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3 But [de] the Lord [kurios] is [esti] faithful, [pistos] who [hos] shall stablish[sterizo] you, [humas] and [kai] keep [phulasso] you from [apo] evil. [poneros]KJV-Interlinear
3 But
the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.
NASB
In this world you will find
many who will mock God and Christianity, even though they do not know the first
things about how this world operates.
No one can predict, accurately,
the weather for a week or month, but they mock the afterlife.
No one can say for sure
what the world economy will do this coming year, but they will mock God.
No one can define why
they will not live forever in this world, but they will mock doctrine.
No one has all of the
answers to all of the questions, but they will mock everything of truth.
No one has all of the
answers and yet they will attempt to prevent others from having access to
truth.
And yet despite mans
ignorance, obstinacy, indifference, ridicule, hate, and so forth, God is
faithful.
Faithfulness means
trustworthy, true.God is veracity and
immutable.He will never deceive. He will
never change away from truth.In God
there is no lie, no grey areas, no uncertainty.
Jesus Christ is the
living person, of the written word.Through doctrine, you receive Christ, the written word, into your soul,
and therefore you bring truth and His faithfulness into your life.
There is nowhere else
in life that you can find faithfulness of any kind.The world, people, even
your own self, are incapable of developing faithfulness from within
yourself.That is a divine attribute
that comes only from God.
To
stablish means to strengthen and protect, to turn
resolutely in a certain and definite direction, to confirm.
To keep you, means to
preserve, to isolate, to set apart, to guard.
In God you steer a true
course to a certain and definite destination, unlike the mockers of the world
who are caught up in an indefinite and random course that will never arrive
anywhere, but drift into obscurity.
God (doctrine in the soul),
isolates you from the deterioration of corruption, guards you from the
influences of evil, protects you from the wicked agenda of wicked people who only
want to prevent you from learning truth, and want to turn you to their own
worthless and directionless world.
Evil, poneros, means hurtful or influence.Unlike other derivatives of the word which
refer to the character of evil, or the degeneracy of evil, then this word
refers to the protection that doctrine in the soul provides the believer, from
the culpability or influences that evil represents.
Like the air that you
breathe, so too evil, in its many, many forms, saturates the world.
Were it not for the restraining
work of Bible doctrine, your life would deteriorate rapidly into the same
putridness that results in any fresh uncooked meat
that is left out on the table.
And yet those of the
world will mock, sneer, laugh at truth, and try to bring hardship and suffering
into your life, when they themselves are clueless about life.
Gods faithfulness, Deut.
7:9, Ps 36:5, 40:10, 89:1-2,8,24,33, 92:2, 119:75,90, Isa. 49:7, Lam. 3:23, 1
Cor. 1:9, 1 Thess. 5:24, Heb. 10:23, 1 Peter 4:19, 1 John 1:9