2 Peter 1:19-20. Whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
It is not to be kept by any man to himself. God spoke to Jacob at Bethel, and we read concerning it, in Hosea 12:4, "there he spake with us." With regard to the children of Israel rejoicing at the Red Sea, we read, in the sixty-sixth Psalm, "There did we rejoice in him." The promises God made to this believing man or that he makes to all believing men. You remember that text, "He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." That promise was first of all spoken to Joshua, yet Paul quoted it, in writing the Epistle to the Hebrews, as if it was spoken to every believer, and so indeed it is. No apostle, no prophet, could hedge up a promise, and say, "This was mine and nobody else’s." It is a common heritage of all the saints. Every promise is within the boundary of the covenant of grace, and all who are in that covenant are heirs of all the promises, to whomsoever they were made.
2 Peter 1:19-20. Whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
It is not to be kept by any man to himself. God spoke to Jacob at Bethel, and we read concerning it, in Hosea 12:4, "there he spake with us." With regard to the children of Israel rejoicing at the Red Sea, we read, in the sixty-sixth Psalm, "There did we rejoice in him." The promises God made to this believing man or that he makes to all believing men. You remember that text, "He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." That promise was first of all spoken to Joshua, yet Paul quoted it, in writing the Epistle to the Hebrews, as if it was spoken to every believer, and so indeed it is. No apostle, no prophet, could hedge up a promise, and say, "This was mine and nobody else’s." It is a common heritage of all the saints. Every promise is within the boundary of the covenant of grace, and all who are in that covenant are heirs of all the promises, to whomsoever they were made.