God Doesn't LIE Part 2

Good evening. Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don Noble of Pure

Heart Ministries, and I welcome you with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy. I

am really glad to be with you this evening because I have a message that

is very exciting to me. So I hope you feel the same way by

the time I'm finished. But this is part two of the title God Doesn't

Lie. Last week I shared from the Book of Numbers twenty three nineteen.

God is not a man that he should lie. Has he said and will

he not do? Or has he spoken? And will he not make it

good? If you have any doubt, and if you're a believer, you

shouldn't have any doubt. But if you have any doubt about what God says

in his word, this scripture Numbers twenty three nineteen seals the deal. God

cannot lie because he said of himself, Jesus said, I am the truth.

We read scriptures last week that tell us that God's word is pure.

I call it straight talk. You see, in God's word there's no mumbling

around about what is right and what is wrong. There's no going around the

mulberry bush. As they say, no God's word is straight talk. Amos,

a prophet in the Old Testament, Chapter seven, verses seven and eight,

say this, Thus he showed me. Behold, the Lord stood on

a wall made with a plum line, and with a plumb line in his

hand. And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see?

And I said, a plumb line. Then the Lord said, behold,

I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people. I

will not pass by them anymore. Israel had built true plum to God's standard.

They started off fairly well, being true to God's ways, but they

got off course. God's word is a plumb line. It is the standard

for us to live by and to conduct our life. Now, a plumb

line is what rufers use, while what they used to use, they don't

ut use a plumb line anymore. They don't use what they call a chalk

line. They don't use that to well. I mean, they did use

it to make sure that the shingles on a house were in a straight line.

God's word acts like a plumbline in our life to keep us on the

narrow way. Amen, I'm going to be reading a lot of scripture tonight.

I hope you have your Bibles with you available. If you do,

please get them open, because I'm going to read a lot of scripture tonight.

I am reading out of the new King James version. So tonight's message

is to solidify in your mind that whatever God promises will come to pass,

and there is no confusion about that, there is no debate about that.

Turn with me to Genesis twelve. I shared this last week, but we're

going to use this again as part of the standard of what I'm sharing tonight.

So Genesis chapter twelve, verses one through three, these are the Lord's

promises to Abram, and it says, now the Lord had said to Abram,

get out of your country, from your family, and from your father's

house, to a land that I will show you. Now, Verses two

and three are very important. I will make you a great nation. I

will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing.

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who

curses you, and in you, all the families of the earth shall be

blessed. Then I want us to look at Amos chapter three. I got

a fine mister Amos. Here Amos Chapter three, verses one and two.

Okay, hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, o children

of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of

Egypt, saying you only have I known of all the families of the earth.

Let me say that again. This is the Lord speaking through the prophet

Amos. You only you only no other nation, no other country. But

you only have I known of all the families of the earth. God had

separated Abraham from his idolatrous family in order to make him and his descendants the

Messianic nation, which would bring salvation to all of Earth's families. We discussed

that a little last week. Then God said in Genesis twelve. Back to

Genesis twelve, verse seven said, the Lord appeared to Abram and said,

to your descendants, I will give this land. Now. In the previous

verses five and six, Abraham and Sarah came to the land of Canaan,

the Bible says, and they passed through the land to Shechem, and the

Canaan knights were there in the land. But in verse seven, God said,

I'm giving your descendants this land. Folks, this is a promise period

all right, Genesis. Just turn over a chapter Genesis thirteen. We're gonna

look at verses one through eighteen. Then Abram went up from Egypt, he

and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him to the

south. Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

And he went on his journey from the south as far as Bethel,

to the place where his tent had been at the beginning between Bethel and Ai,

to the place of the altar, which he had made there at first.

And there Abram called on the name of the lord. Lot. Also

who went with Abram had flocks and herds and tents. Now the land was

not able to support them, that they might dwell together, for their possessions

were so great that they could not dwelt together. And there was strife between

the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. The Canaanites and

the Perizites then dwelt in the land. So Abram said to Lot, please,

let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen

and your herdsmen, for we are brethren. Is not the whole land before

you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, I will

go to the right, and if you go to the right, I will

go to the left. And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain

of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere before the Lord destroyed Atom and

Gomorrah, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt.

As you go toward Zor, then Lot chose for himself all the plane of

Jordan. And Lot journeyed east, and they separated from each other. Abram

dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the

plain, and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom. But the men

of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord. And the Lord said

to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, he said, this,

lift your eyes now, and look from the place where you are northward,

southward, eastward, and westward. For all the land which you see,

I give to you and your descendants forever. And I will make your descendants

as the dust of the earth, so that if if a man could number

the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. A

rise walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give

it to you. Then Abram moved his tent and went and dwelt by the

terebinth trees of Mamarra, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there.

To the Lord, it can't be any clearer. The Lord says,

a rise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for

I give it to you. And he said, north, southeast and west,

all the land that you see, I give to you and your descendants

forever forever. That's a promise period. That set of scriptures right there clinches

it. Okay, just remember God said it's yours forever, and God doesn't

lie, and God doesn't change his mind. Now just turn over another page

to Genesis fifteen. We're going to look at verses eighteen through twenty one.

It says on the same day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram,

saying this to your descendants, I have given this land from the river of

Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates. The ken Nites, the

Kennesites, the Hadmonites, the Hittites, the Parizites, the refaem the Amorites,

the Canaanites, the Gergoshites and the Gebucites. So again the Lord is

enumerting this boundary, and he's telling Abram all the peoples, these all these

idolatrous peoples who are currently living in the land, in the land that the

Lord just told him in chapter thirteen, I'm giving you this land to you

and your descendants forever. And now he's showing them, he and his wife,

all of the actual peoples that are currently occupying this territory worry. And

this is now not just a promise. This is now a covenant. So

God doesn't break promises, and he surely doesn't break covenants. He is not

a covenant breaking God, period. So a covenant is made now, Uh,

Moses, God had made a covenant with Moses, but it wasn't He

didn't tell Moses this isn't everlasting covenant. As he tells Abraham. Turn over

another page or so to Genesis seventeen. We're going to read verses one through

nine. When Abram was ninety nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram

and said to him, I am Almighty God, walk before me and be

blameless, and I will make my covenant between me and you, and will

multiply you exceedingly. Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with

him, saying, as for me, behold, my covenant is with you,

and you shall be a father of many nations. No longer shall your

name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham. For I have

made you a father of many nations. Verse six. I will make you

it exceedingly fruitful. And I will make nations of you, and kings shall

come from you. And I will establish my covenant between me and you and

your descendants after you in their generations, for an ever lasting covenant to be

God to you and your descendants after you. So we see here right here

in verse seven, that God has established a covenant with Abraham, and he

says it's an ever lasting covenant. Does that sound like two thousand years later,

God's going to change his mind and revoke the covenant. I don't think.

So that's not how God works. Verse eight. Also, I will

give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a

stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession. And I

will be their God. And God said to Abraham, as for you,

you shall keep my covenant you and your descendants after you, throughout their generations.

What does that mean. I think it's pretty clear throughout means for whenever

we're talking twenty twenty three. Yeah, this still pertains to the people of

Israel. God made a covenant with these people, an ever lasting and he

said the land. That's what this whole squabble was about. The land.

The land is an everlasting possession to you and your descendants forever. That's as

clear as it gets. So every time some president of the United States or

other leaders of a nation say we're going to divide Israel and we're going to

come up with a two state solution. Sorry, that ain't happening. You

can't do that. But if you do, if you try and you think

that you succeed, there will be consequences. Turn with me to the Book

of Deuteronomy. I told you there were gonna be a lot of scriptures this

evening. Deuteronomy, chapter eight. Okay, we're going to look at verses

one through twenty, and then we're gonna go slide right into chapter nine,

verses one through three. Now, the Lord here, he's commanding the people,

through their leader Moses, to go in and possess the land. So

this is Moses talking to the people, as the Lord has spoken to Moses.

So we start in verse one, chapter eight of Deuteronomy. Every commandment

which I commend you today, you must be careful to observe that you may

live and will to apply and go in and possess the land of which the

Lord swore to your father's. And you shall remember that the Lord your God

led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness to humble you and

test you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his

commandments or not. So he humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and

fed you with mana which you did not know, nor did your fathers know

that he might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone,

but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.

Verse four. Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your

foot swell these forty years. You should know in your heart that as a

man chastens you his son, so the Lord your God chasened you. Therefore

you shall keep the commandments of the Lords your God, to walk in his

ways and to fear him. For the Lord your God is bringing you into

a good land, A land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs

that flow out of valleys and hills. Oh, a land of wheat and

barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, A land of olive oil

and honey. A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in

which you will lack nothing, A land whose stones are iron, and out

of whose hills you can dig copper. When you have eaten and are full,

then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which he

has given you. Beware that you do not forget the Lords your God by

not keeping his commandments, his judgments, and his statutes which I command you

today. Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful

houses and dwell in them, And when your herds and your flocks multiply,

and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is

multiplied, when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord your

God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house

of Bondage, who led you through that great and terrible wilderness in which were

fiery serpents, and scorpions, and thirsty land where there was no water,

Who brought water for you out of the flinty rock, Who fed you in

the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, that he might humble

you, and that he might test you to do you good in the end.

Then you say in your heart, my power and the might of my

hand have gained me this wealth. And you shall remember the Lord your God,

for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he

may establish his covenant which he swore to your father's, as it is this

day, as the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so you shall

perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your

God. Here, oh Israel, you are to cross over the Jordan today

and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and

fortified up to heaven, a people great and tall, the descendants of the

anakom whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, who can

stand before the descendants of anak Therefore, understand today that the Lord your God

is he who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy

them and bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and

destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you. Oh well,

the next transition is in the book of Joshua, so we want to turn

there real quick. And Joshua chapter one. After the death of Moses,

the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke to

Joshua, the son of None, Moses's assistant, saying, Moses, my

servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and

all this people, to the land which I'm giving to them, the children

of Israel, every place that the soul of your foot will tread upon.

I have given you, as I said to Moses, from the wilderness and

this Lebanon, as far as the great River, the River Euphrates, and

all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going

down of the sun, shall be your territory. No man shall be able

to stand before you all the days of your life, as I was with

Moses. So I will be with you, and I will not leave you

nor forsake you. Be strong and of good courage. For this people you

shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to your fathers to give

them. And lastly turned to the book of Zachariah. It is the almost

the last book of the Old Testament, Zachariah eight and verses one through eight.

Again the word of the Lord of Host came, saying through the prophet

Zachariah. Thus, as the Lord of Host, I am zealous for Zion,

with great zeal, with great fervor. I am zealous for her,

Thus says the Lord. I will return to Zion and dwell in the midst

of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth, the Mountain of

the Lord of Hosts, the Holy Mountain, Thus says the Lord of Hosts.

Old men and old woman shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem,

each one with his staff in his hand, because of great age. The

streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets,

thus says the Lord of Host. It if if it is marvelous in

the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, will it also

be marvelous in my eyes, says the Lord of Host. Thus says the

Lord of Host, Behold, I will save my people from the land of

the East, and from the land of the West. I will bring them

back, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. They shall be

my people. I will be their God in truth and righteousness. Zachariah two

eight says this. For thus says the Lord of Hosts, he sent me

after glory to the nations which plunder you. For he who touches you touches

the apple of his eye. And let me say this, to touch the

apple of God's eye means to stick a finger in the pupil of his eye.

So whenever anyone or any nation touches the people of God, including and

especially Israel, it is actually a blasphemous assault against God him self. God

has chosen Jerusalem, and as I said several weeks ago, it will be

the capital one day of the whole entire world. So today, Father,

we bless the people of Israel. We thank you for divine protection over each

and every one. We thank you for divine protection over the idf and we

thank you Father for giving them strategy, wisdom, divine capabilities to defeat their

enemy. We bless those who are hurting. We ask you, as the

God of Comfort, to comfort their hearts, those who have lost them loved

ones, those who are missing their loved ones because of the hostages taken.

Lord, we ask for a divine turn around as quickly as possible in the

Mighty name of Jesus, Amen and a men. It help you understand and

know what God's word says about the Nation of Israel and its people. Amen.

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O Salam, Peace be unto you and to the Nation of Israel.