David J. Stewart: Great Peace Comes From Resting In God's Promises

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Great Peace Comes From Resting In God's Promises

You can find solace in the PROMISES of God. 2nd Peter 1:2-4, “Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” Man's word means NOTHING. This world is full of wicked sinners. We are all sinners. Many sinners enjoying condemning other sinners, but God will judge us all as SINNERS, and God's harshest judgment is reserved for those sinners who condemns other sinners (Matthew 7:1-5). Judge (condemn) not, that ye be not judged (condemn)!

Here is a wonderful passage of Scripture, which PROMISES that our eternal weight of glory will far exceed our present light afflictions:

2nd Corinthians 4:16-18, “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

Life is a gift from God, which most people squander. ...

The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power, to tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour; To lose one's wealth is sad indeed, to lose one's health is more, to lose your soul is such a loss, that no one can restore.

Another of my favorite PROMISES from God is found in Philippians 4:6-7, “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” The Bible teaches us to pray about everything, and worry about nothing, claiming God's PROMISE that once we've prayed, that He will attend to our request(s) and we may rest in peace from that point on. That's exactly what Philippians 4:6-7 teach us. Once we've prayed, making our request(s) known unto God, we are commanded to rest in THE PEACE THAT PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING, knowing that God is the keeper of our soul in Christ Jesus our Savior. If we choose to worry, that is our decision. ...

Oh, what peace we often forfeit, oh what needless pain we bear; all because we do not carry, everything to God in prayer.

Trusting, claiming and abiding (living) in the PROMISES OF GOD is solely a matter of faith for the believer. Do you believe that the Bible is God's holy and inspired Words? Do you believe that God authored the Bible? Do you believe that there is a real, all powerful (omnipotent), all-knowing (omniscient), all-present (omnipresent), and all-loving (omnibenevolent) God in Heaven? God created and loves you. He cares about you. If you don't believe that God authored the Holy Bible, then you're not going to place any credibility in its veracity and reliability.

I believe 100% that the King James Bible is God's preserved and inspired words for this generation. I find no error, nor fault, in the inspired King James Bible. I don't think it needs any improvement, nor do I think its 54 translators could have done a better job. Albeit, I do not believe in double inspiration (i.e., I do not believe that God gave any new revelation to the King James Bible translators). I do believe that God oversaw the work, and that the Holy Spirit made sure when completed, the King James Bible was exactly what God intended for it to be. Were the King James translators inspired? No, but they were working with select texts (aka, Textus Receptus) which were already inspired. I do not believe that there will ever be another translation of the Holy Bible into the English language, simply because today's inferior language could not facilitate a proper translation.

As a born-again Christian, I find great peace in the comforting Word of God, particularly in the PROMISES OF GOD! What a wonderful fact that the Bible contains 7,487 PROMISES from God to man! Our text verses from 1st Peter 1:2-4 teaches that the power of God resides in the PROMISES of God, because the Lord always keeps His promises, and you can take that to the bank! Only a fool bases his life and eternal destiny upon speculation, human reasoning, fables, manmade tradition and religion. What you had better do is “SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES” as Jesus commanded in John 5:39b, discovering and claiming the PROMISES OF GOD in the King James Bible. Only then will you KNOW you're not living your life in vain, having a foundation that is sure in Jesus Christ, and a hope of eternal life and heavenly rewards that man cannot take away. Time cannot destroy a Christian's faith, as the world fades away in their unbelief. ...

1st John 2:15-17, “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”

This temporal earthly life will come to an end, guaranteed. Everything that you see around you will eventually return to the dust from which it came. Ah, but the PROMISES of God transcend this earthly life, lasting forever. When you're dead and gone, the PROMISES of God will still stand sure and true; and if you die in the Lord (Revelation 14:13), you will spend eternity enjoying all the blessings of God (Romans 8:32). Romans 15:4, “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.” I challenge you to learn the many PROMISES of God in the Bible.

