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Prayer
1. Blessed Lord, You have caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning.
Grant that we may so hear them, read, mark, learn, and take them to heart that, by the patience and comfort of Your holy Word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life.
… through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
If You Knew...
My Dream concerning how God prepared things that brought us here.
Is this your only contact with God’s Word?
Today’s text:
Sounds like a list - specifically, a “to-do list.”
Have you ever heard of the “duck test?”
Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) may have coined the phrase when he wrote:
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
If your only exposure to this text is today, I would understand if you listened to those words with a sigh, a groan, and a shudder.
- how many of you do EXACTLY - and as FREQUENTLY - what this text says?
Paul says, “Rejoice always;” that seems to leave no room for complaining, for recriminations, for arguing and debating.
It also apparently leaves no room for second guessing, for sarcasm, or for pointless conversations.
What about “pray without ceasing?”
If I do that, when do I have time for condemning those with whom I disagree?
When do I get the opportunity to “clap back?”
“Give thanks in all circumstances?”
When my money is tight and my bills aren’t right?
When my kids embarrass me or, from their perspective, “when my parents just don’t understand?”
Finally those last three: Don’t quench the Spirit - don’t despise prophecies - Abstain from EVERY FORM of Evil.
Short of becoming a monk or a nun, HOW? Strike that - even the monastery and convent provide no haven against sin - just ask the various bishops of the Roman Catholic Church.
What is God doing to us with this list of do’s and don’ts?
Well, let’s step back a bit....
Christ is coming again
The Epistles “To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ”are written for a purpose - the purpose of encouragement.
The letter begins with thanksgiving for their very existsence:
The “power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes” - that’s how Paul describes the Gospel in , - worked effectively in the lives of those Christians in Thessaloniki.
Paul knows this because he preached it there, and he has no doubt concerning the power of the Gospel when it is preached and heard.
When Christ returns, everything will be seen in the light of Him.
How many things have you experienced that, in the light of later events, turned out to be a blessing instead of a curse?
How many times have you looked back and said, “Thank you Lord for doing what I needed instead of what I wanted?”
God gives us these things - notice the words “to those who mourn.”
God gives joy to those who mourn, strength to those who are weak “that He may be glorified.”
It is impossible to understand what God is doing in your life when you are only casually related to Him by Sunday visits.
When your only conversation with God comes through the Lectionary.
No matter how thoroughly I preach the text, I am only preaching the text, not the full context that surrounds it - the Whole Word of God - you won’t give me enough time to do all of that in one service!
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