How Did God Keep His Promise?
How Did God Keep His Promise?Chapter 2 — People, Sin and the Promise
Lesson 15: How Did God Keep His Promise?God led history so that, at the right time, the promised Savior would come.
Explanation
God never forgets what He promises. Even if many years can pass between the promise and its fulfillment, He leads history with wisdom and power. People see only fragments, but God sees the whole plan from beginning to end.
When it seems to us that God is late, it does not mean that He has forgotten. The coming of Jesus clearly shows that the Lord keeps His word to the end.
Bible story
After whole generations of waiting, Galatians 4:4 says that “when the fulness of the time was come,” God sent His Son. From Eden to Bethlehem, the Lord kept the promise alive and brought the Savior exactly when He had decided.
Remember
- The truth: God led history so that, at the right time, the promised Savior would come.
- Delay does not mean forgetting; God works according to His perfect timing.
- All of history is under the hand of God, who fulfills His plan.
Galatians 4:4
“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,”
Tap to open the verse in Scripture and mark it as read.
- Remember the ways God has already shown you His faithfulness.
- While you wait, keep on obeying and praying; do not despair.
- Look to Jesus as the proof that God carries His promises through to the end.
1. Did God forget the promise He made after the fall?
2. When did Jesus come?
3. What does all of Bible history show?
4. What do we learn from Jesus coming at the right time?