Promises Made, Promises Kept

Dearly beloved and highly favored by the Father, His motto is promises made, promises kept. Not a single word He has promised will fail; all will be fulfilled.

By the good pleasure of His will, He determined the plan of salvation and He sent His Son to accomplish it for us.

God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, has done and will yet do what no other can. He gave his life for us and to validate his accomplishments, His Father raised him from the dead, and seated him at His right side in the heavenly realm above all others forevermore, and made him the head of the Church; we are members of his body the fullness of him, and he filled all of us with all he accomplished.

God saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given unto us in Christ Jesus before the time of the ages.

Those things were manifested in the present time by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ. He makes death inactive, both the loss of spirit life, and physical life. Through the gospel, he brings to light both the spiritual life of the new birth with the promise that he will transform us to have glorious bodies like his glorious body, and physical incorruption for the dead in Christ at his coming.

The Lord Jesus Christ will judge the living and the dead even by his appearing and his kingdom. He is a just judge, and he will give the crown of righteousness to all who have loved his appearing. The Father committed all judgment unto him.

Dearly beloved, all the promises of God are in him, “yes,” and in him they are “Amen” to the glory of God.

Like Abraham, we should not doubt the promise of God. He was strong in believing, giving glory to God, and being fully persuaded that what He promised, He is also able to do.

After we heard the word of the truth, the gospel of our salvation, having believed in Christ, we were sealed with the holy spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until Christ returns to claim those he has redeemed, unto the praise of His glory.

God made great and precious promises to us, even though we had no part in His covenant with Israel, but were Gentiles, without God and without hope, but He determined that those who believed in the Christ should be joint heirs and joint members of the same body and joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus by the gospel. Such grace!

Beloved, they are not all Israel who are from Israel, nor because they are Abraham's seed, but "In Isaac shall his seed be called." In other words, beloved, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

We are the circumcision, the true Israel of God who worship God in spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, not in the flesh.

Beloved brethren, it is evident that no one is justified by the law before God because He says, "the just will live by believing," but the law is not of believing.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse on our behalf. Why? So that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles by Christ Jesus, so that we might receive the promise regarding the spirit through the right way of believing.

The inheritance was not given to Abraham through the Law which was given to Moses (the Law came 430 years after God made His covenant with Abraham.) The Law does not invalidate the promise given to Abraham, in fact, if the inheritance is of the law, then the inheritance is no more of promise, but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

Beloved, if the law could have given spirit life, then indeed justness could have been by the law, but it could not. The Scripture concludes that no flesh is justified in God's sight; we are justified by believing concerning Jesus Christ our Lord; that's how we received the promise. Rejoice!

Dearly beloved, we should exercise ourselves unto godliness for bodily exercise is profitable for a little while, but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the present life and of that which is to come.

The Word of God is faithful and worthy of all acceptance; what God has promised shall come to pass – every last jot and tittle of it. Promises made, promises kept.

Beloved, we have the promise of life in Christ Jesus our Lord now and forevermore. Rejoice and again I say rejoice!