May 17, 2021: SOAP #4183:  1Kings 2: 1Chronicles 29; Psalm 95; 2Thessalonians 1

SCRIPTURE:  2Thessalonians 1:6 God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you 7 and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. 8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power 10 on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you because you believed our testimony to you.

OBSERVATION: God, who is just, will make everything right.  He will surely punish those who do wrong.  He will just as surely reward those who do right. 

But His promise in the above passage is not necessarily for this life.  Verses 7 and 10 above tell us that making things right will happen when He returns to rule and reign on the earth. 

APPLICATION: Our faith-walk is for now—in this life.  We walk by faith even to and through our death.  We do not need to get our rewards in this life.  God, who is just, is also eternal.  He has all eternity to punish the wicked and reward the righteous. 

PRAYER: Lord, help my faith to not only be strong enough, but also long enough.  I want to be still living by faith when I die.  I do not want my faith to run out before my physical life runs out.  My faith will carry me to and through death’s doors.  In faith I accept that Jesus’ death is the payment for my sins.   Amen

Pastor Leon
Making friends for time and eternity!