God Remains Faithful Even When We Fail
Romans 3:3–4 (NLT)
3 True, some of them were unfaithful; but just because they were unfaithful, does that mean God will be unfaithful? 4 Of course not! Even if everyone else is a liar, God is true. As the Scriptures say about him,
“You will be proved right in what you say,
and you will win your case in court.”
Message
Paul declared that the physical circumcision is meaningless without a life obedient to God’s law. He defined who a true Jew is in Romans 2:28-29. He then pointed out the benefit of being a Jew (Romans 3:1): the Jews were entrusted with the whole revelation of God (Romans 3:2).
Today, let us study Romans 3:3-4.
Verse 3 begins with “True” —Paul’s acknowledgement of the point he made in Romans 3:2. But immediately, he raised a critical question,
“Some of them were unfaithful; but just because they were unfaithful, does that mean God will be unfaithful?”
Paul answers this question decisively in verse 4. See verse 4a.
4a Of course not! Even if everyone else is a liar, God is true.
To explain and support this answer, Paul quotes Psalm 51:4b in verse 4b.
“You will be proved right in what you say,
and you will win your case in court.”
David was Israel’s greatest king, a shadow of the Messiah to come. He didn’t just make a private moral mistake. He committed one of the worst moral failures recorded in Scripture —the crime of adultery and murder. David wrote Psalm 51 when he repented of his sin —his adultery with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, and his murder of Uriah.
Yet David’s failure did not mean that God failed. God disciplined David and eventually sent the Messiah to save us from our sins.
