2. Act 3 - God Promises

3. Acts 26:6ff And now it is because of my hope in what God has promised our ancestors that I am on trial today. This is the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass: that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”

4. God’s Faithfulness to The Promise should cause us to Live Redemptively.
Act 3 God Promises

5. Act 1 - God Creates
Act 2 - God is Rejected
Act 3 - God Promises

6. God’s Faithfulness to The Promise should cause us to Live Redemptively.
Act 3 God Promises

7. Guidelines Regarding Promises
Conditional vs. Unconditional
Near fulfillment & Final Fulfillment
Individual/Specific vs. People of God
How I see it vs. How God sees it….
Rest in the Promise vs. Lean on it…

8. 3 ANCHORS FOR THE PROMISE
The Hope of the Promise – Restoration
The Character of the Promiser – Faithful
The Path of the Promise – Dysfunctional People

9. Act 3 God Promises
The Genealogy of Jesus Christ
Naomi, Ruth & Boaz

10. Act 3 God Promises The Genealogy of Jesus Christ Naomi, Ruth & Boaz
Ruth 1:6 Naomi heard that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them…

11. God’s Faithfulness to The Promise should cause us to Live Redemptively.
Act 3 God Promises

12. 2 Pet. 3:1-4 This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles,  knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.  They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”

13. 2 Pet. 3:8-9 (cont.)
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.  
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

14. 2 Pet. 3:11-15 (cont.)  
Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,  waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God,  . . . according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. And count the patience of our Lord as salvation. . .

15. 2 Pet. 3:15-18 There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

16. God’s Faithfulness to The Promise should cause us to Live Redemptively.
Act 3 God Promises