Jesus was the greatest promiser

JESUS WAS THE GREATEST PROMISER
EDITED BY GLENN PEASE
2 Corinthians1:20 "For all the promises of God in
him are yea,and in him Amen, unto the glory of God
by us."
BIBLEHUB RESOURCES
The Certainty Of Divine Promises
2 Corinthians 1:20
D. Fraser
I. ALL THE PROMISESOF GOD. From the first (Genesis 3:15)which points
to the Saviour's first coming, to the last (Revelation22:20)which assures us of
his secondcoming, these are all very good. Their range is vast, their bounty
large, their comfort sweetand strong. They bring balm to our wounds, help to
our infirmities, rest to our weariness, encouragementto our prayers. They are
"exceeding greatand precious." Scatteredas the promises are over the Bible,
they should be searchedout and read with an intelligent regard to the time
when they were given, the persons to whom they were addressed, and the
nature of the dispensation under which they were issued. They are profitable
in a generalsense as exhibiting the Divine characterand mind, and they
convey individual comfort to those who, in express terms or by fair inference
from the express terms, are indicated in particular promises. These
comprehend assurancesof

(1) temporal welfare;
(2) Free pardon;
(3) a renewed and obedient heart;
(4) the indwelling of the Holy Spirit;
(5) the return of the Lord and our gathering to him in his glory.
These are the keys to open all doors in the dungeons of Doubting Castle and
setcaptives free. These are the strong withes that bind the holiestaffections of
men, or the cords and bands let down from above, which they hold as they
skirt the precipices ofmoral dangerand climb the steepplaces of duty. These
are the stepping stones across watersofdespondency, on which pilgrims may
pass dry shod to the happy shore.
II. THE SECURITYOF ALL THOSE PROMISESIS IN JESUS CHRIST.
No Divine promises are made to us out of Christ, and no promise in him can
fail. This arises from:
1. The constitution of his mediatorial Person. He is very God and very man:
God who is true and cannotlie, in union with a guileless Manwho had no
deceitin his mouth.

2. The nature of his mediatorial offices. As he is the Prophet, all the promises
of Divine teaching and enlightenment are secure in him. As he is the Priest, all
the promises of pardon, of acceptancein worship, and of salvation to the
uttermost are secure in him. As he is the King, all the promises of the subdual
of sin and of deliverance from spiritual adversaries are secure in him.
3. The covenant relations of Christ to his people. They are so comprehended
in him or representedby him that all the promises made to him are for their
help and consolation, andall the promises made to them are for his glory. So
are they assuredof pardon through him, eternal life in him, the Holy Spirit of
him and by him, and the new heavens and new earth with him who is the
Amen, faithful and true.
III. THE END IN VIEW IN THE SURENESSorTHE PROMISES. "For
glory to God through us." It is glorifying to him that we go to the promises for
solace andlive on the promises by faith. It was when Abraham believed a
promise, and was strengthened in faith, that he gave glory to God. And this
way of glorifying our God is open to all of us. Let us not staggerathis
promises, but believe his love and rely on his faithfulness, He cannot deny
himself. Glory be to the Father, who promises to be a Fatherto us, and to take
us for his sons and daughters! Glory be to the Son, in whom all things are ours
by free grace, and God himself is not ashamedto be calledour God! Glory be
to the Holy Ghost, for the anointing, the sealing, and the earnestin our hearts
(vers. 21, 22)! The promises of God being establishedin Christ, we too who
believe are establishedin Christ by the Holy Spirit, and so the promises are
ours. What will you do who have no hold of the promises, no hearty faith in
the Divine Promiser? Foryou there is no bright future; for the inheritance is
by promise of free grace in Christ Jesus. Yet we do not ask you to believe a
promise. Strictly speaking, there is no promise to men who are not in Christ.
But Christ himself is set before you and offeredto you. Believe on the Name of
the only begotten Sonof God, according to the tenor of the gospel. Then all

things will be yours. The promises of grace and glory are for you; for they are
all yea and amen in Jesus Christ our Lord. - F.
Biblical Illustrator
For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory
of God by us.
2 Corinthians 1:20
All the promises
I. THE DIGNITYOF THE PROMISES.Theyare "the promises of God."
1. They were eachone made by Him according to the purpose of His own will.
2. They are links between His decrees and His acts;being the voice of the
decree, and the herald of the act.
3. They display the qualities of Him who uttered them. They are true,
immutable, powerful, eternal, etc.
4. They remain in union with God. After the lapse of ages they are still His
promises as much as when He first uttered them.
5. They are guaranteedby the characterof God who spoke them.
6. They will glorify Him as He works out their fulfilment.

II. THE RANGE OF THE PROMISES. "All the promises." It will be
instructive to note the breadth of the promises by observing that —
1. They are found both in the Old and New Testaments;from Genesis to
Revelation, running through centuries of time.
2. They are of both sorts-conditionaland unconditional: promises to certain
works, and promises of an absolute order.
3. They are of all kinds of things — bodily and spiritual, personal and general,
eternal and temporal.
4. They continue blessings to varied characters, suchas —(1) The Penitent
(Leviticus 26:40-42;Isaiah4:7; 57:15; Jeremiah3:12, 13).(2)The Believing
(John 3:16, 18;John 6:47; Acts 16:31;1 Peter2:6).(3) The Serving (Psalm
37:3; 9:40; Proverbs 3:9, 10; Acts 10:35).(4)The Praying (Isaiah 14:11.;
Lamentations 3:25; Matthew 6:6; Psalm145:18).(5)The Obeying (Exodus
19:5; Psalm 119:1-3;Isaiah1:19).(6) The Suffering (Matthew 5:10-12;
Romans 8:17; 1 Peter4:12-14).
5. They bring us the richest boons:pardon, justification, sanctification,
instruction, preservation, etc. What a marvellous wealthlies in "all the
promises"!
III. THE STABILITY OF THE PROMISES. "Allthe promises in Him are
yea, and in Him Amen." A Greek word"Yea," and a Hebrew word "Amen,"
are used to mark certainty, both to Gentile and Jew.

1. They are establishedbeyond all doubt as being assuredly the mind and
purpose of the eternalGod.
2. They are confirmed beyond all alteration. The Lord hath said "Amen," and
so must it be for ever.
3. Their stability is in Christ Jesus beyond all hazard; for He is
(1)The witness of the promise of God.
(2)The surety of the covenant.
(3)The sum and substance of all the promises.
(4)The fulfilment of the promises, by His actualincarnation, His atoning
death, His living plea, His ascensionpower, etc.
(5)The security and guarantee of the promises, since all poweris in His hand
to fulfil them.
IV. THE RESULT OF THE PROMISES. "The gloryof God by us." By us,
His ministers, and His believing people, the God of the promises is made
glorious. We glorify —

1. His condescending love in making the promise.
2. His power as we see Him keeping the promise.
3. Him by our faith, which honours His veracity, by expecting the boons which
He has promised.
4. Him in our experience which proves the promise true.Conclusion:
1. Let us confidently restin His sure word.
2. Let us plead the specialpromise applicable to the hour now passing.
(C. H. Spurgeon.)
The promises
H. W. Beecher.
1. A promise is the antithesis of a threat. The Bible abounds in both.
2. When God more apparently guided the courses ofman personally, promises
were made to individual men. To patriarchs, prophets, and apostles;and by
such they were upborne through trial. But when this became impossible the
promises were made applicable to whole nations and generations.

3. Thus the Word of God is filled with assurancesofblessings as no other
book is. Promises coverthe whole period of human life. They meet us at our
birth; they cluster about our childhood; they overhang our youth; they go in
companies into manhood with us; they divide themselves into bands and stand
at the door of every possible experience. Therefore there are promises of God
to the ignorant, poor, oppressed, discouraged, etc.;to every affection, to every
sphere of duty, to all perils and temptations. There are promises for joy,
sorrow, victory, defeat, adversity, prosperity, etc. Old age has its garlands as
full and fragrant as youth. All men, everywhere, and always — have their
promises of God.
4. They belong to mankind. There have been periods when, for specialand
beneficent reasons,God's promises seemedto belong only to His own people.
5. And they are fresh with everlasting youth. The stars never wearout; the
sun is not weary from the number of years. The heaven and the earth,
however, shall pass away, but God's word shall not pass away.
6. Notone promise has ever been unfulfilled. There is not a witness in God's
universe that can testify that he has leanedon a promise of God, and that God
forgotto be gracious to him.
I. WHAT ARE THE USES TO WHICH WE ARE INVITED TO PUT GOD'S
PROMISES?
1. To make rude duties more attractive. It is affecting to see with what
tenderness God has taken care of those that no one else cares for. How He
goes downto the poor, and the ignorant, and the enslaved. How He goes down
to those that can find no motive for right living in their ordinary experience,

and says to them, "Be faithful, if not for the sake ofyour master, then for My
sake."And once let us know that We are serving One that we love, and One
that loves us, and love vanquishes difficulty.
2. To fortify our faith. Duty is often surrounded by peril or hardship, and is
often apparently without adequate result. It is needful, therefore, that there
should be some promise which shall assure us that a perilous duty well
performed will bring down upon us the Divine blessing. You are oftentimes
brought into trials when it seems as though everything would be wrecked, and
the world says, "Prudence":experience says, "Draw back";policy says,
"Change a little"; and expediencysays, "Compromise";but the Word of God,
which is yea and amen, says, "He that will lose his life for a right principle
shall save it." And in the end, when you come to count the wrecks along the
shore, you will find those men who would save their lives by losing their
principles are the men that have lost their lives.
3. To equalise the conditions of life. Men are of different calibre, and, owing to
this, men follow Christ in different ways. Now, if a party of men are going to
California assuredthat eachshall be the possessor, in five years, of one million
dollars, the differences betweenthem are annihilated while they are going
across.One may have twenty-five dollars in his pocket, anothera hundred;
one may have almostno conveniences, andanother all that heart could wish;
and yet, if they are assuredthat in five years they shall eachhave a million
dollars, they do not care for these inequalities. And let the promises of God
rest on the poor man's lot, and he forgets the inequalities of life. For that man
who is ere long to be crownedin eternity cannot find the road there so hard
that he will complain of it.
4. To redeem secularlife from barrenness, and make it worth our while to
continue faithful to the end. And while there are promises of Godthat run
through our whole lowerlife, the promises grow broader and deeper as you go

