GOSPEL TRUTHS (PART 4)

Can I pray for you in any way?

Send any prayer requests to TheChristianWalkPrayers@gmail.com.

In Christ, Mark

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

** Follow The Christian Walk on Twitter @ThChristianWalk

** Like posts and send friend requests to the author of The Christian Walk, Mark Cummings on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/mark.cummings.733?ref=tn_tnmn

** Become a Follower of The Christian Walk at http://the-christian-walk.blogspot.com

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

Here is a trustworthy saying:

If we are not faithful, He will still be faithful. Christ cannot deny who He is.

Keep reminding God’s people of these things. (NLT)

2 Timothy 2:11a, 13, 14a

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

Today, we finish this four message series on “Gospel Truths” by looking at verse 13 of 2 Timothy 2. Here’s the last of the “trustworthy” sayings that Paul shares with Timothy (and all Christian believers who read them):

If we are not faithful, He will still be faithful. Christ cannot deny who He is. (NLT)

As we look at this Gospel truth, let’s begin at the end of the verse and then work our way back from there.

With this, the scriptures tell us that Jesus cannot deny who He is and there isn’t a place in the Bible where we find Him contradicting Himself in regard to His identity. He knew who He was and what He was about...and He never hesitated to tell people.

Jesus knew He was the prophesied Messiah, the one and only Son of the God Most High. With this, He knew that He and His Father were one (John 10:30) and indeed, Jesus is part of the what is known as the Godhead or Holy Trinity where we see God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Jesus was also the Savior of the world, the Lamb of God who took away all the sins of mankind (John 1:29), the Passover “Lamb” who was the final atoning sacrifice ever needed (1 Corinthians 5:7). Through belief in Him, death was and is assured to pass over anyone who placed their in Him.

I could really go on and on in regard to who Jesus was but I do want to make one final point before I connect this to today’s message and final Gospel truth from this passage in 2 Timothy.

For we need to always remember that Jesus was sinless and therefore perfectly righteous in every way. He never failed to keep a promise He ever made and of course, this means He is flawlessly faithful. He never fails to be true to us, even when we aren’t true to Him...and unfortunately, this happens more than we want to confess, I’m afraid.

It’s true, right?

Ask yourself how many times your loyalty to Jesus has failed during your life?

If you’re like me, it’s a completely sobering, sorrowful, humbling, and convicting question, one that pierces my heart like an arrow.

Every single person who has ever lived has been unfaithful to Jesus at one point or another in their life. That’s just pure, unvarnished truth but it’s this truth that makes our Gospel truth for today so encouraging and awe inspiring. For despite our propensity for unfaithfulness, Jesus is always perfectly faithful to us. He always will be without fail because it is His innate nature.

Think about this from a Gospel perspective. When we believe in Jesus, we gain eternal life through Him and receive the Holy Spirit. We become children of God, a brother and sister of Jesus, and co-heirs with Him for the Kingdom of God (Romans 8:14-17). God’s word assures us of this.

And yet, we still sin. Unfortunately, it’s as part of our innate nature as perfection is of Jesus’. Even after we receive salvation, we are unfaithful, and yet Jesus remains faithful, always helping us recover from our sins when we repent and become more the person He was as we walk every day toward death and glory. He is ever striving to shape us into the people we should aspire to be as Christians, a people who can be trusted to be Christ-like in a world where evil and wickedness abound.  

Friends, today and every day, let us give thanks and honor the faithfulness of Jesus, who was willing to die on a cross to save us and reconcile us to God the Father.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

PS: Feel free to leave a comment and please share this with anyone you feel might be blessed by it. Send any prayer requests to TheChristianWalkPrayers@gmail.com.