Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Bible Chapel, and this warm December night, the last Wednesday of 2,001 year, we in 22.
So we're here and I'm going to study from the Bible.
Look the Book of Thessalonians, first Sessal Thessalonians, and we're in the fourth chapter now.
And so when we decided to do, that's Salonians.
I was asked what section? What I like to teach on?
And I said, Oh, chapter 4, chapter 4. Is, has a great passage about the Lord's coming, and has been influenced me over the years, and and so that was one reason.
Another reason is, I'd been looking at the the beginning part of chapter 4.
And and and it it just is a real important, I think so.
A passage on on Sexuality and Proper Views of of sexuality and behavior.
And so we we asked the Lord to help us. As we studied this tonight, and consider what on the Scriptures say.
So we have when I last time I spoke, I think, guys.
Well, one of the last times I spoke on Ephesians, the the second half, the fourth chapter of Ephesians, and just sort of the practical things that pertain to the church.
As opposed to maybe the doctrinal things that call uses to set it up.
And this is really what he has going in in Thessalonians.
The first 3 chapters are more personal and some doctrinal things, and and so on.
And then the third the second section begins in chapter 4, and is a kind of a practical area of of study.
Now you remember that Thessalonians starts in the third verse of Thessalonians, where Paul commends these young believers in the Lord Jesus Christ saved one on his second missionary journey to the area.
He wasn't with him very long, but it was one of the first book said he wrote, I believe, and he was saying in verse 3 said, remembering without ceasing, your work of faith, your labor of love.
And your patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the site of our God and Father, is so kind of sets.
These 3 thoughts in motion. You're right in the beginning of oh, the to the Thessalonians, and I think we can see it developing in this portion in in in the practical sections.
So it's a work of faith. That he's talking about.
Oh! Work of faith! A labor of love, and also a a patience of hope.
Yeah, one. So there's some activity here. Work, and there's labor.
And then there's patience, and and then these great thoughts, faith, love, and hope, and I was talking to Ruth a little bit about the the book today, and we're discussing the end part of Thessalonians where he's he's talking about our our spirit in our soul.
And in our body, and for Scealonians 5, 22.
And he says there, and 23 rather. Now, me, the lord of got a piece himself, sanctify you completely, saint of you completely, and make your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that is kind of the x.
Exhortation that that Paul is embarking on in this first section of of chapter 4.
And is there one, in chapter 5 says, Abstain abstain from every form of evil.
And so may it be be so, for for us, as we consider more in detail these passages.
I like to look at the chapter, read the first section. Yeah, you might consider one week.
Finished last week, I think, was Ray, who was teaching you, said on the at the end of Chapter 3.
He said, that he may establish your heart's blameless in holiness before our God the Father, and at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all the saints and so really, that's what how it organizes in chapter 4 with on an appeal for holiness an
Appeal for brotherly love, and then a recognition and an anticipation of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
So I'll read the portion finally. Then, brethren, this is chapter one of verse over 4 verse one of chapter 4.
Finally then brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more.
And just as you receive from from us how you ought to walk, and to please God.
Oh, you'll have to walk, and please God, for you know well what commandments we gave you through our Lord Jesus for this is the will of God and your sanctification, that you should abstain from sexual immorality that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in
Sanctification and honor, and not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles, who do not know God, that no one should take advantage of, and the fraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such he's the avenger of all such as we also forewarned
You and testify verse 7 or God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness
Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, and who has given, who has given us his Holy Spirit.
And so we just like, I pray for this section, father, we bless the the word of God, delivered from by Paul to the Thessalonians, and how it's still pertinent today down here in Walletosa, where we are beset with temptations and and concerns and and
And and evil in our world today. And so we wonder how your Holy Spirit will guide us as we, as we tried to understand these pastages, a little more carefully and completely, and so would you please help me to organize the thoughts prepared that will be effective for our group tonight and then Jesus
Christ Name. We pray.
So when you look at the Scriptures, when they had the fall of Eve and and Adam in the garden, and Sing came into the world, and and so on, and so on, and then the people of Israel, and chosen people were designated as Abraham and his son Isaac and
Jacob and grandson, and then they went into captivity in Egypt, which kind of is an ensnarement of the world in a way, and delivered from Egypt.