Here are a few of my favorite PROMISES:

ETERNAL LIFE (John 6:47)
A NEW PERFECT BODY (Philippians 3:21)
MY OWN PRIVATE HOME IN HEAVEN (John 14:1-3)
GOD WILL GIVE ME ALL THINGS (Romans 8:32)
NO MAN WILL EVER TAKE MY JOY AWAY AGAIN (John 16:22)
THOSE WHO HAVE HURT ME WILL ANSWER TO GOD (Ecclesiastes 12:14)
GOD WILL REWARD ALL MY LABORS FOR CHRIST (1st Corinthians 3:8)
ALL TEARS SHALL BE WIPED AWAY (Revelation 21:4)
FORMER THINGS SHALL PASS AWAY (Revelation 21:4)
WE WILL LIVE WITH GOD FOREVER (Revelation 21:3)
ALL THINGS WILL WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD (Romans 8:28)
SOULWINNERS WILL SHINE IN HEAVEN (Daniel 12:3)

There are 7,475 more promises in the Holy Bible from God to man. Can you find them my friend? These promises from the Lord are what give me comfort and joy from day to day.

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Inspiring Preacher Quotes

“Every word in this Bible is inspired by God almighty!” —Dr. Jack Hyles (1926-2001), "A Friend At Midnight"

“I never thought, I'd see a day when Baptist preachers would not preach the true Gospel. Tonight, all across this nation, Baptist preachers have succumbed to the heresy of John MacArthur. I said the heresy of John MacArthur! I said the heresy of John MacArthur! And somebody that's got several thousand people to hear 'em, who can go across this country, has got to alert Baptists that we have false teachers in our midst who are no longer teaching and preaching salvation by grace through faith plus nothing. Folks, we're fighting for our lives tonight!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "A Vote For Preaching"

“Before I got saved, I had troubles, and since I’ve been saved, I’ve had troubles, but I’m going to a land where there will be no more troubles.” —Pastor Paul Sisk

'The world' includes the mass of humanity that is alienated from God and therefore hostile to the cause of Christ. It involves worldly affairs, earthly things, riches, pleasures, and pursuits that are shallow, frail, and fleeting. These things stir desire, draw us away from God, and are obstacles to the cause of Christ. The divorced or torn relationships between Heaven and earth, between God and His creatures, finds its expression in the term 'the world.'” —Pastor Edward M. Bounds (1835-1913), "Guide To Spiritual Warfare"

"Unshakable faith comes from having your faith shaken" —Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001)

“The TRUTH is a thousand times more powerful than what these liberal churches are selling. The truth is so concentrated, that just one drop of the real unadulterated truth of THE GOSPEL, hard preaching—one clear 10-minute presentation of the Gospel—is more powerful than one hundred hours of NOTHINGNESS in their 'BLAH!' church or school!” —Pastor Steven L. Anderson, "The Dechristianization Of Our Nation"

“When America lost her way to the right kind of church, she lost her way to living right!” — Evangelist Lester Roloff (1914-1982), "Titanic"

“Lordship Salvation is the unsupportable and unbiblical belief that the performance of good works, the promise of good works, or the evidence of good works, must accompany faith in Christ to establish or provide evidence that such faith has resulted in eternal life.” —Pastor Ralph Yankee Arnold, "Jesus versus John MacArthur"

“If it's settled in Heaven, why are we trying to change it down here?” —Brother Lester Roloff (1914-1982), sermon titled: "Wisdom Of The Word" (Psalms 119:89)

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” —Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the Word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumbling blocks before the people.” —Evangelist John Bunyan (1628-1688)

“The only inspired Words of God are in the King James Bible!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, THE REAL BATTLE!"

