Episode 304: The Promise Keeper
You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo
ACTS XXIX
4.9 • 624 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Scripture: Jeremiah 31:7-9
St. Augustine's Commentary Excerpt on Psalm 109:
God is faithful. He has made himself our debtor, not by receiving anything from us but by promising us so much. The promise alone was not enough for him: he wanted it in writing, so that he could be held to it, practically entering into a contract with us that listed the promises he was making. In that way, when he began to fulfill his promises, we could see the order of their fulfillment by looking in Scripture. Therefore the time of the prophets was the time of making promises.
He promised us eternal salvation and an unending life of blessedness with the angels, and an imperishable inheritance, the joy of seeing his face, a dwelling-place with him in heaven, and the fear of death removed from us through the resurrection. This is, if you like, his ultimate promise. We look forward to it, and when we reach it, we will want nothing more. But as to how this final end is to be reached, he has also told us in promises and prophecies.
He has promised to men that they will be like God; to mortals he has promised immortality; to sinners, righteousness; to the lowly, glory.
Indeed, brethren, because what God promised seemed incredible to men - that from mortality, decay, weakness, lowliness, dust and ashes they should become equals of the angels of God - he did not only sign a contract with them to convince them. He sent, not just any prince, not just any angel or archangel, but his only Son. The road by which he was to lead us to the end he had promised us - through his Son he would show us that road.
Even so, it was not enough for God to send his Son to point out the way - he made his Son the way itself, so that we can go on our journey guided by him as he walks along his own way.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to You Were Born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo, Mary |
| 0:07.4 | Guilfoyle. We're a couple of missionaries at Acts 29, and this is the podcast. What we talk about |
| 0:13.0 | how acquiring a biblical worldview brings us great hope in the God who created and rescued this world |
| 0:20.5 | in order that we can be agents of transformation and recreation in the God who created and rescued this world in order that we can be |
| 0:22.2 | agents of transformation and recreation in that same world. And Mary, isn't that ever the tee-up |
| 0:28.9 | for this conversation we're going to have today? I'll say hope is the operative word here today. Hope, hope, |
| 0:33.9 | hope. Absolutely. And who doesn't need a fresh dose of hope? So our topic is... The promise |
| 0:39.3 | keeper. Ooh, the promise keeper. I wonder who that might be. Hey, maybe just a quick word of thanks. |
| 0:44.8 | We'd ask everybody to pray. We're always sharing prayer requests and we do that just because |
| 0:48.5 | we're so dependent on prayer, but we asked people to pray for a leadership immersive that we were hosting last week, |
| 0:55.2 | and it was just an amazingly grace-filled time. And we've got an international leadership immersive |
| 1:01.5 | coming this week, don't we? We did. We had an international flair last week. We have more friends |
| 1:05.9 | coming from Europe this week, and we are so excited, and it never gets old, Father John. |
| 1:13.0 | No, it really doesn't. |
| 1:13.7 | The Holy Spirit is faithful. |
| 1:15.9 | And again, starting with that transformation of our minds around acquiring, reacquiring, |
| 1:23.5 | a biblical way of seeing everything. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 1:26.6 | So we got people coming in from Canada, from Europe, and from the United States this week. |
| 1:31.2 | So we ask you to please pray for us that we'll just get out of the way and the Holy Spirit will just move in power. |
| 1:36.6 | Amen, amen. |
| 1:37.9 | How about we pray? |
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