Rejoice! God does not lie because God cannot lie

Isaiah 53:1: "Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?"

After all that has been said and prophesied by Isaiah up to this point, he pauses and asks this question, understanding that if folk don’t believe what he's saying, then it won’t profit them anyway. And seeing that what he was saying was nearly all-prophetic in nature, he wants to know, who actually has faith in God's Word?

Do you believe the report of the Lord?

Unconditional faith is the ability to have strong belief with associated activity without having the object of your faith being proven. You believe the source just because of who the source is.

No need to get "deep" here. Simple truth: You can believe God because God doesn't lie.

Simple, but powerful.

Think about that. Isn't it awesome that God doesn't -- and as a matter of fact, cannot -- lie?

I wish I could hang around some people like that. Don't you?

Paul gives us a snapshot of the character of God as he told the Hebrews that “…by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie" (Hebrews 6:17-18).

Now see, we can’t just blow by this. I know y’all are spiritually deep folk, and y’all are possibly looking for some deep truth to come forth, but at the time, this is it.

We just can’t fly by this. It’s important to know that God cannot lie.

There are folk you know who don’t lie, but if properly motivated, you can’t be positive about what they would do.

Don't forget about Peter: "Lord, I'll never deny you." Yeah, right. Not only did he lie; he spewed out a couple of four-letter words, too.

But let's not sweat Peter. Some people say they don’t lie, but then again, those same folk will tell you a lie because they want to protect your feelings. They don’t consider that as really lying, but God simply cannot lie.

God measures what he has said, and he performs what he has promised. He is incapable of lying.

How many things in your life would have gone much better if had been impossible for men and women to lie?

I mean, if humans couldn’t lie, your life would have had much more peace and much less drama than what it has experienced.

Am I right or am I lying?

Imagine if humans couldn’t lie. Imagine that.

“Baby, do you love me?”

“Honey, does this dress make me look fat?”

"I'll call you right back."

"The check's in the mail."

By the way, how many dependants did you claim on your income taxes?

People often wonder, "Why isn't the Word working for me?"

Do the basics. Quit lying. Do what you say you're going to do, and build some integrity about yourself -- a commodity that many in the Body of Christ are lacking, from the pulpit to the doorkeepper.

If those that carry titles in front of their names in the church would exhibit integrity, I believe that same spirit would fall on the members as a whole.

"God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent." That ought to make you shout, for what he has promised, he will perform.

Till later...tell the truth.

Pastor Jim