Chapter 5
1Thess 5:9-11
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
We have the statement or the reference to avoiding wrath again: “For God hath not appointed us to wrath” (note Rom 5:9 & 1Thess 1:10)
Rom 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
1Thess 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
Wrath is not something we are appointed to; we have been delivered from (past tense), and shall be saved from (future tense) obviously. And he starts out the phrase with a “For…” to give reason for our faith, love and hope. And then contrasts the sleeping drunken ones in the dark and in the night by the reason of obtaining “salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ”; not by anything we have done, by solely from the one we are trusting, the Lord Jesus Christ – we are saved from all this destruction because we are saved by Jesus Christ.
Why him? Paul reminds the Thessalonians (and us) again: because he is the one “Who died for us” and must be alive. Why must he be alive? Because we “should live together with him”; the only way to live together with someone is if they are alive. So Paul manages to put back into our memory, unless we have believed in vain, how that Christ died for our sins, according to scripture, and was buried, and rose again the third day, according to scripture.[1Cor15:1-4]
Paul also puts in here a “whether we wake or sleep” phrase, so even if we are not awake and sober and watching, we are in the age of grace, Christ has us covered.
That is not a license to just go our own way and be sloppy lousy crusty Christians, to just go and sin and forget what we have been translated to, but it does mean that God is true to his word and his promises to us and the members of the body of Christ, AND he does not lie…
Titus 1:2
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
Wrath is not something we are appointed to; we have been delivered from (past tense), and shall be saved from (future tense) obviously. And he starts out the phrase with a “For…” to give reason for our faith, love and hope. And then contrasts the sleeping drunken ones in the dark and in the night by the reason of obtaining “salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ”; not by anything we have done, by solely from the one we are trusting, the Lord Jesus Christ – we are saved from all this destruction because we are saved by Jesus Christ.
Why him? Paul reminds the Thessalonians (and us) again: because he is the one “Who died for us” and must be alive. Why must he be alive? Because we “should live together with him”; the only way to live together with someone is if they are alive. So Paul manages to put back into our memory, unless we have believed in vain, how that Christ died for our sins, according to scripture, and was buried, and rose again the third day, according to scripture.[1Cor15:1-4]
Paul also puts in here a “whether we wake or sleep” phrase, so even if we are not awake and sober and watching, we are in the age of grace, Christ has us covered.
That is not a license to just go our own way and be sloppy lousy crusty Christians, to just go and sin and forget what we have been translated to, but it does mean that God is true to his word and his promises to us and the members of the body of Christ, AND he does not lie…
Titus 1:2
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Heb 6:18
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
“Wherefore”…why, for which reason… “comfort”. Did we not here this in chapter 4? After hearing about the catching up of the body of Christ with the dead saints who are also members of that same body?
1Thess 4:17-18
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Then there should be comfort, and twice as much now! We are getting caught up in the air to meet the Lord (before the tribulation and judgments on the earth) and we won’t be appointed to wrath, but be saved from it.
Comfort together and edify together, one another; the local assembly (which is part of the larger assembly from the first century until today) should be telling, teaching, building each other up with these words, with the great hope that we have before us, that we posses today. Amen.
(Unfortunately most have abandoned these doctrines, forgot about Paul, and pursuing a big box, mass marketed “Christianity”.)
Hope – confident expectation of what we KNOW will come to pass; and we KNOW because of Faith: Gad said it; and God CANNOT lie.
Grace and Peace James
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