The TRUTH of God.

THE TRUTH OF GOD.

Geoffrey R. Kirkland

Christ Fellowship Bible Church, pastor

 

 

God never forgets His lovingkindness and His truth (Genesis 24.27).  The truth of God refers to His essential being which is totally reliable and always true to His word. When referring to God as the God of truth, we mean that He alone is the exclusive God of truth. There is none other. It also means that God knows all things exhaustively and that His being is impeccably dependable and reliable.  As God, and as the definer and standard of truth, He is the author of truth, the source of truth, the determiner of truth, and the final judge over all truth. 

How encouraging to know that your God is infinitely truthful, everlastingly reliable, and totally dependable in all His words, ways, and promises. It is a moral attribute of God’s being that speaks to His dependability and integrity and blamelessness.  And he, of course, as God is the perfect standard of Truth. He is infallible and cannot fail. He is totally faithful and will keep His promises. He is exclusive and preeminent as the only true God. He is reliable because He cannot lie or deceive. 

All of God’s commandments are truth (Psalm 119.151). When Christ came into this world as the Living Word, He came as fullness of grace and truth (John 1.14). Those who know the Truth and believe the Truth shall learn that the truth sets them free (John 8.32). But in the progressive nature of Christian living, Jesus Himself prays that we would be sanctified in the Truth (John 17.19).  

Preachers must handle the Word of Truth accurately (2 Timothy 2.15). We must turn from all false teachers and erroneous teachings which lead people away from the truth (2 Peter 2.2). The saving gospel is the knowledge of the Truth and the conviction of this as the only message that saves (1 Timothy 2.4). We must be sanctified by the truth (John 17.17).

Because God’s very being consists of utter and infinite truthfulness, all believers must receive comfort knowing that God remains dependable and reliable through every situation of life. His Word is always yes and amen. He will always fulfill His promises. And believers, then, must imitate this communicable attribute of God as we practice the truth (Ephesians 4.15, 24-25). 

Unbelievers, however, must hear the warning of this truth of God. For if sinners do not repent and turn to Christ by faith alone, they will be judged forevermore (Matthew 25.46). Those who do not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved are those show ill be lost forever (2 Thessalonians 2.10). Jesus alone is the way, the Truth, and the life and no one will ever come to God except through Christ (John 14.6).

Ponder the truth of God. Let this encourage your heart while living in an untruthful and deceptive age. While the world grows darker, mischievous and unreliable, God always remains perfectly dependable, truthful, and faithful.  This is reason to rejoice. Consider your God in His perfect truthfulness!

 

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The WISDOM of God.

THE WISDOM OF GOD.

Geoffrey R. Kirkland

Pastor, Christ Fellowship Bible Church 

Wisdom and power belong to God (Daniel 2.20). All wisdom and might and counsel and understanding belongs to God (Job 12.13). The WISDOM OF GOD speaks of God’s ability to always produce the best possible results because of His perfect knowledge. The wisdom of God is perfection in action. The wisdom of God defines the very being and essence of who God is. 

Undoubtedly God knows all things (omniscience) and he also has comprehensive, infinite, exhaustive, perfect, and limitless understanding of everything in all the universe. With God is wisdom. Blessing and glory and wisdom be to our God forever and ever (Revelation 7.12). Those in heaven sing “worthy is the Lamb to receive power, riches, and wisdom (Revelation 5.12).

The wisdom of God is revealed in Holy Scripture. It is the sacred writings that are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3.15).  In Christ we have the perfect embodiment of infinite wisdom (Colossians 2.3). God’s testimonies make wise the simple (Psalm 19.7). 

God has put His magnificent wisdom on display in creation. In wisdom, God made all His works (Psalm 104.24). The prophet said God established the world by His wisdom (Jeremiah 10.12).  Take a look at creation by looking up, looking down, looking around and behold the amazing wisdom of God in action. God made all things by His power, upholds all things by His word, and has an appointed end of all things by His decrees. And all of this acts wondrously, perfectly, accordingly to His plan because God always works with unfathomable wisdom. 

Child of God, seek the Lord and seek His wisdom. You lack wisdom and should ask God who gives wisdom generously (James 1.5). God loves to give wisdom to those who ask him (Proverbs 2.6). God gives wisdom to wise men (Daniel 2.21). Even Solomon, when he reigned as king, ruled by the wisdom that God gave him (1 Kings 5.12). Even young children can grow in wisdom just as Jesus the Lord had to increase in wisdom (Luke 2:40, 52). 

The perfect wisdom of God’s being is the perfect foundation and blessed hope we have for the planning of redemption, the achievement of propitiation, the magnification of the Son, the security of the saints, and the everlasting bliss that awaits us in glory. God’s wisdom is not just intellectual data. It is the sovereign choosing, the wondrous achieving, and the outworking of all of His decrees (in space and time) so as to glorify Himself. 

 

In the plan to save corrupt sinners from wrath, God put His wisdom on display in sending His own perfect Son as the Lamb, the sinless substitute, the perfect redeemer, the wrath-appeasing propitiation, and the ultimate sacrifice to take away sin and reconcile sinners to Himself (1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5).

It has been well said that God is infinitely wise, consistently wise, and perfectly wise. AW Tozer writes: "Wisdom, among other things, is the ability to devise perfect ends and to achieve those ends by the most perfect means. It sees the end from the beginning, so there can be no need to guess or conjecture. Wisdom sees everything in focus, each in proper relation to all, and is thus able to work toward predestined goals with flawless precision.”

When you consider the perfect goodness of God’s unfrustrated wisdom you will say with the Apostle Paul: Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God (Romans 11.33).

 

 

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