Convicted Sinners

Please now turn in your Bibles to Isaiah chapter 43 that can be found on page 604 if you're using the pew Bible. Isaiah 43 will be looking at the end of the chapter here today. When you have that go ahead and stand beginning in verse 25 I I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake and I will not remember your sins.

Put me in remembrance. Let us argue together set forth your case that you may be proved right. Your first father sinned. And your mediators transgressed against me. Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary and deliver Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling.

Amen, you may be seated dear Heavenly Father. We ask today that you would open our eyes to understand your gospel more fully. That we would understand it knowledge truth and all its glory and its great offense to man and his pride.

In Jesus name. Amen. Well, that is what this passage is about. It is about the offense of the gospel. The verse that we looked at last week verse 25 I I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake and I will not remember your sins.

It may not be obvious what the connection is between that and the verses that follow. How do we get from I will blot out your transgressions. I will not remember your sins. I will not remember and then he challenges people to remind him.

Many translations here instead of put me in remembrance simply say remind me. So God saying I will not remember and then he challenges people. Go ahead. Try remind me see what happens. How do we go from I will not remember to?

Put me in remembrance or remind me. Let us argue together. Because the gospel is offensive forgiveness is offensive forgiveness suggests that people need forgiveness. People don't think that they need forgiveness because they don't recognize their sins.

They don't recognize their need for a Savior. Verse 26 Says put me in remembrance. Let us argue together set forth your case that you may be proved. Right, if you recall multiple times throughout this chapter in the previous chapters We've seen that God is describing a courtroom case between him and idolaters between him and idols.

And it says in verse 9 all the nations gathered together and the people Assemble who among them can declare this and show us the former things let them bring their witnesses to prove them. Right and let them hear and say it is true.

So you have in verse 9 a description of a courtroom case and he's saying all the nations gathered together for this case. They're going to bring their witnesses and what does he say about his people in verse 10?

You are my witnesses declares the Lord my servant whom I have chosen. That you may know and believe and understand that I am he. Before me no, God was formed nor shall there be any after. Okay. So through the people being his witnesses his witnesses of his mighty deeds of forgiveness.

They will demonstrate not having understood these things as they were taking place. But only seeing them essentially after the court case takes place kind of ignorant witnesses as it were. He describes him as as Essentially being blind witnesses.

They have eyes, but they cannot see etc. They will testify Without complete understanding of God's goodness to them, but now he tells his people he says Instead of being my witnesses. Just try being a defendant.

Just try what will you find? You will find that you cannot stand if you were a defendant. This is why they need forgiveness. He says I will not or he says put me in remembrance this is a direct. As far as the rhetoric goes you are supposed to recognize this is directly Contrasting what he has just said.

I Will not remember remind me Verse 27 says your first father sinned and your mediators transgressed against me. Who is the first father which this speaks there are many answers that have been given to this.

All kinds of answers the best answers are the most common answers are the following. Some people say this refers to Adam. Adam is the first father and because he sinned therefore They have they are in sin.

If you're aware of the doctrine of original sin because Adam sinned we are all born sinners that means that we are born inclined to sin and Then in the course of our lives We actually do sin and on top of that the guilt of Adam sin him.

Acting in on behalf of all mankind his guilt even is credited to us. So some people think that this is referring to Adam other people think that this is referring to Abraham and there are several Cross references that you could look at that would seem to suggest that but I do not believe that that's a that's the case.

Either and the reason why you would say it's not Adam is because he's particularly talking about his own people. He is singling them out differently than others. I Believe it makes the most sense here not to understand it as Adam not to understand as Abraham or of any of the kings of Israel or anything like that.

But this for it to refer to Jacob that Jacob is the father of the people. In fact, the whole nation is named after him and he is the one who is named in verse 28. Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary and delivered Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling is simply talking about Jacob.

There are a couple of passages where you can see this in Deuteronomy verse chapter 26 Deuteronomy these final passages of Deuteronomy telling them how they are supposed to think about their whole life as They go about in the land that God is going to give them and as they have a king how they are supposed to be thinking about things says Deuteronomy 26 verse 5 and you shall make response before the Lord your God a Wandering air man was my father and he went down into Egypt and sojourn there few in number and he became a great nation.

