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titus213
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The Promise

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I’m on trial now because I expect God to keep the promise that he made to our ancestors. Our twelve tribes expect this promise to be kept as they worship with intense devotion day and night. ~ The Apostle Paul, before King Agrippa

When a man is on trial for his life, he's going to explain himself as clearly as possible. Paul was on trial (see Acts 25-26). The charges against him were serious. He summed up his ministry in these words. His defense was based not on many scattered predictions throughout the Bible, but on one definite "promise" that God had made long ago to the ancestors of the Jewish people. THE PROMISE.

More than 40 passages in the New Testament refer to this word "promise". It is so important that, in my opinion, it is the central motif around which all the teaching of the entire Word of God -- both Old and New Testaments -- should be grouped.

The Promise is the central, unifying theme of Scripture. It pulls together all the loose threads that we sometimes seem to find when we read the Bible as merely disconnected writings. We begin to see the Bible as the unfolding of God's Promise-Plan through history . . . right up to our own time and beyond.



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You are on trial? I am missing something - can you explain?


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As I indicated, I am quoting words spoken by the apostle Paul in his trial before King Agrippa (Acts 26). Sorry I didn't use quotation marks.



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titus213 wrote:As I indicated, I am quoting words spoken by the apostle Paul in his trial before King Agrippa (Acts 26). Sorry I didn't use quotation marks.
Oh, gotcha! Don't know why I did not perceive that.


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titus213 wrote:I’m on trial now because I expect God to keep the promise that he made to our ancestors. Our twelve tribes expect this promise to be kept as they worship with intense devotion day and night. ~ The Apostle Paul, before King Agrippa

When a man is on trial for his life, he's going to explain himself as clearly as possible. Paul was on trial (see Acts 25-26). The charges against him were serious. He summed up his ministry in these words. His defense was based not on many scattered predictions throughout the Bible, but on one definite "promise" that God had made long ago to the ancestors of the Jewish people. THE PROMISE.

More than 40 passages in the New Testament refer to this word "promise". It is so important that, in my opinion, it is the central motif around which all the teaching of the entire Word of God -- both Old and New Testaments -- should be grouped.

The Promise is the central, unifying theme of Scripture. It pulls together all the loose threads that we sometimes seem to find when we read the Bible as merely disconnected writings. We begin to see the Bible as the unfolding of God's Promise-Plan through history . . . right up to our own time and beyond.



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Paul tells us: "the promise God made to our ancestors" [ie. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, etc]. The New Testament writers equate this single, definite promise as the one made to Abraham when God called him from Ur. That promise becomes the foundation and is repeated (with added details) to the rest of the patriarchs, to David, etc.



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Amen. I find it very interesting how Paul spoke to Agrippa and he would have been set free and all of that but Paul was very faithful to Jesus Christ, Most importantly to God of Israel.



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