1556. His Promise Is Sure

His Promise Is Sure

"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (2Pe_1:16).

1. His promise is sure in spite of scoffers. During these last days, scoffers have arisen saying, "Where is the promise of His Coming?" (2Pe_3:1-3).

These scoffers for the most part are wilfully ignorant of the Word of God.

They reject that Second Coming of Christ because it does not fit into their system of theology; nor into the method of service which they pursue.

The fact that there are scoffers, however, who deny the Lord's Return, in no way offsets the fact that His promise is sure.

"He is faithful that promised." The man who holds to the hope of prophecy, has an anchor to his soul that is sure and steadfast.

The man who builds on prophetic promises builds on an impregnable rock.

When our God speaks, there is nothing which can disannul His Word. We have the prophetic Word made sure, and unto it we do well to take heed.

2. His promise is sure because of fulfilled prophecies. The literal and minute fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies concerning the First Coming of Christ, bespeak the same literal and minute fulfillment of Second Coming prophecies.

3. His promise is sure, because His Word is truth. If the Bible teaches that there are millions now living who may never die, the man is foolish who says, in common phraseology, "One thing is sure, we must all die."

Our Lord Jesus says differently, and we can depend on His Word. Christ never speaks an untruth and He never fails to speak needed truth. "If it were not so, I would have told you."

4. His promises were embraced by saints of old. The Old Testament saints lived many centuries before us, and yet they believed that the promises of the Lord's Second Coming were true. They had a faith that pleased God; they gave substance to things hoped for and had convictions of things not seen. They died, not having received the promises, "but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them ("greeted," A. S. V.) them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth" (Heb_11:13).

No wonder God was not ashamed to be called their God.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR