The fraud against the Promises of God.
We’ve committed fraud against His promises that He’s made to us.
And let’s look at the Promises of God. They fall into five major themes.
Identity, you’re redeemed, adopted, secure.
Presence, He is with you.
Provision, He supplies.
Transformation, He sanctifies.
Glory, He completes what He began.
And we see in Philippians 1:6 and the New King James Version is being confident of this very thing that he who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Well, the day of Jesus Christ has happened – which you’ll see here in the Mirror translation.
I possess inward certainty about you. Confident that He who is the initiator of the good work within us within you is also the one who executes the completeness as mirrored in Jesus Christ who is the Light of the Day.
He is the fullness of time. So it’s really so which has been is now and that which is to be has already been. So what Jesus has done has been completed in us.
Now, let’s look at the garden template of fraud. In Eden, the serpent did not deny God spoke. He questioned the reliability of what He said. “Has God indeed said?”
So, he’s questioning the reliability here. The original fraud was not atheism. It was suspicion about Promise. It shifted from rust in Promise, trusting God. to self evaluation and performance.
The deepest fraud against Promise is convincing sons and daughters, you and I, that they are servants.
Actually, we’re no longer living like slaves under the law, but we’re enjoying being God’s very own sons and daughters. And because we’re His, we can access everything our Father has. For we are heirs because of what God has done in Galatians 4:7.
In Galatians 4:7, in the New King James, therefore, you are no longer a slave, but a son.
And if a son, then we’re heirs. Promise creates heirs. Fraud creates hired hands.
So the promise that is over all of our promises – let’s look at this – this one ties it all together in 2 Corinthians 1:20. For all the promises of God in Him are Yes and in Him Amen to the glory of God through us.
This means the promises are fulfilled in Christ. They’re activated through union with Him. They are not “maybe” they are “Yes” and in him the detail of every single promise of God is fulfilled. Jesus is God’s Yes to your entire well-being. In him also the Amen that Mary is found in us also.
Amen and amen.
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