Dr. For 400 years, and they crossed as miraculous through the passage and into the into the Red Sea, and into the into the wilderness power of a pillar of cloud by day, in a pillar fire by night, guiding them, and then they sing this marvelous song and
Moses and or is it dishonor Miriam, in verse chapter 16, of Moses?
Of of exitus. I'm sorry. And then chapter 17 finishes with this battle, and it's the battle between basically led by Joshua fighting the battle against the Amalekites.
And I think we understand that these are, yeah people that are beset the children of Israel over the ages.
They h hard to to defeat, and I think we can see that they kind of give us a sense of the flesh that's after us, and and continuing to attack us and the only way they could defeat the Amalekites was when the Moses went up to the mountain Overlooking the
battleground, and Joshua's hmm! Charging way down there with the nation of Israel.
And as Moses arms, he's praying for them, and there will be victorious.
And then he put his arms down, and he did, and they, the Malikites, would get more power.
And so we had to have his arms braced by Aaron and her to hold them, hold them up.
And while they did that they would, they defeated the Amalekites in in that part, and isn't that really symbolic of of the intercessory intercessory, prayer for victory over the the flesh that we need to have and the continual rely on on God Almighty to to
Fight this battle for us, and and to give us the victory.
And so it's interesting how here was a nice symbol of of the cross, really, with holding up his hands.
And and so we see in the Lord Jesus the fulfillment of that victory over, send death in the devil.
And when he died for our sins, and bore our penalty on the cross.
In that time of darkness, and then and then rose from the dead.
And what a great victory he won! And so the victory is ours.
And so there's part of part of it is to understand it and to claim it.
And I think this is a bit about what ex is. I'm sorry Thessalonians, for is about it begins with the passage.
Finally inverse one. Finally, no, I did a lookup of findings in the in the New Testament, and it turns out, I think Paul uses that term 7 or 8 times a day.
I can't remember but this is one of them.
Finally, and then usually associates it with brethren, and so kind of a a change of not not.
This is not the end, but it's sort of a change of thought and in a more prescriptive sequence, coming up here.
And so finally, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abstain, that you should a bone.
I'm sorry. More and more just as you receive from us how you ought to walk, and to please God.
And so in Ephesians, chapter 4, it says, a walk worthy of your calling, and walk in unity, and walk in in in and humbleness, and maintain the bond to peace.
Well, here they're supposed to. How does it go? How you ought to walk, and to please God?
And so that should be a motivating force for for us in our lives is to know how to walk and what will please God.
And this, these first 8 passages have some good thoughts about.
Pleasing, pleasing God, and
I was thinking about a passage from from some 1 19, verse 8.
Is it? Verse 8. I believe in or 9 in.
And this is in the second sort of paragraph and hosts, some 19119 goes, and it says, How can a man keep his way pure?
And that's really what Mo Paul is exhorting.
And it says, by living according to your word. And so here is a great portion of the Scripture, and we can use to living, live according to God's word.
And you know we've had a number of couples, weekends, and so forth, and and teaching, and so at the chapel on these matters.
But I don't remember ever having like a weekend where we featured this passage about what can I say proper?
Behavior in in in in Christian living, and especially as it relates to sexuality.
So this is kind of a good place for us to continue to re refer to, and and we would like to do that today, and a couple of the words that we've we continue to bump into in this section our holiness.
Or purity, sanctification, when, which in this sense is not sort of a positional sanctification.
We're right before God because we're we're.
We're saved forever but but it's a it's a progressive one or a practical one, where we want to grow in a process of achievement, of sanctification.
And maybe you could underline kind of in this section the need for self control or in in our lives, so that we're not like the Thessalonians which were exposed to all these things.
Sexual activity and needed to have self control
And
And I think it's also important to note that in what is it in verse one and in verse 2, that the that the name of the Lord Jesus is called upon in verse one.
And then in verse 2, that you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
So the authority, and the and the and the person of the Lord Jesus is is an essential part of this exhortation.
To these Thessalonian believers that they there's they're trusted in Lord Jesus.
They know he's with them, and he's coming, and they're wondering well, what what about his coming?
But before that they have to behave, and have self control and pursue holiness, and in in purity.
And so the Lord Jesus wants him that wants him to have that, and that is their desire.
For example, in verse No. 3, it says, for this is the will of God and your sanctification.
So oftentimes. You wonder. Well, what what's got the will for this and that, and the other thing.
