There is the promise on his part, then, and he is one party to the contract through his advocate, the Lord Jesus.

And when Christ Jesus the high priest presents him to the Father, Jehovah, the Lord Jehovah in substance says to Honest Heart: 'In consideration of the fact that you have turned away from the wrongful course, and have come to Jesus, and have made a full surrender of yourself in consecration, thereby exercising faith in his blood shed for you and your faith in my plan; and in consideration of the further fact that my beloved Son has imputed to you his merit to make you acceptable before me, I accept you and determine that you are right or justified, and accepting you as a part of his sacrifice, I give to you my exceeding great and precious promises that by these you might become partaker of the divine nature' .-- 2 Peter 1:4.
[335]This is in harmony with St.James' statement: "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures".

(James 1:18) The Psalmist shows that this begetting is in the nature of a contract when he says: "Gather my saints together unto me; those who have made a covenant [contract] with me by sacrifice".

(Psalm 50:5) Honest Heart now being begotten has the promise of life upon the highest plane, the divine nature.

He is begotten to a new hope of life.