Proving God's Promises: A Call to Faith

Let us never my friends think hardly of our God till we can prove anything against him he says to all his unbelieving children who are doubtful of his goodness and his grace prove me now hast thou ought against me can thou prove ought that will be dishonorable to me wherein have I ever broken my promise in what have I failed to fulfill my word ah thou can not say that prove me now if thou Hast ought against me if thou can say anything against my honor if thou Hast hitherto not received answers to prayer and blessings according to promise set me not down as false I beseech thee until thou Hast so proved me. [00:02:04]

In meditating on this subject it has occurred to me that all the works of creation are proofs of God they evidence his eternal power and godhead but in as much as he is not only the Creator but the sustainer of them all they make continual proof of him his goodness his faithfulness and his care me thinks when God launched the Sun from his hand hand and sent him on his course he said prove me now see oh son if I do not uphold thee till thou Hast done thy Work and finish thy career thou mayest rejoice as a strong man to run a race but while thou fulfill thy circuits and nothing is hid from thy heat Thou shalt prove my glory and shed light upon my handiwork. [00:06:33]

It is a great fact beloved that God will have all his children to be proofs of the various attributes of his nature I do not think any one of the children of God proves all of God but that they are all proving different parts of his one grand character so that when the whole history of Providence shall be written and the lives of all the saints shall be recorded the title of the book will be proofs of God there will be one compendious proof that he is God and changeth not that with him there is no variableness neither shadow of turning. [00:09:37]

There are different sorts of promises given in God's word which have to be proved in different ways in the Bible there are three kinds of promises in the first class I will place the conditional promises such as are intended for certain characters given alone to them and them only on certain conditions there is a second class referring exclusively to the Future the Fulfillment of which does not relate to us at the present time while there is a third and most glorious class called absolute promises which have no conditions whatever or which graciously Supply the requirements that the conditional promises demand. [00:17:12]

In order to prove conditional promises then it is necessary for us to fulfill the condition that God has annexed to them he says bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse that there may be meat in mine house and prove me now here with no man can prove god with reference to This Promise till he has brought all the ties into the storehouse for it is here with this promise has to be proved suppose the Lord says call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me the only way of proving him is by calling upon him in the time of trouble. [00:19:20]

Now the absolute promise is not to be proved by doing anything but by believing in it all I can do with an absolute promise is to believe it if I were to try to fulfill a condition it would not be accepted by God because no condition is appended to that kind of Promise he might well say to me if thou Hast fulfilled the condition of another promise Thou shalt have it but I have put no condition to this one I have said I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my ways ye shall be my people and I will be your God. [00:22:02]

Do you know what is the most perilous time in a Christian's life I think I could hit upon it in a moment now many persons I might well say all Christians are ever most apprehensive of the present hour suppose they are in trouble though they may have had 10 times worse troubles before they forget all about them and now is the most critical day they ever knew or if they are at ease they say far more the treacherous calm I dread than tempests rolling over my head and they think no position in life more dangerous than now. [00:27:50]

If we do nothing glorifies God more than proving him when a poor hungry child of God without a crust in the cupboard says Lord thou has said that bread shall be given me and water shall be sure I will prove thee more glory is given to God by that simple proof of him than by the Hallelujah of the archangels when some poor despairing sinner who has been fluttering round the word in hopes that he may light on some sweet promise there some sure defense against despair when such and one giveth Credence to God's promise in the very teeth of evidence against him staggering not at the promise through unbelief then he glorifies God. [00:37:51]

Beloved brethren we endure 10 times as much anxiety in this world as we need because we confide not in Divine promises half as much as we might if we were to live more on God's promises and less on creature feelings we should be happier men and women all of us could we live always in faith on the Promises the shafts of the enemy could never reach us let us constantly then seek to prove him how much good Mr Müller has done by proving God he is called by God to a special work what does he do he builds an orphan Asylum and trusts to God he has no regular income but he says I will prove to the world that God hears prayer. [00:42:49]

Prove me now thus saith my God unto thee Oh sinner whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved Sav D my dear hearer art thou lost and ruined prove God now he says call unto me and I will answer thee come now and call unto him he hath said seek and ye shall find oh seek Him Now knock he says and it shall be opened unto you lift up the knocker of Heaven's Door and sound it with all thy might or suppose Thou Art too weak to knock let the knocker fall down of itself he has said ask and ye shall receive seek and you shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you go and prove the promise now. [00:42:49]

Thou thinkest thyself to be a lost one therefore I urge thee in Christ's name to prove this promise I even I am he that blot out thy transgressions for mine own sake and will not remember thy sins take this to him and say oh God I want Faith to trust Thy word I know thou does mean what thou Hast said thou Hast said this morning by the mouth of th Minister prove me now Lord I will prove thee now this very day even till Nightfall if thou do not answer me I will still keep fast by thy promise do this my beloved and you will not be gone long before you will be able to sing I'm forgiven I'm forgiven I'm a miracle of Grace. [00:42:49]

Now do not stand still and say God will not hear such a one as I am my disease is too bad had for him to cure go and see put your hand on the Hem of His Garment and then if the blood is not staunched go and tell the world that thou has proved God wrong go and tell it if thou Durst but oh thou can not if thou dust Touch the Hem of His Garment I know what thou will say I have tasted that the Lord is gracious he said trust in me and I will deliver Thee I have trusted in him and he has delivered me for the promise will always have its fulfillment prove me now saith God Amen. [00:42:49]