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1 Thessalonians chapter 2 · Scripture Unscripted

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  First Thessalonians chapter 2. Let us pray our Father our King
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  and our Lord Adonai El Elian, the Most High God the Great.
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  I am Lord Jesus Christ, high and lifted up.
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  Holy Spirit, coming and dwell us, fill us.
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  Holy Spirit, I pray that we will be filled overflowing.
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  Lord, we pray in the mighty name of Jesus that you will help us
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  to keep your name holy. Help us not to blasphemy your
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  name. Help us not to take it lightly.
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  God, I pray that we will have reverence for your holy name.
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  It is the name that is above all names that we call upon.
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  Yeshua, we thank you God for another day to come and to
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  worship you in spirit and truth. We thank you, God, that you are
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  here in our midst. Lord, we thank you that you are
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  moving mightily. We thank you, God, for the
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  prophetic timeline that is happening all around us.
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  God, we fix our eyes upon your timepiece, Israel, we see you
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  moving mightily in this world, in this global world.
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  Father, we see that you're moving mightily, God, and we get
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  out of our own understanding. We get out of our own morality,
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  God. We get out of our own limited
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  intellect, God, and we lay prostate God, knowing that we
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  serve the God of the universe, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
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  Jacob. We pray for the peace of
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  Jerusalem. God, we pray that you will be
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  magnified and glorified throughout all generations.
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  God, that your word will never return void, and God, you will
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  not be mocked. And so, Lord God Almighty, bring
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  your will and your Kingdom to this earth just as it is there
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  in heaven. God, I pray for daily bread
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  today. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that we can feast upon your flesh.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that we can drink the blood of
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  your sacrifice. Lord, I pray that it'll be
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  Christ's blood that covers us from the top of our heads to the
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  bottom of our feet, that we can stand in your presence, God, and
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  be holy because you are holy. We thank you that you have made
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  us at one with you. We thank you that you have
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  justified us God and that you have completely did away as far
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  as the east is to the West. You have completely done away
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  with every single sin that we have ever committed, are
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  committing or will ever commit and God, we do not abuse grace
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  today. Lord, we want to be obedient
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  children. We have the faith of a little
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  child. God, we believe that you are.
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  We believe that the Bible is the inerrant, infallible word.
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  God, the complete authority for our lives and for all people
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  groups on every continent, in every nation, and every tongue.
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  Friends, I pray in the name of Jesus God Almighty, that you,
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  Lord, will come and get your glory.
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  Father, forgive us for all the times that we made it about self
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  and made it about sin and made it about pleasure and made it
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  all about this world. God forgive us and help us to
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  extend forgiveness out to every single person who has ever
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  wronged us or will wronged us. Help us not to find our identity
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  in the unforgiveness. Help us not to find our identity
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  and all the wrongs that have been done to us.
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  But God, let us come up to a higher spiritual plane with you.
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  God, we want to see your glory, Father Shekinah, glory shining
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  all around us. Father, I pray for the sea of
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  glass mingled with fire, the rainbow all around you, the
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  throne, and we cast our crowns, Father, for you are worthy, you
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  are holy and you are lovely. You're the King of kings and the
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  Lord of Lords. And we cry out.
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  Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is
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  to come. Lord, I pray that you'll keep us
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  from the accuser of the brethren.
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  God, keep us from the lies and the pitfalls and the snares of
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  the adversary. God, I pray that we can be
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  enveloped with your protection. Form a hedge of protection
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  around us. God, I pray against all the
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  schemes and the Wiles of the enemy.
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  Lord, I pray that we can be victorious by putting on the
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  full armor today. God, let us exude all the fruits
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  of the Spirit, for yours is the Kingdom and the power and the
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  glory forever and ever, and it's in Jesus Christ.
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  Holy perfect precious name that I pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one for yourselves.
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  Brothers, know our entrance in unto you that it was not in
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  vain. So Paul saying that all of the
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  things that we established there amongst you, it was not in vain.
