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  2nd Thessalonians chapter one. Let us pray our Lord, our God,
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  our King, our everything. You are our very breath.
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  You are the life God. So I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that we'll exalt your holy name higher than any other name, that
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  will exalt your holy name higher than any other principality.
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  God, anything that is trying to vie for our attention.
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  God, we breakdown and pulverize all the idols that we have made.
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  God, we consecrate this temple. God, make it.
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  Holy. Father, as you are, holy, Lord,
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  I pray and Lord, I desire more than anything that you will fill
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  us with the Holy Ghost. God fill us overflowing.
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  God fill us to the utmost. God, we thank you for salvation.
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  We thank you for life. We thank you for breath.
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  We thank you for our families. We thank you for our abilities.
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  We thank you God for the word. We thank you for church.
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  God, we thank you that you are so good.
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  Lord, you are good, and Lord, we are so delighted by you and by
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  your presence and by all the things that you have already
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  taught us. And Lord, I know that you desire
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  to take us higher. You desire for us to ascend the
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  hill of Zion. God, I pray for peace.
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  God, I pray for Jerusalem. God, I pray for the peace of
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  Jerusalem. Father, I pray that you will put
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  your son there and make all the enemies a footstool for him.
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  God, help us to get out of our own way.
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  Help us to lay down all of our selfish desires, all of our
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  selfish things that we have put our eyes towards, all the things
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  that we have held in higher regard to you.
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  God, breakdown all of those things and help us, God, to love
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  you more. Help us to serve you God.
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  Help us to be your hands and feet.
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  Help us to see this world all around us the way that you do.
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  Help us to see people the way that you do, Father, as image
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  bearers made in your image God, and masterpieces God, and help
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  us not to refrain from sharing the good news.
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  God. Help us not to shrink back in
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  fear. Help us not to have
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  prejudiceness. God.
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  Help us not to see people for the way that they even present
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  themselves. But God help us to see to the
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  reality of them as little children, the way that you see
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  them, Father, I pray that we won't see this false self that
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  they present themselves as, but that we will see them, Father,
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  accurately help us give us the eyes to be able to see into the
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  things that you do. Father, I pray for a greater
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  level of understanding. I pray for deeper revelation.
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  God, I pray that we can follow you, Lord, with the cloud by
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  day, in the pillar of fire by night.
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  And if you will not go with this, Lord, we will not go.
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  Lord, we stand firm on the Word of God.
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  We stand firm on the infallible, inerrant word from Genesis to
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  Revelation. God, nothing added and nothing
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  subtracted. The complete authority.
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  Father, we base our entire worldview off of your Scripture.
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  Everything all around us, Lord, moving in the perfect unit
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  sense, everything moving in unison.
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  Father, I pray, Lord, that you will help us to have spiritual
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  eyes and spiritual minds, God, that we can peek into, peer into
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  what is actually happening all around us.
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  God, rescue us from this wicked world.
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  Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will heal our
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  broken bodies. God, I pray that you will heal
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  broken marriages. God, I pray that you'll bring
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  the prodigals home. God, I pray for all of the
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  rulers in this world to become godly and to fear you and have
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  all that revival break out. Lord, from the King to the
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  cattle, let revival. A global revival break out got
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  us. God, let us return back to our
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  first love. Lord, I pray that you will help
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  us to be light and salt for today.
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  We love you, King Jesus, we worship you in spirit and truth.
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  The Spirit and the Bride say come, Maranatha, come in Jesus
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  Christ, holy and precious name that I pray, Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one, Paul, Silas, Timothy unto the
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  Church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord
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  Jesus Christ. Well, we can see that Paul's
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  companions here are helping to write this letter and I'm sure
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  Paul was delighted to have some insight from these great men of
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  faith. We know that Paul and Silas were
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  locked up in the Philippian jail together rejoicing and God did a
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  wonderful miracle in that jail. We know that Timothy was like a
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  son to Paul and we can see that these constituents of Paul were
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  helping to write this letter. That is God breathed and
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  inspired and it is useful, friends, for the building up of
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  the Saints for all ages. And look at us now in this day,
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  in this age, being fanned and being inspired and being built
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  up and encouraged by the working of the Holy Spirit through Paul,
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  Silas and Timothy. And we can see that God the
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  Father and the Lord Jesus right next to each other.
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  They are one. It's God the Father, God the
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  Son, and God the Holy Ghost. 3 and 12 Grace to you, peace from
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  God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  We can see that this grace and this peace, friends, working
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  together, and you cannot have the peace of God if you do not
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  understand what grace accurately means.
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  Grace is unmerited, undeserved. And it is grace, friends, that
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  saves us through faith. And it is grace, friends, that
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  covers us so that when God Almighty looks upon us one day,
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  He will not see any of the sins that you have ever committed or
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  are committing or will commit. And He will only see the
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  perfect, righteous, blameless, innocent blood of Jesus Christ
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  covering us from the top of our head to the bottom of our feet.
