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And this is the message we preach to you; there was a promise made to our forefathers, (Acts 13, 32)
and this promise God has redeemed for our posterity, by raising Jesus to life. Thus, it is written in the second Psalm, Thou art my son; I have begotten thee this day.✻ (Acts 13, 33)
Why then, if we are the children of God, we must not imagine that the divine nature can be represented in gold, or silver, or stone, carved by man’s art and thought. (Acts 17, 29)
And if I stand here on my trial, it is for my hope of the promise God made to our fathers. (Acts 26, 6)
Our twelve tribes worship him ceaselessly, night and day, in the hope of attaining that promise; and this is the hope, my lord king, for which the Jews call me to account. (Acts 26, 7)
and the natives, when they saw the beast coiled round his hand, said to one another, This must be some murderer; he has been rescued from the sea, but divine vengeance would not let him live. (Acts 28, 4)
Some, to be sure, shewed unfaithfulness on their side; but can we suppose that unfaithfulness on their part will dispense God from his promise? It is not to be thought of; (Romans 3, 3)
If it is only those who obey the law that receive the inheritance, then his faith was ill founded, and the promise has been annulled. (Romans 4, 14)
The inheritance, then, must come through faith (and so by free gift); thus the promise is made good to all Abraham’s posterity, not only that posterity of his which keeps the law, but that which imitates his faith. We are all Abraham’s children; (Romans 4, 16)
he shewed no hesitation or doubt at God’s promise, but drew strength from his faith, confessing God’s power, (Romans 4, 20)
And yet it is not as if God’s promise had failed of its effect. Not all those who are sprung from Israel are truly Israelites; (Romans 9, 6)
That is to say, God’s sonship is not for all those who are Abraham’s children by natural descent; it is only the children given to him as the result of God’s promise that are to be counted as his posterity. (Romans 9, 8)
