THURSDAY MARCH 19, 2020.
SUBJECT: THE CERTAINTY OF GOD’S WORD!
Memory verse: "God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should repent, has He said, and will He not do it? (Numbers 23 vs 19.)
READ: Isaiah 55 vs 10 - 11; Matthew 24 vs 35; Hebrews 6 vs 17 - 18:
Isaiah 55:10: For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater,
55:11: so shall My Word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
Matthew 24:35: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.
Hebrews 6:17: Therefore,God, desiring even more to show “to the heirs of promise” the unchangeableness of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath,
6:18: so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.
INTIMATION:
God is eternal, and His Word is equally eternal. The certainty of God’s Word is severally enunciated in the Scriptures. In the Gospel of John 1 vs 1, the Scripture says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” This means that God existed alongside His Word and they are inseparable. The nature of God is the same as His Word. God is eternal, perfect, constant, unchanging, incorruptible, and unfailing, and so is His Word. No word from God can ever be defaulted. Every Word of God is pure (Proverbs 30 vs 5), and forever settled in heaven (Psalm 119 vs 89).
God is not a man that can change his mind according to his own desires, nor can be manipulated by the whims of humans. God’s Word (promises) cannot be changed because they come from the One who cannot lie, neither has He ever broken a promise or an oath. Since God is unique in eternity as the omniscient being who has originated all things, then there is no being before whom He might lie. It is thus impossible for God to lie since He cannot lie to Himself. He cannot lie or deceive men because there is no darkness in Him at all (James 1 vs 13; First John 1 vs 5).
The Word of God shall stand forever (Isaiah 40 vs 8), and you are trusting in that Word. And only in God’s eternal Word will we find lasting solutions to our problems and needs. The Bible says in Second Timothy 2 vs 13, "...He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself." When this gets into your blood. It gives you a warrior spirit, and makes you confident of your place in Christ. It makes you know that you are what He says you are, and that you can do what He says you can do. Your confidence is in that Word that cannot be broken.
When you get tied up with God; when you and God become identified as you do in the new creation, His nature is imparted on you. The apostle Peter captures it this way, “Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the Word of God which lives and abides forever” (First Peter I vs 23). You pass out of the realm of "I can't" into the realm of "I can." You can no longer be a failure, because you know you can do all things in Him that strengthens you. You feel like David must have felt when he said, "For by You I can run against a troop: by my God have I can leap over a wall." (Second Samuel 22 vs 30; Psalm 18 vs 29). You become a master of circumstances.
In the passage we read today in Hebrews, the Scripture mentions two things that makes it impossible for God to lie—His nature and His Word. God embodies all truth, you can be secure in His promises; you don't need to wonder if He will change His plans because by His nature He will never change (Malachi 3 vs 6). Our hope is secure and immovable; anchored in God and His Word, just as a ship anchor holds firmly to the seabed. Impassable gulfs will become level roads to you when you realize the nature of God’s Word, and that He watches over His Word and is ready to perform it (Jeremiah 1 vs 12). All you are to do is carry it into His presence and repeat it and say, "Father, this is what you said." You just look up and say, “Father I thank you, for this is Your Word."
God has made even His throne back of His Word. I wonder how much some of our hearts can take it. It is like God throwing a cable about the throne, dropping the cable over for us to grasp. Think of it this way; He said, "Do you see, I am putting my throne as surety for My Word. My very Self is enwrapped in this." This is awesome! What this means is that if the Word should fail, it will dethrone the Triune God, but this is absolutely impossible, even when the heaven and earth fail and pass away.
Prayer: Abba Father, Your Word is proven, and is a shield to all who trust in You. Let my eyes of understanding be continually enlightened by the revelational knowledge in Your Word, that I may know the hope of Your calling and the riches of the glory Your inheritance in me, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.
PRAISE THE LORD!
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