and at the end of his ministry only the 11 would remain faithfull to him.

Hosea 6:4 (NKJV)

4 “O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your faithfulness is like a morning cloud, And like the early dew it goes away.

Nehemiah 9:7–8 (NKJV)

7 “You are the Lord God, Who chose Abram, And brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, And gave him the name Abraham;

8 You found his heart faithful before You, And made a covenant with him To give the land of the Canaanites, The Hittites, the Amorites, The Perizzites, the Jebusites, And the Girgashites— To give it to his descendants. You have performed Your words, For You are righteous.

God Chose Abraham and gave him this great covenant because he found his heart Faithful.

God made the covenant with Abraham Gen 17, when Abraham was 99 years old, 25 years after he came out of Egypt.

God was testing his heart whether he was faithful, inorder to entrust this great covenant and the blessing that comes with (father of many nations) to him.

Abraham was committed to God’s word

Genesis 18:17–19 (KJV 1900)

17 And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;

18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

John 6:66–68 (NKJV)

66 From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more.

67 Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?”

68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Luke 22:28–30 (NKJV)

28 “But you are those who have continued with Me in My trials.

29 And I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed one upon Me,

30 that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

Self Denial

1 Samuel 2:34–35 (NKJV)

34 Now this shall be a sign to you that will come upon your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die, both of them.

35 Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in My heart and in My mind. I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before My anointed forever.

A faithful priest is described here by God who will do according to what Is in God’s Heart and what is in his MInd.

We have a mind of our own, and a heart of our own.

A Faithful servant of God is a servant that denies what is in his own Heart or Mind to fullfill what is in the heart and MInd of God.

A servant that denies his own interest to accomplish the interest of God.

Numbers 12:1–8 NKJV

1 Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman. 2 So they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.) 4 Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out. 5 Then the Lord came down in the pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both went forward. 6 Then He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream. 7 Not so with My servant Moses; He is faithful in all My house. 8 I speak with him face to face, Even plainly, and not in dark sayings; And he sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant Moses?”

The key thing that God mentions about Moses that was only peculiar to him in comparison to Miriam and Aaron, was that he was faithful in all his house.

Moses was a man who has denied himself, to serve the lord faithfully in all his house.

What does it mean he served the Lord in all his house.

Moses would serve whatever desire God had whether it is comfortable to him or not, whether his like it or not.

Whether he will be recognised or not.

What did Moses gain personally in his service towards God.

Example of the 1 talent servant

Matthew 25:24–25 NKJV

24 “Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’

Message to the church in Smurna

Revelation 2:10–11 NKJV

10 Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life. 11 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.” ’

God will test our self denail inorder to see how far we are willing to go to be faithful to him

Are we Faithfull ( In the above terms) in these areas.

Consecration and holiness

2 Chronicles 31:17–18 NKJV

17 and to the priests who were written in the genealogy according to their father’s house, and to the Levites from twenty years old and up according to their work, by their divisions, 18 and to all who were written in the genealogy—their little ones and their wives, their sons and daughters, the whole company of them—for in their faithfulness they sanctified themselves in holiness.

Faithfullness in Word

Psalm 5:9 NKJV

9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction; Their throat is an open tomb; They flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 12:1–2 NKJV

1 Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. 2 They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Psalm 78:35–37 NKJV

35 Then they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer. 36 Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouth, And they lied to Him with their tongue; 37 For their heart was not steadfast with Him, Nor were they faithful in His covenant.

Faithfull with our possesion.

2 Chronicles 31:12 NKJV

12 Then they faithfully brought in the offerings, the tithes, and the dedicated things; Cononiah the Levite had charge of them, and Shimei his brother was the next.

Luke 16:10-11 “10 He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. 11 Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?”