Latest / The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal / 1 Thessalonians 1 - An Intro to 1 Thessalonians

Transcript

1 Thessalonians 1 - An Intro to 1 Thessalonians · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Welcome faithful listeners to the Book of First Thessalonians. I
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: am so excited to delve into this book because this
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: is the one where Paul talks a lot about Jesus's
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: second coming. So we are going to get into that today.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: And I'm not going to do a typical episode like
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: I usually do, where I do like an introduction, then
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: my music and then make some small talk and then
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: get to the meat of the episode. Instead, I'm going
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: to dive in right now. Paul wrote the Book of
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: First Thessalonians to the Church of thessalon Nika, which is
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: of course today modern day Thessala Andiki. But thesala and
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Nika was a very important city. It was a very
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: wealthy city as well, just based upon where it was located,
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: right on the Mediterranean Sea. It became a shipping port
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: for both the east and the west because it was
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: like located like up near the ag and c in
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: the what is this, what's this golf here? The Thermaic golf,
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: I believe it is. So it was just in a
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: really prime location for shipping, which was why Thesalonika became
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: such an important city. And it also kind of had
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: its own autonomy as well. Even though Rome occupied much
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: of the ancient world, thesala Andika specifically had a lot
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: of its own governance and autonomy because right after Julius
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: Caesar was murdered, I believe in forty nine BC, the
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: city of Thesalonika actually supported the Roman civil wars, and
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: because of that, Octavian granted Thesalonika its own self governance
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: in a sense, even though Rome was still kind of
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: in control. So Thesalonika is an important city in the
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: days of Paul. And when Paul first went to Thesalonika,
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: that's talked about in Acts chapter seventeen, which I will
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: get into in just a few minutes here. When he
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: went there, the people were receptive to the gospel, but
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: there are some actually really nasty people there that ended
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: up kicking Paul out only three weeks after Paul's arrival there.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: But Paul in those three weeks had enough time to
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: plant a church in Thesalonika. So Paul plants this church,
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: leaves like two weeks later, but is like super concerned
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: because he was only able to plant that church for
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: like a minute before leaving from religious persecution. So what
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: Paul does is he sends Timothy, we find out, to
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: Thessalonika to continue to preach the gospel and help build
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: that newly planted church. When Timothy comes back to Paul,
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: Timothy actually gives a pretty good report as to what
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: is going on in Thesalonika. However, they had a lot
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: of questions regarding Jesus's second coming, which was what prompted
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: Paul to write this letter. And this is one of
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: the first letters Paul ever wrote, and it's also one
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: of the oldest Christian documents that we have. The only
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: other letter that that is contested to potentially be the
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: first letter Paul wrote was the Book of Galatians, but
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: very likely Paul could have been writing them around the
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: same time. But many scholars actually do think that First
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: Thessalonians is the first letter Paul ever wrote. So let's
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: go ahead and start and see what Paul has to say.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: And one thing you're going to notice as we go
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: through First Thessalonians, Paul mentions Jesus's second coming in every
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: single chapter at least once, because that was what the
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: main concern of the Thessalonians actually was. So let's read
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: First Thessalonians. One the entire thing. It is very short.
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: It is only ten verses, so we're going to get
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: into it right now. Paul, Sylvanus and Timothy to the
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: assembly of the Thessalonians. In God, the Father and the
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you and peace from God,
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We always give
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith and
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Before our God and Father, we know, brothers
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: loved by God, that you are chosen, and that our
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: good news came to you, not in word only, but
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: also in power and in the Holy Spirit. And with
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: ourselves to be among you. For your sake. You became
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: Word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Spirit,
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: so that you became an example to all who believe
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: in Macedonia and Akaia. For from you the word of
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: the Lord has been declared not only in Macedonia and Akaia,
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: but also in every place. Your faith toward God has
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: gone out so that we need not to say anything,
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: for they themselves report concerning us what kind of a
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: reception we had from you, and how you turned to
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: God from idols to serve a living and true God
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: and to wait for his son from heaven whom he
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: wrath to come. Okay, So it says in verse one
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: that Paul, Sylvanus and Timothy were the co authors of
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: this letter, but most likely just Paul wrote it. We
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: do see Paul giving credit to Timothy quite often for
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: co authoring a letter with him. But you know, you
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: can just tell Paul's writing style, and first Thessalonians definitely
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: follows Paul's writing style. But he mentions this guy sylvanis here,
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: That would have just been Silas. It could be that
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: the reason Paul included Silas and Timothy in this was
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: because the Church of the Thessalonians would have known who
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: Timothy and Silas actually were, and so if they received
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: a letter from all three of them, that would have
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: been very meaningful, very special to them, because they did
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: have a lot of communication actually with Timothy and also
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: with Silas. I believe Silas did stay in the region
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: longer than Paul did. Paul had to leave very quickly,
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: but Silas stayed behind for some time. So once again,
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: the church would have actually known Timothy and Silas a
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: lot more than they would have known Paul, which could
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: have been why Paul included them in this letter. So
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: he says, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God,
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Now Paul addresses
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: the entire Thessalonian church here, so this would have included
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: men and women together. A lot of critics of the
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: Bible actually say that, you know, Paul was so sexist,
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: he only ever addressed the men in the room, But
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: that is absolutely not true, because he's addressing the entire
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: church here, and he gives them this very nice greeting.
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: He says, grace to you and peace from God, our
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. So this now brings
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: me to the story of Paul founding this church in
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: Acts chapter seventeen, So let's read about that. This would
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: have been Paul's second missionary journey. Starting in verse one,
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: it says, now, when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia,
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: they came to Thessalonika, where there was a Jewish synagogue. Paul,
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: as was his custom, went into them and for three
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: Sabbath days reasoned with them from the scriptures, explaining and
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: from the dead, and saying this Jesus, whom I proclaim
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: to you, is the Christ. Some of them were persuaded
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: and joined Paul and Silas of the devout Greeks, a
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: great multitude and not a few of the chief women.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: an uproar, assaulting the house of Jason. They sought to
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: bring them out to the people. When they didn't find them,
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: they dragged it Jason and certain brothers before the rulers
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: of the city, crying, these are who have turned the
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: world upside down. They have come here also whom Jason
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar,
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: saying that there is another king, Jesus. The multitude and
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: When they had taken security from Jason and the rest,
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: they let them go. The brothers immediately sent Paul and
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: signed us away by night to Berea. When they arrived,
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: they went into the Jewish synagogue. Oh, I'm sorry, I
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: does say right here that Silas went with Paul. Forgive
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: me for that. I was wrong. Silas did in fact
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: go with Paul from thesala Andaika to Berea. I misunderstood
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: because later on down in verse fourteen of the same chapter,
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: it says that Silas stayed behind in Berea, but he
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: did not stay in thesala Andaika. But anyway, that's the
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: story of Paul going to the Church of Thesalonaika and
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: planting it, you know, staying there for three weeks, talking
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: to many of these Jewish people who ended up becoming
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: persuaded that Jesus was in fact the Messiah. And it
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: says right here that this guy named Jason was the
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: one who accepted Paul into his house. We know that
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: back in these days, you know, there weren't exactly church buildings.
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: Not till much later on, people would do church inside
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: of their own homes. So it sounds to me like
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: this Jason man was who hosted the Church of Thessalonika
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: until he got arrested, you know, and then after that
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: Paul had to leave. They went to Berea where they
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: stayed for some amount of time, and then of course
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: had to leave from Berea as well because of religious persecution.
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: But anyway, that's the story of Paul planting the church
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: of Thessalonika. And notice there it does actually say that
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: there were many women who ended up believing this message
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: of Jesus as well. So when Paul writes this letter
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: to the Thessalonians, he is addressing the entire church. And
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: then he says this in verse two of first Thessalonians,
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: we always give thanks to God for all of you,
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: mentioning you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: Now this is the first time we see Paul mention
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: the famous trio faith, hope, and love. And apparently the
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: Thessalonians had these things, and Paul's encouraging them to continue
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: in faith, hope and love. He says, in my prayers,
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: I remember your work of faith, I remember your labor
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: of love, and I remember your perseverance of hope. Now,
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: all that being said, we know that faith is not
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: a work, even though it says right here your work
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: of faith. But faith does produce works. And then likewise,
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: labor does not produce love, but the opposite love produces labor.
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: And same with perseverance of hope. Perseverance does not produce hope,
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: but hope produces perseverance. But moving on into verse four,
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: he says, we know, brothers loved by God, that you
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: are chosen, and that our good news came to you,
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: not in word only, but also in power and in
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, with much assurance. So there's that word
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: chosen again. We've seen that pop up a lot in scripture,
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: where Paul calls the church the chosen ones of God. Now,
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: of course, if you're Calvin, you're going to believe that
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: this means you were chosen for salvation, that some people
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: are chosen for salvation and some people are not chosen
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: for salvation. But that is not what the text here
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: is saying. He just says they were chosen. So what
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: were they chosen for? They were chosen to continue the
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: good work of Jesus. Jesus is the chosen one. Jesus
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: is the one who is predestined before anybody else, and
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: so every single person who believes in Jesus shares in
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: that predestination with him. But we are not predestined on
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: our own. God doesn't just zap us straight into heaven.
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: He doesn't just say, Okay, I'm going to choose these
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: guys and reject to these guys. That is clear in
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: scripture that God allows each and every one of us
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: to make a choice. And it's also clear in scripture
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: that it was Jesus. Jesus is the one who is predestined,
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: the one who has chosen before the foundations of the world,
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: and so anybody who believes in Jesus becomes chosen with him.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: He says, our good news has come to you, not
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: only in word, but also in power and in the
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. And this is something
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: that Paul is so good at doing. You'll notice that
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: whenever Paul starts to address a church or a person,
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: he starts by complimenting them with something that they are
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: doing good. I would say the one caveat with that
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: is the Corinthian Church. And even when he was kind
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: of complimenting them. You could tell it was in a
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: very snarkily sort of way. But with the Thessalonians, they
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: really are doing good work. They have faith, hope, and love,
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: and that is encouraging Paul, especially considering the fact that
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: he was not able to be there with them for
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: very long before leaving. So he's encouraged by these good
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: signs in this church that he is seeing. And then
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: he continues in verse five, you know what kind of
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: men we showed ourselves to be among you? For your sake?
