All God’s Promises Are Ours, In Christ!
2 Corinthians 1:20-22 (ESV)
20 For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory. 21 And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, 22 and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
The fact that God promises us anything is amazing. The fact that all of God’s promises are fulfilled in Christ and there for fulfilled in us, is truly mind-blowing. Whatever God promised to the nation of Israel in the Old Testament is fulfilled in the Messiah (Christ) and therefore YES to us, as well. The peace, the prosperity, the joy, the security, the assurance, the approach-ability, the strength, the steadfast love, the freedom from sin, the escape from God’s wrath, the light of life, the bread of life, the great shepherd to guide and the vine to produce fruit. These promises are ALL ours in Christ. We can’t find a promise in Scripture that was not fulfilled in Christ and that is not ours as we rest in Him. Perhaps the greatest of all the promises is the promise of the Holy Spirit indwelling us as the guarantee of God’s power in us and care for us. The Holy Spirit is our “seal of redemption” as the above verse states. We can rejoice in all the promises but this promise is emphasized in the above passage to assure the church at Corinth that God was indwelling them to guide them and protect them from false teachings. We have all the promises of God by our faith in Christ.
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