“This promise belongs to all believers because God is the same yesterday, today and forever. ‘I am the LORD; I change not‘ (Malachi 3:6).
Ah! the unchangeableness of God! Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.
And there is another reason why this promise of Scripture belongs to believers now; it is that all believers are one body, and therefore whatever belongs to one, belongs to all.
All believers are branches of one vine; and therefore if God say to one branch, ‘I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee‘, he says so to all.
And therefore, for these two reasons, this makes the Bible not a book written for one, but a book written to me: a letter by the Lord, and directed to me.
And therefore every word of divine love and tenderness that He has written in this Book belongs to me.”
–Robert M. M’Cheyne, A Basket of Fragments: Notes for Revival (Geanies House, Scotland: Christian Focus, 1848/2001), 179.
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