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  You have been established. You are the crown that we wear
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  on our head because the Holy Spirit has come in and the Holy
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  Spirit has wrecked you, and the Holy Spirit has gotten a hold of
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  you. And you can see the fruits of
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  Paul's work. And it was not in vain.
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  And Paul is stirring their minds to the remembrance of when he
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  was with them and all the things that he told them.
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  And he's saying, go ahead and walk accordingly to all the
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  truth that you have been given two.
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  But even after that we had suffered before and were
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  shamefully entreated. As you know, at Philippi we were
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  bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much
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  contention. So Paul here saying that even
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  though they were facing all the persecution, they were being run
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  out of towns, they were being whipped and beaten, it did not
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  stop them from preaching the truth to this church here in
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  Thessalonica. Paul had counted the cost and he
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  had found Jesus Christ to be worthy.
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  He had found that all of the scriptures that he had studied,
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  when he was the Pharisee of the Pharisee, a Hebrew of Hebrews,
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  they all pointed to Yeshua. And now he is able to stand in
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  the face of all of the persecution and all of the
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  brutal actions against him. And he did it willingly and he
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  did it lovingly. And he wanted the church here to
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  know that they were founded upon the stripes that were on his
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  back, the 39 lashes 3 times that he had suffered.
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  And he wanted them to know that they were able to withstand all
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  the things that this wicked, perverse world would throw at
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  them. Because Jesus is worthy and we
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  count the cost before we ever put our hand to the plow, and we
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  take up our cross daily and follow Him. 3-4 hour exhortation
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  was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile.
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  So Paul was saying we did not manipulate you, we did not come
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  to you, and we were not trying to get something out of you.
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  We came with the purity of heart.
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  We came preaching to you the truth.
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  We were not coming to you and we were not trying to deceive you.
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  We were not coming trying to get something from you, but we were
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  coming giving and giving and giving.
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  And that is the true heart of a minister.
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  It is not somebody who does it to get something back.
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  They do it because it it is their reasonable service.
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  It is what is expected of them because of all of what they have
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  received. Freely you have received and
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  freely you shall give. Friends.
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  We don't do it to get, we do it because of the gravity and the
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  magnitude of the sins that we have been forgiven of.
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  And it is available to every man, woman, and child, if they
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  will come to Jesus Christ honestly, if they will come to
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  Him and completely spill themselves out and be filled
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  with Him. 4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in
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  trust with the gospel, Even so we speak not as pleasing men,
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  but God, which tries our hearts. So God had deposited into Paul
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  all of the truth for the church, and it was not revealed to men
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  prior. And so it was only alluded to
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  once whenever Jesus Christ told Peter that he would build his
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  church on him. And then all of the church
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  doctrines were entrusted to Paul.
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  And here Paul is alluding to the good news of the Lord Jesus
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  Christ for all men, and he did not care what men thought about
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  him. He was only there speaking for
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  God Almighty. If we will bow down to God and
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  only please God, then we care not for all of the naysayers and
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  all the negative and all of those in the world who tried
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  desperately to cover their tracks.
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  And they don't want to have conviction friends.
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  And they try to explain the world as being billions of years
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  old. And they're trying to explain
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  how people can live apart from a theist and how we need to get
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  rid of the religion because it's caused all of these wars.
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  And it's all of the problems that are in the world are
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  because of religion. And it is only because they want
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  to escape from the conviction that they have.
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  And Paul saying we care not for what man says.
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  We only care about what God thinks.
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  And who should we obey, man or God?
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  And it is always God that we obey, and he tries our hearts.
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  God does not try us to see what we will do.
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  God tries us so that we will see what we will do. 5 For neither
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  at any time used we flattering words, as you know, nor cloak of
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  covetousness. God is witness.
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  Paul is saying, God is my witness that we came with pure
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  motives. We did not come trying to get
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  something from you. We did not come trying to get
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  money from you or trying to usurp authority over you.
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  We came for the pure, unadulterated, unwatered down
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  good news of our Lord Jesus Christ, and we preached it
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  unashamedly. We did not try to preach a
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  message that was popular among the masses.
