One of my favorite books of the Bible is the book of Titus. It is a tiny letter that Paul writes to Titus, but it is so rich and glorious in truth. In this book contains one of the sweetest phrases that we can come across in the Bible and which I have come to love: "The God who never lies". This phrase is found in Paul's opening greetings to Titus. He writes "Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began, and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Saviour." (Titus 1:1-3).
Everything that Paul writes in these opening verse hinges on this phrase "the God who never lies". It is the God who never lies who, from the foundations of the world elected us for salvation and promised us eternal life which would be our hope. It is the God who never lies who for our sake and the knowledge of truth which accords with godliness redeemed Paul and made him his servant to preach the Gospel so that God would rescue a people for himself and sanctify them. Everything that Paul would instruct and write to Titus in this letter hinges on this phrase because both the source, and authority comes from the God who never lies.
If you call yourself a believer and confess Jesus as Lord; the God that you and I worship is the God who never lies.Do you realize how sweet, powerful, and how incredibly awesome this is for us? All of the characteristics of God are summarized in this phrase: He is faithful, loving, gracious, wrathful, long suffering, merciful, good, and trustworthy because He is the God who never lies. If He makes a promise He is faithful to keep it because He never lies. If He said he is going to do something, He will do it because He never lies.
This truth was ultimately fulfilled in the advent of Christ and his sacrificial death. Through out the Old Testament, God said that he would send a Rescuer to redeem us from our sins and provide a sacrifice that would cleanses us from all unrighteousness. Jesus is the fulfillment of that promise. To worship the God of the Bible is to worship the God who never lies. To worship the Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is to worship the God who never lies.
Dear Christian, find rest, joy, and peace God, because He is the God who never lies. Trust Him, read his word, surrender your sins and anxieties to Him, and rest in his promises because He never lies.
Everything that Paul writes in these opening verse hinges on this phrase "the God who never lies". It is the God who never lies who, from the foundations of the world elected us for salvation and promised us eternal life which would be our hope. It is the God who never lies who for our sake and the knowledge of truth which accords with godliness redeemed Paul and made him his servant to preach the Gospel so that God would rescue a people for himself and sanctify them. Everything that Paul would instruct and write to Titus in this letter hinges on this phrase because both the source, and authority comes from the God who never lies.
If you call yourself a believer and confess Jesus as Lord; the God that you and I worship is the God who never lies.Do you realize how sweet, powerful, and how incredibly awesome this is for us? All of the characteristics of God are summarized in this phrase: He is faithful, loving, gracious, wrathful, long suffering, merciful, good, and trustworthy because He is the God who never lies. If He makes a promise He is faithful to keep it because He never lies. If He said he is going to do something, He will do it because He never lies.
This truth was ultimately fulfilled in the advent of Christ and his sacrificial death. Through out the Old Testament, God said that he would send a Rescuer to redeem us from our sins and provide a sacrifice that would cleanses us from all unrighteousness. Jesus is the fulfillment of that promise. To worship the God of the Bible is to worship the God who never lies. To worship the Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is to worship the God who never lies.
Dear Christian, find rest, joy, and peace God, because He is the God who never lies. Trust Him, read his word, surrender your sins and anxieties to Him, and rest in his promises because He never lies.
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