The Promises of God Continued:

The Promises of God Continued:

Unconditional Promises (Part I)

Pastor Arthur Wilkerson

     Promises are simply pledges or declarations spoken with conditions (conditional) or without conditions (unconditional).  Promises are spoken in covenant (agreement/confederate) or in vengeance (angry repentance for past favor).  In the case of our God, His promises are spoken in and through the inerrancy of His Word and are Unconditional and Conditional.  In the weeks ahead we’re going to look at a few of both.  But as a sidebar to get us going, God, by His Prophet Hosea said these words “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy Children”.( Hos. 4: 6)  God said then and He is saying now, that because the people and the priest rejected the maxims (The Law of Christ) of  His Word that He would reject them.  We must remember that though Grace is the “Love and Kindness” of God and is given freely by Him; it is also a “Stay of Execution”, so as we continue to look at the Promises of God let’s remember what was just stated and return to that which is socially and morally righteous according to the knowledge of God’s Law in Jesus.

    Some scholars have determined that there are some 452 promises in the Bible, but only 23 are Unconditional (Noooo Prosperity is not one of them, though God wants us to prosper as our soul prospers).  But one is found in Acts 10: 34-35, 43 wherein Salvation came to the Gentiles.  Cornelius and his house were filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke with other tongues.  Peter saying …”of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness is accepted with Him”.   This is saying, as we of the Faith know, that every man, woman, boy or girl of any nationality upon the face of this Earth that by faith, reverence and odeience to the Law of Jesus Christ and  the Cross of Grace shall be accepted with Him (Jesus).  Now, this is confirmed by Paul in Col. 3:11 when he said “Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian , bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.   This is an Unconditional Promise that God will accept all who would come, that believe in Jesus with their whole heart.  This  also means that it makes no difference what you believed in before coming to Christ, whether it was because of your nationality, race or creed;  God will accept you and wash you in the Blood of Christ and count you Justified, clean and fit to be in His presence, to come through the rent Vail into His presence.   Many of us will have many flaws of the flesh to contend with in the process, but know this, you’re accepted.  God has Promised and He is not a man that He should lie.  Note: (All Scripture reference is from the old King James Bible). *