Well, this is the will of God for your sanctification that you should abstain from sexual immorality.
And so here's a negative thing. So we're to abstain from sexual him morality is curious when I'm reading couple of commentaries in the number of times, they said, well, we should avoid sexual imminent humorality.
But I think I'm stain is a little more forful than a a void, but it wasn't probably very possible, for the Thessalonians in Tesla Nikka, and as part of Macedonia and the Gnc.
Just to avoid all these contacts, because this was a a Roman large sort of metropolitan area, a lot of track crossroads of travel, and so forth.
So I think the commentators are saying there was probably a lot of sexual morality available, prevalent, and in their face, in in the people, in
The Salonica, but Paul says This is the will of God for your sanctification.
Your separation from it, to to abstain, and from sexual immorality.
Now this word is a is a word that is on the Greek word in here, I guess, is called up, for a knee pornier.
Can you spell that for me, Mike? But it's Pr. N. E.
I. 8. Which is? It is a real, all encompassing word about everything.
That's wrong in this realm from remarital sex.
To extra marital sex, to perversions and whatnot.
And so this word sexual immorality. That's what it encompasses.
It the whole gamut of of bad things that are not not the will of God.
And so in verse 4. The exhortation is that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification.
There's that word sanctification again, or holiness in an honor.
And so there's there's the the positive side of it.
To be in control of your own vessel, your body and and holiness and honor
And and and so it's something I think you can know how to possess.
Well, it implies kind of learning. You can learn how to do this, to to groan it, to get better at it.
As
As you mature and as a believer. No, and I like that cause just the first fall, or whatever.
And you. God forgives our sins. We, faithful and just to forgive him if we confess, and we can go on and like.
But it is a process of sanctification, getting better at knowing what the will of God is, and and to possess our own body, control it in in
Holiness and honor, and then not in passion of lust, like to Gentiles, who do not know God, and have to call in question just the there the arrow we're living in today, is it?
Is it is degraded, as probably wasn't Tesla Nikka in those days.
They apparently had. Temple prostitutes, and it was an honor to have elicited things like that.
And you know we're not there. In that direct way, I'm sure.
But, boy, it's it's all around. It's all around the place.
The the opportunity, the exposure to any kind of media.
And so it says that you should know how to possess your own honor in syncification, and honor, and not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles.
We do not know God, why? Because we do know God, and then it says in verse 6, that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this manner, because the Lord is the avenger of such of all such as we forewarned you no he wasn't there very long Paul but he
Was he? I don't know. Maybe. Is there a month or 2 in decimal that's on like?
And then they started putting the pressure on them, and he had to leave, and he sent Timothy back to see how they were doing, and came back with Timothy with a good report, and as we heard, was last week in chapter, 3.
So Paul, for warned them, we for warned you, and testify, and that the Lord is the avenger.
The judge, the punishment, the one who's against whom we must give an account.
Or to whom we must give it account. So why is that?
Well, it's sin, and God judges sin and
And it's have, and and it's against
It's against the Christian morality to which is to be pure.
So those are the 2 reason it's in, and it's against Christian.
Yeah, to be pure. Can't read my word here.
I'm sorry, but anyway, that that those 2 points and and the Lord the Lord Jesus!
Oh, man is the avenger of all such, and who avenger what the ones who defraud?
His brother in this matter. Now here's the question that you might want to look at more on your own.
But in in here we're talking about the word vessel, and we know that room.
Is it in Peter? Words, and scribes? The wife is a weaker vessel, and but does that imply? There's a stronger vessel, so is the vessel a a male or a female, or is it either one?
As it case may might be, but it it is in a one.
Commentator said that the the word brother could just really just could could be used as a notation for just another human.
And so committing. I don't know sexual immorality with someone else is in a way defrauding that person.
It's the frauding, whoever they're connected to.
Married to whatever their future. If you're if you're participating in that, and and so you're defrauding.
People are, I mean, a Christian brother, necessarily in this context, I don't think it, but a human who has a life that is now gonna be affected by your committing sexual immorality with them.
Whatever time that would be, morality that might might be by the way, in the Bible on the New Testament this term Pornia is out there about 17 different times from Matthew to Revelation.
This term. And and so this kind of broad term for for
Sinful sexual behavior is is there, and in it, and I know, you know, to think something is is a sin, but also to possess your vessel is is in what you want to do.