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  We only spoke what was given to us.
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  And that is the admonition that we have friends, is we preach
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  the entirety of God's word, nothing added and nothing
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  subtracted, regardless of what kind of soil it falls on. 6 Nor
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  of men sought. We glory neither of you nor yet
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  of others when we might have been burdensome as the apostles
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  of Christ. So what is he saying here,
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  friends? Paul is saying we did not come
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  and lay a heavy burden on you. We did not come demanding that
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  you give us money. We did not come.
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  We gave up all the rights to be supported because all we wanted
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  to do was give you the free good news of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And we were going to paint the picture of how all the Old
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  Testament pointed to Jesus Christ.
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  And Jesus is the culmination of all creation.
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  He is the highest and the loftiest entity.
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  He is God the Son. And Paul saying we did not seek
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  our own glory. We did not be a We were not a
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  burden to you. We were the true ambassadors and
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  messengers of Jesus Christ. 7 But we were gentle among you.
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  Even as a nurse cherishes her children.
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  So he's saying the affection that a mother has for her
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  children as she nurses them. Paul came in that way.
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  He only wanted them to grow and to mature.
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  Not only did He birth them, but He nursed them and He wanted
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  them to mature in their faith. And He gave them all of the
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  things that they needed to finish the race well.
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  And we have the finished complete authority available to
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  us from Genesis to Revelation, nothing added and nothing
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  subtracted. And Paul is saying that we need
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  to get off of the spiritual milk, and we need to get on the
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  spiritual meat, and we are waiting to be taught when we
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  ourselves should be teaching. A So being affectionately
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  desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you not
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  the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you were
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  dear unto us. Paul was saying I was willing to
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  lay down my own life for you, not just for the sake of your
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  eternity, but because love has no greater than for a man to lay
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  down his life for his brothers. And Paul understood this and
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  Paul was willing to be spilled out for them.
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  He says to live is Christ and to die is gain 9 for you.
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  Remember, brothers, our labor and travail for laboring night
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  and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you.
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  We preached unto you the gospel of God.
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  He said we did it free of charge.
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  We woke up before the sun came up and we gave ourselves over to
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  prayer, to fasting, to teaching the Word accurately before we
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  ever went to our nine to five, before we ever went to build
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  tents and support ourselves in the ministry. 10 You are
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  witnesses, and God also how holy and justly and unblameably we
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  behaved ourselves among you that believe.
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  Paul says you can lay no charge against us.
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  We did not come to you trying to get money from you.
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  We did not come to you, and we were not a burden to you.
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  We came to you and freely we gave because freely we had
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  received. God is our witness. 11 as you
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  know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one
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  of you as a father does his children.
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  This is the discipline, friends, and we need to understand that
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  God disciplines those that He loves.
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  It is a sign of hatred if we do hold back the discipline that a
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  child needs. If we refuse to father our
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  children, it is a sign of hatred.
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  It is not doing right by them. We need to be those who are
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  speaking truth in love. We need to be those that are
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  disciplining our bodies, disciplining our families, and
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  allowing God to discipline us and putting ourselves under the
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  authority of those that we can trust that are accurately
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  following after Jesus Christ and have been following after Him
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  longer than we have to teach us these spiritual lessons.
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  Friends, how much damage we do by becoming offended and falling
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  away because of the discipline that we receive. 12 that you
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  would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his Kingdom
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  and glory. Think about it friends, if you
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  could even grasp what we have in Christ Jesus, not only for the
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  here and the now, but for what is in the next to come.
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  And we're closer today than we were yesterday.
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  And His mercies are new every day.
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  But we need to walk worthy of our high position in Christ
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  Jesus. We are Saints and we are
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  ministers of reconciliation and we are greater than any of the
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  ones born of woman because we have the indwelling of the Holy
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  Spirit inside of us and we need to walk accordingly.
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  We do not need to walk as victims.
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  We do not need to walk as little children.
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  We not do not need to behave like animals.
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  And we do not need to become effeminate friends.