up to those spheres where a man is obliged to live by faith, and above the
ordinary affairs of life. So the promises of God are in proportion to our
exigencies.
II. WHAT ARE THE OBSTACLES IN THE WAY OF USING THE
PROMISES OF GOD?
1. We are ignorant of them. There is many a man that lives on his farm years
and years without knowing the different growths that it produces. Many a
man is buried within a yard of plants that, if their healing properties had been
known, would have savedhis life. Many a field is capable, if properly tilled, of
producing fourfold as much as it is made to produce. God's Word is like such
a field. There are promises in it that no man has ever tried to find. There are
treasures of goldand silver in it that no man has takenthe pains to dig for.
There are medicines in it, for the want of a knowledge ofwhich hundreds have
died.
2. When men find them they do not know how to use them. Tea was first
served in England as greens. The people rejectedit, and thought it rather an
imposition. When potatoes were first introduced into Ireland they were
rejectedthere, because they did not know how to use them. And many and
many a man rejects, or fails to profit by, the promises of God's Word, because
he does not know how to gather them, and cook them, and use them.
3. We are afraid to venture upon using them. There is many and many a man
that would be afraid to trust himself upon a single plank stretchedacross a
deep chasm, though others had walkedover on it often without accident.
There is many a promise of God that is strong enough to carry men acrossthe
abyss of this life, but they do not dare to try it. In an emergencythe promises

of God are to many men what weapons of defence are to a man who does not
know how to use them when he finds that he must fight for his life.
4. We wish the result without the fulfilment of the conditions attached. Many
a child that is promised a vacation on condition that he will perform a certain
amount of labour, would like the vacation, but does not like the condition on
which it is promised. So many of the things promised we would like to steal,
instead of working for them.
5. We do not appropriate them. The promise of "grace to help in time of
need" comes to men thousands of times without benefiting them for this very
reason. Many carry the promises as a miser carries bank bills, the face of
which calls for countless treasures,but which he does not carry to the bank
for presentation. Many a man holds bills for blessings of God, but does not
present them. They enter upon a philosophical inquiry as to whether there is a
presumptive argument in favour of prayer, and whether God will stop the
laws of nature for our benefit, or so use them as to fulfil His promises to us.
But the way to employ a promise of God is to comply with its conditions, and
then wait for its fulfilment.
6. Many are afraid of presumption. Well, it may be presumptuous for you to
go into a stranger's house without an invitation; but if a man has invited you
to come and see him it is presumptuous for you not to take him at his word.
And to be afraid to appropriate the promises of God is to charge Him falsely.
7. Many would like to take the promises of God, but they fearthey may be
self-deceived. You may be, but God is not; and therefore you may rest upon
the promises.

8. There are others that have a fear about their own unworthiness; which is as
if a man should advertise that he would cure the infirmities of men free of
expense, and a blind man should say, "I would go to this physician if I were
not so blind." Therefore plead the promises because youare sinful; the nature
of goodness is to relieve want, even though that want be founded on sin.
9. Much of the want of faith in the promises comes from a neglecton the part
of Christians to bear witness to the fulfilment of those promises in their own
experience. There are hundreds of men whose life God has made significant
and memorable, and they have never uttered a word about it to those around
them.
(H. W. Beecher.)
The promises, how they become ours
W. Jay.
I. "BY US" AS MINISTERS — publishing, explaining, applying them. A
promise is often like a box of ointment, very precious;but the fragrance does
not fill the room till the preacherbreaks it. Or it is like the water that was
near Hagar, which she saw not till God opened her eyes and showedher the
well.
II. "BY US" AS RELIEVERS REALISING THE EXCELLENCYAND
EFFICACYOF THEM IN OUR CHARACTER AND CONDUCT. It is when
these promises are reduced to experience — when they are seencleansing us
from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, making us partakers of the Divine
nature, leading us to walk worthy of the vocationwherewith we are called,
filling us with kindness and supporting us in trials — it is then they glorify
God by us.

(W. Jay.)
The promises of God
JonathanCrowther.
Note —
I. THAT THEY ARE THE PROMISES OF GOD. Becausethey are His
promises they are utterly incapable of any failure. "God is not a man that He
should lie," etc. In our presumptuous readiness to liken the Almighty to
ourselves, we may imagine instances in which Divine promises have failed to
be accomplished. But —
1. There may have been an incorrect apprehensionas to the subject of the
promise; and in the error cherishedthereupon, something has been imagined
and expectedwhich has not been promised. The Jews misapprehended the
meaning of prophecies concerning the Messiah.
2. There may have been some mistake or negligence on our part as to the
condition on which the promise was suspended, and the circumstances under
which it became actually due.
3. The time for its accomplishment may not be fully come. For the promises of
God, though sure, are not in every instance designed for immediate fulfilment.
II. THE TRUTH AND FAITHFULNESS OF THESE PROMISESAS
RESULTING FROM THEIR CONNECTION WITHCHRIST. They are "in
Him yea, and in Him Amen," as He is the greatfoundation of the promises.
God sees in Him, as our once suffering but now exalted Mediator, an

unchangeable and everlasting reasonwhy all His other promises should be
fulfilled.
III. THEY ARE "TO THE GLORY OF GOD BY US."
1. In the very circumstance of their original annunciation.
2. As they constitute a new and separate manifestationof His own character
and attributes.
3. As in that very act of faith by which those promises are acceptedand
become available, God is glorified in that particular, in reference to which His
glory was, in the first instance of man's sin, insulted and invaded.
4. In the accomplishmentof the promises.
5. As furnishing, to all who may be interested in it, an additional
encouragementto exercise that faith, by means of which the God of the
promises is glorified, and the result of which must be the reiterated
accomplishmentof the same promise.Conclusion:Learn —
1. The true characterof unbelief. It is —
(1)Unreasonable.

(2)Wicked.
2. The means by which alone the soulcan rise to the exercise ofthat faith in
the promises which is required as the condition of their accomplishment, and
that it is only when, and in proportion as, we view them in their connection
with Christ, that we can so believe them as to receive experimentally and
savingly the benefit and comfort of them.
(Jonathan Crowther.)
All God's promises Yea in Christ
J. Denney, B. D.
God's promises are His declarations ofwhat He is willing to do for men, and
in the very nature of the case they are at once the limit and inspiration of our
prayers. We are encouragedto ask all that God promises, and we must stop
there. Christ Himself, then, is the measure of prayer to man; we can ask all
that is in Him; we dare not ask anything that lies outside Him. How this
should expand our prayers in some directions, and contractthem in others!
We canask God to give us Christ's purity, simplicity, meekness, and
gentleness, faithfulness and obedience, victory over the world. Have we ever
measuredthese things? Have we ever put them into our prayers with any
glimmering consciousnessoftheir dimensions, any sense of the vastness ofour
request? Nay, we can ask Christ's glory, His resurrectionlife of splendour and
incorruption — the image of the heavenly, God has promised us all of these
things, and far more; but has He promised all that we ask? Canwe fix our
eyes on His Son, as He lived our life in this world, and remembering that this,
so far as this world is concerned, is the measure of promise, ask without any
qualification that our course here may be free from every trouble? Had Christ
no sorrow? Did He never meet with ingratitude? Was He never
misunderstood? Was He never hungry, thirsty, weary? If all God's promises

are summed up in Him — if He is everything God has to give — can we go
boldly to the throne of grace, and pray to be exempted from what He had to
bear, or to be richly provided with indulgencies which He never knew? What
if all unanswered prayers might be defined as prayers for things not included
in the promises — prayers that we might getwhat Goddid not get, or be
spared from what He was not spared? The spirit of this passage,however,
does not urge so much the definiteness as the compass andthe certainty of the
promises of God. There are "so many" that Paul could never enumerate
them, and all of them are sure in Christ. And when our eyes are once opened
on Him, does not He Himself become, as it were, inevitably the substance of
our prayers? Is not our whole heart's desire, Oh, that I might win Him! Oh,
that He might live in me, and make me what He is! Do we not feelthat if God
would give us His Son, all would be ours that we could take or He could give.
(J. Denney, B. D.)
God's certainties and man's certitudes
A. Maclaren, D. D.
"Yea" and "amen" are in the A.V. nearly synonymous, and point
substantially to the same thing — viz., that Christ is, as it were, the
confirmation and sealof God's promises. But the R.V. indicates two different
things by the "yea" and the "amen." The one is God's voice, the other is
man's. When we listen to God speaking in Christ, our lips are, through Christ,
opened to shout our assenting "Amen" to His greatpromises, Consider —
I. GOD'S CERTAINTIESIN CHRIST. Of course the original reference is to
the greatpromises given in the O.T.;but the principle is goodon a wider field.
In Christ —
1. There is the certainty about God's heart. Everywhere else we have hopes,
fears, guesses, inferences. Nothing will make us sure here but facts. We want
to see love in operationif we arc to be sure of it, and the only demonstration of

the love of God is to witness it in actualworking. And you getit where? On
the Cross. "Hereinis love, not that we loved God," etc.
2. In Him we have the certainty of pardon. Every deep heart-experience has
felt the necessityof having clearknowledge aboutthis. And the only message
which answers to the needs of an awakenedconscience is the old-fashioned
messagethat Jesus Christ the Righteous has died for us sinful men. All other
religions have felt after a cleardoctrine of forgiveness, andall have failed to
find it. Here is the Divine "Yea!" And on it alone we cansuspend the whole
weight of our soul's salvation.
3. We have in Christ Divine certainties in regardof life. We have in Him the
absolutely perfectpattern to which we are to conform our whole doings. He
stands the Law of our lives. We have certainties for life, in the matter of
protection, guidance, supply of all necessity, and the like, garneredin Jesus
Christ. For He not only conforms, but fulfils, the promises which God has
made. Christ is protean, and becomes everything to eachman that eachman
requires. And in some of those sunny islands of the Southern Pacific one tree
supplies the people with all that they need for their simple wants, fruit for
their food, leaves for their houses, staves,thread, needles, clothing, drink,
everything — so Jesus Christ, this Tree of Life, is Himself the sum of all the
promises, and, having Him, we have everything that we need.
4. In Christ we have the Divine certainties as to the future, over which, apart
from Him, lie cloud and darkness. Here againa verbal revelationis not
"enough. We have enough of man's peradventures. What we want is that
somebody shall cross the gulf and come back again. And so we getin the
Resurrectionof Christ the one fact on which men may safelyrest their
convictions of immortality.

