Message 19 - 1thessalonians Chapter 5:24 – The Lord Is Faithful And Will Bring It All To Pass Series

MESSAGE 19 - 1THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 5:24 – THE LORD IS FAITHFUL AND WILL BRING IT ALL TO PASS

{{1Thessalonians 5:24 “Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.”}}

Of whom is this verse 24 speaking? Who is the faithful One who has called? A person who is faithful will carry out his word, and bring to pass what he has promised. We can’t go dividing up the Trinity but I really do feel that this verse follows on in Paul’s mind from the previous verse which is this one – {{1Thessalonians 5:23 “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”}} In that case, the verse speaks of the God of peace, the One who sanctifies us, and preserves our spirit, soul and body complete until the Rapture. At the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ, God will bring it all to pass: that is, all the promises made, and all that He has kept in His hand. You know, you are in the Father’s hand. If you truly belong to Christ you are always securely in the Father’s hand.

These two verses I am now quoting are two of the strongest security verses in the bible (speaking of the sheep in the Lord’s flock). {{John 10:28 and I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. John 10 v 29 My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. You are in the hand of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the hand of the Father. Please accept that through faith. Claim it by faith. You are secure in Him. You are sanctified by the Spirit and kept by the Father and the Son, preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. That is why the God of peace allows you to walk in His peace, but sometimes, on the roads of difficulty, and with some serious stumbles at times.

Returning to the questions that began this message – “Of whom is this verse 24 speaking? Who is the faithful One?” It says, “Faithful is He who calls you” and the Father calls you through the conviction ministry of the Holy Spirit, into the fellowship with the Son. Possibly, one of the best known verses about God calling us is this one from Peter in his first letter – {{1Peter 2:9 “but you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies (excellence) of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvellous light.”}} As I said, we can not really divide up the Trinity, but we know in our calling to salvation, the Father and Son and Holy Spirit were, and are, all vitally involved, and will preserve us, and bring all the promises given to us, to pass.

What are the promises? What are the promises that God has given to His children, and which will come to pass? I could outline some of these, but for now I want to place the promises into categories. Here we go –

1. ALL THE PROMISES FAITHFULLY MADE TO ISRAEL

Being the earthly people of God, Israel has had hundreds of promises and prophecies over the years given by God, and every one of them has been fulfilled in regard to those ones that concerned judgement on Israel, and particularly the coming of the Messiah 2000 years ago. God was faithful and brought these to pass. However, as most of you know, many promises have not come to pass yet. Large chunks of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the Minor Prophets, and Matthew 24, and Revelation are still to see fulfillment. God’s time clock stopped with Israel nationally in the early chapters of the Acts, when the message was rejected, and Stephen was stoned. God is faithful to Israel, called “My Son” by Jehovah, but His working again with that nation, will not start again until the Church is taken away in the Rapture. Then will come to pass all that the faithful God has promised – national salvation and restoration; security of land and expansion of land; Israel becomes the chief nation of the world, and in a grouping, Egypt and Assyria and Israel are in a special relationship; the temple will be rebuilt in the Millennium and the Messiah reigns as King of kings and Lord of lords over the whole earth from Jerusalem.

2. ALL THE PROMISES FAITHFULLY MADE TO THE CHURCH