God Cannot Lie

April 10, 2016

Devotions:

      “May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, "THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR WORDS, AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU ARE JUDGED."”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭3:4‬ ‭NASB‬‬

        “In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.”  ‭Hebrews‬ ‭6:17-18‬ ‭NASB‬‬

        God cannot lie and in that knowledge we stand assured in His promises to us.  God cannot lie so we can be totally convinced of His love is for us.  When we know the unchangeableness of His love for us we can be at peace and refuse anxiety about anything.  Our Father will never reject us, never leave us or forsake us.  Our Father accepts us as we are and by His love for us changes us into His image as we freely come into His presence to behold Him in His beauty.  He is absolute justice and absolute righteousness and can accept nothing short of that.  Our righteousness is a gift from Him of His righteousness not based on what we have done or will do but based on His great love for us.

        When God swore to Abram, God then sealed it with a blood covenant. The reason for the "blood covenant" is that the participants are saying that even if it takes the last drop of their blood to fulfill the covenant they are committed to shed that blood.  God loves you that much.  Israel could not keep the blood covenant and in the story of Abram, there were 2 supernatural beings performing the covenant.

        “So He said to him, "Bring Me a three year old heifer, and a three year old female goat, and a three year old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon." Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds. The birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

It came about when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch which passed between these pieces. On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:” ‭Genesis‬ ‭15:9-11, 17-18‬ ‭NASB‬‬

        This was a shadow of the Father and the Son, Jesus cutting the covenant on our behalf.  In ourselves we cannot keep the covenant but our covenant partner, Jesus, can and does on our behalf.  We participate because we are in Jesus where God put us when we were born again.  Be assured of your salvation.