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SERIES: EPHESIANS: THE CALL AND CONDUCT OF THE CHURCH, WEEK 6

TITLE: GOD’S MASTER PLAN FOR SALVATION, PART V

TEXT: EPHESIANS 1:11-12

INTRODUCTION: (1) IT IS HUMAN NATURE TO BREAK PROMISES.

* GOVERNMENTS MAKE AND BREAK PROMISES.

** ADVERTISERS AND POLITICIANS MAKE AND BREAK PROMISES.

*** EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYERS MAKE AND BREAK PROMISES.

**** AND THEN PARENTS AND CHILDREN, HUSBANDS AND WIVES, AND FRIENDS AND RELATIVES ALL MAKE PROMISES TO EACH OTHER WHICH OFTEN ARE BROKEN.

(2) AND SOME PROMISES ARE MADE WITH THE BEST OF INTENTIONS AND STILL OTHERS ARE MADE IN ORDER TO DECEIVE AND EXPLOIT.

* AND OF COURSE AS CHRISTIANS OUR WORD SHOULD BE OUR BOND, WE NEED TO FOLLOW THROUGH WITH WHAT WE SAY WE ARE GOING TO DO, OUR YES SHOULD BE YES AND OUR NO, NO.

** AND IF WE HAVE MADE A PROMISE THAT WAS FOOLISH OR THAT WE ARE NOT ABLE TO KEEP FOR SOME REASON, THEN WE NEED TO LET OTHERS KNOW WHY, FOR WE NEED TO BE PEOPLE OF INTEGRITY.

*** YET, WITH THAT IN MIND, MOST OF US HAVE MADE PROMISES THAT WE HAVE NOT KEPT OR RECEIVED PROMISES THAT DID NOT MATERIALIZE.

**** BECAUSE OF THAT REALITY, WE CAN BE ETERNALLY THANKFUL THAT GOD’S PROMISES ARE NOT LIKE OURS.

(3) FOR GOD NEVER BREAKS A PROMISE, EVERY PROMISE HE MAKES, HE KEEPS, IN FACT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO BREAK A PROMISE BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS.

* HE IS A HOLY GOD OF TRUTH. AND LYING AND DECEPTION IS NOT A PART OF HIS BEING. HE CANNOT LIE! TITUS 1:2 SAYS: (READ IT).

** THEN IN ROMANS 4:20&21 IN TALKING ABOUT ABRAHAM IT SAYS: (READ THEM)

*** AND THEN IN HEBREWS 10:23, THE WRITER OF HEBREWS SAYS ABOUT OUR GOD, “HE WHO PROMISED IS FAITHFUL.”

**** SO OUR FAITHFUL GOD ALWAYS, ALWAYS KEEPS HIS PROMISES.

(4) WELL, THAT TRUTH LEADS US TO OUR TEXT TODAY. FOR AS WE COME NEAR TO THE COMPLETION OF THIS LONGEST SENTENCE IN THE BIBLE FOUND IN EPHESIANS 1:3-14, PAUL PRESENTS THE FATHER’S GUARANTEE OF HIS DIVINE PROMISE TO HIS CHILDREN.

* FOR IT IS CERTAIN THAT WE THAT ARE IN CHRIST WILL RECEIVE AN ETERNAL INHERITANCE IN CHRIST.

** AND JUST AS WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED “WITH EVERY SPIRITUAL BLESSING”, ARE “CHOSEN IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, PREDESTINED TO ADOPTION AS SONS, GIVEN REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD AND SHOWN THE MYSTERY OF HIS WILL” FOUND IN VV. 3-9.

*** SO, WE HAVE ALSO OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE, V. 11A.

**** AND OUR INHERITANCE IS THE ASPECT OF SALVATION WHICH IS PRIMARILY FUTURE.

(5) FOR YOU SEE WE WERE ELECTED OR PREDESTINED BEFORE THE WORLD OR TIME EXISTED; AND WE HAVE BEEN REDEEMED IN THIS PRESENT AGE.

* AND WE WILL RECEIVE OUR COMPLETED INHERITANCE IN THE AGES TO COME. WHY? BECAUSE THE FATHER PLANNED IT AND PROMISED IT.