“If there is a secret in my life it is this: I do everything by schedule.” —Dr. Jack Hyles

“We believe in the inspiration of the Bible.” —Dr. Bob Jones Sr., “Comments On Here And Hereafter,” page 103; Bob Jones University Press Inc., 1942

“I've stood for more sneers and scoffs and insults and had my life threatened from one end of the land to the other by this God-forsaken gang of thugs and cutthroats because I have come out uncompromisingly against them.” —Evangelist Billy Sunday (1862-1935)

“Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions, translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of our fathers and grandfathers.” —Pastor M.R. DeHaan (1891-1965), “The Tabernacle,” Pg. 101

“God always finds someone to champion the cause.” —Pastor Jeff Owens, "Who Cares Anyhow?"

“More people will die and burn in Hell, because they're trusting too much!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!"

“Everything that's hard and complicated about salvation is God's side of it!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "Yea, Yea, And Nay, Nay!"

“There is much mourning to-day over false 'isms,' infidelity, and the like, but sum them all up, and I do not fear them one half so much as that dead and cold formalism that has crept into the Church of God.” —Pastor Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899)

“Now you say, 'Brother Hyles, you make an issue.' You dead sure better know I'll make an issue!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "THE BATTLE OF THE AGES"

“The King James Bible crowd is going to come out on top!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "THE BATTLE OF THE AGES"

“Repentance don't save you! Calling on the Lord don't save you! You know what saves you? Receiving what Christ done for you on the cross!” —Pastor Danny Castle, "WHY THERE'S A HELL"

“The religions of the world say, 'do and live.' The religion of the Bible says, 'live and do'.” —Dr. Bob Jones Sr. (1883-1968)

“When a person is condemned and goes to Hell, you don't go to Hell because of what you did. You don't go because you lied, you cussed, you drank, you smoked, you drugged; you don't go because you're a homosexual lesbian, adulterer; you don't go to Hell because of what you did, you go to Hell because of what you didn't do! You go to Hell because you did not believe on the name of the only begotten Son of God! You go to Hell and you are rejected, and have God's judgment on you, because you refused to realize and embrace Jesus for Who He is!” —Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr., "Have You Been Born Again?"

“You'd be shocked if you knew, how the versions of the Bible that are coming out, which are so unnecessary and not even Bible. You'd be shocked if you knew what they're doing to cause Christian people to feel subconsciously unstable. You'd be shocked if you knew what it's doing to the nervous system of our people! All these Bibles!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "Don't Chase The Pendulum"

“You say, 'You shouldn't talk trash about other churches!' Well, if they'd stop being trash, I'd stop talking trash!” —Pastor Steven Anderson, "Queer Sounding Music And Skinny Jeans"

“You know the greatest difficulty and hindrance today, is not that people are not good enough. The great hindrance is they're not bad enough, to be saved!” —Pastor J. Vernon McGee (1904-1988), "Why The Gospel Is Not Preached Today"

“Sometimes you may leave here and say, 'I wonder what he's mad about?' I'm not mad about anything, I just know one thing—whatever a preacher quits preaching on, is what his church will fill up with!” —Pastor Phil Kidd, "I Am Ashamed"

“Never let your guard down!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "When You Have To Stand Alone"

“A man doesn't get better to get saved; he gets saved to get better.” —Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995), "Salvation Crystal Clear"

“The greatest need of every individual is to know and hear the gospel and to accept it.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "LET'S GO SOUL WINNING!"

“You don't go to Hell because you won't quit your sinning!” —Pastor Curtis Hutson, "Why Do Men Go To Hell?"

“God doesn't need a brilliant mind, He needs a voice!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "I AM A VOICE!"

“I believe any man in this world, can love any other man in this world, if he thinks right! The reason you hate is because you think hate. The reason you love is because you think love.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "What The Law Could Not Do"

“I will not want the friendship of folks that will not give it to me. I'll be their friend, but I will not want the friendship of somebody that withdraws from me; because I want to be happy, and happiness and riches come when a person's haves and wants equal each other.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "Be Content"

“If you want to never do anything that is terribly wicked, then you never do anything that is slightly wicked.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, "Unjust In The Least".”

