Heavenly
Promises
These promises are made only
to the Church.
And these all, having obtained a good report
through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us,
that they without us should not be made perfect. (Hebrews 11:39,40)
And this is the promise that he has promised
us, even eternal life. (1 John 2:25)
And as we have borne the image of the
earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly. (1 Cor. 15:49)
The Spirit itself bears witness with our
spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified
together. (Romans 8:16,17)
Fear not, little flock; for it is your
Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. (Luke 12:32)
Let not your heart be troubled: you believe
in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I
would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for
you, I will come again, and receive you to myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
(John 14:1-3)
Father, I will that they also, whom you have
given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which you have given me:
for you loved me before the foundation of the world. (John 17:24)
To him that overcomes will I grant to sit
with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his
throne. (Revelation 3:21)
According as his divine power has given to
us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has
called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious
promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust. (2 Peter 1:3,4)
It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead
with him, we will also live with him: If we suffer, we will also reign with him: if we
deny him, he also will deny us: (2 Timothy 2:11,12)
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it
does not yet appear what we will be: but we know that, when he will appear, we will be
like him; for we will see him as he is. And every man that has this hope in him purifies
himself, even as he is pure. (1 John 3:2,3)
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give
diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you will
never fall: For so an entrance will be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting
kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 1:10,11)
And the Lord will deliver me from every evil
work, and will preserve me to his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever.
Amen. (2 Timothy 4:18)
See B:207; C:220; E:77, 161, 280; E:406, 426, 466;
Z’97-229.
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