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: received the word in much affliction with joy of the
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Now this is another time where we see
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: Paul encouraging people to imitate him. Now, in this case
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: he's saying imitate us. That would be Paul, Silas and Timothy.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: But in general, people get kind of irritated about this phrase.
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: They're like, you know, Paul was so arrogant to say
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: that people should imitate him. He should have just told
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: them from the beginning that they need to imitate Jesus.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: But don't forget, you know, the New Testament was not
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: written yet. The people didn't have a clear picture of
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: who Jesus was yet, and that was why Paul was
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: constantly saying, imitate me as I imitate Christ. Because the
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: people could see Paul. They could see how Paul was
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: living and acting as a Christian. That's why Paul says,
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: imitate me, or imitate us as we imitate Christ. You
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: saw what kind of men we were, and you were
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: happy to imitate us. You became imitators of us and
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: of the Lord, having received the Word in much affliction,
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: with joy of the Holy Spirit. So don't forget, you know.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: When Paul first planted that church, Acts Chapter seventeen tells
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: us that there was problems from the very beginning, like
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: persecution problems where that poor man Jason got like dragged
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: to the magistrates, nearly imprisoned, and then fined for absolutely nothing,
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: like poor Jason had to shell out to all of
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: this money for absolutely no reason because of the lies
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: that people said about Christians. But in spite of all that,
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: the Thessalonians received the message of Jesus with much joy
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit, so much joy actually that Paul
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: says in verse seven that they became an example to
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: all who believed in Macedonia and in Akiah for from you,
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord has been declared, not only
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: in Macedonia and Ekiah, but also in every other place.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: Your faith toward God has gone out, so that we
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: don't need to say anything Verse nine. For they themselves,
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: these other churches report concerning us, what kind of a
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: reception we had from you, and how you turned to
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: God from idols to serve a living and a true God,
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: and to wait for his son from heaven, whom he
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: to come. And that's the end of chapter one of
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: this book where Paul makes his first mention of Jesus's
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: second coming. Because you can imagine, you know, the disciples
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: probably thought Jesus was coming very quickly after he ascended
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: up into heaven. I am sure that they assumed that
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Jesus's return was imminent. In fact, probably every single generation
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: from the time that Jesus ascended has believed that Jesus
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: is going to return in their lifetime. Even now, there
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: are people saying that on September I think it's twenty fifth, September,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: twenty fifth, Jesus is going to return. I am sure
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: many of you if you have been on YouTube have
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: heard something about that. Everybody wants to think everybody wants
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: to believe that Jesus is going to return within their lifetime,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: and the Thessalonians were no different. They really wanted to know, Hey,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: when is Jesus coming back? You know, he hascended up
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: into heaven, but we've been waiting around twenty years, so
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: how long is he going to take? Oh, it's you know,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: it's funny. It's funny because when Paul wrote this letter,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Jesus had only been in heaven for about twenty years,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: and now two thousand years later, we are still waiting
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: for the return of Jesus, and thankfully Paul gives us
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: a lot of answers as to what that is going
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: to look like. We don't know the time when Jesus
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: is going to return. That is very very clear. In scripture,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Jesus himself, with his own mouth, said, nobody knows the
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: time that I Am going to return. Not even the
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: angels in heaven know about it. Only the Father is
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: the one who knows about it. If only God, the
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Father knows when Jesus is going to return, then that
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: means we cannot predict when Jesus is going to return.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: We have zero clue, So don't listen to any predictions
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: about Jesus returning because they are false and that's not
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: really what we are supposed to be focused on. Instead,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: we are supposed to be focused on changing our own
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: hearts for when Jesus returns, being watchful, being ready, so
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: that when it does finally come, our own hearts are
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: going to be right with Jesus. So, like I said,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: We're going to talk a lot more about Jesus's return
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: in the coming chapters, because it is mentioned at least
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: a little bit in every single chapter for Thessalonians. But
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: of course Paul does start every single letter with a salutation,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: a greeting, and just telling the church what they are
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: doing well, which is what we talked about today. So
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I hope you guys enjoyed the history of Thessalonians and
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Thessalonika and the planting of the church there. But definitely
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: tune in Tuesday as we continue more into the Book
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: of First Thessalonians. But faithful listeners, as you know, I
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: don't do a normal episode on Fridays anymore. Instead, I
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: do a separate podcast called The Bible explained on Fridays,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: which is for the members over on KOFE. If you'd
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: like to become a member and gain access to the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Bible explained on Fridays, which right now we are going
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: through the Book of Psalms and has been fantastic, then
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: click the link in the description that says KOFEE and
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: it will take you to what you need to do
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: next in order to become a member. Faith listeners, have
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: a fantastic and wonderful, wonderful rest of your day. I'll
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: see you guys on Monday. If I don't see you
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: on the member side of stuff tomorrow, but until next week,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: happy listening and God bless