We will focus on verses 37 and 38.
In yesterday’s Scripture, we considered on how we could render “to God the things that are God’s.” We acknowledged that God owns everything, and we owe God everything. We searched through a few Scriptures and a few Reformed confessions to find out our duties to God. Without God’s grace, such task is overwhelming.
But, then today, we get the encouragement of this Scripture which puts the focus back on God. God is our God, the God of the living, and we all live to Him!
Romans 14:7-8 helps us to understand this point. “For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself; for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.”
In other words, we can gain comfort that we are not our own. We are the Lord’s! We are not dependent on ourselves to fulfill our duties to God in front of God as if God has His arms folded and waiting to judge us. “for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” Philippians 2:13.
The Heidelberg Catechism states it so well.
Question 1. What is thy only comfort in life and death?
Answer. That I with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong unto my faithful Savior Jesus Christ; who, with his precious blood, hath fully satisfied for all my sins, and delivered me from all the power of the devil; and so preserves me that without the will of my heavenly Father, not a hair can fall from my head; yea, that all things must be subservient to my salvation, and therefore, by his Holy Spirit, he also assures me of eternal life, and makes me sincerely willing and ready, henceforth, to live unto him.
This is why Reformed Doctrine a/k/a Calvinism is so sweet and irresistable!
Arminianism and other man-made doctrine focuses on man and what man should do. Such doctrine stays there with its points: man’s goodness, man’s free-will, conditional election dependent on man performing the condition triggering election, and fall from grace based on man’s actions.
Reformed Doctrine a/k/a Calvinism focuses on God and what He has done for us with its points: God’s unconditional election, Christ’s atonement which supplies all that we need for salvation including saving faith, God’s irresistible grace, and God’s preservation of the saints. Truly, “we are the Lord’s.”
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