** AND WE’LL SEE IN V. 11 THAT WHEN SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE WAS SO CERTAIN THAT IT COULD NOT POSSIBLY FAIL TO HAPPEN, IT CAN BE SPOKEN OF AS IF IT ALREADY OCCURRED.

*** WHY? FOR GOD’S MASTER PLAN FOR SALVATION WILL SURELY COME TO PASS FOR HE HAS PLANNED IT, PURCHASED IT AND PROMISED IT.

**** AND TODAY WE CONTINUE IN THIS ONE SENTENCE IN THE GREEK LANGUAGE IN VV. 3-14, WHICH I’VE TITLED, “GOD’S MASTER PLAN FOR SALVATION”, AND TODAY WE COME TO PART V AS WE’LL BE LOOKING AT VV. 11&12 OF EPHESIANS 1.

(6) AND WE’LL LOOK AT TWO POINTS. NO. 1 THE GROUND OF OUR INHERITANCE THAT IS PROMISED, V. 11; AND NO. 2 THE GOAL OF THAT INHERITANCE OR BETTER SAID, WHY WE ARE SAVED V. 12.

* AND WITH THOSE TWO POINTS AS HELPS FOR US TO UNDERSTAND OUR TEXT TODAY, LET’S MOVE INTO OUR FIRST ONE, THE GROUND OF OUR INHERITANCE, LOOK AT EPHESIANS 1:11 PLEASE.

I. THE GROUND, (READ V. 11)

A. NOW THE LAST TWO WORDS OF V. 10 “IN HIM” IN THE NAS FIT MORE APPROPRIATELY AT THE BEGINNING OF V. 11 THAN AT THE END OF V. 10 AND ARE PLACED CONNECTED TO THE BEGINNING OF V. 11 IN THE KJV, THE NKJV AND THE NIV.

* BUT IN EITHER PLACE, “IN HIM” OR “IN WHOM” REFERS TO JESUS CHRIST WHO IS THE GROUND OR SOURCE OF OUR DIVINE INHERITANCE.

** AND APART FROM JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY ULTIMATE AND ETERNAL THING A PERSON CAN RECEIVE FROM GOD IS CONDEMNATION, NOT SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS OR AN ETERNAL INHERITANCE.

*** BUT FOR THOSE “IN HIM”, IN CHRIST, “WE” MEANING I BELIEVE ALL TRUE CHRISTIANS “HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE”.

**** AND THE PHRASE, “WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE” OR IN THE NIV “WE WERE ALSO CHOSEN” TRANSLATES A SINGLE COMPOUND WORD IN THE GREEK. THIS PHRASE IS ONE COMPOUND WORD IN THE GREEK.

1. AND IT LIT. MEANS WE HAVE ALREADY OBTAINED OUR INHERITANCE, PAST TENSE. FOR WHEN SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE WAS SO CERTAIN THAT IT COULD NOT POSSIBLY FAIL TO HAPPEN, THE GREEKS WOULD OFTEN SPEAK OF IT AS IF IT HAD ALREADY OCCURRED, AS HERE WHERE PAUL USES THE AORIST PASSIVE INDICATIVE FOR THIS COMPOUND VERB.

* FOR THE INDICATIVE MOOD IN THE GREEK IS A SIMPLE STATEMENT OF FACT. IF AN ACTION REALLY OCCURS OR HAS OCCURRED OR WILL OCCUR, IT WILL BE RENDERED IN THE INDICATIVE MOOD.

** SO IN LIGHT OF OUR FUTURE INHERITANCE IN CHRIST, IT IS RENDERED IN ENGLISH IN THE PAST TENSE FOR IT WILL OCCUR, IT’S A FACT BECAUSE OF THE PROMISES OF GOD.

*** AND THE REALITY OF THE MATTER IS, ALL OF GOD’S PROMISES TO US ARE SURE THINGS, AND MAYBE THEY HAVEN’T BEEN FULFILLED YET, OR OCCURRED, THEY WILL OCCUR, THEY WILL BE FULFILLED, FOR GOD SAID THEY WOULD.

**** SO IT BECOMES A MATTER OF FACT TO US. IT IS REALITY, IT IS CERTAIN, WHEN GOD SAYS IT WILL HAPPEN, IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN GOD SAYS IT THAT SETTLES IT, PERIOD OR EXCLAMATION POINT!

