{"id":875,"date":"2011-07-15T06:40:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T06:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=875"},"modified":"2011-07-15T06:40:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T06:40:38","slug":"the-promises-of-god-%e2%80%9cfor-all-of-god%e2%80%99s-promises-have-been-fulfilled-in-him-%e2%80%9d-2-cor-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"THE PROMISES OF GOD \u201cFor all of God\u2019s promises have been fulfilled in him.\u201d 2 Cor. 1:20"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE PROMISES OF GOD <\/strong>
\n\u201cFor all of\u00a0God\u2019s promises <\/strong>have been fulfilled in him.\u201d\u00a02 Cor. 1:20<\/a><\/p>\n

God has made a Will, or Testament, in behalf of His people! It is signed and sealed. It cannot be altered- nothing can divest us of our inheritance. The bequest is His own \u201cexceeding great and precious promises.\u201d What a heritage! All that the sinner requires- all that the sinner\u2019s God can give. In this testamentary deed there are no contingencies- no peradventures. The testator commences it with the sure guarantee for its every jot and tittle being fulfilled, \u201cVerily, verily, I say unto you!\u201d He endorses every promise, and every page, with a \u201cYes, and Amen.\u201d \u201cGod, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath.\u201d But, who provided such a rich Promise Treasury? What is the source, where is the fountain-head, from which these streams of mercy flow to the Church? \u201cIn HIM.\u201d Believer! from Jesus every promise is derived- in Jesus every promise centres. Pardon, peace, adoption, consolation, eternal life- all \u201cin Him.\u201d In Him you are \u201cchosen,\u201d \u201ccalled,\u201d \u201cjustified,\u201d \u201csanctified,\u201d and \u201cglorified.\u201d You have in possession all the blessings of present grace; you have in reserve all the happiness of coming glory. And \u201cHe is faithful that promised.\u201d
\nYour friend may deceive you- the world has deceived you- He never will! Myriads in glory, are there to tell how not one thing has failed of all that the Lord their God has spoken. Rely on this faithfulness. He gave His Son for you. After the greater blessing, surely, for subordinate ones, you may trust Him. And where do these promises beam most brightly? Like the stars, it is in the night! In the midnight of trial- when the sun of earthly prosperity has set- when deep is calling to deep, and wave to wave; when tempted, bereaved, beaten down with \u201ca great fight of afflictions,\u201d the spiritual firmament with its galaxy of Promises is brightest and clearest!
\n\u201cOh! who could bear life\u2019s stormy doom, Did not Your Word of Love
\nCome brightly bearing through the gloom A palm branch from above?
\nThen sorrow touched by You grows bright, With more than rapture\u2019s ray;
\nAs darkness shows us worlds of light\u00a0 We never saw by day!\u201d
\nBut do not be deceived; the night of sorrow cannot \u2018in itself\u2019 give you the comfort of the Divine Promises. It may be night, and yet the stars invisible. It is only \u201cin Him\u201d these promises can be discerned in their lustre. Reader! if you are \u201cout of Christ,\u201d these stars of Gospel promise shine in vain to you; they have, to the unspiritual eye, no beauty or brightness. In the midnight battle of Barak, \u201cthe stars in their course fought against Sisera.\u201d They shone on Israel, but denied their light to the enemies of God. The guiding pillar, so lustrous to the chosen people, was a column of portentous gloom to Pharaoh\u2019s host. But \u201cin Him,\u201d as \u201cheirs of God,\u201d you are inheritors of \u201call the promises.\u201d All the promises! Oh! with such a pillow whereon to rest your aching head, you may well resume your nightly song\u2013 \u201cI will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.\u201d\u00a0Psalm 4:8<\/a> John MacDuff.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE PROMISES OF GOD \u201cFor all of\u00a0God\u2019s promises have been fulfilled in him.\u201d\u00a02 Cor. 1:20 God has made a Will, or Testament, in behalf of His people! It is signed and sealed. It cannot be altered- nothing can divest us of our inheritance. The bequest is His own \u201cexceeding great and precious promises.\u201d What a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,61,64,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-macduff","category-believers-assurance","category-successful-saviour","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}