Truth of God, The

• Is one of His attributes.

  Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

  Isaiah 65:16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

• Always goes before His face.

  Psalm 89:14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

• He keeps, for ever.

  Psalm 146:6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

• DESCRIBED AS
• Great.

  Psalm 57:10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.

• Plenteous.

  Psalm 86:15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

• Abundant.

  Exodus 34:6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

• Inviolable.

  Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

  Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

• Reaching to the clouds.

  Psalm 57:10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.

• Enduring to all generations.

  Psalm 100:5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

• United with mercy in redemption.

  Psalm 85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

• EXHIBITED IN HIS
• Counsels of old.

  Isaiah 25:1 O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

• Ways.

  Revelation 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

• Works.

  Psalm 33:4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.

  Psalm 111:7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.

  Daniel 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

• Judicial statutes.

  Psalm 19:9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

• Administration of justice.

  Psalm 96:13 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

• Word.

  Psalm 119:160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

  John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

• Fulfilment of promises in Christ.

  2 Corinthians 1:20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

• Fulfilment of His covenant.

  Micah 7:20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

• Dealings with saints.

  Psalm 25:10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

• Deliverance of saints.

  Psalm 57:3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

• Punishment of the wicked.

  Revelation 16:7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

• Remembered toward saints.

  Psalm 98:3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

• Is a shield and buckler to saints.

  Psalm 91:4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

• WE SHOULD,
• Confide in.

  Psalm 31:5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

  Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

• Plead, in prayer.

  Psalm 89:49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

• Pray for its manifestation to ourselves.

  2 Chronicles 6:17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.

• Pray for its exhibition to others.

  2 Samuel 2:6 And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.

• Make known to others.

  Isaiah 38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

• Magnify.

  Psalm 71:22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

  Psalm 138:2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

• IS DENIED BY
• The devil.

  Genesis 3:4-5 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

• The self-righteous.

  1 John 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

• Unbelievers.

  1 John 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

• Exemplified towards
  
  Abraham,

  Genesis 24:27 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.

  Jacob,

  Genesis 32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.

  Israel,

  Psalm 98:3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.