All The Promises Of God

All The Promises Of God

II Corinthians 1:20

For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him A-men, unto the glory of God by us.

There is no uncertainty with regard to the promises of God, His promises are sure and steadfast: for all the promises of God are in Christ Jesus: who is the “covenant of the people” (Isaiah 49:8).  The Person of Jesus Christ was promised of God “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God,

The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6). The finished work of Jesus Christ was according to the promise of God “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.”

(Daniel 9:24). The Result of the Personal presence of Christ among us, and His finished work for us, is according to the promise of God “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:21). And every person who finds himself believing on the Christ of the Bible, for righteousness, the saints only righteousness: should also know that: “of him (God the Father: writer) are ye in Christ Jesus” (I Corinthians 1:30) and that it is God: who hath established us in Christ and anointed us in Christ (II Corinthians 1:21). He who hath anointed us is God, and He with whom we are anointed is God the Holy Ghost: who is the habitually abiding, indwelling, Person of the Godhead, who, Himself is the principle of the new life of Christ Jesus in us, being the unction of the Holy One, Jesus Christ (I John 2:20), and the Great Teacher of all the essential things that pertain to life and godliness, we, therefore know all those things through Him.   

Faith is the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22), and of necessity where there is faith in Christ, the Spirit of God is the producer of that faith, by revealing Christ, to the soul. There can be no apple without an apple tree, so there can be no fruit of the Spirit without the prior presence of the Spirit. The Spirit of God in the soul is the Seal of the soul, being the Earnest of the inheritance (Ephesians 1:13-14). An earnest is a small portion of the inheritance given as proof, or promise of the fullness of the inheritance; which is to come (Matthew 25:34). So that the gift of the Spirit of God; which we have now, as the earnest of the inheritance, is not that fullness that we shall have when we are perfectly conformed to the image of Christ; and are changed into the same image and from glory to glory, (Romans 8:29; II Corinthians 3:18) “that we might be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:19). Who among us is able to understand the glory that shall “be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18) when, sin is totally eradicated in us, and the fullness of the gift of the indwelling Spirit of God is ours, with all his mighty influences of holiness and grace. “Beloved now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” (I John 3:2).

The saints of God are apprehended of Jesus Christ, as Lot was apprehended of the angels when they took him by his hands and brought him out of the city (Genesis 19:16), so, Christ is bringing many sons to glory (Hebrews 2:10) Christ Jesus is gathering His flesh, and His bones, together in that one body the church, for they have had union in Him from everlasting, so much so that in time to come He will remember their dust, which will then as now, yet be in that same union, and bring them to Him from the grave, in that one body, a glorious church, it is written: (omitting the words in italics which were not in the original text) “Thy dead shall live, my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out her dead.” (Isaiah 26:19). “For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.” (Ephesians 5:30-32). “And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” (I Corinthians 6:14-20). “For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member but many. – Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.” (I Corinthians 12:12-14, 27).

The body here brought to view is the “mystery of Christ” that is, Christ mystical, which is, Christ the head of the body united to the body: in the counsel and covenant of God, according to the love of God for His elect in Christ, and according the untied will, purpose, and grace, of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, without beginning. As it is written: “For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: how that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (which I wrote afore in a few words, whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of the same promise in Christ by the gospel: whereof I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ: and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:” (Ephesians 3:1-11).

The fellowship of the saints in this mystery, that is, their partnership in the mystery, their participation in the mystery, their communion in the mystery: (See Strong’s number: G 2842) is according to the union of the members of the body with the Great Head of the body and with the other members of the body whether they be Jews or Gentiles: unto the eternal glory of God; and the intent of all is “that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,” (Ephesians 3:10). “Thus it is written: “I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Se-lah,” (Psalm 89:3-4). And again it is written: “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. (Psalm 89:34-36). The name David is put here for Christ Jesus who is the Greater Son of David, (Matthew 1:1), the seed here spoken of is that innumerable host who have fellowship in the mystery: in Christ, that is, these are the children of the covenant to whom God has sworn, by promise (Galatians 3:7,16, 18, 29). The token of the covenant, that is, the sign of interest in the covenant, or the mark of the children of the covenant is faith in Jesus Christ, according to the doctrine of Christ (II John 1:9). Faith is a vital sign of life in Christ, and life in Christ is given because of justification of life through covenant union in Christ, (Romans 5:17-18) by the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ. For the saints of God are not justified by the fruit of the Spirit, for, by faith we understand, and are made to know that we are justified by the blood of Jesus Christ, who made an end of sins, and brought in everlasting righteousness (Daniel 9:24). The children of God are “made the righteousness of God in him” (in Christ Jesus: writer; II Corinthans 5:21) who is “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Jeremiah 23:6): by faith we receive that justifying righteousness that was established by Jesus Christ, who fulfilled all righteousness (Matthew 3:15) for His children of the covenant (Isaiah 61:10).

AJ Ison

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