2 CORINTHIANS 1

19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in Him was yea.

20 For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

YES AND AMEN 

Man is incapable of saving himself from the penalty of sin which is death.  All of his attempts to improve himself can do nothing to make him right with the living God.  As Jesus said in John 15,  “Without me…YE CAN DO NOTHING.”

Becoming a Christian is the most significant thing anyone can do, because it deals with the root cause of their pain – alienation from God.

Paul who was preaching the gospel in Corinth, says in verse 19 that the gospel he had been preaching was not yea or nay, or yes or no, but it was the truth completely and utterly. Jesus does not say one thing and mean another, he is not yes and no…but YES.  To love, He says, YES.  To Joy, He says YES.  To Peace, He says YES.  To you, He says YES!

Therefore every promise that we have is based on Him and if He is truth then we can depend on the promises He made. When He says that HE WILL NEVER LEAVE US OR FORSAKE US…count on it.  A promise is only as good as the person making it.  In Christ their is “no variableness or shadow of turning.”  His promises are sure and His Word is truth.  Lean on Him.  Depend on Him.  Trust in Him.

MATTHEW HENRY PUTS IT LIKE THIS:

 For God is true, and the Son of God, Jesus Christ, is true. The true God, and eternal life. Jesus Christ, whom the apostle preached, is not yea and nay, but in him was yea (v. 19), nothing but infallible truth. And the promises of God in Christ are not yea and nay, but yea and amen, v. 20. There is an inviolable constancy and unquestionable sincerity and certainty in all the parts of the gospel of Christ. If in the promises that the ministers of the gospel make as common men, and about their own affairs, they see cause sometimes to vary from them, yet the promises of the gospel covenant, which they preach, stand firm and inviolable. Bad men are false; good men are fickle; but God is true, neither fickle nor false. The apostle, having mentioned the stability of the divine promises, makes a digression to illustrate this great and sweet truth, that all the promises of God are yea and amen. For, 1. They are the promises of the God of truth (v. 20), of him that cannot lie, whose truth as well as mercy endureth for ever. 2. They are made in Christ Jesus (v. 20), the Amen, the true and faithful witness; he hath purchased and ratified the covenant of promises, and is the surety of the covenant, Heb. 7:22. 3. They are confirmed by the Holy Spirit. 

Have full confidence in God’s promises.  He will speak peace in the midst of your storm.  Keep praying.  Keep believing.

God bless you

Keith