6 December 2021
Our Holiness and Our Comfort at the Grave
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Thessalonians 4
A Life Pleasing to God
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Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you
received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are
doing, that you do so more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave
you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your
sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of
you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in the
passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one transgress
and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all
these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. 7 For God has
not called us for impurity, but in holiness. 8 Therefore whoever disregards
this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
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Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for
you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, 10 for that indeed
is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge
you, brothers, to do this more and more, 11 and to aspire to live quietly, and
to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, 12
so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
The Coming of the Lord
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But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep,
that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe
that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him
those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you by a word from the
Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will
not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend
from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the
sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we
who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18
Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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