It became a nation great mighty and populous. Okay, you make this confession to God a wandering air man was my father. What is that pointing out? That's pointing out that Jacob's mother. Jacob's mother was of Syria of Aramaic.

Okay, so he is not of a holy people yet God has made him a holy people. A Wandering air man is my father. Hosea 12 verses 2 through 3 say this. The Lord has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways.

He will repay him according to his deeds in the womb. He took his brother by the heel and in his manhood. He strove with God. Okay, so this is describing and describing Jacob and describing his sins and describing That God will punish Jacob according to his ways.

It talks about his very origin. And this is essentially what Isaiah 43 is talking about that. They have come from Jacob. Jacob himself was a sinner. And so if they have come from Jacob than they themselves I like white sinners.

Also talks about their mediators says your mediators transgress against me. The word for mediator here and many translations is just either spokesperson or teacher. Believe it's talking particularly about teachers.

Your teachers have transgressed against me. So not only It's their father a sinner, but their teachers are sinners. And so if their teachers are sinners their fathers sinners, who are you going to be?

You're likewise going to be a sinner. Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary and deliver Jacob to utter destruction in Israel to reviling. The princes of the sanctuary referred to the religious leaders.

It refers to the priests. They will be profaned. Okay to profane something is to desecrate it is to make it not fit for holy things. If you wonder why is it that? Certain words are called profanity. It's because they are not fit in the house of God.

That's that's literally what that means is something that is profane is not fit for the house of God. No profane language. He says I deliver Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling instead of being a light for the nations as he spoke Previously they are instead going to be mockery for the nations.

This is this is their end. Several things we should take away. First of all, most importantly kind of the controlling feature for this little sub passage from verse 26 28. That the need for forgiveness is offensive.

The need for forgiveness is offensive. God anticipates that the Offense when he tells them remind me when he tells them put me in remembrance. He anticipates already that they are going to try to justify themselves.

There is a difference between forgiveness and self-justification. Everyone wants to be innocent. Everyone wants to be right. There are two ways of going about being right. You can have the forgiveness of the one that you have wronged or you can simply be righteous accordingly and defend yourself as such.

Self-justification. People like the idea of self-justification. Because it suggests a higher kind of righteousness one where you were never wrong in the first place. The reality is the blood of Christ is so great him crediting our righteousness.

Not only forgiving us of our sins canceling out the debt, but crediting us with his whole righteousness. It's a righteousness far greater than any that we could earn for ourselves so self-justification Is of no advantage of no advantage.

God's forgiveness is far greater becomes it comes with the whole righteousness of Christ. So he anticipates that they will argue with him. They will say That they will say that. That they can just that they don't need forgiveness that they are fine.

Recall that he has addressed this people as a people who have not satisfied with him with their sacrifices. These are very religious people who are offering sacrifices. They think that they have been sufficiently righteous.

But he points out that because of their sins. They have not been righteous. You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings, etc. In verse 24, it says you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.

God has. God has been wearied by the people. He is wearied by every man with his sins even those who who Think that they are righteous people on their own apart from his forgiveness. He's wearied by them.

They just weary him. Galatians 5 verse 11 says but if I brothers Still preach circumcision. Why am I still being persecuted in that case? The offense of the cross has been removed. I would like you to think about the what that passage is saying might not be clear what the Connection here is but I'm trying to show that the gospel is offensive.

Paul is saying that there's an offense of the cross and that offense of the cross would be removed if he were still preaching circumcision. Why is that the offense of the cross would be removed if you were still preaching circumcision?

It's because that man could make himself right. Just on his own. That is the offense of the cross the offense of the cross. There are several things that are offensive about the cross. Know that we would have a crucified Savior that doesn't seem like the kind of Savior that someone would want.

But we preach Christ crucified however wrapped up with that is the idea that you need a Savior that you. What Christianity offers is not a way to make yourself righteous by Your own activity, but rather That by God's activity you may be made righteous.

This is something that is offensive the cross the offense of the cross is taken away. If the way to forgiveness comes at the hands of man or if the way to righteousness comes at man's own hands. If you ever tried to help a child with something a toddler and they really want to do it themselves.

