The Real God - The Faithfulness of God, Part 1

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Bible tells us that God is faithful to His Word. That means that we can count on what He's written to us in scripture. Want proof? Join Chip as he discusses what it means for God to be faithful to His Word.

Defining the faithfulness of God

Definition = “Steadfast in affection or allegiance – loyal.
Synonyms – Dependable, trustworthy, loyal, staunch, resolute, constant, reliable, true to one’s word, keeps one’s promises, true to and consistent to one’s character, someone “who comes through for you.”

Why is God able to be faithful 100% of the time?

He is all-knowing – He is never caught off guard. -Romans 11:33-36
He is all-powerful – He never encounters anything or anyone who can thwart His plans or purposes.
He is holy – He is pure, honest, full of integrity, unable to lie, and therefore, is always consistent with His character and His Word. -Isaiah 6:1-6
He is eternal – He is not affected by space or time; He knows the end from the beginning. -Psalm 90:2
He is omnipresent – Nothing can happen outside the sphere of His influence. -Psalm 139:7-11
He is immutable – He never changes; is never different then He is now, He is never in a bad mood, and never has a bad day. -Malachi 3:6, Hebrews 13:8

How does God reveal His faithfulness to us?

Through His CREATION
Through His PEOPLE
Through His CHARACTER
Through His WORD
Through His SHAPING of our lives

How can we respond to God’s faithfulness?

Put your PAST behind you today! -1 John 1:9
Bring your PRESENT problems, pains, and failures to Jesus today! -Matthew 11:28-30
Put your HOPE for the future in the One who will never let you down! -Jeremiah 17:5-8

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0:00.0	Are you down today discouraged, maybe even really, really depressed?
0:06.0	Something happened to your life, you just feel like, I can't go on, and I don't know where to go from here.
0:12.0	If that's you, stay with me. God has a word of encouragement for you today.
0:25.6	Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. Our mission is to inspire Christians to be genuine followers of Jesus and to empower them to be active disciple makers in our world.
0:33.6	Thanks for being with us as we begin to wind down our series, The Real God,
0:38.5	How He Longs for You to See Him. For these last couple of programs, Chip dives into the seventh
0:43.6	foundational characteristic of our great God, His faithfulness. Today, we'll learn how we can not only
0:49.7	know about this attribute, but genuinely experience it in our everyday lives. So with that, grab your
0:55.8	Bible and notes as we join Chip for his message, the faithfulness of God. If you would come into my
1:03.7	home, we have a for-year, and at the very end, before you go anywhere, there is a picture that hangs. And as you get a close-up,
1:14.2	we happen to take a good one. It was about a year old. The pastor's family, everyone looks
1:19.3	nice and happy, and, you know, each one of my sons and daughter, they've married well,
1:25.2	and they're all walking with God, and they're raising
1:28.1	these kids, and you would just kind of think that, you know, that stereotypical, you know, God must
1:35.0	bless pastors and their lives are kind of pretty easy and wonderful, and things just turn out
1:40.1	right. That's not why it's at the hall. It's not so much for other people, but every day
1:47.5	I have to walk past it. And this picture for me is a reminder of the greatest trophy of God's
1:55.1	grace is what he did in that group of people. My wife and I neither grew up knowing God. We both came to
2:03.9	Christ as adults. Both of us came from alcoholic families with fathers that were deeply wounded
2:09.4	from World War II, and it produced some very unhealthy things. We came to Christ, and by God's
2:16.8	faithfulness, some people came into our life and help us get into the scriptures and gave us good counseling and we did life and community and little by little we changed and we grew and then we got married and we thought, wow, this is going to be great. I love God. You love God. First generation and then after about six months we realized that we couldn't communicate we didn't
2:35.8	how to resolve conflict and we both had boatloads of baggage from alcoholic families by God's
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