2. AND ALTHOUGH PAUL AND THOSE TO WHOM HE WROTE AT EPHESUS HAD NOT YET ENTERED INTO THAT GLORIOUS EXPERIENCE OF THEIR INHERITANCE.

* THEIR DWELLING ETERNALLY WITH THE LORD WAS JUST AS CERTAIN AS IF THEY WERE ALREADY IN HEAVEN.

** NOW WITH THAT TRUTH OR FACT ESTABLISHED, I MENTIONED EARLIER THAT THIS COMPOUND VERB IS AN AORIST PASSIVE INDICATIVE, AND I’M NOT THROWING THESE TENSES, VOICE AND MOODS OUT TO SOUND LIKE A GREEK SCHOLAR FOR I’M NOT, BUT TO COMMUNICATE SOMETHING IMPORTANT IN RIGHTLY INTERPRETING THIS VERB.

*** FOR IT IS IN THE PASSIVE VOICE. AND THE PASSIVE FORM OF THE VERB ALLOWS FOR TWO POSSIBLE TRANSLATIONS HERE, BOTH OF WHICH ARE CONSISTENT WITH OTHER SCRIPTURE.

**** IT CAN BE TRANSLATED “WERE MADE AN INHERITANCE” OR AS IN THE NAS, NKJV AND KJV, “HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE”.

3. AND ALTHOUGH EITHER RENDERING CAN BE SUPPORTED, IN MY MIND PAUL’S EMPHASIS IN EPHESIANS 1:3-14 MAKES THE 2’D TRANSLATION MORE APPROPRIATE HERE: “WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE”.

* FOR OUR INHERITANCE WITH CHRIST IS YET ANOTHER OF THE AMAZING AND MAGNIFICENT BLESSINGS WITH WHICH THE FATHER HAS BLESSED US IN THE SON.

** AND AS PAUL MAKES CLEAR AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS SENTENCE IN V. 3, OUR INHERITANCE INCLUDES “EVERY SPIRITUAL BLESSING IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES IN CHRIST.”

*** SO WITHOUT TAKING A LOT OF TIME, IT APPEARS TO ME THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE GROUND OF THE INHERITANCE THAT WE HAVE OBTAINED, A PROMISE THAT IS SURE, SO WE WILL OBTAIN IT.

**** NOW WHY DO WE AS BELIEVERS HAVE THIS SURE INHERITANCE?

4. WELL, AS YOU LOOK AT THE NEXT PHRASE IN V. 11 THE REASON IS GIVEN, “HAVING BEEN PREDESTINED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE WHO WORKS ALL THINGS AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS WILL”.

* SO WHY DO WE HAVE A SURE FUTURE INHERITANCE? BECAUSE IN GOD’S PURPOSE AND GOD’S WILL HE HAS PREDESTINED THAT IT WOULD HAPPEN.

** AND BELOVED, AS CHRISTIANS WE ARE WHAT WE ARE BECAUSE OF WHAT HE CHOSE TO MAKE US BEFORE ANY PERSON WAS CREATED.

*** FOR FROM ETERNITY PAST GOD DECLARED THAT EVERY ELECT CHOSEN SINNER WOULD EFFECTUALLY BE SAVED IN TIME AND RECEIVE AN INHERITANCE, UNDESERVING AS WE ARE OF THAT INHERITANCE.

**** AND AS PAUL HAS ALREADY ESTABLISHED IN V. 4 OF THIS SENTENCE, “HE CHOSE US IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY AND BLAMELESS BEFORE HIM.

5. SO GOD PREDESTINED US ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE, AND I DON’T THINK US HERE IS JEWS, LIKE PAUL, IN CONTRAST TO GENTILES, BUT ALL BELIEVERS, JEW AND GENTILE ALIKE.

* BUT EVEN IF IT WAS JUST JEWS, THE PRINCIPLE OF GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY REMAINS THE SAME, GOD CHOOSES WHO WILL BE HIS OWN.

** FOR THE GREEK WORD PREDESTINE LIT. MEANS TO PREDETERMINE, TO DECIDE BEFOREHAND AND IN THE 6 VERSES THIS WORD IS USED IN THE N.T. IT HAS TO DO WITH GOD DECREEING SOMETHING FROM ETERNITY.

