PRaP
1/14/08
“Promise?!”
What
are you promised today? According
to the Bible we are not even promised our next breath. Look at this example:
13Someone
in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the
inheritance with me."
14Jesus
replied, "Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?"
15Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of
greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."
16And
he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man produced a
good crop. 17He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store
my crops.'
18"Then
he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones,
and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19And I'll say to myself,
"You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy;
eat, drink and be merry." '
20"But
God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you.
Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'
21"This
is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich
toward God."
See
in that parable the rich fool thought he had control over tomorrow and yet he
didn’t. So what is promised to
us? For those who have faith in
Jesus Christ will live eternally with Him in heaven, this is a trustworthy
promise. Jesus has promised us that
we are heirs to the throne in which He sits.
This promise comes by faith. Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by
grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring—not only to those who
are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the
father of us all. Those of us that
believe are adopted into the family of Abraham, grafted, if you will.
Like when we graft rose bushes or fruit trees together.
The cutting from the one put together with the other connected together
become as one in the same root of the tree. For no matter how many promises God
has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through him the
"Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of God.
Key
Verse and what a great promise made by Jesus!:
Luke
12:8
"I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also
acknowledge him before the angels of God.
Luke
12:7-9 (in
Context) Luke
12 (Whole
Chapter)
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PEACE
and AGAPE LOVE, Pastor, Dad, DJ Dude
From
The Desk Of:
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Jesus?
Matthew
7:7-8
"Ask
and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be
opened to you. For everyone who
asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be
opened."
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