1 Corinthians 1:6-8 KJV
Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
While the text only publishes two confirmations a third one is without doubt implied. The word “confirm” means to be established. So we find here a past confirmation and future confirmation and an implied present confirmation.
The testimony of Christ was confirmed in you.
This gospel has not merely been presented and preached to them, but it has become confirmed to be in them. Their testimony has become the evidence to confirm that this gospel has had saving effect in them.
Who shall confirm you unto the end
As the gospel testimony has worked effectively and been confirmed to be in them, so now God will not only confirm that gospel but will also confirm them personally. God will work effectively in them to the end so that they are presented blameless before the Lord.
This implies that God has also already confirmed them.
This is not merely something that will happen to them, it is something that has happened. They are currently confirmed blameless before the Lord.
And it could only be such. The work of the gospel so effectively ministers to the believer that, while they know they are not perfect in their flesh, they have the witness of the Spirit of God in their spirit that God has wrought in them a supernatural deliverance and transformation. It is confirmed in the believer. He knows it to be a truth in his soul. He not only believes it to be the case, he is assured of it in the spirit.
Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
While the text only publishes two confirmations a third one is without doubt implied. The word “confirm” means to be established. So we find here a past confirmation and future confirmation and an implied present confirmation.
The testimony of Christ was confirmed in you.
This gospel has not merely been presented and preached to them, but it has become confirmed to be in them. Their testimony has become the evidence to confirm that this gospel has had saving effect in them.
Who shall confirm you unto the end
As the gospel testimony has worked effectively and been confirmed to be in them, so now God will not only confirm that gospel but will also confirm them personally. God will work effectively in them to the end so that they are presented blameless before the Lord.
This implies that God has also already confirmed them.
This is not merely something that will happen to them, it is something that has happened. They are currently confirmed blameless before the Lord.
And it could only be such. The work of the gospel so effectively ministers to the believer that, while they know they are not perfect in their flesh, they have the witness of the Spirit of God in their spirit that God has wrought in them a supernatural deliverance and transformation. It is confirmed in the believer. He knows it to be a truth in his soul. He not only believes it to be the case, he is assured of it in the spirit.
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