II. MAN'S CERTAINTIES, WHICH ANSWER TO CHRIST'S
CERTAINTIES.The latter are in Christ, the former are through Christ. The
only fitting attitude for Christians in reference to these certainties is that of
unhesitating affirmation and joyful assent.
1. There should be some kind of correspondence betweenthe assurance with
which we believe these greattruths, and the firmness of the evidence upon
which they rest. It is a poor compliment to God to come to His affirmations,
and to answerwith a hesitating "Amen." Build rock upon rock. Be certain of
the certainthings; for it is an insult to the certainty of the revelation when
there is hesitation in the believer. The Christian verb is "we know," not "we
hope, we calculate, we infer, we think," but "we know."
2. I need not speak about the blessedness ofsuch a calm assurance,aboutthe
need of it for power, for peace, for effort, for fixedness in the midst of a world
and age of change. But I must point to the only path by which that certitude is
attainable. "Through Him is the amen." He is the Door. The truths which He
confirms are so inextricably intertwined with Himself that you cannotget
them and put awayHim. Christ's relation to Christ's gospelis not the relation
of other teachers to their words. You may acceptthe words of a Plato,
whateveryou think of Plato. But you cannotseparate Christ and His teaching
in that fashion, and you must have Him if you are to getit.
3. If thus we keepnear Him our faith will bring us the present experience and
fulfilment of the promises, and we shall be sure of them because we have them
already. And whilst men are asking, "Do we know anything about God? Is
there such a thing as forgiveness?" etc.,we cansay, "One thing I know, Jesus
Christ is my Saviour, and in Him I know God, and pardon, and duty, and
sanctifying, and safety, and immortality; and whateveris dark, this, at least, is
sun-clear." Gethigh enough up and you will be above the fog; and while the
men down in it are squabbling as to whether there is anything outside the

mist, you, from your sunny station, will see the far-off coasts,and haply catch
some whiff of perfume from their shore, and see some glinting of a glory upon
the shining turrets of "the city that hath foundations." So live near Jesus
Christ, and, holding fastby His hand, you may lift up your joyful "Amen" to
every one of God's "yeas";and when the Voice from Heaven says "Yea!" our
choralshout may go up, "Amen! Thou art the faithful and true witness."
(A. Maclaren, D. D.)
COMMENTARIES
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
(20) All the promises of God . . .—Literally, as many as are the promises of
God. Many of the better MSS. give a different reading: “In him is the Yea,
wherefore also by him is the Amen to God for glory by our means.” The
thought in either case is the same. The promises of God have been fulfilled
and ratified in Christ. He was, as it were, a living incarnate “Amen” to those
promises. Comp. St. John’s use of the word Amen as a name of Christ, the
“faithful and true witness” (Revelation3:14). The words “by us” are
determined by the context as referring to the preacherrather than to the
hearers of the Word.
MacLaren's Expositions
2 Corinthians
GOD’S YEA; MAN’S AMEN

2 Corinthians 1:20.
This is one of the many passagesthe force and beauty of which are, for the
first time, brought within the reachof an English reader by the alterations in
the RevisedVersion. These are partly dependent upon the reading of the text
and partly upon the translation. As the words stand in the Authorised
Version, ‘yea’ and ‘amen’ seemto be very nearly synonymous expressions,
and to point substantially to the same thing-viz. that Jesus Christ is, as it were,
the confirmation and sealof God’s promises. But in the RevisedVersionthe
alterations, especiallyin the pronouns, indicate more distinctly that the
Apostle means two different things by the ‘yea’ and the ‘amen’ . The one is
God’s voice, the other is man’s. The one has to do with the certainty of the
divine revelation, the other has to do with the certitude of our faith in the
revelation. When God speaksin Christ, He confirms everything that He has
said before, and when we listen to God speaking in Christ, our lips are,
through Christ, opened to utter our assenting ‘Amen’ to His greatpromises.
So, then, we have the double form of our Lord’s work, covering the whole
ground of His relations to man, setforth in these two clauses, in the one of
which God’s confirmation of His past revelations by Jesus Christ is treated of,
and in the other of which the full and confident assentwhich men may give to
that revelationis set before us. I deal, then, with these two points-God’s
certainties in Christ, and man’s certitudes through Christ.
Now these two things do not always go together. We may be very certain, as
far as our persuasionis concerned, of a very doubtful fact, or we may be very
doubtful, as far as our persuasionis concerned, ofa very certain fact. We
speak about truths or facts as being certain, and we ought to mean by that,
not how we think about them, but what they are in the evidence on which they
rest. A certaintruth is a truth which has its evidence irrefragable; and the
only fitting attitude for men, in the presence of a certaintruth, is to have a
certitude of the truth. And these two things are, our Apostle tells us, both

given to us in and through Jesus Christ. Let me deal, then, with these two
sides.
I. First, God’s certainties in Christ.
Of course the originalreference of the text is to the whole series ofgreat
promises given in the Old Testament. These, says Paul, are sealedand
confirmed to men by the revelationand work of Jesus Christ, but it is obvious
that the principle which is goodin reference to them is goodon a wider field. I
venture to take that extension, and to ask you to think briefly about some of
the things that are made for us indubitably certainin Jesus Christ.
And, first of all, there is the certainty about God’s heart. Everywhere else we
have only peradventures, hopes, fears, guessesmore or less doubtful, and
roundabout inferences as to His disposition and attitude towards us. As one of
the old divines says somewhere, ‘All other ways of knowing God are like the
bended bow, Christ is the straightstring.’ The only means by which,
indubitably, as a matter of demonstration, men can be sure that God in the
heavens has a heart of love towards them is by Jesus Christ. For consider
what will make us sure of that. Nothing but facts;words are of little use,
arguments are of little use. A revelation, howeverprecious, which simply says
to us, ‘God is Love’ is not sufficient for our need. We want to see love in
operationif we are to be sure of it, and the only demonstration of the love of
God is to witness the love of God in actualworking. And you getit-where? On
the Cross ofJesus Christ. I do not believe that anything else irrefragably
establishes the fact for the yearning hearts of us poor men who want love, and
yet cannotgrope our way in amidst the mysteries and the clouds in providence
and nature, except this-’Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He
loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.’

The question may arise in some minds, Is there any need for proving God’s
love? The question never arose exceptwithin the limits of Christianity. It is
only men who have lived all their lives in an atmosphere saturatedby
Christian sentiment and convictionthat ever come to the point of saying, ‘We
do not want historicalrevelation to prove to us the factof a loving God.’ They
would never have fancied that they did not need the revelation unless,
unconsciouslyto themselves, and indirectly, all their thoughts had been
colouredand illuminated by the revelationthat they profess they reject. God
as Love is ‘our dearestfaith, our ghastliestdoubt,’ and the only way to make
absolutely certainof the fact that His heart is full of mercy to us is to look
upon Him as He stands revealedto us, not merely in the words of Christ, for,
precious as they are, these are the smallestpart of His revelation, but in the
life and in the death which open for us the heart of God. Remember what He
said Himself, not ‘He who hath listened to Me, doth understand the Father,’
but ‘He that hath seenMe hath seenthe Father.’ ‘In Him is yea,’ and the
hopes and shadowyfore-revelations of the loving heart of God are confirmed
by the fact of His life and death. God establishes, not‘commends’ as our
translation has it, ‘His love towards us in that whilst we were yet sinners
Christ died for us.’
Further, in Him we have the certainty of pardon. Every deep heart-experience
amongstmen has felt the necessityofhaving a clearcertainty and knowledge
about forgiveness. Mendo not feel it always. A man can skate overthe surface
of the greatdeeps that lie beneath the most frivolous life, and may suppose, in
his superficialway of looking at things, that there is no need for any definite
teaching about sin and the mode of dealing with it. But once bring that man
face to face, in a quiet hour, with the facts of his life and of a divine law, and
all that superficial ignoring of evil in himself and of the dread of punishment
and consequences,passesaway. Iam sure of this, that no religionwill ever go
far and last long and work mightily, and lay a sovereignhand upon human
life, which has not a most plain and decisive messageto preach in reference to
pardon. And I am sure of this, that one reasonfor the comparative feebleness
of much so-calledChristianteaching in this generation is just that the deepest
needs of a man’s conscienceare not met by it. In a religion on which the whole

spirit of a man may rest itself, there must be a very plain message aboutwhat
is to be done with sin. The only messagewhichanswers to the needs of an
awakenedconscience andan alarmed heart is the old-fashioned messagethat
Jesus Christ the Righteous has died for us sinful men. All other religions have
felt after a cleardoctrine of forgiveness, andall have failed to find it. Here is
the divine ‘Yea!’ And on it alone we cansuspend the whole weight of our
soul’s salvation. The rope that is to haul us out of the horrible pit and the miry
clay had much need to be tested before we commit ourselves to it. There are
plenty of easygoing superficialtheories aboutforgiveness predominant in the
world to-day. Exceptthe one that says, ‘In whom we have redemption
through His blood, even the forgiveness ofsin,’ they are all like the rope let
down into the dark mine to lift the captives beneath, half of the strands of
which have been cut on the sharp edge above, and when the weighthangs on
to it, it will snap. There is nothing on which a man who has once learned the
tragicalmeaning and awful reality and depth of the factof his transgression
can suspend his forgiveness, exceptthis, that ‘Christ has died, the just for the
unjust, to bring us unto God.’ ‘In Him the promise is yea.’
And, again, we have in Christ divine certainties in regard to life. We have in
Him the absolutelyperfect pattern to which we are to conform our whole
doings. And so, notwithstanding that there may, and will still be many
uncertainties and much perplexity, we have the greatbroad lines of morals
and of duty tracedwith a firm hand, and all that we need to know of
obligation and of perfectness lies in this-Be like Jesus Christ! So the solemn
commandments of the ethical side of Divine Revelation, as well as the
promises of it, get their ‘yea’ in Jesus Christ, and He stands the Law of our
lives.
We have certainties for life, in the matter of protection, guidance, supply of all
necessity, and the like, treasuredand garneredin Jesus Christ. ForHe not
only confirms, but fulfils, the promises which God has made. If we have that
dear Lord for our very own, and He belongs to us as He does belong to them

who love Him and trust Him, then in Him we have in actualpossessionthese
promises, how many soeverthey be, which are given by God’s other words.
Christ is Protean, and becomes everything to eachman that eachman
requires. He is, as it were, ‘a box where sweets compactedlie.’‘In Him are hid
all the treasures,’not only of wisdom and knowledge,but of divine gifts, and
we have but to go to Him in order to have that which at eachmoment as it
emerges, we mostrequire. As in some of those sunny islands of the Southern
Pacific, one tree supplies the people with all that they need for their simple
wants, fruit for their food, leaves for their houses, staves, thread, needles,
clothing, drink, everything-so Jesus Christ, this Tree of Life, is Himself the
sum of all the promises, and, having Him, we have everything that we need.
And, lastly, in Christ we have the divine certainties as to the Future over
which, apart from Him, lie cloud and darkness. As I said about the revelation
of the heart of God, so I say about the revelationof a future life-a verbal
revelation is not enough. We have enough of arguments; what we want is
facts. We have enough of man’s peradventures about a future life, enoughof
evidence more or less valid to show that it is ‘probable,’ or ‘not
inconceivable,’or ‘more likely than not,’ and so on and so on. What we want
is that somebody shall cross the gulf and come back again, and so we get in the
Resurrectionof Christ the one fact on which men may safelyrest their
convictions of immortality, and I do not think that there is a secondanywhere.
On it alone, as I believe, hinges the whole answerto the question-’If a man die,
shall he live again?’This generationis brought, in my reading of it, right up to
this alternative-Christ’s Resurrection,-orwe die like the brutes that perish.
‘All the promises of God in Him are yea.’
II. And now a word as to the secondportion of my text-viz. man’s certitudes,
which answerto God’s certainties.