Be in self control, but if you're taking advantage of someone, then it's more than just.
I think mental, must. It's, you know, physical list
Consummated. Look, look at this in in verse 7.
For God did not call us to unclean this, but to holiness again this term, holding us in this new King James.
Translation, I believe it's about 4 times in this section, and I like really like this last verse here.
Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man doesn't reject what Paul saying really, but he's rejecting God and and what, and who has also given us his Holy Spirit.
And what what a a weapon we have! The Holy Spirit, or a strength that we have is is the Holy Spirit, and he is the one who can help us with our sanctification.
Does help us with our sanctification, because hmm! It's part of his name in a way, the Holy Spirit.
And so we have a great comforter honors side with us with us forever.
They help us obtain the victory, and and enjoy the victory so here's the exhortation.
Abstain.
From sexual immorality. And then how? Are we gonna be able to do that with?
So what's our enablement? Our enablement is the Holy Spirit
In us with us forever, so we've got the victory's ours.
If we, if we just recognize that and ask him for help.
What can I say more about this first aid versus?
Hmm, hmm.
In in Thessalonica. They were practicing all forms of paganism.
Today we have the same problem. So the Amalekites are still out there, and we still need help.
Inter scene with God, for for deliverance from it, for victory over the enemy, and I ask my audience here tonight to to please pray for all of us as we go through this life, and and have obviously we have us.
We're exposed to it all the time, and and sometimes it's more painful than others
What does it say? In Romans? 8. One of the verses says that the righteous requirements of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the spirit for those who live according to the flesh set their mind, on things of the flesh, but those who live
According to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
And
And so that's a compelling reasoning.
It, huh? An overwhelming reason as to how we can do the will of gun know the will of God, grow and sell, control and and and knowledge of this, and have have a victory.
Yeah, and not doing victory. But a final victory is the Lord Jesus will call us home.
As it begins in. And then last section of this chapter with Thessalonians and the calling of this, the shout from heaven and dead, and Christ will rise first, and we were alive and remain. We caught up in the air, and we'll be away from sexual cameraality
Going on to the Bible again in the verses, the head and we're just gonna finish with up to to the twelfth verse, starting in verse 9 in this next section which focus on on love, I said the first one was about holiness work of faith it.
Claims our new life with Jesus as we give and also get His receive.
His Spirit, and we have a need for holiness, separation from evil, and on knowing the will of God.
This is a section about load, a labor of love pulses.
In chapter one, verse 3, but concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
So Paul certainly thought the love of God. In his few days there in Tesla and Iica, and not only their load toward God, but also I love to one another, but he says here in verse 10, he says, indeed you should do so to all the brethren, who are in Macedonian
Who are in all Macedonian. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more, and so they've got a great start in in this.
They're showing love to one another, even to all the brethren in Macedonia and the exhortation, here is, brethren, you increase more and more in brotherly love, and it should be evident that you can do this and he was getting reports from Timothy, that they were
Showing brotherly love to one another in their fellowship and in their community.
But he wants them to lavish it out into the world.
Here's a comment. It says, the love that unites children in one family and in the United States children in one family, I mean family of Oh, God!
Oh, is only limited in its availability. Oh, what, how is it?
Limited to love that we can. We can increase in more and more. Well.
This writer says it's only limited in opportunities.
So there, unless we have no opportunities, there's no limit to it.
If we have opportunities, increase more and more, there's always room for growth.
And brother in love. Well, how about here? While with those Bible chapel I think we continue to hear people who say, Well, love the fellowship a while with tossing.
I don't know. Atmosphere, brotherly love to one another, and we I'm sure we do care, and for each of our saints who?
Are with us in our fellowship, as we continue to addressing apostles, doctrine breaking a fellowship, and then breaking a bread and prayers.
Fellowship is, is one of the 4, but more and more we have to abound.
In. This is the is the, you know, the suggestion, the urging of Paul and we're only limited by the opportunities.
Well, I suppose if we come in, and we don't mix or get to know people, and we leave, and I have to get out for this and that it's easy to walk by opportunities even in our own building.
And I can tell you that I've done a lot of.
But there are opportunities, and we pray for the ones that will be.
Yeah, effective for us.
Continuing, then, that that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business in verse 11, and to work with your own hands as we commend you commanded you.
