Yes and Amen

Yes and Amen

“For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.”

Every promise comes with a condition, and every promise received its “Yes” in Jesus. “Behold I have come—in the volume of the book it is written of Me—to do Your will, O God!” Jesus came to fulfill the law and the prophets. Everything that was written in the volume of the book received its Yes in Him—but not only its Yes. It also received its Amen. On the cross He said, “It is finished!” He was wedded to His Yes until it was “finished.” The fact that He rose from the dead confirmed His Amen. Rom. 1:4. He had conquered death; the promises were fulfilled.

We can ask this question: “What was between His Yes and His Amen? It was the new and living way that goes through the veil, that is, His flesh, of which He had partaken just as the children. Heb. 2:14, 10:19-20. Jesus consecrated this way. There are sufferings in the flesh between the Yes and the Amen. If a person doesn’t want to suffer in the flesh as Jesus did, he cannot cease from sin. 1 Pet. 4:1-2.

There have been great revivals in many places where hundreds and thousands have said Yes to Jesus, but when they came into sufferings because of their Yes, they said No. They fell away from their Yes. Instead of standing by their Yes and suffering in the flesh, and through faith and patience inheriting the promises, they began to live according to the flesh. Heb. 6:11-12. Their Yes never received its Amen.

On this point many preachers commit a grave sin against their listeners. They speak movingly about the glory we can obtain by faith, but they hide the way—suffering in the flesh—for the promises to be fulfilled. They don’t do what Jesus did; He let the people know the conditions for being His disciples so they could count the cost. Luke 14:25-33. Then they knew to what they said Yes. However, generally speaking, preachers are interested in having a revival, and counting how many have said Yes, but they never speak about how many of them have stood by their Yes or not. Such revivals are just a human show.

“Therefore, when I was planning this, did I do it lightly? Or the things I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be Yes, Yes, and No, No?” It is apparent that many people take their Yes lightly, and as soon as the sufferings appear, they renege on their Yes. They never obtain the promises. We are “heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.” Rom. 8:17. Then Jesus’ work is to the glory of God “through us.”