God Is Still Faithful – Selected Scriptures

God is faithful and will always be faithful. Faithfulness means “trust” in the Hebrew root word. The same root word is used in Scripture when Jesus says “truly, truly” or “amen”. God is perfectly loyal and consistent to His name. “If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself” (2 Tim. 2:13). In other words, if God does not remain faithful, He is no longer God. God manifests His faithfulness in a myriad of ways, and Pastor Paul will navigate through various texts in Scripture for today’s message.

God’s faithfulness is shown as He is not like man. God cannot lie as man does (Num. 23:19). God is pre-existent and infinite while man is finite. Even in man’s lowest moment of faithlessness, God cannot deny Himself and never abandons His own.

God’s faithfulness is demonstrated through Jesus Christ. Jesus is God incarnate. Jesus’ faithfulness to the Father shows complete trust in His own nature. Jesus’ faithfulness is verified and affirmed by the Father as Christ was highly exalted (Phil. 2:9-11).

God’s faithfulness will continue in the new year as He always has (Ps. 119:90). “He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together” (Col. 1:17). One of God’s continual faithfulness is proven by His forgiveness of sin to those that confess in history, present time, or in the future (1 Jn. 1:9). God also shows His love to the church as He continues to forgive sin until her glorification.

As the new year is here, Christians are encouraged to be resolved to the following in light of the knowledge of God’s faithfulness.

• The Christian is to be faithful unto Him. As the new year is here, the believer is commanded to be loyal and committed to the Lord by living through faith. “Faith looks at God. Faith is interested in God only, and it talks about God, and it praises God and it extols the virtues of God. The measure of the strength of a man’s faith, always, is ultimately the measure of his knowledge of God. He knows God so well that he can rest on the knowledge. And it is the prayers of such a man that are answered” (Martyn Lloyd Jones).
• The Christian must be faithful to God’s Word. If salvation comes from hearing the word of God, what other good things would come from continued reading and hearing of God’s Word? God’s Word never fails.
• The Christian must be faithful to one another. Faithfulness to the brethren is demonstrated through loving and laboring for the building up of one another. One of the sure spiritual gifts the Spirit gives to all believers is love. Love can be shown through grace and pure character.
• The Christian must be faithful to the world. Whether it is family, work, or other worldly matters, the believer is to glorify God and gospel-centered. The believers’ intention in all circumstances must be to declare the gospel of Jesus Christ.
• The Christian must be faithful to their biblical identities. In the different roles the believer is called upon such as being a spouse and parent, one must act in the Lord. When the Christian is not faithful to the Lord in their God-given roles, anything can become an idol.

As God has proven to be faithful, the Christian’s response to this reality is to trust in Him and know that He will bring victory in the end. “God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply” (Hudson Taylor).