The latter are in Christ, the former are through Christ. Now it is clearthat
the only fitting attitude for professing Christians in reference to these
certainties of God is the attitude of unhesitating affirmation and joyful assent.
Certitude is the fitting response to certainty.
There should be some kind of correspondencebetweenthe firmness with
which we grasp, the tenacity with which we hold, the assurance with which we
believe, these great truths, and the rock-like firmness and immovableness of
the evidence upon which they rest. It is a poor compliment to God to come to
His most veracious affirmations, sealedwith the broad sealof His Son’s life
and death, and to answerwith a hesitating ‘Amen,’ that falters and almost
sticks in our throat. Build rock upon rock. Be sure of the certainthings. Grasp
with a firm hand the firm stay. Immovably cling to the immovable
foundation; and though you be but like the limpet on the rock hold fast by the
Rock, as the limpet does;for it is an insult to the certainty of the revelation,
when there is hesitation in the believer.
I need not dwell for more than a moment upon the lamentable contrastwhich
is presented betweenthis certitude, which is our only fitting attitude, and the
hesitating assentand half belief in which so many professing Christians pass
their lives. The reasons for that are partly moral, partly intellectual. This is
not a day which is favourable to the unhesitating avowalof convictions in
reference to an unseen world, and many of us are afraid of being called
narrow, or dogmatisers, andthink it looks like breadth, and liberality, and
culture, and I know not what, to say ‘Well! perhaps it is, but I am not quite
sure; I think it is, but I will not commit myself.’ All the promises of God,
which in Him are yea, ought through Him to get from us an ‘Amen.’
There is a greatdeal that will always be uncertain. The firmer our
convictions, the fewerwill be the things that they grasp; but, if they be few,
they will be large, and enoughfor us. These truths certified in Christ

concerning the heart of God, the messageofpardon, the law for life, the gifts
of guidance, defence, and sanctifying, the sure and certain hope of
immortality-these things we ought to be sure about, whatever borderland of
uncertainty may lie beyond them. The Christian verb is ‘we know,’not ‘we
hope, we calculate, we infer, we think,’ but ‘we know.’And it becomes us to
apprehend for ourselves the full blessednessand powerof the certitude which
Christ has given to us by the certainties which he has brought us.
I need not speak aboutthe blessednessofsuch a calm assurance, aboutthe
need of it for power, for peace, for effort, for fixedness in the midst of a world
and age of change. But I must, before I close, point you to the only path by
which that certitude is attainable. ‘Through Him is the amen.’ He is the Door.
The truths which He confirms are so inextricably intertwined with Himself
that you cannotget them and put awayHim. Christ’s relation to Christ’s
Gospelis not the relation of other teachers to their words. You may acceptthe
words of a Plato, whateveryou think of the Plato who spoke the words. But
you cannotseparate Christ and His teaching in that fashion, and you must
have Him if you are to getit. So, faith in Him, the intellectual acceptance of
Him, as the authoritative and infallible Revealer, the bowing down of heart
and will to Him as our Commander and our Lord, the absolute trust in Him
as the foundation of all our hope and the source of all our blessedness-thatis
the wayto certitude, and there is no other road that we can take.
If thus we keepnear Him, our faith will bring us the present experience and
fulfilment of the promises, and we shall be sure of them, because we have
them already. And whilst men are asking, ‘Do we know anything about God?
Is there a God at all? Is there such a thing as forgiveness? Cananybody find
anywhere absolute rules for his life? Is there anything beyond the grave but
mist and darkness?’we cansay, ‘One thing I know, Jesus Christ is my
Saviour, and in Him I know God, and pardon, and duty, and sanctifying, and
safety, and immortality; and whateveris dark, this, at least, is sun-clear.’ Get
high enough up and you will be above the fog;and while the men down in it

are squabbling as to whether there is anything outside the mist, you, from
your sunny station, will see the far-off coasts,and haply catchsome whiff of
perfume from their shore, and see some glinting of a glory upon the shining
turrets of ‘the city that hath foundations.’ We have a present possessionof all
the promises of God; and whoeverdoubts their certitude, the man who knows
himself a sonof God by faith, and has experience of forgiveness and guidance
and answeredprayer and hopes whose ‘sweetnessyieldeth proof that they
were born for immortality,’ knows the things which others question and
doubt.
So live near Jesus Christ, and, holding fastby His hand, you may lift up your
joyful ‘Amen’ to every one of God’s ‘Yeas.’For in Him we know the Father,
in Him we know that we have the forgiveness ofsins, in Him we know that
God is near to bless and succourand guide, and in Him ‘we know that, though
our earthly house were dissolved, we have a building of God.’Wherefore we
are always confident; and when the Voice from Heaven says ‘Yea!’ our choral
shout may go up ‘Amen! Thou art the faithful and true witness.’
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
1:15-24 The apostle clears himselffrom the charge of levity and inconstancy,
in not coming to Corinth. Good men should be carefulto keepthe reputation
of sincerity and constancy;they should not resolve, but on careful thought;
and they will not change unless for weighty reasons.Nothing can render God's
promises more certain: his giving them through Christ, assures us they are his
promises;as the wonders God wrought in the life, resurrection, and ascension
of his Son, confirm faith. The Holy Spirit makes Christians firm in the faith of
the gospel:the quickening of the Spirit is an earnestof everlasting life; and
the comforts of the Spirit are an earnestof everlasting joy. The apostle desired
to spare the blame he fearedwould be unavoidable, if he had gone to Corinth
before he learned what effecthis former letter produced. Our strength and
ability are owing to faith; and our comfort and joy must flow from faith. The
holy tempers and gracious fruits which attend faith, secure from delusion in
so important a matter.

Barnes'Notes on the Bible
For all the promises of God in him - All the promises which God has made
through him. This is anotherreasonwhy Paul felt himself bound to maintain
a characterof the strictestveracity. The reasonwas, thatGod always evinced
that; and that since none of His promises failed, he felt himself sacredlybound
to imitate Him, and to adhere to all His. The promises of God which are made
through Christ, relate to the pardon of sin to the penitent; the sanctificationof
his people:support in temptation and trial; guidance in perplexity; peace in
death, and eternalglory beyond the grave. All of these are made through a
Redeemer, and none of these shall fail.
Are yea - Shall all be certainly fulfilled. There shall be no vacillation on the
part of God; no fickleness;no abandoning of his gracious intention.
And in him amen - In Revelation3:14, the Lord Jesus is calledthe "Amen."
The word means true, faithful, certain. And the expressionhere means that all
the promises which are made to people through a Redeemershallbe certainly
fulfilled. They are promises which are confirmed and established, and which
shall by no means fail.
Unto the glory of God by us - Either by us ministers and apostles;or by us
who are Christians. The latter, I think, is the meaning; and Paul means to say,
that the fulfillment of all the promises which God has made to His people shall
result in His glory and praise as a God of condescensionand veracity. The fact
that He has made such promises is an act that tends to His own glory - since it
was of His mere grace that they were made; and the fulfillment of these
promises in and through the church, shall also tend to produce elevatedviews
of His fidelity and goodness.
Jamieson-Fausset-BrownBible Commentary

20. Rather, How many soeverbe the promises of God, in Him is the "yea"
("faithfulness in His word":contrastedwith the "yea and nay," 2Co 1:19,
that is, inconstancyas to one's word).
and in him Amen—The oldestmanuscripts read, "Wherefore through Him is
the Amen"; that is, In Him is faithfulness ("yea")to His word, "wherefore
through Him" is the immutable verification of it ("Amen"). As "yea" is His
word, so "Amen" is His oath, which makes our assurance ofthe fulfilment
doubly sure. Compare "two immutable things (namely, His word and His
oath) in which it was impossible for God to lie" (Heb 6:18; Re 3:14). The
whole range of Old Testamentand New Testamentpromises are secure in
their fulfilment for us in Christ.
unto the glory of God by us—Greek, "forglory unto God by us" (compare
2Co 4:15), that is, by our ministerial labors; by us His promises, and His
unchangeable faithfulness to them, are proclaimed. Conybeare takes the
"Amen" to be the Amen at the close of thanksgiving:but then "by us" would
have to mean what it cannotmean here, "by us and you."
Matthew Poole's Commentary
As Christ was yea, and all his doctrine certainand uniform, so all the
promises of God are yea; the promises of the Messiahhave their yea and
Amen in him; all the promises of grace, whatsoeveris promised to believers,
shall be verified by him, that so God may be glorified, and have from men the
honour of being always esteemeda true and faithful God, one that cannotfail
and falsify his word. But how are the promises of God yea and Amen in Christ
by us?
Answer. As the ministers of the gospelare the ministers of Christ for the
explication and application of them. The promises are from the Father,

through Christ as the meritorious cause, and internally applied by the Holy
Spirit, while they are more externally applied by the ministers of the gospel.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
For all the promises of God in him are
yea,.... This is a reasonor argument proving what is before said, that "in"
Christ "was yea", since "allthe promises of God in him are yea";and shows,
that God has made many promises to his people: mention is here made of
"promises", andof "all" the promises; or, as the words may be rendered, "as
many promises of God". There are some which concernthe temporal goodof
the saints;as that they shall not want any goodthing; and though they shall be
attended with afflictions, these shall work for their good, and they shall be
supported under them. Others concerntheir spiritual good;some of which
relate to Godhimself, that he will be their God, which includes his everlasting
love, his gracious presence,and divine protection. Others relate to Christ as
their surety and Saviour, by whom they are, and shall be justified and
pardoned, in whom they are adopted, and by whom they shall be savedwith
an everlasting salvation: and others relate to the Spirit of God, as a spirit of
illumination, faith, comfort, strength, and assistance,and to supplies of grace
by him from Christ: and others concerneverlasting life and happiness, and
are all of them very ancient, which God, that cannotlie, promised before the
world began; are exceeding greatand precious, suited to the various casesof
God's people; are free and unconditional, immutable and irrevocable, and will
all of them have their certainaccomplishment. These promises are all "in"
Christ; with and in whom could they be but in him, since he only existed when
they were made, which was from everlasting? with and in whom should they
be of right, but in him with whom the covenant, which contains these
promises, were made, and who undertook the accomplishmentof them?
where could they be safe and secure but in him, in whose hands are the
persons, grace, andglory of his people? not in Adam, nor in angels, nor in
themselves, only in him. Moreover, these promises are "in him yea",

and in him amen; they are like the Gospelwhich exhibits them, consistent,
and all of a piece; like the covenantwhich contains them, and is ordered in all
things, and sure; and like the author of them, whose faithfulness and
lovingkindness to his in Christ shall never fail; and like Christ himself, in
whom they are, who is "the amen, the true and faithful witness, the same
today, yesterday, and for ever"; by whose blood, the covenant, and all the
promises of it, are ratified and confirmed, and in whom, who is the truth of
them, they are all fulfilled. And these are
unto the glory of God by us; these serve to illustrate and advance the glory of
God, when they are preached by us, and held forth by us in the Gospel, just as
they are in Christ, free, absolute, and unconditional; and when they are
received"by us" as believers in Christ; for the strongerwe are in the faith of
the promises, the more glory we give to God; faith by laying hold on, and
embracing the promises, glorifies the veracity, faithfulness, power, and grace
of God. The Syriac version puts the "Amen" into this last clause, and reads it
thus, "therefore by him we give Amen to the glory of God".
Geneva Study Bible
{12} For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in {u} him Amen, unto
the glory of God by {x} us.
(12) Last of all he declares the sum of his doctrine, that is, that all the
promises of salvation are sure and ratified in Christ.
(u) Christ is set also forth to exhibit and fulfil them most assuredly, and
without any doubt.
(x) Through our ministry.

