Saturday, September 1, 2012

}THE PROMISE IS FULL FILLED.
}Our Merdeka Theme “Janji di Tepati” “PROMISE IS FULL FILLED.”
}TRANSFORMATION – IS IT FULL FILLED?
}PRESS AND INFORMATION FREEDOM- IS IT FULFILLED?
}EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL RACES?IS IT FULFILLED?
}FREEDOM OF WORSHIP- IS IT FULFILLED?
}SCHOLARSHIP TO ALL WHO ARE QUALIFIED?
}IS IT FULL FILLED ?
}ERADICATION  OF CORRUPTION? IS IT  FULFILLED?
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}ALL OF GOD’S PROMISES WERE FULFILLED.
}1) Sure, 2) Full of Hope for the Righteous, and 3) Conditional if you are not under grace.
}I want to encourage the brethren to put their trust in the promises of God. Not on man or any human government.
}If you depend on any human being for your promises to be fulfilled you will have a back lash.
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}Acts 13 29-33
}29 Now when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb. 30 But God raised Him from the dead. 31 He was seen for many days by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to the people. 32 And we declare to you glad tidings—that promise which was made to the fathers. 33 God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm:
}‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.’
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}About the Text:
}1) Paul and Barnabus were on their first missionary journey.
}2) They had just arrived at Antioch of Pisidia.
}3) They were invited by the rulers of the synagogue to speak regarding any matter.
}4) Paul stood up and preached.
}5) He spoke concerning the resurrected Christ.
}6) This, he said, was the fulfillment of the promises made to God to the fathers.
}7) These promises were 1) Sure, 2) Full of Hope, and 3) Conditional.
}8) The character of God’s promises is just as faithful today.
}9) It is on account of God’s promises that we live the Christian life today.
}10) Let’s look at character of the promises of God.
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}God cannot lie
Hebrews 6:13-18 “For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swear  by himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:”
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}God has always kept His promises to men.
}Noah — Genesis 6:17-18
}Abraham . God promised Abraham a child. Genesis 17:19 “And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.”
}Romans 4:20-21 “He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.”
}3) Others
}. Moses — deliver the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
}b. David — establish his throne.
}c. Daniel — delivered from the lions den.
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} God kept his promise to His Son, Jesus.
}Peter says that the promise God made in Psalm 16:10 was to Jesus.
}This promise was fulfilled in the resurrection of Christ. Acts 2:31-32
}Because God kept his promise to Jesus, we can be assured God will keep His promise to us as well. Romans 6:5 ” For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
} Full of Hope for the Righteous
}Our hope rests upon the promises of God.
}1) Hebrews 6:18-19
}2) Our hope is based on our faith in God. Hebrews 11:1
}3) Faith comes by hearing the word of God (Romans 10:17). In Greek hearing the word of “Kristos
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}And God has promised great things to give hope to the faithful.
}1) To the faithful He promises freedom from sin. John 8:32
}2) To the faithful He promises forgiveness of sins. Acts 2:38
}3) He promises that the faithful are His children. Romans 8:15-17
}4) To the faithful He promises to give us abundant life through His Son Jesus. John 10:10b
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}5) To the faithful He promises a new glorious resurrected body. 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 “Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
}6) To the faithful He promises that we shall be like Him and see Him as He is. 1 John 3:2 “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. “
}SURE  PROMISES
}7) To the faithful He promises eternal life. 1 John 2:25 “And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
}WHAT ARE THE CONDITION SET FOR BELIEVERS?
}1) John 8:31-32 “Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
}2) John 15:10 “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
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}3) Romans 11:22 “Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.”
}4) Colossians 1:21-23 “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and BLAMELESS and unreproveable in his sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel…”
}CLOSE:
}Men will not fulfill his promise
} Government will not fulfill its promise.
}The people you know will not fulfill their promise.
}But God’s promises are always  yes and Amen.
}He will never leave you nor for sake you.
}His Truth always abide in you.
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