What Promise

Titus 1:1-3 English Standard Version

1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began 3 and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;

In verse 2 Paul declares that God made a promise before He created everything. Since God was alone in eternity it begs to ask, to whom did He make a promise and what was that promise.

John 1:1-3 English Standard Version

The Word Became Flesh

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

John’s gospel has declared that Jesus Christ, the Son of God is the Word. God the Father and Jesus Christ created all things. We will discover God’s promise in the life of Jesus Christ.

John the Baptist reveals his duty to God in this one line of scripture.

John 3:29 English Standard Version (ESV) The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.

JB’s purpose was to introduce the bride to the bridegroom.

The promise of God the Father to His Son was to create for Him a bride to love and be loved by her.

How He came about achieving that promise can only be discovered in His Word.

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