3558 — God's Word to His Children
By Editor
I can not understand 2 Cor. 1:18. Will you please make it plain? The verse is a statement of the apostle Paul to the Corinthian brethren: "But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay." In other words it was not uncertain. It was not yes and no; it was not agreement with every passing whim; it was not a compromise with every false philosophy. It is a great principle which ought to be cherished by the ministers of Jesus Christ now. The Corinthian brethren were in danger of this very thing. One says, "I am of Paul;" and another, "I am of Apollos;" and another, "I am of Cephas." One taught one thing, and another taught another. Paul reminds them that God's Word was not thus; it was not toward them yea and nay: "for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in Him was yea. For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him amen, unto the glory of God by us." All were sure, all were approved of God.