Growing In the Virtues of God

Guarantee of the fulfillment of His Promise

Numbers 23:19 “19 God is not a man, that he should lie; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”

Amplified Bible (Chapter 1)

en it may mean] No, no?

18 As surely as God is trustworthy and faithful and means what He says, our speech and message to you have not been Yes [that might mean] No.

19 For the Son of God, Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who has been preached among you by us, by myself, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not Yes and No; but in Him it is [always the divine] Yes.

20 For as many as are the promises of God, they all find their Yes [answer] in Him [Christ]. For this reason we also utter the Amen (so be it) to God through Him [in His Person and by His agency] to the glory of God.

21 But it is God Who confirms and makes us steadfast and establishes us [in joint fellowship] with you in Christ, and has consecrated and anointed us [enduing us with the gifts of the Holy Spirit];

22 [He has also appropriated and God’s promises are fulfilled through Christ, and believers receive them through faith and trust in Him. This “believing yes” allows us to claim God’s promises as our own.

Acts 2:39 “39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.”

God’s promises are fulfilled through Christ, and believers receive them through faith and trust in Him. This “believing yes” allows us to claim God’s promises as our own. ​

We open our Bibles at a promise, we look up to God, and God says, “You can have all that through Christ.” Trusting Christ, we say, “Amen” to God. God speaks through Christ, and we believe in Christ; Christ reaches down and faith stretches up, and every promise of God is fulfilled in Jesus Christ. In and through Him we appropriate and take them to ourselves and say, “Yes, Lord; I trust You.” This is the believing yes.[1]