Okay, this one. I don't know if I can do cause I can't work with my hands.
I've got 2 left feet and 2 left hands. They don't work, but I do use a pencil and I know how to use a keyboard, and so I'm giving myself a passer.
But it's it's a little suspect
And why should we? Yeah, why is he commanded us to to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and work with your own hands?
This is kind of boy. Quiet life. Mind your own business, and work with your own hands, as as was also commanded by Paul when he was there.
Those 2 months, or did I say 4 weeks that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing?
And so it it's beyond just make you for your family, and and so forth.
It's making a godly impression on the world that we live in and on that note.
So we're not taken in, absorbed and but we're abstaining from sexual immorality, and that we do exhibit a brotherly love.
But still more and more we have the industriousness to work with our own hands, and to walk properly to those who are outside, and honesty, and in truth, in that we may, as a result of that, like nothing
And how good is that so hard work and study to be quiet?
I was reminded of the passage from first Timothy, chapter 2, quoting from verse one Paul, and again writes, therefore exert exhort, first of all, supplication, prayers, intercessions, and giving them thanks be made for all men, as you know and kings, and all of an authorities, that
We may lead a quiet and peaceable life. You know godliness and reverence
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God. Our Savior, quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and reverence, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth, and this is how we can communicate the love of God, and and affect
Our our community, and it's done on a on a quiet scale.
And in this passage, these passages, and so I don't know, shouting from the rooftops about certain opinions and all that is probably issued by the Apostle Paul, because he would want us to be quiet work with our own hands, and to aspire to that and to mind
Your own business, as they commanded us alright. Any questions so far
Yeah, so I would get a couple of I would say I might have here
Hmm.
Liking nothing. Yes. Did I say 17 times here the 17 number of them, and x Corinthians has a number of them.
We could expect that. But then Thessalonians and Jude and Revelation, foreign rail.
So it starts with, even in Matthew, any questions
About this matter. I have 2 more points. I think I'm going to press on with
So.
I am, been impressed this this year with the daily email I get from from upload magazine upload.org.
Really called Tasting C, written by Jabe Nicholson.
It's a 2 min, a 2 min exhortation, and he's been going through the Pentitu.
Really right now he's in Deuteronomy.
I wonder is he gonna finish Deuteronomy.
Go repeat from Genesis or is it gonna go into some kind of interesting yoga?
Today's reading was, on the theme of What's for dinner.
What's for dinner? And there was some interesting things here.
Yeah. It was about the initial initial warnings against performing the rituals of the children of the devil.
When you are, in fact, the children of the Lord your God.
And I think this is what we've been talking about, where the children of the Lord Jesus Christ, who saved us and He's given us His spirit, and so what's the Deuteronomy in Chapter 14 say it deals with the types of food you eat and some of these laws were
Addressing, a little bit of is chapter 11. But these dietary rules for kosher, which comes from the Hebrew word meaning proper and correct.
James says you shall not eat any detestable thing, and what is that?
And that's what God finds morally disgusting.
It wasn't whether they like shrimp cocktails or pork loin.
What did the Lord want from them? What was he trying to teach them with these dietary rules?
Remember this is how that whole human tragedy started.
He saw a fruit that she considered good for food. Genesis 3, first 6.
But of this particular tree, got it said, You shall not eat 2, 17.
How often we hear today, and perhaps we have said it ourselves.
Well, I don't think it's so bad. Well, there were many good choices.
They could make. But just this one tree was God's alone.
He would decide what was good and evil. Will we sit on our pompous little thrones and disagree with God, who knows everything I don't think it's so bad.
We think sometimes we noticed earlier that the rejection of animals without cloven hooves, clover, news, and and that didn't chew the cut pointed to the spiritual need for what cloven? Who is kind of like causer of that?
And and that points to a separated walk point so holy walking, hey? A self controlled one
And chewing the cut. Jab, says a meditative life.
I can't remember when I was a kid, and on on a farm my grandfather's farm.
Maybe Ruth saw it on her farm, but when you with cows, and there milking, and they finally lie down to you know they've been feeding in the manger and all that, and they light out and they're sitting there.
Then they start chewing again like that. Anybody see that in their in their real life.
So you know a farm has animals right, Roosevelt.
