Bible Promises?

 

Bible Promises?

 

For those Christians who live by the promises of GOD, go back and read them in context! I heard Televangelist and Pastor Jim Bakker tell his listeners to throw away their Scripture Promise Boxes; and I agree, if you only read the promise and not the context you will most likely not get the promise. For example, “All things work together for good.”, sometimes they quote, “All things work together for the good of those who love GOD.” But the Scripture is, “And we know that all things work together for good to those who Love GOD, to those who are The called according to His Purpose.” Romans 8:21 NKJV

 

So just taking that verse as a whole statement, it says, “And (that means everything that was before this sentence) we know that all things (good and bad) work together for good (yea) to those who love GOD (Opps – study 1 John 4 if you want to know what that means), to those who are The Called (study Romans 12 to understand what that means) according to His (GOD’s) Purpose (not our desire or understanding of GOD’s Purpose – the Purpose of every person who claims to be a Christian is Mark 4:21-25; Mark 8:34-38; John 8:31-32; Mark 16:14-18).”; that’s just the context of this sentence!

 

Now the context of Paul’s whole statement is Romans 8:18-39, and actually the whole letter to the Romans. This is why you should not except a promise based on a sentence or short passage of scripture! Study the context; who wrote it, to whom was it written, why was it written (Most Bibles have this information at the beginning of each Book, some are better than others.); then you will begin to understand how it applies to your life. It is good to have a couple of different translations of the Bible for comparison.