*** TO FOREORDAIN SOMETHING, TO APPOINT BEFOREHAND, TO ORDAIN. AND EVERYTHING GOD ORDAINS COMES TO PASS SO IT IS BIASED THINKING TO CONCLUDE THAT GOD CHOOSES EVERYONE, FOR IF HE DID EVERYONE WOULD BE SAVED. IT WOULD COMMUNICATE UNIVERSAL SALVATION.

**** FOR WHAT GOD PREDESTINES, WHAT HE FOREORDAINS, WHAT HE APPOINTS AND DECREES WILL SURELY COME TO PASS.

6. FOR NOTICE THE LAST PHRASE IN V. 11 “WHO WORKS ALL THINGS AFTER HIS WILL”.

* AND THERE ARE SEVERAL KEY WORDS AND PHRASES: “WORKS”, “ALL THINGS” AND “HIS WILL”.

** AND THE WORD IS FROM THE GREEK WORD EN-ERG-EH-O WHICH YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN.

*** AND FROM THIS GREEK WORD WE GET SUCH ENGLISH WORDS AS ENERGY, ENERGETIC AND ENERGIZE.

**** AND MY POINT IS GOD WORKS OUT WHAT HE PLANS. HE ENERGIZES HIS ELECT WITH ALL THE POWER OR ENERGY NECESSARY TO SAVE THEM.

7. AND IT’S NOT RIGHT TO THINK THAT GOD ONLY MAKES THE PLANS, HE ALSO MAKES IT WORK OUT. HE STARTS IT AND HE WILL COMPLETE IT, HE IS THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH AND HE WHO DOES THAT WORK OF GRACE WILL COMPLETE IT, READ PHILIPPIANS 1:6.

* SO AGAIN GOD ORDAINS SALVATION FOR HIS ELECT, HE WORKS OUT THE DETAILS AND WILL TAKE THAT WORK TO COMPLETION, “ALL THINGS” WHEN IT COMES TO OUR FUTURE ETERNAL INHERITANCE.

** FOR PHILIPPIANS 2:12&13 SAYS: “SO THEN, MY BELOVED, JUST AS YOU HAVE ALWAYS OBEYED, NOT AS IN MY PRESENCE ONLY, BUT NOW MUCH MORE IN MY ABSENCE, WORK OUT YOUR SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING;”

V. 13 – “FOR IT IS GOD WHO IS AT WORK IN YOU, BOTH TO WILL AND TO WORK FOR HIS GOOD PLEASURE.”

*** AND BELOVED, THE BOTTOM LINE IS GOD WORKS OUT ALL THINGS WHEN IT COMES TO OUR SALVATION AND INHERITANCE AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS WILL.

**** AND WILLIAM HENDRIKSEN’S COMMENT ON THIS PASSAGE IS HELPFUL AND CLEAR IN HIS COMMENTARY ON EPHESIANS. HE SAID:

8. “NEITHER FATE NOR HUMAN MERIT DETERMINES OUR DESTINY. THE BENEVOLENT PURPOSE – THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY AND FAULTLESS (VERSE 4), SONS OF GOD (VERSE 5), DESTINED TO GLORIFY HIM FOREVER (VERSE 6) – IS FIXED, BEING PART OF A LARGER, UNIVERSE EMBRACING PLAN.

* NOT ONLY DID GOD MAKE THIS PLAN THAT INCLUDES ABSOLUTELY ALL THINGS THAT EVER TAKE PLACE IN HEAVEN, ON EARTH, AND IN HELL; PAST, PRESENT, AND EVEN THE FUTURE, PERTAINING TO BOTH BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS, TO ANGELS AND DEVILS, TO PHYSICAL AS WELL AS SPIRITUAL ENERGIES AND UNITS OF EXISTENCE BOTH LARGE AND SMALL, HE ALSO WHOLLY CARRIES IT OUT.

** HIS PROVIDENCE IN TIME IS AS COMPREHENSIVE AS IS HIS DECREE FROM ETERNITY.”

*** AND DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, GOD’S PROVIDENCE IN TIME IS AS COMPREHENSIVE AS HIS DECREE FROM ETERNITY. GOD WORKS OUT WHAT HE PLANS, HE MAKES IT ALL WORK OUT.

