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A promise is a sure pledge of something good. The good in the Promise of the Gospel is eternal life from death. Eternal blessedness from deepest misery. A promise is in this case absolutely sure and cannot fail. That is why a promise among men is impossible. Many things may happen. We always have to
How can I bring a child into this dark and evil world that we live in? How can I raise this child as a Christian? How can I raise this child as a Christian when I am such a sinner myself? How can I know that my son or my daughter will be saved when this child was conceived and born in sin? The
God has determined the salvation of His own people and not one is lost. He surely fulfills this promise because He alone is God. God realizes the promise and glorifies Himself through us. The promise cannot be added to by His people but unconditionally formulated by God, Who always does as He decree
In the light of all this, we would define the promise as the announcement of the eternal Jehovah, that He, and He alone, in and because of and through Christ Jesus, our Lord, and by His Spirit, the Spirit of the risen and highly exalted Lord, will bestow upon His people, whom He sovereignly elected,
Rev. Kuiper is pastor of Southeast Protestant Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is very striking that the word promise is found much more often in the New Testament than in the Old. We find two reasons for this. The New Testament gives us the fulfillment of the promise with the coming o
The promise, however, does not leave us at this point either, for it carries us all the way to final glory. Thus the apostle writes that we have the "promise of life that now is, and of that which is to come" (I Tim. 4:8). We, according to the promise, have eternal life. In fact, it was promised to
It is pointed out that God is not slack concerning His promise. The promise is that God will save us in Christ and bring us to salvation. That promise concerns every one that God has chosen in Christ from before the foundation of the world. This is evident as the apostle calls those He is addressing
The promise of God is his purpose of salvation for his people, that he speaks to his people. That's the promise. The intentions and purposes of God are hidden within the mind and counsel of God. If he does not make them known to us, we cannot know them. The promise of God is his revelation, his
God has, made many promises, not one of which He has not fulfilled, not one but it was fulfilled in the Christ of Golgotha. Because the promises are “yea” in Christ, therefore also through Him they are AMEN( Cf. Rev. 3:14). God promises salvation to all who come and believe, (Canons IV:8, Heb. 11:11
The promise, Peter says, the promise is to you and to your children and to all who are far off. What is that promise? As I said, the promise in general is God's speaking forth of his eternal purposes of salvation for his people. And that promise of God is absolutely sure. And that's why it give