You know a lot of times we'll be going on a trip. We need to get a child buckled in but they want to buckle themselves in because they want to show that they can do it themselves. But you know that they're not going to get the buckle in because they're not yet strong enough to get it.

And so you try to help them. They're very offended that you would you would help them this is how man is with the forgiveness that God gives. God offers a Gracious forgiveness a wonderful righteousness and man says no I can do this myself.

I can handle this myself. Thank you. I'm very offended that you would suggest I need you. This is why people are so offended at the cross. It's because it shows that they are sinners. Why is it that Christ suffered such a horrendous death not that it was the Nature of the death in being so gruesome that Makes it atone for us.

It is the fact that God poured out his wrath on the Son that makes it atone for our sins. Yet it was such a gruesome death on a cross to demonstrate to us How great our sins are it was necessary that he be raised up on a tree to show us how cursed we are.

Apart from his forgiveness whoever Whoever is hung on a tree is cursed by God as explains in Deuteronomy. Why was it necessary for him to be? Tortured in such an awful way in such a horrendous way so many things in the Bible are not Described in great detail, but his his crucifixion described in a detail such that you would know Not just how much he suffered but how much you deserve to suffer that you would know how great your sin is.

The cross is offensive because it describes not only what Christ underwent but who you are. You apart from him are one who is a wretch a total wretch and Man does not want to hear that man finds that incredibly Offensive he goes on in this next passage in verse in verses 27 and 28 To give the evidence that forgiveness is needed.

Okay. So the fact that forgiveness is needed is offensive to man fact that forgiveness is needed is Also demonstrated by evidence. There's plenty of evidence that people need forgiveness that they are sinners.

Your first father sinned. For the people of Israel their first father Jacob had sinned this is not describing a Covenantal relationship like we would have with Adam where in him we are Where he sinned on our behalf Acting in the state of all mankind acting instead of all mankind.

Okay, this is not describing the same thing. Certainly there was a covenant that God made with Jacob etc. But that's not that's not what it's describing. It's just describing the fact that Someone who comes from a sinner will Will have their qualities right there.

You could also go ask yourself. What about Ezekiel? 1820 which says that the son shall not suffer for the sins of the father. Well, isn't this saying that because his father sinned he has to suffer. No, this is just giving evidence and this is how Ezekiel responds to that as well.

He gives evidence to show it's not because your father sinned that you're suffering. It's because you're acting just like your father's and the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Okay, this is the idea.

We are we are sinners in our first father Adam. By his guilt being credited to us, but also because the apple doesn't fall far from the tree we have Rejected God acted autonomously taking judgment into our own hands rather than going to him and his judgment.

So naturally we are sinners as well apart from Christ working in us that we would be a righteous people. We are sinners. And not just evidenced by. Not just evidenced by our Our Parents but likewise evidenced by our teachers your teachers are sinners.

Your mediators your spokesman transgressed against me the people of Israel were governed by religious authorities who were Traitors against God. So of course the people are going to be carried off into iniquity likewise now if you think about yourself.

You might think that I'm doing a little little better than my parents did. You might be thinking that okay. My teachers haven't been perfect, but I'm doing a little better than they did. A lot of people don't realize just how governed they are.

Just how affected they are by the environment that they grow up in so many Modern Americans think that they are so righteous and not like others because They are comparing themselves by those around them but if you are honest with yourself and you look at the ones that you're taught by people who know.

You know just in culture at large most of the teachers within Christianity know very little about the Bible right and chances are you were raised up and not the perfect environment. And even me I'm not a I'm a sinner as well.

I Have transgressed against the Lord. Your parents having raised you were they not sinners? Why is it that you would think that in being raised up by sinners and being taught by sinners that you would be any different?

You are going to be a sinner as well. You need the righteousness of Jesus Christ. There is no answer but his righteousness and it's demonstrated likewise by judgment from God. God judges the people therefore.

I will profane the princes of the sanctuary deliver Jacob to utter destruction. They are not convinced of their sinfulness. And so he demonstrates it by casting them out of Judah. Casting them out of Jerusalem into Babylon.

This is the context of this passage. The people are ultimately going to go off to Babylon that's being prophesied some couple hundred years before it actually takes place. Some hundred and fifty years before it takes place.