So anyway, that's kind of a reflective of a meditative life in in this kind of imagery, and I thought that was pretty mean.
And and but what about from this chapter? 14.
About the sea. They could only eat creatures that have fins and scales.
Okay? Why fins? Well, fins, symbolically or metaphorically or
Literally are for direction. Did you're swimming. You need fins that get for direction and scales for protection.
And so that is what the Word of God has provided for us both.
Spiritual direction and protection is surely He gave creatures their scales and and fit.
You are what you eat right jab, they say, and believers can do no better than to enjoy the Lord's guidance and watch care.
You know, lies each day. And so here we have from Paul and Thessalonians.
Giving us really good guidance about holiness, love, and then next week we'll learn from from portion on the words coming.
If he doesn't come until then. So
Okay, this, year, I've been reading this little book by Spurgeon, called The Checkbook of the Checkbook, with the Qe.
Book of the Bank of Faith, and it's daily Readings by Charles Spurgeon and R.
He's really facing it on the promises of God that we need to cash in and take by faith.
Every day. Well, today's date. The other one, by the way, was from today's date.
Also, today's date comes from Hebrews, chapter 13, verse 5,
We all know this one, and he has said, I will never leave the nor for safety.
Maybe I could read this just a little bit. I think it's maybe less than 2 min.
But several times in the Scripture. The Lord has said this, yeah, he has often repeated it to make out our assurance doubly sure.
Let us never harbor a doubt of it. It is it in itself.
The promise is especially emphatic in the Greek.
It has 5 negatives, each one definitely shutting out the possibility of the Lord's ever leaving one of His people so that he can justly feel forsaken by God.
So those negatives leave it impossible that you can feel that way.
This priceless Scripture does not promise us an exemption from trouble, but it does secure us against desertion that we may call out to travers strange ways, but shall always have our Lord's company assistance, and provision we need not covered money for we shall always have our God God is better
than gold. His favor is better than fortune, right? It's Charles Persian, 2 more paragraphs or census.
We ought surely to be content with such things as we have, for he who has God has more than all the world.
Besides, what can we have beyond be infinite? What more can we desire than Almighty goodness
Come, my heart, Spurgeon, praise if God says He will never leave thee, nor for safety be, though much in prayer for grace, the thou mayest never leave thy Lord, or even for a moment forsake his ways, and then you say that in first Cssalonians chapter, for to
Abstain from evil, and got is the avenger of such.
Who who do, and we have the Holy Spirit to be with us, and to continue to care for us.
Now I have one more passage that I wanted to
Leave you with, and that is, I read from Hebrews, chapter 13, verse 5, which says, for he himself has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you.
You know what chapter 13, verse 5, presupposes
Well, it presupposes chapter 13, verse 4. Okay?
So it says here marriage is honorable among all
And the bed undefiled. But fornicators and adulterous God will judge.
Let your contact be without covetousness. Be content with such things as you have, for he himself has said, I will never leave you, nor for sake you.
And so what the teaching we have from for Thessalonians, and just the on the on marriage, let's say, and and how it's connected really, to this passage that is so profound.
I'll never leave your forsake. You is just really, and work of the Holy Spirit to put put them there like that, and honorable men, undefiled in the bed under filed, and so that has a very intimate context there by the way, so with that.
I thank you for your attention and
Hope everybody on the Virtual could hear and see, okay, and I'll look to see you next week.
Lord willing God for father, we bless us. A little study of your word.
Thank you for this profound passage in Thessalonians.
Work of faith, labor, of love, and we see it. It involves purity and and and love and brotherly love even, and so bless our assembly here, while with Dosa we have some prayers, those who are ill, and those who are needy and we want to continue with or thoughts of those as
We bless the study of your word and its completeness, and the victory we have in Jesus Christ, through His Holy Spirit.
As we fight this spiritual warfare in the days ahead.
We think of that? Finally, from Aphesians. Finally, be strong in the Lord, and the power of his might, and we, Amen.
On that one in Jesus, name Amen.
Okay, Mary, I'm I'm let me check my notes here
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Yeah, Mary, go ahead and please.
Oh, yeah, I just had a burden about those ones that were affected by that that snowstorm where there's still this, there's still what happened.
You know what happened with the people, and they're still finding more.
They were trapped in their cars, and it was just a sad to hear that what happened, and there's still going through it.
All the families are going through it.