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  2nd Thessalonians chapter 3. Let us pray our God, our Lord,
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  our King, our everything. God, you are the breath in our
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  lungs. Father.
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  We thank you, Lord, for your holy scriptures.
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  We thank you, God, that you are good.
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  You are holy. You are set apart the God of
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  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You're the same God who shut the
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  mouths of lions. You're the same God who rescued
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  Joseph from Potiphar's wife. You're the same God who gave
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  Sarah a son. You're the same God of laughter.
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  You're the same God who rescued the captives and set them free.
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  You're the same God who slew 185,000 Assyrians God.
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  You're the same God who shut the mouths of lions and was there
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  the 4th man in the fire. You're the same God, the God of
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  Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of Israel, Jehovah, Yahweh,
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  Adonai, El Shaddai. You're the same God.
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  We love you, Father. We're asking God for you to do
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  it again. Lord, do it as in the days of
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  Martin Luther. God, do it as in the days of
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  Billy Graham. God do it again, Lord, bring
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  about revival. Father.
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  Do it as you did in the days of DL Moody.
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  God, do it again, Lord, as in the days of John Wesley.
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  Do it again as in the days of Calvin.
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  Lord, do it again. Father, I pray for a worldwide
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  global revival. Father, bring about this turning
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  back to our first love. Lord, I pray that you will be
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  well pleased with the reading of your texts.
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  Let many come into the fold today, for today is the day of
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  salvation. God, heal our broken bodies.
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  God, restore marriages. Lord, regrow limbs today.
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  Father God, I pray that you will cure cancer.
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  God, I pray that you will turn back Alzheimer's and dementia.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will cure heart
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  disease. God, I pray for those that are
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  on a donor's list, God to receive a call today that they
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  have got the right match. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that you will continue to do mighty things all amongst us.
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  Lord, I pray that there will be many who see you moving mightily
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  today. God Almighty, you're the same.
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  God, we love you. Father, we attach ourselves to
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  you. We pray for the peace of
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  Jerusalem. God, we pray for all of your
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  prophecies to come to fruition. God, we pray that we could be
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  your hands and feet, that we could come and to know you and
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  to learn from you. God Almighty, our everything, we
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  love you. King Jesus, you are holy and
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  worthy and lovely. God Almighty, bring about your
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  glory upon this camp. God, I pray you'll bind the
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  enemy from off of this time. Bind the enemy from off of our
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  lives and families. God, I pray that you'll cast him
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  into the judgment that you have a waiting for him.
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  Chains of utter darkness and gloom, the weeping of gnashing
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  of teeth. God, where the worm never dies.
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  Lord, I pray, Lord, that you will continue to raise up men
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  and women unto yourself who are bold in their witness.
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  God who charged the hill, Lord, who ascend to new heights.
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  Father, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ you will help us to
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  love you more, to love our neighbors as ourselves.
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  God, I pray that your word will never return void and God, you
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  will not be mocked. It's all about you, King Jesus.
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  I decrease as you increase. Lord, teach us and guide us.
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  Holy Spirit, fill us in. Jesus Christ, holy and mighty
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  and powerful. An awesome name, I pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. Finally, brothers, pray for us
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  that the word of the Lord may have free course and be
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  glorified even as it is with you.
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  So Paul is requesting prayer and he understood the necessity of
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  prayer. And Billy Graham, at the end of
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  his life, he said if he would have known how short life was,
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  he would have prayed more. If we even understood the Daniel
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  10 concept of prayer, where you have the archangels fighting and
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  trying to make it to Daniel, if you even had an inkling, just a
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  sliver of what your prayers did in the spiritual realm, you
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  would pray a whole lot more. St. far be it from us to be
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  prayerless. We need to increase our prayer
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  life. Friends, do not be deceived.
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  Do not be tricked. Do not squander your
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  inheritance. Friends, you have the indwelling
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  of the Holy Spirit inside of you.
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  Far be it from us to withhold the conversation with God that
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  He so desires. And Paul here understood that.
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  And he said pray for us. He knew the success of his
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  ministry was dependent upon the prayers of the Saints.
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  Friends, how many of us do not pray for our pastors and
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  leaders? We need to be more prayerful
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  today than we were yesterday, and let the Word of God go out
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  freely. Freely you have received, and so
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  freely you give. Let the Word of God run its race
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  all over the globe, every continent, every people group,
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  every language, every tongue, every skin color, friends, every
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  single man, woman and child. Let the Word of God go out to
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  them so that they have to make a decision.