They're going to be Cast out into Babylon as a demonstration that they are sinners. They think that they are right. They think that they are righteous. They think nothing's going to happen to them. They Lean upon the Lord as it says in Micah 311 they lean upon the Lord and say it's not the Lord among us.

No disaster shall come upon us. This is how so many people think about these things and They presume that because they come into the sanctuary of God that they have a right to come into the sanctuary of God.

Because he has permitted them that they have all the holiness they need in order to come in. This is what's happening they come into the temple of God a holy place. Therefore they must be a holy people.

How many people think that they are holy because they come into a holy place because they attend church. So many people think that they are holy just based on a few outward actions. Not realizing that their heart is not right before him.

Apart from the working of the Spirit in them apart from being born again. There's No righteousness. This is a good question to ask people. You know If you ask someone when did you become a Christian and they answer my whole life so now sometimes people who are raised up in a good home don't recall the Moment they were saved and that's that's perfectly acceptable.

That's something to encourage. I would hope that my children would all be saved at ages so early that they don't remember when it was that they were saved and yet a A Follow-up point so you can ask about being born again.

Many people will not understand that there is a particular moment that they were born again. They will think that being a Christian is just having the culture of Christianity. It's a good question to peer into that a little because what's happening is Thinking that because you are around holy things.

Therefore you yourself must be holy but God demonstrates to the people by profaning the princes of the sanctuary by desecrating his own priests his own temple showing that they are not a holy people that they do not Serve these things and this is what comes upon those who think that they are righteous and they are not now there are several things that you can do to Look and see whether or not you have this attitude a few things that that exist when someone has this attitude.

They are righteous sufficiently righteous. They deserve to come into the house of the Lord, etc. And don't just merely come by his mercy. One is unbelief. Okay, there's just rank unbelief. Someone who believes that they are Truly a sinner will run to the mercy of God.

I've thought about that more and more because one one thing that you might think is well someone could believe that they are Unrighteous or someone could believe that they are truly a sinner, but then not believe in God.

And so or not believe in Jesus and because of that they don't run to him. You know everyone who hears of Jesus and truly knows that he is a sinner. They will run to him that the conviction of sin is a work of the Spirit.

The Spirit convicts of sin anyone who does not run to Jesus having heard from him. The Spirit has not worked in that person. And so therefore he is not truly convicted of sin. If you do not believe in God it means that you do not understand your own sinfulness.

If you understand your own sinfulness, you will run to Jesus Christ. Secondly, there is also Overwhelming fear feelings of guilt and those can manifest themselves in different ways as depression or anxiety things like that a lot of people don't aren't thinking of the word guilt because it's manifesting in different ways, but an overwhelming feeling of guilt or Even not overwhelming just a nagging feeling of guilt.

Because you do not recognize as a believer that your sins are forgiven. What is that? What is going on in the case of someone who doesn't believe there who has that feeling of guilt? Who when they sin and they go to God for forgiveness doesn't feel that forgiveness.

Well, it means that they have not they still believe in some measure that it's up to them and their performance. To make themselves right before God in order to have his righteousness. Okay, it's not that God hasn't it's not that God isn't sufficiently forgiving.

It's not that he doesn't fulfill his promises that everyone who comes to him will find forgiveness it's rather that person in their heart is still cherishing a little bit of that offense of the gospel a little bit of that idea that they have to perform right in order to be righteous before God.

Abandon that and your guilt will be washed away. He blots out transgressions. A lot of people think that they are Forgiven people understand the gospel would be able to recite it to you but then in practical terms.

Are reminding God are reminding themselves of their own sin. Thinking that it is something that still stands because God's forgiveness is not enough for them. Okay, that that is. One way that it can manifest the other half of it is pride.

Right someone who sees their brothers and sisters who aren't performing as well as them Thinks that they are better than their brothers and sisters. Now there's some very basic categories in which we have to be able to will we have to be willing to recognize a Relative sense of blamelessness in order that we can discern the things the Bible calls us to discern who is fit to be an elder.

Etc. Things like that. But if you have a sense of self superiority that looks down on others as Ones who have not received the same kind of forgiveness. What does that what does that mean. You think of yourself as having a Greater kind of righteousness than they have because of your own because of your own efforts because of your own works.

This is what happens with the parable of the 11th hour workers. Right, the master hires different workers and the workers who have been working longer are really upset. That the 11th hour workers are getting the same thing.