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  Friends, that is what is going to get us into eternity with Him
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  forever and ever. And that is where the peace of
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  God comes from is knowing that you are in right standing with
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  God Almighty, and you are at one with him, and you are justified
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  friends, and righteous because of his righteousness and holy
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  because of His Holiness. 3 We are bound to thank God always
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  for you, brothers, as it is meat, because that your faith
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  grows exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all
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  toward each other abounds. Paul saying that he was
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  constrained, that Paul was forced, that he had no choice
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  but to give thanks unto God Almighty because he had heard
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  about the charity and the love, that he heard about the
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  Koinonia, this one another ring of one another, this fellowship
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  that they shared. And it was so encouraging to
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  Paul that he broke out into Thanksgiving and praise unto God
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  because of this church here in Thessalonica.
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  For so that we ourselves glory in you, in the churches of God,
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  for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and
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  tribulations that you endure. So Paul is saying that they
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  were, that he was so incredibly happy, he was so incredibly
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  thankful that they continued on in the faith in spite of all of
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  the outward pressure and all the persecutions of the ones that
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  were coming in and desired to tear them apart and shut them
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  down. But they kept on and they did
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  not lose faith and they kept up the work of God.
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  And Paul was incredibly encouraged because he had heard
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  that the church here in Thessal Nika did not give up in the face
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  of all of their trials and all of their tribulations. 5 which
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  is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that
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  you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you
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  also suffer. So there is this refining fire
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  that God places us in and we do not like it and we do not want
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  it and we do not invite it, but it produces the character.
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  It produces God's polished image in the refiners fire.
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  He's pulling out all the impurities and all the dross and
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  all the things that do not belong.
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  And we want to run from it. We want to hide from it.
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  We want to stiff arm it. We don't like it, but we can see
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  when we get on the other side how it made us battle hardened,
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  how it made us into resolute followers of Him and that are
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  not easily blown and tossed by every wave.
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  Friends. We are not in the shallow soil,
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  friends. We are in the fertile soil that
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  gives way to much fruit, friends.
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  And that is what you need to understand is that all these
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  trials of God. And you remember what Jesus told
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  Peter when he said that Satan had asked to sift him, but he
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  had prayed for him and when he returned that he was to
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  strengthen his brothers. And that is what happens in the
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  refiners fire. As we get sifted, friends, look
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  at the book of Job. Look at the life of Job,
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  friends, and you can see what it looks like when God allows
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  sifting in our lives. But it produces us in the end.
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  We put our hand over the mouth and we say we've said too much
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  because God's holiness is so incredibly wonderful, wonderful
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  and we can see that God is producing so much good.
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  Out of all the things that Satan means for evil. 6 Seeing it is a
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  righteous thing with God to repay tribulation to them that
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  trouble you. Vengeance is gods.
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  We do not need to take vengeance on our own.
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  We pray for our enemies, friends, and it does say that a
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  strongman keepeth his house, a strong man armed keepeth his
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  house. We need to understand if you
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  have two coats, sell one and get yourself a sword.
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  But that is for the protection, friends.
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  It is not to be a seeker of trouble.
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  It is not to go out and to try and annihilate the things that
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  are in this world. We are only to defend ourselves,
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  friends, and that is all that we get.
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  It is not that we are to be the sheeple who just allow the
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  ravenous wolves to come in and tear us apart.
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  That is not what it means, friends, to follow after God.
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  We are allowed and we are told to defend ourselves, but we do
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  not go out looking for it. We do not go out stirring the
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  pot and being arrogant and picking a fight that is not from
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  God. And you need to understand that
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  God will repay those who wrongfully persecute us, who
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  wrongfully trouble us. God, in his beautiful,
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  wonderful, amazing, uncanny way God has, He will bring about
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  their demise in a way that is far better than anything that we
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  could ever put together. He will repay those that trouble
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  US. Seven.
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  And to you who are troubled, rest with us when the Lord Jesus
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  shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels.
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  That is what you need to understand.
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  There is coming a day in an age whenever He's going to put all
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  of His enemies under His feet as a footstool, and that is 100%
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  factual. It is going to happen whether
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  you believe it or whether you don't, whether you like it or
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  whether you don't. We are not to approach God from
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  a moral rationale. We just get out of our own way.
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  We give Him center stage. We say yes and Amen to all the
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  promises in this book. And you can see here in Second
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  Thessalonians chapter one, verse 7, that the Lord Jesus Christ
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  will be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.
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  This is whenever Jesus Christ comes back with all of his
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  Saints, friends, this is after the seven-year tribulation that
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  Jesus will come back and be revealed to the entire world and
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  everyone will see Him and they will try to hide themselves from
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  His coming 8 in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that
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  know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus
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  Christ. He's talking about Armageddon.