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  And Paul was glorified. Paul gloried in this church at
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  Thessalonica because they were rooted and grounded and
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  established in the Word of God and in their prayer life too.
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  And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked
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  men, for all men have not faith. So here Paul shows us a very
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  important spiritual application for our Christian walk friends,
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  and it is that you cannot reason with unreasonable people.
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  Never forget that they are unreasonable by definition.
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  And here he is going to tell us the same principle that we will
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  learn in Titus as to warn a divisive person once and then
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  warn them again and then after that have nothing to do with
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  them. For you can be sure that they
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  are warped and self condemned. And Paul here saying that not
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  every person has the faith that we possess.
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  And you need to understand that the road to destruction is wide,
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  and many choose that way, and the path to eternal life is
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  straight and it is narrow, and only a few find it three.
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  But the Lord is faithful who shall establish you and keep you
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  from evil. That is the Lord's promise to
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  you. Underline it and highlight it.
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  Mark it in the margins of your Bible journal about it, that the
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  Lord God Almighty will keep you even when you are sifted.
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  The devil cannot snatch you out of his hands, and the sifting
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  will produce the character and the perseverance, friends, that
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  God is after for all of eternity, and he will establish
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  you, and he will keep you from the evil. 1 And the and the
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  enemy is very limited on what he can do to a believer, and God
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  has to allow it like he did for Job, and he did not allow Job to
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  die, and he restored Job twice as much.
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  And you need to understand that God's ways are not our ways and
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  His thoughts are not our thoughts.
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  They are much higher than ours, as the clouds are above the
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  earth. So God's thoughts are much
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  higher than ours. Four, And we have confidence in
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  the Lord touching you that you both do and will do the things
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  which we command you. So he's saying we know that the
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  things that we have taught you, we know that you're going to do
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  it. We know that you are going to
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  walk in the manner that is according.
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  And this is like a good father who is speaking truth and a good
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  father who is encouraging their kids.
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  And he's speaking life over them.
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  And he's given them their identity.
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  He's given them the admonition to do the things that they've
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  been taught. And he's saying, I know that
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  you're going to do them. And what a lesson for us,
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  especially us as parents or in leadership positions.
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  The things that you speak over people will be the very things
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  that they will do. And if you tell a person that
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  they are a nobody, then they will act like a nobody.
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  And it is very important to speak life over a person.
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  Do not speak death over a person.
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  Speak life. There is power in the tongue,
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  friends five, and the Lord direct your hearts into the love
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  of God and into the patient waiting for Christ.
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  That is what we need. We need to finish this race
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  well, friends. It's not enough to start the
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  race. We must finish well.
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  And it is only by the empowerment of the Spirit of God
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  that will allow us to wait well and to finish this race well.
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  Friends, the Lord will direct us.
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  We wake up every day. We acknowledge the Lord and He
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  directs our steps. Many are the plans of a man's
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  heart, but the Lord directs His steps.
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  Friends, we wait patiently. We do not outpace God.
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  We do not run ahead, We do not fall behind.
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  We do not go out of formation. We wait patiently, knowing that
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  He is going to bring every single prophecy, every single
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  jot and title that is contained in His Word to fruition.
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  Friends 6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our
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  Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every
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  brother that walks disorderly, and not after the tradition
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  which he received of us. So Paul's going to tell us how
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  we should work while we are awaiting Christ's return, and
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  he's going to show us how we do not need to be idle, busy
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  bodies, gossipers. We do not need to have this
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  chatter and murmurings, friends that got the children in the
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  wilderness into trouble, the generation that did not get to
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  see the promised land because of all their murmurings.
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  And that is a great warning to all of us who call ourselves
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  believers. And you know that a critical
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  spirit is the sure sign of a backslidden Christian.
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  We do not need to backslide and we do not need to outpace and we
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  do not need to fall out of formation.
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  Friends do not become disorderly.
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  And this is a perpetual walking. This is not just a one time.
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  And then you immediately feel conviction.
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  This is not just the wrestling between the flesh and the
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  spirit. This is someone who calls
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  himself a brother, but their life looks nothing like a it
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  looks no different than the rest of the world.
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  And Paul here is telling us, and he's telling the church here at
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  Thessalonica to get away from such people. 7 for yourselves,
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  know how you ought to follow us. For we behaved not ourselves
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  disorderly among you. So Paul said we were an example
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  to you. We showed you how you should
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  walk in accordance with the things that are taught to you
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  from God by us. 8 Neither did we eat any man's bread, for not for
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  wrought with labor and travail night and day, that we might not
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  be chargeable to any of you. Paul did not want to be a burden
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  unto this church here at Thessalonica.