“You see, we not only believe the fundamentals of the faith, we believe in Ecclesiastical Separation. You don't yoke up with somebody that is not saved and call him a Christian brother!” —Pastor Curtis Hutson, "Things That Are Different Are Not The Same"

“The only reason that we fear anything is because we are people of little faith. When your faith is small, your fear is great; when your faith is great, your fear is small! America has a fear problem; Christians have a faith problem. Why are you fearful?” —Pastor Chuck Baldwin, “A CONTAGION OF FEAR”

“Don't forget that the whole point of the 'main stream media' is to make enough noise that you don't know the truth!” —Pastor Joel C. Fugate

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.” —Third U.S. President, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

“Human beings just want to be loved... just love the hell out of them!” —Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr.

“I cannot love you as I love myself until I love God as I ought to love Him.” —Dr. Jack Hyles

“The pastors have destroyed the churches, and they've been trained by people that have never built churches, and they have no compassion.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Many Pastors Have Destroyed My Vineyard”

“What we need in this generation, is for about 30,000 churches in the United States to go out of business, and just shut the doors, and let who mean business, get the power of God, and witness to this generation!” —Pastor Danny Castle, “How To Have Power With God”

“When you get dissed by men—the whole reason God allowed you to be dissed—is because He didn't want you to fit in! He don't want you to fit in with the world. He don't want you to fit in with the rest of the group! He don't want you to be just like them! 'Cause there is something special about you! There's an assignment for you. There's a call for you. There's an anointing for your life. God does not want you to fit in!” —Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr., “Being Dissed”

“Lord, help me to preach today as if it were the last sermon I would ever preach.” —Dr. Jack Hyles

“There is no greater joy in the Christian life than to trust Him and need no explanation.” —Dr. Jack Hyles

“Salvation can only be evidenced by works, if works are required to be saved.” —Pastor Ralph “Yankee” Arnold, “Why Lordship Salvation Is Wrong!”

Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do!” —Pastor Jack Hyles

“The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.” —Brother Lester Roloff

“The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.“ —Billy Sunday

“When someone does something wrong, make it a point to never forget all the things they did right.” —Pastor Bob Gray Sr.

“I've stood for more sneers and scoffs and insults and had my life threatened from one end of the land to the other by this God-forsaken gang of thugs and cutthroats because I have come out uncompromisingly against them.” —Billy Sunday

“We're saved because we have faith in Jesus. We believe that He died on the cross. We believe He was buried, and stayed there for three days, and we believe He got up out of the grave. ...The law never gives life!” —Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr., “Justified: The Book Of Galatians, Chapter 2”

“Nobody can love God who doesn't love sinners!” —Dr. Jack Hyles, “The Happiest Man”

“Ladies and gentlemen, one of the saddest things in fundamentalism today is the fact that you hardly can find a fundamentalist that literally walks in the Spirit; almost unheard of, almost unheard of.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “What Blocks You From The Spirit Filled Life?”

“I do not think I've ever seen fundamentalists as carnal as I do now.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “What Blocks You From The Spirit Filled Life?”

“I am concerned about the fundamentalism in America that's churchianity. I guarantee you, you'll be just like the new-evangelical crowd in a few years, unless we stop to realize that we're supposed to walk in the Spirit of God almighty!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “What Blocks You From The Spirit Filled Life?”

“I am so sick and tired of Christian people gettin' mad at each other because of the dollar, I don't know what to do. I wonder sometimes if there is anybody left that's spiritual. I really do. I mean, fuss about a dollar. If a guy wants some of your money, let him have the money! I mean, I spend a lot of my time refereeing fights of people in this church, who get mad at each other because of money. Listen, there's not enough of that to fight over.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “What Blocks You From The Spirit Filled Life?”

“I'm tired of us calling them 'gay.' They're not gay. Gay is a mighty good word to denote happiness and joy. I'm tired of the queers choosing the 'gay' word for themselves. Let's take it back!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “What Blocks You From The Spirit Filled Life?”

David J. Stewart

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Great Peace Comes From Resting In God's Promises

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