Regarding Israel and all the promises GOD has made with His people, including covenants and blessings, we know that the LORD will be as faithful to those promises as He has always been.
ROMANS 11:29
For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable (not able to be changed, reversed, or altered in any way).
NUMBERS 23:19
"God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
GOD is a GOD of Truth, Who cannot lie, and yet we have this passage out of PSALM 89:
PSALM 89:35-37
Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David: 36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me; 37 it shall be established forever like the moon, even like the faithful witness in the sky."
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INTRODUCTION: The joy of the saint is counterintuitive to the mind of this world system. In fact, it’s typically diametrically opposite. We don’t express our satisfaction, contentment, peace and joy by the things in our lives or even of this world so much as by the Person of Christ. It’s why this truth resounds so powerfully in our hours of trial and woe:
“the joy of the LORD is your strength.” (NEH 8:10c; PSA 21:1).
This is also why we acknowledge the fruit of the Spirit as something apart from mere human emotion. I can be happy in my circumstances that are favorable – and equally unhappy about those that are not!
But our peace and joy are based on the grace of GOD that runs independently of our circumstances. This allows the saint who is walking in the Spirit to have a life of stability, on the ROCK of our salvation – even when the floor drops out from under their feet!
1 SAMUEL 2:2
"No one is holy like the LORD, For there is none besides You, nor is there any rock like our God. (See EXOD 15:11; De 3:24; 4:35; 32:4,30-31; 2Sa 22:1-51; Ps 86:8; 89:6,8)
So we continue now in our study of PHILIPPIANS and take half of Chapter 3…
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