EXEGETICAL(ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)
Meyer's NT Commentary
2 Corinthians 1:20. A more precise explanation and confirmation of ναὶ ἐν
αὐτῷ γέγονεν, running on to the end of the verse. Hence ὅσαι … ἀμήνis not to
be put in a parenthesis, as Griesbach, Scholz, and Ewal.
τὸ ναί and τὸ ἀμήν cannotbe synonymous, as most of the older commentators
take them (“repetit, ut ipsa repetitione rem magis confirmet,” Estius), for this
is rendered impossible by the correctreading διὸ κ. διʼ αὐτοῦ τὸ ἀμήν (see the
critical remarks). Rathermust the former be the cause (διό)of the latter. And
here the expressionτὸ ἀμήνis without doubt to be explained from the custom
in worship, that in public prayer a generalAmen was said as certifying the
generalassurance offaith as to its being heard (see on 1 Corinthians 14:16).
Accordingly τὸ ναί and τὸ ἀμήν are here to be distinguished in this way; τὸ
ναί, as in the whole context, denotes the certainty objectively given (comp. on
that point, Romans 15:8), and τὸ ἀμήν, the certainty subjectively existing, the
certainty of faith. Consequently: for, as many promises of God as there are (in
the O. T.), in Him is the yea (in Christ is given the objective guarantee oftheir
fulfilment); therefore through Him also the Amen takes place, therefore it
comes to pass through Christ, that the Amen is said to God’s promises; i.e.
therefore also to Christ, to His work and merit, without which we should want
this certainty, is due the subjective certainty of the divine promises, the faith
in their fulfilment. Billroth, indeed (and in the main, de Wette), thinks the
conceptionto be this: that the preachers ofthe gospelsaythe Amen through
their preaching, so that τὸ ναί refers to the living working of God in Christ, in
whom He fulfils His promises, and τὸ ἀμήν to the faithful and stedfast
preaching of these deeds of God. But the saying of Amen expressedthe
assurance offaith, and was done by all; hence τὸ ἀμήν would be in the highest
degree unsuitable for denoting the praedicatio. Finally, Rückert is quite
arbitrary when he says that τὸ ναί relates to the fulfilment of the prophecies
wrought by the appearing of Christ Himself, and τὸ ἀμήν to the erectionof
the church, which had grown out of that appearing.

The article before ναί and ἀμήνdenotes the definite Yea and Amen, which
relate to the ἐπαγγελίαι Θεοῦ and belong to them. The article was not used
before in 2 Corinthians 1:19, because no definite reference ofthe yea was yet
specifie.
τῷ Θεῷ πρὸς δόξαν διʼ ἡμῶν] a teleologicaldefinition to διʼ αὐτοῦ τὸ ἀμήν
with the emphatic prefixing of τῷ Θεῷ: to God’s honour through us, i.e. what
redounds to the glorifying of God (2 Corinthians 8:19) through us.
διʼ ἡμῶν] nostro ministerio (Grotius), in so far, namely, as the ministry of the
gospel-preachers brings about the Amen, the assuranceoffaith in God’s
promises, Romans 10:14.
Expositor's Greek Testament
2 Corinthians 1:20. ὅσαι γὰρ ἐπαγγελίαι κ.τ.λ.:for how many soeverbe the
promises of God, in Him is the Yea. Not only was Christ a διάκονος περιτομῆς
… εἰς τὸ βεβαιῶσαι τὰς ἐπαγγελίας τῶν πατέρων (Romans 15:8), but He is
Himself, in His own Person, the true fulfilment and recapitulation of them all
(cf. Galatians 3:8).—διὸ καὶ διʼ αὐτοῦ τὸ Ἀμήν κ.τ.λ.:wherefore also through
Him is the “Amen,” to the glory of God, through us. The reading of the
receivedtext concealsthe force of these words. It is because Christ is the
consummation, the “Yea” of the Divine promises, that the “Amen” is specially
fitting at the close ofdoxologies in public worship (1 Corinthians 14:16). The
thought of the fulfilment of God’s promises naturally leads to a doxology
(Romans 15:9), to which a solemnἈμήν, the Hebrew form of the Greek ναί,
whose significance as applied to Christ has just been expounded, is a fitting
climax. διʼ ἡμῶνin this clause includes, of course, both St. Paul and his
correspondents;it refers, indeed, to the generalpractice of Christians in their
public devotions.
Cambridge Bible for Schools andColleges

20. For all the promises of God in him are yea] Literally, for how many soever
the promises of God be, in Him is the yea. The Apostle here, as elsewhere,
reminds us that God’s gifts depend upon His promise. Galatians 3:14-29. And
this promise is an affirmative utterance, never to be withdrawn or explained
away. Whatevergifts are receivedby the ministration of His servants are the
same in their character.
and in him Amen] This may refer either (1) actively, to the ratification by God
of His own promises, see Hebrews 6:12-18;Hebrews 7:20-21;Revelation3:14;
or (2) passively, to the security we may feelthat His Divine Word will never
fail us. But our security is ever in Him. Some editors read (with the Vulgate)
‘wherefore through him is the Amen,’ in which case the meaning would be
that because God’s promises were unchangeable, they were to be depended
upon.
unto the glory of God by us] i.e. through our instrumentality, because by the
first preachers of the Gospelthese glorious promises were made known.
Bengel's Gnomen
2 Corinthians 1:20. Ἐπαγγελίαι)promises, declarations.—τὸ ναὶ—τὸἀμὴν,
yea—amen)The words yea and amen agreeing together, standin pleasant
antithesis to the words yea and nay, 2 Corinthians 1:19, which are at variance
with eachother: yea by affirmation; amen, by an oath; or yea in respectofthe
Greeks;amen in respectof the Jews;comp. Galatians 4:6 note; for yea is
Greek, amenis Hebrew; or yea, in respectof God who promises, amen in
respectof believers;comp. 1 John 2:8; yea in respectof the apostles,amenin
respectof their hearers.—τῷ Θεῷ πρὸς δόξαν [to the glory of God] to God for
His glory) For the truth of God is glorified in all His promises, which are
verified in Christ.—πρὸς δόξαν, to the glory) 2 Corinthians 4:15.—διʼἡμῶν,
by us) construedwith there is, again to be understood. For whatevermay be
the number of [as many soeveras are]the promises of God, there is in Him
the Yea, and in Him the Amen [every promise has its yea and amen, i.e. its

fulfilment in Him]. To the glory of God (is that Yea and Amen) by us. The yea
is re-echoedby us.
Pulpit Commentary
Verse 20. - For all the promises of God in him are yea; rather, For so many as
be the promises of God, in him is the yea. All the promises of God find in him
their unchangeable fulfilment. He was "a minister to confirm the promises"
alike to the Jews and the Gentiles (Romans 15:8, 9); and "the premise of the
eternal inheritance" can only be fulfilled in him (Hebrews 9:15). And in him
Amen. The true reading is," Wherefore by him also is the Amen to God,
uttered by us to his glory" (‫,א‬ A, B, C, F, G, etc.). In Christ is the "yea" of
immutable promise and absolute fulfilment; the Church utters the "Amen" of
perfect faith and grateful adoration. Here, as in 1 Corinthians 14:16, we have
a proof of the ancientness ofthe custom by which the congregationutters the
"Amen" at the end of praise and prayer. But as the "yea" is in Christ, so it is
only through him that we can receive the grace to utter aright the "Amen" to
the glory of God.
Vincent's Word Studies
All (ὅσαι)
Wrong. As many as.
Are yea, etc.
Making this the predicate of promises, which is wrong. The meaning is that
how many soeverare God's promises, in Christ is the incarnate answer,
"yea!" to the question, "Will they be fulfilled?" Hence Rev., correctly:How
many soeverbe the promises of God, in Him is the yea.
And in Him Amen (καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ τὸ ἀμὴν)

The correctreading is: διὸ καὶ δἰ αὐτοῦ τὸ ἀμὴν Wherefore also through Him
is the Amen. In giving this answerin His personand life, Christ puts the
emphatic confirmation upon God's promises, even as in the congregationthe
people sayAmen, verily. In Him is in His person: through Him, by His
agency.
By us (δἰ ἡμῶν)
Through our ministration. Christ, in and through whom are the yea and the
amen, is so proclaimed by us as to beget assuranceofGod's promises, and so
to glorify Him.
END OF BIBLEHUB RESOURCES
All of God's Promises
by Deborah Ann Belka
All of God's promises,
are for you to receive
all you have to do . . .
is to trust and believe.
All of His blessings

He wants to bestow
all of His goodness
He wants you to know.
You can find them,
in the GoodBook
all you have to do . . .
is take, a goodlook.
They flow all about,
woven all through
the promises of God
are waiting for you.
They hold your future,
they'll guide your way
comfort and give you
strength for the day.
All of God's promises,
are yours to believe
but, you must open up . . .
your Bible, to receive!

