Notes from Judah Smith:
Partial Fulfillment
Hebrews 11:12
2 Kings 4:8-37
Elisha attempt to heal her son:
The staff
Prayed
Lays on the boy
Lays his hands on the boy
Lays on the boy again
Son is healed after 5 attempts & 7 sneezes.
What if the promise is only partially fulfilled?
Have you ever received a promise?
Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
Nothing hurts like a promise from God unfulfilled. Even worse is a partially fulfilled promise.
Hebrews 11:13 we live believing and we die in faith.
If you have unfulfilled/partially fulfilled
Don’t stop embracing what is far off, because of your current circumstances.
Many times, God fulfills His promises to you in the next generation.
God is the initiator, we are the responders. The onus of the promise lies with God.
The Shunnamite woman laid the promise on the man of God’s bed.
All of the Bible points us to Jesus. The promises of God are more about the Promisor than the promises.
Sneezes expel irritant from the lungs. Jesus came to expel sin from our life.
2 Corinthians 1:20 All promises are yes and amen.
Jack Hartford – Jesus is both the promisor and the fulfilment of the promise.
God’s message to you is pick up the Son.
