Jesus Never Fails
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· 2,529 viewsDavid is giving Solomon some last minute instructions among them the greatest - God Won't Fail You!!!
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20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the Lord God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
God Never Fails
Donald Drusky took God to court. The one-time employee of USX Corporation blamed God for failing to rectify the wrong done to him when he was fired in 1968. Drusky waged a 30-year battle with the steelmaker, before deciding to take legal action against God. The suit reads:
The defendant, God, is the sovereign ruler of the universe and took no corrective action against the leaders of his church and his nation for their extremely serious wrongs, which ruined the life of Donald S. Drusky.
For damages, Drusky asked for the return of his youth, the skill of a great guitarist, and the resurrections of his mother and pet pigeon. Drusky hoped that God would fail to appear in court, allowing him to win the case by default.
Drusky’s case was declared frivolous and thrown out by a Syracuse court.
Servant, a publication of Prairie Bible Institute (Issue 70, 2004), p. 9; submitted by Ed Rotz, Topeka, Kansas
We can blame and charge God for lots of things; but in reality, if you will trust Him, if you will believe Him, if you will hang on - you will see that God Never Fails!!!
To fail can mean several different things, to be weakened, to let...go, to leave alone, to become feeble, idle, to abandon.
few weeks ago, when the hot summer days were just beginning, My wife and I had gone to town, while we were out, my son called and told us the lights in the house was doing some really strange things. They were flickering and flashing. We rushed home and as I was outside and I heard a strange buzzing noise.
And then I saw it, the transformer by the garage was buzzing, and sparking. I called the electric company and reported it, and then the power failed, The lights went out, the appliances shut off, the ac was done.
We had a power failure.
We were in the dark. were without power.
Does this ever happen with God?
In our passage David is instructing his son Solomon on his new work as King of Israel. He tells him what to do, and sometimes even how to do it, and then encourages him to be strong, and to trust in the Lord because “HE WILL NOT FAIL THEE!”
Solomon will later remind the people of Israel “There hath not failed one word of all his good promise...” 1 Kings 8:56
Several hundred years later Jeremiah a captive in a foreign land who would have a right to feel abandoned or that GOd had failed. But no he in the midst of despair and seeming failure wipes the tears from his eyes and in the book of Lamentations of all places says,
22 It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
I think we can say that not only does God not fail, but neither does his word or his compassion or love.
God doesn’t fail - therefore Jesus never fails -
Because Jesus Never Fails we can trust him
“God has disclosed himself in descriptive terms that give us enough information to be able to know who he is, and he has hidden enough of himself for us to learn the balance between faith and reason.” ― Ravi Zacharias, Has Christianity Failed You?
Because Jesus Never Fails We are not alone -
Over and over we find a great reassuring truth in Scripture - “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.” I don’t know what that means to you - but it means I don’t walk alone, I’m not struggling through this life without help,
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Charles Spurgeon in a sermon on this text points out:
“I have no doubt you are aware that our translation does not convey the whole force of the original, and that it would hardly be possible in English to give the full weight of the Greek. We might render it, "He hath said, I will never, never leave thee; I will never, never, never forsake thee;" for, though that would be not a literal, but rather a free rendering, yet, as there are five negatives in the Greek, we do not know how to give their force in any other way. Two negatives nullify each other in our language; but here, in the Greek, they intensify the meaning following one after another, as I suppose David's five stones out of the brook would have done if the first had not been enough to make the giant reel. ... [The song How Firm A Foundation] ... is a very good rendering of the original-
"'The soul that on Jesus hath lean'd for repose,
I will not, I will not desert to his foes;
That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I'll never, no never, no never forsake."
Here you have the five negatives very well placed, and the force of the Greek, as nearly as possible, given.
Because Jesus never Fails we are victorious -
I may fail - but he does not and he has promised a way of escape from every temptation,
he has provided power greater than the power of this world, “Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world”
Tucked away in the Minor Prophets is a Major promise found in Zephaniah 3:5
5 The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: Every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; But the unjust knoweth no shame.
God didn’t fail Adam and Eve
God didn’t fail Noah
God didn’t fail Abraham and Sarah
God didn’t fail Moses, Joshua
God didn’t fail Gideon,
Rahab
Simon
He didn’t fail Paul
He won’t fail you
YOU MIGHT AS WELL GET BEHIND ME SATAN FOR YOU CANNOT PREVAIL - JESUS NEVER FAILS!!!