**** NOW WHY DOES HE DO THAT? WELL, THE GOAL OF IT ALL WILL BE REVEALED IN V. 12, AND THE GOAL IS OUR 2’D POINT TODAY. LOOK AT V. 12 PLEASE.

II. THE GOAL, (READ V. 12)

A. NOW IN MY NESTLE GREEK TEXT THE PHRASE, “SHOULD BE TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY” BEGINS V. 12 AND THAT IS THE ORDER THAT FITS LOGICALLY IN THE FLOW OF THIS TEXT AND IS TRANSLATED THAT WAY IN THE KJV, SO YOU DON’T THINK I AM PULLING A RABBIT OUT OF MY HAT.

* AND MY POINT IS THE GOAL OF OUR INHERITANCE WHICH IS BROUGHT ABOUT BY GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY IN SALVATION IS THAT HE WILL BE PRAISED AND GLORIFIED.

** JOHN MACARTHUR IN HIS COMMENTARY ON EPHESIANS MADE THE STATEMENT AND I QUOTE:

*** “SCRIPTURE ALWAYS PRESENTS SALVATION FROM GOD’S SIDE, IN ORDER THAT HE SHOULD HAVE FULL CREDIT.

**** IN OUR HUMANLY-ORIENTED SOCIETY, GOD’S WANTING EXCLUSIVE CREDIT SEEMS INAPPROPRIATE – BUT ONLY BECAUSE MEN HAVE NO CONCEPT OF HIS GREATNESS, HOLINESS, AND GLORY. WHAT VIEWS THEY MAY HAVE OF HIM ARE SIMPLY PROJECTIONS OF THEMSELVES.

1. THE PRAISE AND GLORY THAT MEN SO MUCH DESIRE ARE TOTALLY UNDESERVED, AND THEIR MOTIVES FOR WANTING THEM ARE PURELY SINFUL.

* BUT GOD SEEKS GLORY FOR THE RIGHT REASONS AND BECAUSE HE ALONE IS DESERVING OF IT. HIS SEEKING GLORY IS A HOLY DESIRE OF WHICH HE IS SUPREMELY AND SINGLY WORTHY.”

** SO OUR PREDESTINED SALVATION AS BELIEVERS INCLUDING OUR ETERNAL AND BOUNDLESS SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS, ARE THEREFORE DESIGNED THAT THEY SHOULD BE TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY.

*** GOD’S GLORY IS THE SUPREME PURPOSE OF REDEMPTION.

**** AS PAUL SAID EARLIER IN VV. 5&6 OF EPHESIANS 1: “HE PREDESTINED US TO ADOPTION AS SONS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST TO HIMSELF, ACCORDING TO THE KIND INTENTION OF HIS WILL.”

V. 6 – “TO THE PRAISE OF THE GLORY OF HIS GRACE, WHICH HE FREELY BESTOWED ON US IN THE BELOVED.”

2. SO THE GOAL OF OUR SALVATION IS GOD’S GLORY, IT’S ALWAYS ALL ABOUT HIM, BUT BECAUSE IT IS ABOUT HIM AND HE IS GOOD AND LOVING AND MERCIFUL AND JUST, HE HAS ORDAINED TO RESCUE HIS PEOPLE HE WILL SAVE FROM HIS WRATH.

* AND I PRAISE GOD FOR THAT. WHICH LEADS US TO THE LAST PART OF V. 12, “TO THE END THAT WE WHO WERE FIRST TO HOPE IN CHRIST.”

** NOW THE PHRASE, “WE WHO WERE FIRST TO HOPE” IS USED BY SOME TO BUILD AN ARGUMENT THAT THIS VERSE IS TALKING ABOUT JUST JEWISH CHRISTIANS, THE QUOTE “FIRST ONES” TO BELIEVE IN CHRIST.

*** WHICH AGAIN BY THE WAY WOULD NOT CHANGE ANY OF THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY IN SALVATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT.

