Reformed Doctrine Daily Devotions

Today’s devotion comes from 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11.

 

“Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you.  For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.  While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.  But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you  like a thief;  for you are all sons of light and sons of day.  We are not of night nor of darkness;  so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.  For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night.

 

But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.  For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.  Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.”  1 Thessalonians 5:1-11.

 

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Our “hope of salvation” is predestination:  “God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation“.  Because of this predestination, we will not receive the wrath of God in “the day of the Lord” in today’s Scripture. 

 

We are not embarrassed about predestination a/k/a the “Unconditional Election” of “TULIP”, the Five Points of Calvinism, the Reformed Doctrine of Salvation.  We are not ashamed of it.  We do not obscure it nor minimize it.  We do not hide it.

                         

Psalm 40:10
“I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;  I have spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation;  I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.”

                                        

Rather, we exult in predestination a/k/a the “Unconditional Election” of “TULIP”, the Five Points of Calvinism, the Reformed Doctrine of Salvation.  “Then Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the LORD;  My horn is exalted in the LORD, My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, Because I rejoice in Your salvation.”  1 Samuel 2:1

 

Isaiah 61:10
“I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, My soul will exult in my God;  For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.”

                       

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.  In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.”  Ephesians 1:3-6.

 

 

Therefore, we pound the table on “TULIP”, the Five Points of Calvinism, the Reformed Doctrine of Salvation, and we encourage one another and build up one another as to predestination a/k/a “Unconditional Election”, our hope of salvation.