GOD'S PROMISES
God's promise's are precious
God's promise's are true
God's promise's are completed when
His promise's are believed by you
I will never leave thee nor forsake thee
That's His promise sure
Lo, I am with you always
Is a promise that will endure
My sheephear my voice and I know them
They will follow Me
Only the GoodShepherd can make that promise
He's the Shepherd of a sheepthat's me
I was once a lostsheep
Had wanderedfar from the fold
The kindly Shepherd soughtme

Now I'm safe in His hold
I trust in His precious promises
I rest in His saving faith
I'm in HIs hand, He'll not castme out
I am victor over the grave
BecauseHe's the Resurrectionand Life
I live in HIm complete
Not striving for an uncertain hope
But trusting in HIs MercySeat
O boundless grace how glorious
Savedby the blood of the Lamb
You ask me how I know He live's
Why, I've been born again!
Copyright Gary James Smith
January 5 2009 @ ll.45p.m
Standing on the Promises!

by JIM KERWIN on MAY 10, 2011
R. Kelso Carter
(1849-1928)
Standing on the promises of Christ my King,
Through eternal ages letHis praises ring,
Glory in the highest, I will shout and sing,
Standing on the promises of God.
Chorus:
Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God my Savior;
Standing, standing,
I’m standing on the promises of God.
Standing on the promises that cannot fail,
When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail,
By the living Word of God I shall prevail,
Standing on the promises I now can see
Perfect, presentcleansing in the blood for me;
Standing in the liberty where Christ makes free,

Standing on the promises of Christ the Lord,
Bound to Him eternally by love’s strong cord,
Overcoming daily with the Spirit’s sword,
Standing on the promises I cannot fall,
Listening every moment to the Spirit’s call,
Resting in my Savioras my all in all,
ED OSTROM
Standing On The Promises
Since God said it, I believe He will do it,
For I believe the precious precepts of Holy Writ,
On God’s glorious promises I willingly stand,
I go forth to boldly serve Him in this wondrous land.
On God’s Eternal Word I in faith now rely,
Loyally waiting on the Lord like an eagle I fly,
His wondrous Word is the gentle wind beneath my wings,

As joyfully on life’s path my heart confidently sings.
Standing on the promises of Christ my Lord I find,
A serene sense ofwell being and pristine peace ofmind,
As in confidence I wait on Him here today,
I find His precious presence with me along life’s way.
God has promised never to leave or forsake me,
By His grace He will continue to bless and setme free,
I trust His Word; I am kept safe from all that harms,
As the Lord Jesus now draws me into His loving arms.
You said it Lord so I believe it will be true,
You will richly bless me as Your will I daily pursue,
O help me Lord stand on Your promises day by day,
Come now guide my steps on to victory I humbly pray.
200+ PROMISES THAT JESUS MADE FOR THIS LIFE
AND FOR THE LIFE TO COME

Compilation © by Galen Currah, Summer 2003. Maybe freely copied.
Compiled from The GreatestLife Ever Lived, by Cheny and Ellisen, 1999
version, edited by
Meltebeke andMeltebeke (a blending of the four Gospels,adding nothing,
omitting nothing.)
Some promises of Jesus relate to the far future when he shall have returned in
glory; these
are classedbelow as Future (F). Others relate to his followers’present life on
earth; these are
classedbelow as Present(P). Some promises seemto relate to both the present
and the future;
these are classedbelow as Present(P).
Many of the promises of Jesus are only conditioned upon faith in him; these
are classed
below as Unconditional (U). Beyond faith, some of his promises have other
conditions such as
obedience, prayer, and humility; these are classedbelow as Conditional (C).
In this listing of
promises, pure predictions are not included, unless they carry a promise.
Jesus made most of his promises to all who believe them and fulfill their
conditions;
these are classedbelow as General(G). Some of his promises seemto have
been offered only to
particular individuals and groups; these are classedbelow as Individual (I).
Promise Reference P/F C/U I/G
(You will) see. Jn 1.29 P C I

You will see biggerthings than these. Jn 1.50 P U I
You will see heavenopen. Jn 1.51 F U I
I will raise up (this temple = my body). Jn 2.19 P C I
See the Kingdom of God. Jn 3.3 F C G
Enter the Kingdom of God. Jn 3.6 F C G
Spirit gives birth to Spirit. Jn 3.6 P U G
Receive eternallife. Jn 3.16 P C G
Living water. Jn 4.10 P C I
The waterI give … will be a fountain springing up to
eternal life. Jn 4.14 P C G
Receive a reward and gather the fruit which is everlasting
life. Jn 6.36 F C G
Freedomto captives … sight to the blind … the year of
the Lord’s goodfavor. Jn 4.18-19P U G
The Kingdom of Heaven. Mt 4.17 Mk 1.15 F C G
I will make you fishers of people. Mt 4.19 Mk 1.17 P C I
A catch. Lk 5.4 P C I
You will catchpeople. Lk 5.10 P C I
I am willing (to heal). Mt 8.3 Mk 1.42
Lk 5.13 P U I
Your sins are forgiven. Mt 9.2 P C I
Blessed… Kingdom of God … satisfied… laugh …
comforted … inherit the earth … filled … mercy … see

God … called sons of God … reward.
Mt 5.3-12 Lk 6.20-26 F C G
200+ PROMISES THAT JESUS MADE
Key: F = future, P = present; C = conditional, U = unconditional; I =
individual, G = general
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Greatis your reward in heaven. Mt 5.12 Lk 6.23 F U G
Be called greatin the Kingdom of Heaven. Mt 5.20 F C G
A handsome reward … calledchildren of the MostHigh
God. Lk 6.35 F C G
Your Father … will reward you openly. Mt 6.6, 18 P C G
Treasures in heaven. Mt 6.20 F C G
Your whole body will be filled with light. Mt 6.22 P C G
Your Heavenly Fatherfeeds…. Lk 12.24 P U G
God … will clothe you even more richly. Lk 12.28 P U G
These other things will be given to you also. Mt 6.33 Lk 12.31 P C G
You will be forgiven. Lk 6.37 P C G
It will be given to you. A goodamount, presseddown,
shakentogether, and running over will be poured into
your lap.
Lk 6.38 P C G
The same measure … will be used for you. Mt 7.1bP C G

You will be able to see clearlyenough to remove the
speck from your brother’s eye. Mt 7.5 Lk 6.42 P C G
Life. Mt 7.14 F C G
Produce goodthings. Lk 6.45 P C G
Enter the Kingdom of heaven … reservedby my Father. Mt 7.21 F U G
Stand firm. Mt 7.25 Lk 6.48bP C G
Your request is granted. Mt 8.13 P C I
You are forgiven … saved. Lk 7.47-50 P C I
I castout demons by the Spirit of God. Mt 12.28 P U G
Every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven. Anyone who
speaks againstthe Son of Man will be forgiven. Mt 12.31-32Mk 3.38 P U G
You will be justified. Mt 12.37 F C G
(You are) my brother and sisterand mother. Mt 12.50 Mk 3.35 P C G
Forgiven. Mk 4.12 P C G
Bearmuch fruit. Mt 13.23 Lk 8.15 P C G
The same measure … will be used for you, and even more
… an abundance.
Mt 13.12 Mk 4.25 Lk
8.18 P/F C G
(A maiden) will be made well. Lk 8.50 P C I
(Blind men to see)will be done. Mt 9.29 P C I
The resurrectionof life. Jn 5.29 F C G
The Lord of the harvest will send out workers into his

harvest. Mt 9.38 P U G
Powerand authority to castout demons and to heal all
kinds of sicknessandaffliction. Mt 10.1 Lk 9.1 P U G
Your blessing (will) rest on it … return to you. Mt 10.13 P U G
I will acknowledge(you) before my heavenly Father. Mt 10.32 F C G
(You) will find (your) life. Mt 10.39 F C G
(You) will receive a just person’s reward. Mt 10.42 F C G
Foodthat gives eternal life. Jn 6.27 F C G
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Heavenly bread. Jn 6.33 F U G
Nevergrow hungry … thirsty. Jn 6.35-36 P U G
I will never send (you) away. Jn 6.37 P U G
Have eternal life. Jn 6.40, 47 F U G
I will raise (you) up at the last day. Jn 6.40, 44 F U G
Live forever … through me. Jn 6.51, 57, 58 F U G
Your request is granted. Mt 15.28 P U I
(You) will know whether this teaching be from (God). Jn 7.17 P U G
Rivers of living water(from Messiah). Jn7.38 P U G
I do not condemn you. Jn 8.11 P U I

The Light of Life. Jn 8.12 P C G
Be my disciples. Jn 8.32 P C G
You will know the truth and the truth will setyou free. Jn 8.32 P C G
You will never experience death. Jn 8.51, 52 F C G
The blind may see. Jn9.39 P U G
Be saved… go in and out… find pasture. Jn 10.9 P U G
Life, even life more abundantly. Jn 10.10 P U G
Hear my voice. Jn 10.16 P U G
Be one flock with one Shepherd. Jn 10.16 P U G
Eternal life… never die…. None will take them from me. Jn 10.28 F U G
I will build my community. Mt 16.18 P U G
The gates ofhell will not prevail against(my community). Mt 16.18 P U G
The keys to the kingdom of heaven. What you bind on
earth will have been bound in heaven, and what you
loosenon earth will have been loosenedin heaven.
Mt 16..19P U G
Your life … save it… find it. Mt 16.25 Mk 8.35
Lk 9.24 F U G
(I will) reward eachperson. Mt 16.27 F C G
Everything is possible for those who believe. Mk 9.23 P U G
Nothing will be impossible for you. Mt 17.20 P U G
(You) will be greatestin the Kingdom of heaven…. (you)
will be great.

Mt 18.4
Lk 9.48 F C G
A reward. Mk 9.41 F C G
Whateveryou bind on earth shall have been bound in
heaven; and whateveryou loose onearth shall have been
loosedin heaven.
Mt 18.18 P U G
If two of you agree onearth about anything that they may
ask, it shall be done for them by My Fatherwho is in
heaven.
Mt 18.19 P U G
Where two or three have gatheredtogetherin My name, I
am there in their midst. Mt 18.20 P U G
Authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all
the powerof the enemy, and nothing will injure you. Lk 10.18 P U G
I will give you rest… you will find rest. Mt 11.28-29 P U G
You will live. Lk 10.28 F C I
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You will receive… you will find… and the door will be

opened to you. Lk 11.9, 10 P C G
The heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to those
who ask Him. Lk 11.13 P C G
Be blessed. Lk 11.28 P C G
(Your body) will be completely enlightened. Lk 11.36 P C G
Everything will be cleanto you. Lk 11.41 P C G
The Son of Man will acknowledge(you) before the angels
of God. Lk 12.8 F C G
There is forgiveness forevery one who blasphemes the
Son of Man. Lk 12.10 F U G
Moneybags that do not wearout, a treasure in heaven that
never runs out, where no thief comes near and no moth
destroys. Your heart will be found (there).
Lk 12.33,34 P C G
When the Lord returns, (you) will be speciallyblessed. Llk 12.37, 38 F C G
The Son of Man will come when you think not. Mt 24.44 F U G
(You) will be blessed;he will put (you) in charge of all he
owns.
Mt 24.47
Lk 12.44 F C G
(You) will come feastin the Kingdom of God. Lk 13.39 F U G
Some who are lastwill be first. Lk 13.30 F U G
You will be blessed… repaid at the resurrectionof the

godly. Lk 14.13, 14 F C G
My house will be full. Lk 14.24 F C G
More joy… great joy over one who repents. Lk 15.7, 10 F C G
They will welcome you into eternaldwellings. Lk 16.9 F C G
Comforted. Lk 16.25 F U G
It would obey you. Lk 17.6 P C G
Your faith has healedyou. Lk 17.19 P U I
(You) will save (your) life. Lk 17.33 F C G
(God) will grant you justice, and (will do so) quickly. Lk 18.7 P C G
(You) will be elevated. Lk 18.14 P C G
(You) will rise again. Jn 11.23 F U S
(You) will live, even if you die. (You) will never die. Jn 11.25, 26 F U G
I will build my church. Mt 16.18 P U G
The powers of hell will not prevail againstit. Mt 16.18 P U G
I will give you the right to enter the kingdom of heaven. Mt 16.19 P U G
Whateveryou bind… loose onearth will have been
bound… loosenedin heaven. Mt 16.19 18.18P U G
(You) will save (your life)… will find it. Mt 16.25 Mk 8.37
Lk 9.24 F C G
(I) will reward everyone according to what they will have
done. Mt 16.27 F C G
Everything is possible. Mk 9.23 P U G
Nothing will be impossible to you. Mt 17.20 P U G

