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CHRISTIANITY OASIS
DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL
BROTHERLY LOVE
CHRISTIANITY OASIS
HAS PROVIDED YOU WITH THIS BROTHERLY LOVE STUDY. MANY HAVE HEARD OF
THE TERM BROTHERLY LOVE BUT HOW MANY OF US EXPRESS BROTHERLY LOVE? LET'S SEEK AND FIND TRUTH
TOGETHER ABOUT BROTHERLY LOVE,
SHALL WE?
THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS
CHAPTER 4
Happy to have you
back to share in a bit of Daily Bread today. This part of Paul’s letter to
the Thessalonians that we’ll be studying today is very interesting. Paul has
made his introduction, talked a bit about past events in Thessalonica, and
expressed his deep emotions for the people there. Now let’s read as he gives
some words of urging to live righteously, and then he talks a little bit
about the
End
Times.
Furthermore, then
we ask you brethren, and encourage you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have
learned from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you would
abound more and more. You know what commandments we gave you by the Lord
Jesus, because this is the will of God, and your sanctification, that you
should abstain from fornication. Every one of you should know how to possess
(control, maintain) his vessel (body) in sanctification (holiness) and
honor, not in the lust of concupiscence (personal desire), like the Gentiles
who don’t know God.
No man should go
hereafter and defraud his brother in any matter, because the Lord is the
avenger of all such actions, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
God hath not called us to be unclean, but to be holy. So, whoever doesn’t
listen, doesn’t disobey man, but God, who has also given to us His
Holy Spirit.
But speaking of
brotherly love you don’t need me to write to you, because you yourselves are
taught by God to love one another. And indeed ye do it toward all the
brethren which are in all of Macedonia: but we ask you, brethren, that you
increase more and more; and that you try to be quiet (meek), and to do
(mind) your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we directed
you, so that you may walk honestly toward them that are without (so people
outside the Faith can recognize your righteousness), and that you may have
lack of nothing.
I wish you not to
be unknowing, brethren, about those who have died, so that you aren’t
sorrowful, like others who have no hope. Because if we believe that Jesus
died and rose again, likewise those who sleep in Jesus, God will bring with
Him. For this we tell you by the Word of the
Lord, that we who are alive and remain until
the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and
the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air: and so shall we forever be with the Lord.
So then, comfort
one another with these words. What Paul
is talking about here is the second rapture. In order for you to thoroughly
understand what Paul is talking about, there are a few pages that you’ll
want to study, and being as this was such a short chapter, I hope you’ll
include them in your study today. First of all, Paul says, you shouldn’t be
in the dark about your loved ones who have died, so to help you understand
what happens when your earthly body dies, there is a little study called
Fear of Death,
that should be very comforting, and then, to clarify some things you’ve been
wondering about concerning rapture, there is the
Rapture study.
You’re sure to find answers to things that you’ve always wondered, and you
may walk away with quite a different outlook on life . . . Or death.
Search the entire Christianity Oasis Website
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felt the presence of the HOLY SPIRIT:
PROVE HIS PROMISE
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