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  He's talking about when all the evil in the world is gathered
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  together at Megiddo and he destroys them with the sharp 2
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  edged sword from his mouth. And it is easy for him.
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  There is no battle, he just speaks it like he did in the
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  garden when he says who do you look for?
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  And then he says I am and they all fall backwards.
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  It is easy for him. Friends, don't forget it.
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  Nine who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the
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  presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power?
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  That is what you need to understand.
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  There is coming a day in an age when all of the people who
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  blasphemy His name, all those who are hostile towards a holy,
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  loving God, all those who refuse to love the truth and they
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  delight themselves in evil, all those with a reprobate mind will
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  be amassed together and have to be dealt with.
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  And God will punish all the evil deeds of those who have
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  persecuted His people. And you can see that the
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  greatest everlasting destruction and punishment is to be banished
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  from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power.
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  You need to understand that for those who will not put their
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  faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and they are hostile towards
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  Him, and they will never put their faith in a loving God,
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  this is as close to heaven as they will ever get.
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  But for those of us who have placed our faith in the Lord
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  Jesus Christ, this is as close to hell as we will ever get, 10
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  when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints, to be
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  admired in all them that believe, because our testimony,
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  testimony among you, was believed in that day.
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  So you can see here that when He comes, He desires for us Saints
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  to glory in His presence and to admire all the work that He has
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  done in US. And He took someone who was
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  filthy, took someone who was hell bound and hell bent.
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  He took someone who cared nothing for him.
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  And He glorified them and washed them and made them clean and
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  gave them incorruptible bodies. And we will be amazed at what
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  God can do, and He is faithful to complete the work that He
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  began in you, friends. And we believe it.
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  And that settles it, because God said it. 11 Wherefore also we
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  pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of
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  this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his
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  goodness and the work of faith with power.
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  So he, Paul, is telling the church here at Thessalonica that
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  he is praying for them always. And what he desires is that God
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  would count them worthy. He would count us worthy of this
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  calling. He is praying to God that they
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  are the elect, that they were called before the foundations,
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  they were chosen before the foundations of the earth, and
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  that God has called out to them. And they had enough mental
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  fortitude to choose God and to come into the fold, to hear His
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  voice and to respond and to put their faith in the Lord Jesus
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  Christ. And now we have a calling, and
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  it is to fulfill the good pleasure of God's goodness and
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  the work that God has for us that we will do in faith.
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  And it'll be God's power that enables us to do all the work
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  that He has for us. Verse 12.
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  That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you,
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  and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord.
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  Jesus Christ synonymous to right there neck and neck, God and
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  Jesus the same God is Jesus and we need to know it is the name
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  that is above all names, Jesus Christ that we glorify in the
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  highest. And it is grace that we need
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  friends to be saved and it is grace through faith.
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  I pray that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter here in
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  God's Word. I know that I have comfort each
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  other with these words. Don't fall into the trap that we
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  don't talk about religion and politics.
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  Don't fall into the trap that we need to keep our faith to
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  ourselves. Don't fall into the trap that
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  the plain words written for us that God gave us, God inspired
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  and God breathed black and white on the pages don't need to be
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  spoken in public. Don't fall into the trap that
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  your salvation is to be kept a secret.
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  Don't fall into the trap that you do not need to follow up
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  with immediate obedience of baptism.
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  Do not fall into the trap that the enemy tries to sow all kinds
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  of doubt and worry and fear into your life and get you to doubt
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  your own salvation. Don't fall into that trap.
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  Today is the day of salvation. Put your faith in the Lord Jesus
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  Christ today. It's not a question of have you
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  ever. The question is, are you now?
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  Are you now following after him? And I pray that you can answer
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  yes. What an amazing God we serve.
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  The gospel is simple. Don't complicate it.
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  He will be pleased to give you the Holy Spirit and to guide you
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  through this life. Put your faith in Him today.
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  Don't wait for another day. Don't believe the lie of the
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  enemy that says that God doesn't want to have anything to do with
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  you. Don't believe the lie that God's
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  done with you. Don't believe the lie, friends,
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  that you got to clean your ACT up before you come to God.
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  Don't believe that lie that is from the pits of hell.
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  God says come as you are, come in your filthy rags and He will
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  wash you and He will make you clean and He will purify you and
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  He will make you holy. It's that simple.
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  It's that easy. Do not believe that there's
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  hoops that you have to jump through or a magical prayer that
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  you must pray eloquently in order to make it into eternity.
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  Just cry out to Him today. Cry out to the Lord Jesus Christ
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  today. Believe God raised Him from the
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  dead. Confess with your mouth that you
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  are a Sinner in desperate need of a Savior.
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  You shall be saved. I'm praying for you.
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  I love you. See you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.