This kind (of demon) will come out. Mt 17.21 Mk 9.29 P C G
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(Be) the greatestin the Kingdom of Heaven…. (You) will
be great. Mt 18.4 Lk 9.48 F C G
Reward. Mk 9.41 Lk 9.48 F C G
My heavenly Fatherwill do for you (whatevertwo or
three agree to on earth). Mt 18.19 P C G
I will be in their midst. Mt 18.20 P C G
Authority … over all the enemy’s power. Lk 10.18 P U G
Nothing will hurt you in any way. Lk 10.19 P U G
I will give you rest. You will find rest. Lk 11.28, 29 P U G
You will live. Lk 10.28 F C G
You will receive… you will find… the door will be
opened to you. Lk 11.9 P C G
The heavenly Father will give (to you) the Holy Spirit. Lk 11.13 P C G
Blessed. Lk 11.28 P C G
(Your body) will be completely full of light. Lk 11.36 P C G
Everything will be cleanto you. Lk 11.41 P C G
(I the Sonof Man) will acknowledgeyou before the

angels of God. Lk 12.8 F C G
There is forgiveness foreveryone who speaks against(me
the Sonof Man). Lk 12.10 F U G
Bags ofmoney for you that do not become empty, an
heavenly treasure that is never used up, where no thief
breaks in and no moth consumes.
Lk 12.33 P C G
(Your) Master(is) to return. Mt 24.46 Lk 12.25,
37, 43 F U G
Blessedwhenthe Lord returns. Lk 12.37 F U G
The Son of Man will come. Mt 14.44 F U G
(I) will put (you) in charge of everything (I) own. Mt 24.47 Lk 12.44
You will be blessed… repaid at the resurrectionof the
godly. Lk 14.13-14F C G
They will welcome you into eternalhomes. Lk 16.9 F C G
(You will be) comforted. Lk 16.25 F C G
(Even a tree) would obey you. Lk 17.6 P C G
(You) will save… your life. Lk 17.33 F C G
(God) will grant to (you) justice, quickly. Lk 18.8 P C G
(You) will be lifted up. Lk 18.14 P C G
(You) will live, even if (you) die. Jn 11.25 F U G
(You) will never die. Jn 11.26 F U G
(You will) gain life. Mt 19.17 F C G

You will have treasure in heaven. Lk 18.22 F C G
(You) will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes
of Israel. Mt 19.28 F C S
(You will) receive in this age 100 times as much. Mk 10.30 Lk 18.29 P C G
In the age to come, you will inherit eternallife. Mk 10.30 Lk 18.30 F C G
I will pay to you whatever is right. Mt 20.7 F C G
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Places belong to the ones for whom My Father has
prepared them. Mt 20.23 Mk 10.40F C S
To be great… to be first. Mt 20.27 Mk 10.43 P C G
You will take charge of(cities)… be given more. Lk 19.17, 19, 26 F C G
You will do far more… receive whatever(you) say. Mt 21.21
Mk 11.22,24 P C G
Your heavenly Father will forgive you your offenses. Mk 11.25P C G
I will tell you by what authority I do these things. Mt 21.24 Mk 11.29P C S
Tax collectorsand prostitutes will enter into the Kingdom
of God. Mt 21.32 F U G
The Kingdom of God will be … given to a people. Mt 21.43 F C G
(You will) take part in the next world and the resurrection

from the dead. Lk 20.35 F U G
(You) cannot die anymore. (You will) be like the angels
and (you will) be children of God, for (you will have)
participated in the resurrection.
Lk 20.36 F U G
(You will) see me. Mt 23.39 Lk 13.35 F C S
(You will) keep(your life) to life eternal. Jn 12.25 F C G
You will become children of light. Jn 12.36 P U G
(Persecution)will five you an opportunity to testify before
(authorities) and the Gentiles. Mt 10.18 Lk 21.13 P U G
The Holy Spirit will teachyou what to say. It will not be
you who speak but the Spirit of the Father who will speak
through you.
Mt 10.10 Mk 13.11
Lk 12.12 P U G
I will give you words and wisdom that none of your
adversaries will be able to answeror to refute. Lk 21.15 P U G
You will gain your souls. Mt 10.22 Mk 13.13
Lk 21.19 P C S
(You) will be saved. Mt 24.13 P C S
(I) will send out (my) angels to gather (my) chosenpeople
from the four winds. Mt 24.32 Mk 13.27 F U G
(You will) escape from all these things. Lk 21.36 F C S

(You) will be given more and will have an abundance. Mt 25.28 F C G
(You will) be blessedby my Father (and will) inherit the
Kingdom prepared for you. Mt 25.34 F C G
You will be blessed. Jn 13.17 P C G
(You) welcome me… and the One who sent me. Jn 13.20 P C G
This (bread) is my body, which is given for you. Mt 26.26 Mk 14.22
Lk 22.19 P U G
This cup, which is poured out for you, is my blood of the
new covenant, which is poured out on behalf of many for
the forgiveness of(your) sins.
Mt 26.28 Mk 14.23
Lk 22.20 P U G
Everyone will know you are my disciples. Jn 13.35 P C G
Afterwards, you will (follow). Jn 13.36 P U S
I grant to you (a Kingdom), that you may eat and drink at
my table in my Kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the Lk 22.30 P U S
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twelve tribes of Israel.
Your faith will not fail. Lk 22.32 P U S

I go to prepare a place for you… I will come again and
take you to be with me that you may be where I am. Jn 14.7 F U G
(You) will do the same kind of things I do. (You) will do
even greaterworks that these. Jn 14.12 P U G
I will do whateveryou ask using my name, so that the
Father will be glorified by the Son… I will do it. Jn 14.13-14P C G
I will ask the Father, and he will give to you another
Helper, the Spirit of truth, to abide with you forever… He
will be amongstyou.
Jn 14.16-17P C G
I will come to you… you will see me… you will life…
you will know that … you are with me and I am with you. Jn 14.18-20 P U S
My Fatherwill love (you), and I will love (you) and
disclose myselfto (you). Jn 14.21 P C G
My Fatherwill love (you), and we will come to (you) and
abide with you. Jn 14.23 P C G
The Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send
using my name, will teach to you everything and help you
to remember everything that I told to you.
Jn 14.26 P U S
(My Father) prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it
may bear more fruit. You are already pruned by the
messageI have spokento you.

Jn 15.2-3 P U G
I will abide with you… (You) will bear much fruit. Jn 15.4-5 P C G
Whateveryou want, it will be done for you. Jn 15.7 P C G
You will abide in my love. Jn 15.10 P C G
My joy will abide with you and your joy will be full. Jn 15.11 P C G
You are my friends. Jn 15.14 P C G
Your fruit will abide. Then the Fatherwill give to you
whateveryou ask using my name. Jn 15.16 P C G
You will not stumble. Jn 16.1 P C G
I will send (the Helper) to you. Jn 16.7 P U S
(The Helper) will tell you about things yet to come. He
will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine
and will tell it to you… will show it to you.
Jn 16.14-15P U S
In a little while you will see m. Jn 16.16 P U S
Your sorrow will turn to joy. Jn 16.20 P U S
You will be glad. No one will take away your joy. Jn 16.23 P U S
The Fatherwill give to you whateveryou may request of
him using my name… so that your joy may be made
complete.
Jn 16.24 P U S
With me you may have peace. Jn 16.33 P U S
(I give) eternal life to those whom the Fathergives to the

Son. Jn 17.2 F U G
(You will) be one. Jn 17.11 P U G
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(You will) experience my joy to the full. Jn 17.13 P U G
(You will) holy by (God’s) truth. Jn 17.16 P U G
(You will) be set apart and made holy by truth. Jn 17.19 P U G
(You will) be one with (the Fatherand the Son). Jn 17.21,23 P U G
(You will) not be tempted. Mt 26.38 Mk 14.34
Lk 22.40,46 P C S
(You will) forgiven. Lk 23.34 F U S
Today you will be with me in Paradise. Lk 23.43 F U S
Peace to you. Lk 24.26 Jn 20.19 P U S
(Whom you forgive)shall have been forgiven. Jn 20.23 P U G
Blessed. Jn20.29 P U G
I am constantlywith you until the age be complete. Mt 28.20 P U G
(You will) be saved. Mk 16.16 F U G
Signs will accompany(you) … castout demons … speak
in other languages … even pick up snakes … (deadly
things) will not harm (you) … (the sick)will recover.

Mk 16.17-18 P U G
Repentence and forgiveness ofsins. Lk 24.47 P U G
I send to you the Father’s promise … powerfrom on high. Lk 24.48-49Ac 1.4
P U G
You will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days
from now. Ac 1.5 P U S
You will receive powerwhen the Holy Spirit has come
upon you; and you shall be My witnesses. Ac 1.8 P U G
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What are the promises of God?
GQkidzpromises of Godaudio
Question:"What are the promises of God?"
Answer: There are many, many promises of God in Scripture. In each
promise, God pledges that something will (or will not) be done or given or
come to pass. These are not flippant, casualpromises such as we often make;
these promises of God are rock-solid, unequivocal commitments made by God
Himself. BecauseGodis faithful, the recipients of the divine promises can
have full assurance thatwhat God has pledged will indeed be realized
(Numbers 23:19).

Here are just a few of the promises that God has made:
Promises of Godin the Old Testament.
God promised to bless Abraham and, through his descendants, the whole
world (Genesis 12:2–3). This promise, calledthe Abrahamic Covenant,
pointed to the coming Messiahfor whom Abraham looked(John 8:56).
God promised Israel to be their God and make them His people (Leviticus
26:12–13).Old Testamenthistory is teeming with examples of God fulfilling
this promise.
God promised that if we searchfor Him we will find Him (Deuteronomy
4:29). He is not playing hard-to-get. “Our God is near us wheneverwe pray to
him” (Deuteronomy 4:7).
God promised protection for His children (Psalm 121). He was the vigilant
watchman over all Israel.
God promised that His love will never fail (1 Chronicles 16:34). He is faithful
in every way.
God promised Israel that their sin could be forgiven, their prosperity
restored, and their nation healed (2 Chronicles 7:14). Repentance openedthe
road to fellowship and blessing.