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  He said. You remember how I was a tent
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  maker. You remember how I worked day
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  and night for my own sustenance. I did not come with my hands
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  outstretched asking for a handout.
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  I did not ask to be supported by you, even though that is my
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  right. Paul chose to not be a burden to
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  this church, and he's saying, look at how you saw me working,
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  and this is how you ought to be. 9 Not because we have not power,
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  but to make ourselves an example to you to follow us.
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  Paul saying we have the power to ask for your support, but we
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  wanted to be an example to you. And we know that those who
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  preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ deserve to be
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  supported by the congregation. That is not in the question.
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  Paul never questioned that authority.
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  He chose to be the example for them to make sure they
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  understood the need to put their hand to the plow and to be found
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  out in the harvest, and to not be a busy body who just wanted
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  to live of a carefree life and to do whatever they wanted to do
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  while they waited upon the Lord. And it was to their dismay, and
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  Paul here wanted to correct this wrong thinking about what the
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  Christian life should look like. 10 For even when we were with
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  you, this we commanded you that if any would not work, neither
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  should he eat. Now Paul is not talking about
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  those who are not able to work. We know that we are to take care
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  of the widows and orphans in their time of distress.
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  We know that Paul did take collections up so it was not as
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  if Paul was just anti giving and supporting.
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  And we know that we are to take care of those who cannot take
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  care of themselves that are within the body of Christ.
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  That is clear. But Paul is saying if you are
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  able, then you must go out and work to help support yourself
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  and not only to support yourself, but to have enough to
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  give. And that is what God Almighty
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  wants us to be doing. We must go out and work for the
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  things that we have. And it is God who supernaturally
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  multiplies the little that is in your hand.
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  Never forget that 11 For we hear that there are some which walk
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  among you, disorderly, working not at all, but our busy bodies.
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  These are the ones who think that the Christian walk is all
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  about sitting in a circle singing kumbaya in a waiting for
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  Christ's return. And God has called us into the
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  harvest. God has called us to put our
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  hand to the plow. Friends, God has put his burden
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  and his yoke upon us. And it is light and it is easy,
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  but it is work nonetheless. 12 Now them that are such we
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  command and exhort. By our Lord Jesus Christ that
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  with quietness they work and eat their own bread.
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  So here Paul is saying if you will not work you do not deserve
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  to be fed and to get a handout. If you are able to work, then
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  you must work, and do not come asking for a handout if you are
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  not willing to go to work. 13 But you, brothers, be not weary
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  in well doing. It is doing, friends.
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  You see it there. It is not just well waiting, it
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  is well doing. Do not grow weary in doing good,
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  for in a due time you will see the harvest, you will see the
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  fruit, friends. And that is what God has called
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  us to do. And we would air grievously by
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  sitting on our blessed assurance.
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  God has called us into a much higher plane, a much deeper
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  understanding of who He is. God desires for us to be his
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  hands and feet, to wash the feet of the disciples, to be the one
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  who runs in to the burning building, to be the one who
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  protects innocent lives. Friends 14 And if any man obeys
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  not our word by this epistle, note that man have no company
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  with him, that he may be ashamed.
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  So that is church discipline. Friends, that is what it looks
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  like to excommunicate someone from the fellowship of the body
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  of Christ. And we saw that back in First
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  Corinthians chapter 5. And then Paul's going to tell us
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  what to do when that person is repentant.
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  We are not to leave them out of the fellowship. 15 Yet count him
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  not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
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  So that is the thing. Somebody can be a true believer
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  in the Lord Jesus Christ, a brother, but their witness is
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  tarnished. 16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace
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  always. By all means the Lord be with
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  you all. So Paul here is showing them
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  that there is no peace apart from the peace of God, and God
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  has to give you this peace. Pray to the Lord God and ask him
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  to remove discontentment from you.
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  Friends, ask the Lord to remove materialism from you.
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  Ask the Lord to remove this critical spirit that has come
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  in, and God can give you this perfect peace that will sustain
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  and hold you and to keep you until his blessed return. 17 The
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  salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is the token in
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  every epistle, so I right will end on. 18 The grace of our Lord
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  Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
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  Paul put his stamp at the end of the letter.
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  Look at what large letters he writes with, and he tells you
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  that the Lord Jesus Christ will give you grace and peace and
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  mercy and joy when you are in a right relationship with him.
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  I pray that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  Praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. So does God, so does our Lord.
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  May the Holy Spirit and dwell you today and fill you today and
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  give you the mind of Christ. Stay prayed up today.
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  Tell somebody about what God has done for you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.