Well, that doesn't seem fair. I've done a better job. I deserve more. The mercy that you have received no matter how hard you have served the Lord. The rewards that you receive are far greater than you deserve far greater and while there's a reason to have righteous indignation where it's appropriate where Corruption enters the body of Christ, etc.

And I'm not I am NOT Condemning at all any of these kind of varied Spiritual sensibilities to brothers and sisters when where they are appropriate, but the idea of some kind of greater self-righteousness of a superiority.

Detect that in your heart and where is that coming from? That's coming from a rejection of the gospel a small bit of offense of the at the gospel that It would make the 11th hour worker Just as forgiven just as paid as the as the first workers that are hired.

Now given all that Christ Meets this need for forgiveness. Okay, so the need for forgiveness Is the offense. The need for forgiveness is offensive the need for forgiveness is Demonstrated by these evidences, but also the need for forgiveness is met by Jesus Christ.

The point of this passage as he Challenges them is to Drive into them their need for it as he convicts them as he shows them He goes back to in chapter 44, but now here Oh Jacob Israel whom I have chosen etc.

And then he goes back to explaining how he's going to renew them how he's going to forgive them. How does this happen often? It happens by Destruction. It is often either by the destruction of others or by the breaking down of one's own self.

That God shows to someone their need for forgiveness. Even believers as they go about their lives if they begin to get a heart of self-righteousness. What will God do he will break them down? Hand them over to some measure of destruction so that they see their need for him.

He does this as a mercy to his people and he does this on a judgment to his enemies but Even before someone is saved if they are among the elect God will do this to drive them to Jesus Christ. Even as he is doing with his people Israel.

He is taking them out of Babylon why so that he can bring it's taking them out to Babylon why so we can bring them back from Babylon and They can be a more righteous people and indeed even though We know the rest of the story They are more righteous people in a lot of ways.

They managed to get rid of idolatry in a significant measure that had never been for been accomplished in Israel. And we see that at the time that Jesus arrives on the scene They don't have the same kinds of problems with idolatry now.

We find that they are still They are still a hypocritical people. And so God Delivers his people Israel once again by a second destruction, which this is secondarily or maybe even primarily depending on how you look at it prophesying in a less immediate way that he will accomplish that in order to Show his true the truth children of Abraham.

There the gospel their need for it and then save them as Jerusalem is destroyed. But this is what God does. God by destruction shows people their need if you humble yourself before him that destruction isn't needed but We are typically inclined to be proud and so he will humble his people so that they see these things.

So they see their need for forgiveness. Having spoken of our first father. There are passages that describe Jesus in relationship to him in Romans chapter 5 verse 14 It says. Yet death reigned from Isaac from Adam to Moses.

Even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam who was a type of the one who was to come. Okay. So in this passage in Romans is describing the relationship between Jesus and Adam by Adams one sin.

Everyone dies. Okay, everyone falls in Adam everyone sins because their first father sinned they all sinned they all Have to die but through the righteousness of Jesus Christ through his one act of righteousness, the many are made righteous and Everyone who trusts in him lives in him first.

Corinthians chapter 15 verses 45 to 49 say. Thus it is written the first man Adam became a living being. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural and then the spiritual.

The first man was from the earth a man of dust. The second man is from heaven as Was the man of dust so also are those who are of the dust and as the man of heaven? So also are those who are of heaven just as we have borne the image of the man of dust.

We shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. What is the cure for? Being taught by sinners. Being born to sinners. The answer is being born of God. Being taught of God. And how do you be born of God?

How do you be taught of God through Jesus Christ? Through the man from heaven you can have a new life as You go to him. He gives you a new life. He raises you from the dead first of all spiritually eventually physically as well.

Gives you that life by which you are countered as righteous. His righteousness Credited to you, but then likewise you growing in a practical sort of righteousness as well. Obeying him and following after his ways.

This is what he gives through Jesus Christ. He gives forgiveness of sins. He gives a righteousness that is far greater than the righteousness that you could even if you hadn't sinned. Been able to earn on your own at the beginning of Isaiah.

We have a very similar passage at the beginning of Isaiah, it says. In Isaiah 1 verses 18 through 20 come now let us reason together says the Lord. Very similar to this passage another kind of courtroom challenge, right?