God, under the terms of the Mosaic Covenant, promisedprosperity to Israel
for obedience and destruction for disobedience (Deuteronomy30:15–18).
Unfortunately, Israel eventually chose to disobey, and the nation was
destroyedby Assyria and Babylon.
God promised blessing for all who will delight themselves in His Word (Psalm
1:1–3). Simple faith has its rewards.
Promises of Godin the New Testament.
God promised salvation to all who believe in His Son(Romans 1:16–17).
There is no greaterblessing than the free gift of God’s salvation.
God promised that all things will work out for goodfor His children (Romans
8:28). This is the broader picture that keeps us from being dismayed by
present circumstances.
God promised comfort in our trials (2 Corinthians 1:3–4). He has a plan, and
one day we will be able to share the comfort we receive.
God promised new life in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17). Salvationis the
beginning of a brand-new existence.
God promised every spiritual blessing in Christ (Ephesians 1:3). Whereas, in
the Old Testament, Israelhad the promise of physical blessing, the church
today has been promised spiritual blessings “in the heavenly realms.” Our
inheritance is reservedfor us (1 Peter1:4).

God promised to finish the work He started in us (Philippians 1:6). God does
nothing in half measures. He started the work in us, and He will be sure to
complete it.
God promised peace when we pray (Philippians 4:6–7). His peace is
protection. It will “guard your hearts and your minds in Christ.”
God promised to supply our needs (Matthew 6:33; Philippians 4:19). Not that
we get everything we want, but our needs will be takencare of. We are more
valuable than the birds, and our Heavenly Father feeds them (Matthew 6:26).
Jesus’promises in the Gospels.
Jesus promised rest(Matthew 11:28–30). Burdens are lifted at Calvary.
Jesus promised abundant life to those who follow Him (John 10:10). Following
Jesus brings us more spiritual fulfillment than we could have anticipated. We
leave boring behind.
Jesus promised eternallife to those who trust Him (John 4:14). The Good
Shepherd also promised to hold us securely:“No one will snatchthem out of
my hand” (John 10:28).
Jesus promised His disciples power from on high (Acts 1:8). In this power,
they “turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6, ESV).

Jesus promised that He will return for us (John 14:2–3). From then on, we
will be with Him always.
There are many more promises of God that could be listed. All of them find
their ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ, “the radiance of God’s glory”
(Hebrews 1:3). “No matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’
in Christ” (2 Corinthians 1:20).
What are the greatestpromises in the Bible?
promises in the Bible
Question:"What are the greatestpromises in the Bible?"
Answer: On one hand, choosing the greatestpromises in the Bible is
completely subjective. The “greatestpromise” of Godin the Bible for any
particular personis going to depend on the needs and feelings of that
individual at a given moment. But the promises listed below are among those
that would probably be high on the list for most people:
John 3:16: “ForGod so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoeverbelieves in him shall not perish but have eternallife.”
Proverbs 3:5–6 “Trustin the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your
own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your
paths straight.”

Hebrews 13:5 “Neverwill I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
Matthew 6:25–33 “ThereforeI tell you, do not worry about your life, what
you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more
than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they
do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by
worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about
clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. Theydo not labor or spin. Yet I
tell you that not even Solomonin all his splendor was dressedlike one of these.
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and
tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of
little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’or ‘What shall we
drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’Forthe pagans run after all these things,
and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his
kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as
well.”
Isaiah40:29–31 “He gives strength to the weary and increasesthe powerof
the weak. Evenyouths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and
fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar
on wings like eagles;they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not
be faint.”
Jeremiah29:11 “‘ForI know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord,
‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a
future.’”

Philippians 4:6–7 “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation,
by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And
the peace ofGod, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts
and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
Psalm23 “The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in
greenpastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He
guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. Eventhough I walk
through the darkestvalley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod
and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the
presence ofmy enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Surely your goodnessand love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will
dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
Mark 11:24 “Therefore Itell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that
you have receivedit, and it will be yours.”
Philippians 4:13 “I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”
Philippians 4:19 “And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches
of his glory in Christ Jesus.”
Sometimes the promises in the Bible are takenout of context, and people end
up thinking the Bible says something it doesn’t really say. For instance, does
the Bible teachthat we can have everything we want in prayer? No, John
14:13–14 mustbe kept in context. Does Godpromise every individual alive a
“hope and a future”? No, Jeremiah 29:11 must be keptin context.

Some of God’s promises in the Bible have greatscope and impact. The first
promise that God gave Adam and Eve was very great indeed: “You are free to
eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eatfrom the tree of the
knowledge ofgoodand evil, for when you eatfrom it you will certainly die”
(Genesis 2:16–17). This promise Satanflatly denied, and in unbelief Adam
and Eve ate from the fruit, and sin and death entered the world. All of us,
being descendedfrom Adam and Eve ratify their decisionto disobey God, and
so that promise applies to us as well(Romans 5:12). This is probably the most
terrible promise in the Bible, and it is the greatestin scope—itapplies to
literally everyone.
However, God did not leave humanity under condemnation with no way out.
He entered the human race as a man (Jesus Christ), lived a perfectlife, and
died, taking the death we deserved. He then rose again. When a person is
united with Christ in faith, another promise applies. This promise is repeated
over and over in places suchas Romans 8:1–4:“Therefore, there is now no
condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, becausethroughChrist Jesus
the law of the Spirit who gives life has setyou free from the law of sin and
death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakenedby the
flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness ofsinful flesh to be a sin
offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous
requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to
the flesh but according to the Spirit.”
By any measure, the promise of salvationby grace through faith is the
greatestpromise in the Bible. Once a personbecomes a child of God by faith,
then the other promises find their proper context. Many of the promises that
are often pulled out of context really only apply to the child of God. The
person who is not in Christ is still under the deadly promise of punishment,
and that is the promise that such a person should hear and understand. It is
misleading for a Christian to apply the promises of God to one who is not in
Christ.

The two greatestpromises are summed up in Romans 6:23: “Forthe wages of
sin is death, but the gift of God is eternallife in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
https://www.gotquestions.org/promises-in-the-Bible.html
How do I know which of God’s promises are for me?
promises of God, God’s promisesaudio
Question:"How do I know which of God’s promises are for me?"
Answer: There are literally hundreds of God’s promises in the Bible. How can
we know which promises apply to us, which promises we can claim? To frame
this question another way, how can one tell the difference betweengeneral
promises and specific promises? A generalpromise is one that is given by the
Holy Spirit to every believer in every age. When the author penned the
promise, he setno limitations on time period or recipient.
An example of a generalpromise is 1 John 1:9, “If we confess oursins, He is
faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.” This promise is based on the forgiving nature of God and is
available to all believers everywhere. Another example of a generalpromise is
Philippians 4:7, “And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding,
will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”This promise is made
to all believers who, refusing to worry, bring their requests to God (v. 8).
Other examples of generalpromises include Psalm1:3; 27:10;31:24; John
4:13-14 (note the word “whoever”);and Revelation3:20.

A specific promise is one that is made to specific individuals on specific
occasions.The context of the promise will usually make clearwho the
recipient is. For example, the promise of 1 Kings 9:5 is very specific:“I will
establishyour royal throne over Israelforever.” The preceding and following
verses make it clearthat God is speaking only to King Solomon.
Luke 2:35 contains another specific promise: “And a sword will pierce your
own soul too.” This prophecy/promise was directed to Mary and was fulfilled
in her lifetime. While a specific promise is not made to all believers generally,
the Holy Spirit can still use a specific promise to guide or encourageany of
His children. For example, the promise of Isaiah54:10 was written with Israel
in mind, but the Holy Spirit has used these words to comfort many Christians
today: “my unfailing love for you will not be shakennor my covenant of peace
be removed.”
As he was led to take the gospelto the Gentiles, the apostle Paul claimed the
promise of Isaiah: “I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may
bring salvation to the ends of the earth” (Acts 13:47). Isaiah’s promise was
originally meant for the Messiah, but in it Paul found guidance from the Lord
for his own life. When claiming one of God’s promises from Scripture, we
should keepthe following principles in mind:
1) God’s promises are often conditional. Look for the word “if” in the context.
2) God gives us promises to help us better submit to His will and trust Him. A
promise does not make God bend to our will.
3) Do not assume to know preciselywhen, where, or how God’s promises will
be fulfilled in your life.
https://www.gotquestions.org/God-promises.html

Jennifer Hudson
There's a place in heaven prepared for me
When the toils of this life is over
Where the saints are clothed in white
Before the throne singing praises forever, forevermoreIn my Father's house
there are mansions bright
If He said, then I know, I know it's true, yeah
There's a place for me beyond, beyond the sky
Brothers and sisters there is one for youJesus, He promised me a home over
there
Jesus promised me a home over there
No more sickness, sorrow, pain or care
He promised, me a home over there
No more sicknessorsorrow, pain or care
Author: H. Lutton 1908

1 There’s a place in heav’n prepared for me,
When the toils of this life are o’er;
Where the saints, robed in white, shall foreverbe,
Singing praises forevermore.
Refrain:
Jesus promised me a home over there,
Jesus promised me a home over there;
No more sickness, sorrow, pain or death,
Jesus promised me a home over there.
2 In my Father’s home are mansions bright,
Jesus says it, and I know ‘tis true;
There’s a home for me in that land of light,
Brother, sister, there is one for you. [Refrain]
3 Many dear ones we loved are before the throne,
In that happy, happy home on high;
I shall walk with them thro’ the streets of gold,
I shall weara starry crown by and by. [Refrain]
4 In that home above, beyond the skies,
Soonfrom sickness,pain, and death I’ll be,
There with Jesus to reign forevermore,
Throughout all eternity. [Refrain]
Source:New Songs ofthe Gospel:for use in all religious meetings #75

All the Promises of God Are Yes in Christ
Resource by John Piper Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1:15–20 Topic: The Person
of Christ
BecauseI was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might
have a double pleasure;I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia,and to
come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea.
Was I vacillating when I wantedto do this? Do I make my plans like a worldly
man, ready to say Yes and No at once? As surely as God is faithful, our word
to you has not been Yes and No. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we
preachedamong you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No;but in
him it is always Yes. For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is
why we utter the Amen through him, to the glory of God.
DissatisfiedContentment
As long as we live in this age—withits sin and pain—our contentment in God
should always be a dissatisfiedcontentment. Paul said in another place, "Not
that I have already obtained this or am already perfect; but I press on to
make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own" (Philippians
3:12). Christ has made us his own! Our text today (in verses 21–22)says that
God himself establishes us, anointed us (the Greek behind the RSV
"commissioned"), sealedus, and gave us his Spirit as a guarantee. Godmeans
for us to have a deep contentment and security in Christ.
But Paul does not say, "BecauseI am secure, I coast."He says, "Becausehe
made me his own, I press on to make it my own." He longs for perfection. He
longs for fullness. He is dissatisfiedwith his present state. His contentment is a

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