Details of the Day of Lord (Part Three): 1 Thessalonians 5 by Dr. Rod Mattoon

Scripture

• 1 Thessalonians 5

About this sermon

We are to put on the breastplate of faith and love. These two issues are addressed in this third part of the Day of the Lord series. Listed below are some thoughts about faith. * Insights about Faith * Faith is not a shelter against any difficulties, but belief in the face of all contradictions and complications. * Faith is the capacity to trust in the Lord while not being able to make sense out of everything in your life. Some things won't make sense, but faith enables us to wait until the fog and confusion clear. Like an arid sponge that soaks up water, faith draws the poison from every grief. It takes the sting out of every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain. * Faith is also the conviction that God does not and will not ever tell any lie to us. He is the epitome of truth. The character of God is the foundation of our faith. His words to us are enduring and eternal because they are true. * Faith is our acceptance of God's acceptance of us. In fact, no faith is genuine faith which believes that something extra needs to be added to the death of Jesus to make us acceptable to God. * Faith is what brings an empty man to God, that he may be filled with the blessings of God. * Faith will not always get for us what we want, but it will get what God wants us to have and need. * Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse. When we look back, the confusion we faced becomes clear. * Faith is a humble, self-effacing grace because it makes the believer nothing in himself and his own abilities, but it does make God to be everything. * Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1). This 31-minute message was preached on Sunday night, May 16, 2021, at Lincoln Land Baptist Church.