According to Promise - Part Three

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According to Promise – Part Three

13. The Rule without Exception
14. Taking Possession of the Promise
15. Endorsing the Promise
16. The Promise Used For This Life
17. Searching Out the Promise
18. The Time of the Promise
19. The Promises in Possession through the Spirit
20. Jesus and the Promises

C. H. Spurgeon

13. The Rule without Exception
“Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant” 1 Kings 8:56.
God gives good things to men according to his promise. This is a matter of fact, and not a mere opinion. We declare it, and defy all the world to bring any evidence to disprove the statement.

Upon this point the writer is a personal witness. My experience has been long, and my observation has been wide; but I have never yet met with a person who trusted God, and found the Lord’s promise fail him. I have seen many living men sustained under heavy trials by resting in the word of the Lord, and I have also seen many dying persons made triumphant in death by the same means; but I have never met with a believer who has been made ashamed of his hope because of his temporal afflictions, nor with one who on his deathbed has repented of trusting in the Lord. All my observation points the other way, and confirms me in the persuasion that the Lord is faithful to all who rely upon him. About this matter I should be prepared to make solemn affirmation in a court of justice. I would not utter a falsehood under the pretext of a..