**** BUT AS I LOOK AT THIS VERSE, IT SEEMS MUCH MORE NATURAL IN THE FLOW OF THE CONTEXT FOR THE FIRST TO HOPE IN CHRIST REFERS TO THE FIRST ONES TO BELIEVE IN HIM OR IS MAKING REFERENCE TO PAUL AND HIS FELLOW WORKERS.

3. IT APPEARS TO ME THAT THE JEW-GENTILE DIVISION HAS TO BE FORCED HERE WHEREAS BEGINNING IN CHAPTER 2 VERSE 11 THAT DIVISION AND DISTINCTION IS CLEAR IN THE TEXT.

* BUT REGARDLESS, ALL BELIEVERS HAVE HOPE IN CHRIST AND THAT HOPE WILL NOT BE CRUSHED.

** FOR YOU SEE OUR INHERITANCE HAS NOT YET BEEN RECEIVED, IT IS A PRESENT POSSESSION IN THE PROMISES OF CHRIST, BUT IN REALITY IT IS FUTURE.

*** SO WE HAVE SURE HOPE, WE HAVE SURE HOPE BEFORE BECAUSE OF THE PROMISES AND FOREORDAINED PLAN OF GOD AND OUR HOPE IS IN CHRIST, OUR LORD AND SAVIOR.

**** OUR SURE HOPE BEFOREHAND WILL BECOME A REALITY BECAUSE OF THE PROMISES AND PLAN OF CHRIST WHICH HIS GLORY IS PREEMINENT.

AND AS I WRAP UP OUR TIME IN THIS TEXT TODAY (1) IN APPLICATION I GO BACK TO WHERE WE STARTED TODAY, THE PROMISES OF GOD.

* AND STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD, BELIEVING AND LIVING THE PROMISES OF GOD IS VITAL FOR US SO THAT WE HAVE SURE HOPE AND BRING GLORY AND HONOR TO OUR SAVIOR, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

** FOR IN JESUS CHRIST, TRUE BELIEVERS INHERIT EVERY PROMISE GOD HAS EVER MADE.

*** PETER SAYS IN II PETER 1:3&4 THAT GOD’S “DIVINE POWER HAS GRANTED TO US PERTAINING TO LIFE AND GODLINESS” AND “HAS GRANTED TO US HIS PRECIOUS AND MAGNIFICENT PROMISES”.

**** PAUL SAYS IN II CORINTHIANS 1:20, “FOR AS MANY AS MAY BE THE PROMISES OF GOD, IN HIM THEY ARE YES.”

(2) AND DEAR SAINTS IN CHRIST, OUR EVERY CONCEIVABLE NEED IS MET BY GOD’S GRACIOUS PROVISION IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS DIVINE PROMISES.

* AND GOD WOULD BANKRUPT HEAVEN BEFORE HE WOULD BREAK ONE PROMISE TO HIS ELECT. THE UNIVERSE WOULD DISINTEGRATE IF GOD WOULD BREAK A PROMISE TO US.

** AND IN ESSENCE I AM SAYING “IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO BREAK A PROMISE TO YOU TODAY.”

*** SO WHAT PROMISE FROM GOD’S WORD DO YOU NEED TO STAND ON TODAY BELIEVER?

**** HIS PROMISED PROVIDENCE? HIS PROMISED PROVISION? HIS PROMISED PRESENCE? HIS PROMISED CARE? HIS PROMISED GRACE AND STRENGTH? HIS PROMISED GOOD PURPOSE? HIS PROMISE OF HEAVEN FOR US? HIS PROMISED FORGIVENESS?

(3) HIS PROMISE OF PEACE? HIS PROMISE OF WISDOM IF WE ASK? WHAT PROMISE DO YOU NEED TO STAND ON?

* AND WHATEVER PROMISE IT IS, BELIEVER, STAND ON IT TODAY. BELIEVE IT FOR IT IS TRUE, TRUST IN IT WHEN DOUBTS COME ON AND BANK ON IT FOR IT IS LIKE MONEY IN THE BANK.

** MAY WE BE LIKE ABRAHAM IN ROMANS 4:20&21, NOT STAGGERING OR WAVER AT THE PROMISES OF GOD, BUT BE STRENGTHENED IN OUR FAITH GIVING GLORY TO GOD, THE END GOAL OF EVERYTHING. READ VV. 20&21 AND PRAY.