Title: 081218 message


God's Faithfulness

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; 
his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”
Lamentations 3:22-24

“Know therefore that the Lord your God is...the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.
Deuteronomy 7:9

 “Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.”
Psalm 36:5

1.	God is faithful in preserving
His people

4 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, 5 that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— 6 even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— 7 so that you are not lacking in any gift, 

1. God is faithful in preserving His people

as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 
1 Corinthians 1:4-9

1. God is faithful in preserving His people

2. God is faithful in sanctifying
His people

 “Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.”
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

2. God is faithful in sanctifying His people

3. God is faithful disciplining
His people! 

“The Lord disciplines the one He loves” Hebrews 12:6

3. God is faithful disciplining His people! 

“I know oh Lord that...in faithfulness you have afflicted me.” Psalm 119:75

3. God is faithful disciplining His people! 

4. God is faithful in protecting
His people!

“But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.”
2 Thessalonians 3:3

4. God is faithful in protecting His people!

5. God is faithful in forgiving
His people!

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 

5. God is faithful in forgiving His people!

“[The] faithfulness of God is of the utmost practical significance to the people of God. It is the ground of their confidence, the foundation of their hope, and the cause of their rejoicing. 
It saves them from the despair to which their own unfaithfulness might easily lead, 

gives them courage to carry on in spite of their failures, and fills their hearts with joyful anticipations, even when they are deeply conscious of the fact that they have forfeited
all the blessings of God” 
- Louis Berkhof