He says put me in remembrance, let us argue together set forth your case, etc. Listen this come now. Let us reason together says the Lord though. Your sins are like scarlet. They shall be white as snow though.

They are red like crimson they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient you shall eat the good of the land. But if you refuse and rebel you shall be eaten by the sword for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Come now. Let us reason together be reasonable about this. Once again, Isaiah 1 in the very same context of hypocritical worship, just like Isaiah 43. The people think that they are righteous. They think they have their own righteousness.

But God does not accept any of their sacrifices. None of their worship before him is any kind of righteousness. Because they are sinners before him. So he says come now. Let us reason together be reasonable about this.

Do not insist on building up your own righteousness. It is worthless be reasonable come to the Lord. Your sin though. It is like scarlet shall be white as snow. Those red like crimson it shall become like wool.

Do not do not contend with him. He will if you take the defense in his courtroom and he is the prosecutor and the judge. You will be destroyed instead take his. Take his offer of mercy. What do you call that in a court where there's mercy offered so you don't have to go through court?

I'm blanking on the word the settlement. Yeah, take the settlement, you know, just just be. Be happy that he will acquit you. He will declare you forgiven and you are done. You can have the righteousness of Christ you can have it all.

Do not come with your unbelief. Do not come with your pride your Self-superiority over others when you see others struggling with things recognize you are a sinner to have the attitude that is appropriate on behalf of God, but on behalf of yourself.

And that's the real distinction on behalf of God. It is appropriate to have an indignation towards sin and even when it exists in the body. But on behalf of yourself, there is no place for that because you have no righteousness of your own and then do not go around Languishing without the fruit of the Spirit.

Because you feel that overwhelming sense of guilt instead go to God and have it all have his mercy. Turn to him and he will forgive and confess your sins if you confess your sins to him. He will forgive you.

Many people find that they have some sin that they are struggling with. They feel like I've confessed this to the Lord and yet I still am struggling with it. So clearly it's not this simple. Clearly, it's not as simple as confessing it before the Lord.

Then you are and then you're forgiven and granted a measure of the work of the Spirit so that you begin being righteous. What I have found in almost every case where someone thinks that that's what's happening to where they've confessed their sin and they've not found Forgiveness and repentance and God working in their heart, etc.

What I've found in every case that I've been able to discern and then I suspect in the ones where I've not been able to discern. That what is going on is that there is some other sin that lies behind that sin.

It's almost always the case a lot of the the big major sins that you encounter, you know substance abuse sexual sin, etc. These are usually not simple things usually underneath. There are five different sins that are going on that are heart sins that are very different than the heart sins that someone else would have that has that external sin and.

So what's happening is because someone has confessed just one sin, but not all the root sins that lie behind it. That is why they are not having the victory. Do not be afraid of going deep and finding what lies in your heart.

Most people are afraid of this because they don't want to see how sinful they are if you are afraid of seeing how sinful you are. Because you think that you need your own righteousness. You are never going to find the forgiveness that you need to actually have victory over sin.

But if you are willing to go see how ugly and deep your sin goes. Knowing that it will be forgiven. Anticipating the mercy of God you will go far enough that you will be able to confess it and then find victory in sin.

Whether it be the root things or the things that come from that root thing. Know from someone who has I've not been a I'm not as experienced as some other pastors are but having gone about this For a number of years.

I've discovered that this is really the case that often what is going on is a lack of Identification or possibly they have identified it not confessing Deeper sins. Okay, if you are struggling with something go deeper figure out what is the heart behind it?

Is it a desire for pleasure? Is it a is it a desire for affirmation? What are the different desires that are becoming idolatrous desires that are leading me to pursue things that are outwardly sinful?

What is going on inwardly confess that before the Lord and you will find very quickly. A Improvement in your soul as the Holy Spirit works because God is Sure with his promises. He does forgive as we confess our sins to him.

He does do not look at this and suspect maybe he's not really true to his promises. No, it's it is us who do not follow through with the things that he is taught telling us to do. It is not him that is unfaithful it is us that are unfaithful in any of these circumstances where his promises don't appear to be being fulfilled and Learn likewise to argue on behalf of God.