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  We are men and we need to rise up.
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  And it's high time to walk in the accordance with our high
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  position in Christ Jesus as his ministers. 13 For this cause
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  also we thank God without ceasing, because when you
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  received the word of God which you heard of us, you received it
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  not as the word of men, but as it is in truth the Word of God,
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  which effectually works also in you that believe.
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  If you will take God at His Word, if you will not call any
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  of it into question, not one jot, not once, not one title.
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  Friends, then God will be well pleased to pour out His Spirit
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  in you, and to reveal deep things to you.
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  God will be well pleased to show you His presence day in and day
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  out, and you can walk in the Spirit and not satisfy the lust
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  of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life
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  which are not from God. Friends, we need to know that we
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  we know that we know that we know that God's word is
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  infallible and inerrant and it has not been written by man.
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  It is God's Rhema, his spoken word.
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  It is breath on pages. It is alive and active and
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  sharper than any 2 edged sword. 14-4 You brothers became
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  followers of the churches of God, which in Judea are in
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  Christ Jesus. For you also have suffered like
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  things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews.
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  So here he is alluding to the persecution that the church
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  there at Thessalonica had been given by even the Jews in the
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  synagogue because they were preaching that this Jewish
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  carpenter's son, this rogue St. preacher, was God Almighty,
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  which is offensive to the Jewish religion.
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  And they are still waiting on a Messiah, but they need not wait
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  on another, for their Messiah has already came.
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  And the seven-year tribulation will be the time when the Jewish
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  nation put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, 15 who both
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  killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted
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  us. And they please not God and are
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  contrary to all men. So he's talking about the
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  Sanhedrin. He's talking about the Pharisees
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  and the Sadducees. He's talking about those who
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  gave Jesus over to the Roman authorities of Pontius Pilate to
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  have him brutally murdered and hung on a criminal's cross.
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  But three days he resurrected, and he is seated at the right
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  hand of God today. And Paul is telling this church
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  in Thessalonica that they do not need to be fearful of the Jews.
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  16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be
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  saved to fill up their sins all way, for the wrath has come upon
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  them to the uttermost. So we know in a short time from
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  this letter being written, God is going to tear down the temple
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  in AD 70 a very short amount of time.
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  He's going to end all the sacrifices because the all
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  sufficient sacrifice was already made.
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  The spotless, blameless Lamb of God had hung on the cross and
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  atoned for all the sins of humanity, past, present, and
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  future friends. And Paul here is alluding that
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  they have heaped upon themselves judgment after judgment, and God
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  can use these things without excusing these things to the
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  uttermost. 17 But we brothers, being taken from you for a short
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  time in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more abundantly
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  to see your face with a great desire.
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  Paul is saying, We are of 1 accord, 1 mind of 1 Spirit, the
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  mind of Christ. Even though we are not with you
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  physically, we are with you spiritually. 18 Wherefore we
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  would have come unto you, even I Paul once and again, but Satan
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  hindered us. What the enemy meant for evil,
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  God is using for great good. When Paul was hindered in
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  travelling, he sat down and penned this letter.
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  And if all of the demonic haunts and the demonic host would have
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  known what would come of hindering Paul, they never would
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  have let it happen. As we are edified and built up
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  by all these inspired, God breathed letters that Paul wrote
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  to the churches and that have been preserved through the ages
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  for us today. 19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of
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  rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence
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  of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
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  So Paul here is alluding that the churches that he established
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  are the confirmation of the Holy Spirit working mightily in the
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  world. We'll end on. 24 You are our
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  glory and joy. Paul gives us a very deep
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  theological substance here when he says that all of the converts
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  that are made are the confirmation of the minister's
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  anointing. What an amazing chapter we have
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  here. I
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  hope you've been blessed by this chapter.
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  I know, I sure have. I love you, I'm praying for you.
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  God bless you. Stay prayed up today.
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  Put on the full armor today. Be fruitful, but you do not know
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  the hour when the Son of Man will return.
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  God bless you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow.