The God of the Bible is never wrong and He never tells a lie. This seems like every believer would agree on and pretty much all would say they do agree on this fact. Yet they live in a way that seems to indicate they don’t believe that God is never wrong. Disagreements with God and His word often come down to one of a few reasons. They possibly don’t believe that what God says applies to them. Or that they can go against what He says and come out fine. Other times, it’s because to them what God is saying simply doesn’t make sense. But the reason does not matter because the Lord is never wrong.
Solomon had to learn the hard way that God is never wrong. A lesson learned when He went against God’s command to never marry foreign women. In fact, Solomon did not just go against the word of the Lord in a small way. He had over seven hundred wives and many were from foreign nations. Just as God said they would, they led Solomon away from serving Him and turned his heart to false gods. It’s possible that because of his great wisdom, Solomon thought he wouldn’t fall in this way. Or because he thought he knew the Lord too well to forsake him. No matter the reason he had for disobeying God’s word, his journey shows that God is never wrong. No matter who you are.
1 Kings 11:1–6 (ESV)
11 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 2 from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.
3 He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. 4 For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6 So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done.
Even when what God says seems completely impossible, or even unnecessary and just plain strange, the Bible shows that He is still never wrong. Take Naaman for instance, he was a Syrian Captain and a leper. He was told that there was a man in Isreal that could eat him from his disease. As he traveled, he began to think up a grand idea of how his healing would take place. Much in the same way many of us would. But he was disappointed when he was simply told to wash in the Jordan River seven times.
2 Kings 5:9–11 (ESV)
9 So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha’s house. 10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.” 11 But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.
In fact, it seemed so strange and unnecessary to him to go wash in the Jordan river that he almost didn’t do it. Thankfully one of his men spoke up and convinced him to do as the man of God had said. Because God is never wrong, as he rose from washing himself the seventh time he was fully healed. It seemed like an act that would have no true effect and didn’t match his expectation, but it worked.
2 Kings 5:12–14 (ESV)
12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 But his servants came near and said to him, “My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” 14 So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
While that word from God seemed pretty strange, nothing compares to what the Lord once instructed Peter to do. Jesus told Peter to go fishing and that in the mouth of the first fish he caught would be a coin to pay both of their taxes. There is no telling what Peter, a man who made his living as a fisherman before meeting Jesus, must have thought as he walked to the water’s edge. But once again God proved that He is never wrong. Peter opened the mouth of a living swimming fish and found a coin.
Matthew 17:27 (ESV)
27 However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.”
God has caused these passages of scripture, and the many others just like them, to exist and live in our Bibles for a reason. To constantly remind us that He is never wrong. He wants His people to know they can trust in His word fully. We can learn from the mistakes and triumphs of those who God spoke to before us and live a better life. We will all face a time where we question the truth of God has said. But these accounts live on remind that He is never wrong.
It’s important that every Christian learns this because it has an effect on every aspect of our lives. Including our salvation. In the Bible, there are commands and instructions that are truly Heaven and hell issues. Take the fact that Jesus said to enter the kingdom of God we must be born again of the water and spirit. Because we know that God is never wrong we know that being baptized in Jesus name and receiving the Holy Spirit are necessary parts of our salvation. Those who do not hold to those truths are not guarantied an inheritance from God.
John 3:3 (ESV)
3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:5–6 (ESV)
5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Or take the passage in First Corinthians in which God speaks through the Apostle Paul telling of us the lifestyles that will keep one out of Heaven. God does not lie and He is never wrong if He said something is the case, it is the case. People who continue to live in ways that line up with those listed will not gain entry into Heaven. Realize that no one is excluded and that it will happen because the Lord said it will.
1 Corinthians 6:9–11 (ESV)
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If God said it, it will happen every time just the way He said it would. There are no if ands, or buts when it comes to the word of the Lord. We must accept all that Scripture tells us. Living according to it if we truly want to see Heaven and if we truly place all our faith in Him. Who we are and nothing we try or believe will ever change the fact that God is never wrong. Or that what He says will always come to pass.
Don’t look past the word of God and believe it won’t be so or that it will work out a different way for you. Stop simply saying you believe that God is never wrong and start living in a way that proves you believe it. God’s word is full of promises and they will all take place just a the Lord said they will. Every time you hear the preacher preach or spend time in the Bible, always remember this one thing, God is never wrong. All that He says will happen always does. Allow that to change your life for the better today.
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