The Resurrection Is The Promise.
Acts 13:26-35 "...And we declare to you glad tidings - that promise which was made to the fathers. God has fulfilled this for us their children, IN THAT HE HAS RAISED UP JESUS . As it is also written in the second Psalm: You are My Son Today I have begotten You. (Verse 32-33 of our text) It is intriguing to discover what the real promise is. What God promised to the Patriarchs, the Fathers, the Predecessors of our Faith. It was not It was not generational wealth. It was not political power. It was not social affluence. It was the Resurrection. The Resurrection is the promise; the mother of promises if we understand it The things that turned dead through Adam, God promised to bring back to life. The Resurrection would be the platform. When he time was ripe, the sign would be this - God would raise His first son from death so that He would be the FIRSTBORN FROM THE DEAD. And lead other things to follow suit shortly after. The Fathers must have been ecstatic in pa...