Hi and Welcome to
His Words Are Life
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and today we
will be reading from the book of
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Colossians, but before we
begin let's pray together.
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Dear Jesus, thank you so much
for giving us the blessing of
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words that, not only
give us comfort and peace,
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but that show us how
we can be more like you
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and that is the longing of
our hearts - to bring you glory
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to have you pleased with
us, to have you smile at us,
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and so now as we sit in your
presence, for these few minutes,
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please send your Holy Spirit to
guide our hearts and our minds
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and again, thank your for
these wonderful, wonderful
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precious words. We
love you so much. Amen
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I'm reading again today
from the book of Colossians,
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this is the King
James version. chapter four
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and continuing with verse three.
Withal praying also for us,
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that God would open
unto us a door of utterance,
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to speak the mystery of Christ,
for which I am also in bonds:
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that I may make it
manifest as I ought to speak.
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Walk in wisdom toward them that
are without, redeeming the time.
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let your speech be alway
with grace, seasoned with salt,
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that ye may know how ye
ought to answer every man.
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All my state shall
Tychicus declare unto you,
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who is a beloved
brother, and a faithful minister
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and fellow-servant in the Lord:
whom I have sent unto you for
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the same purpose, that
he might know your estate,
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and comfort your hearts; with
Onesimus, a faithful and beloved
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brother, who is one of you.
They shall make known unto you
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all things which are done here.
Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner
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saluteth you, and
Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas
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- touching whom ye
received commandments:
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if he come unto
you, receive him; -
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And Jesus, which is
called Justus, who are of the
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circumcision. These only are my
fellow-workers unto the kingdom
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of God, which have
been a comfort unto me.
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Epaphras, who is one of
you, a servant of Christ,
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saluteth you, always labouring
fervently for you in prayers,
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that ye may stand perfect and
complete in all the will of God.
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For I bear him record, that
he hath a great zeal for you,
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and them that are in Laodicea,
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and them in Hierapolis.
Luke, the beloved physician,
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and Demas, greet you.
Salute the brethren which are in
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Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the
church which is in his house.
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And when this epistle is read
among you, cause that it be read
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also in the church of the
Laodiceans; and that ye likewise
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read the epistle from Laodicea.
And say to Archippus, Take heed
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to the ministry which
thou hast received in the Lord,
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that thou fulfill
it. The salutation
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by the hand of me,
Paul. Remember my bonds.
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Grace be with you. Amen.
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Continuing now in the first
letter to the Thessalonians,
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this is the King
James version. Chapter one.
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Paul, and Silvanus, and
Timotheus, unto the church
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of the Thessalonians which
is in God the Father and in
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the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be
unto you, and peace from God our
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Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
We give thanks to God always
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for you all, making
mention of you in our prayers;
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Remembering without
ceasing your work of faith
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and labour of love, and patience
of hope in our Lord Jesus
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Christ, in the sight
of God and our Father;
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Knowing, brethren
beloved, your election of God.
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For our gospel came not unto you
in word only, but also in power.
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and in the Holy Ghost, and
in much assurance; as ye know
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what manner of men we
were among you for your sake.
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And ye became followers
of us, and of the Lord,
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having received the word
in much affliction, with joy
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of the Holy Ghost: So that
ye were ensamples to all that
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believe in Macedonia and Achaia
For from you sounded out the
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word of the Lord not only in
Macedonia and Achaia, but also
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in every place your faith
to God-ward is spread abroad;
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So that we need not to speak
any thing. For they themselves
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shew of us what manner of
entering in we had unto you,
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and how ye turned to God
from idols to serve the living
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and true God; and to
wait for his Son from heaven,
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whom he raised from the dead,
even Jesus, which delivered us
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from the wrath to come.
Again reading from the first
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book of
Thessalonians, chapter two
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For yourselves, brethren,
know our entrance in unto you,
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that it was not in vain: But
even after that we had suffered
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before and were
shamefully treated, as ye know,
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at Philippi, we were bold
in our God to speak unto you
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the gospel of God with much
contention. For our exhortation
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was not of deceit, nor of
uncleanness, nor in guile:
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But as we were allowed of God to
be put in trust with the gospel,
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even so we speak; not
as pleasing men, but God,
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which trieth our hearts.
For neither at any time used we
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flattering words, as ye know,
nor a cloak of covetousness;
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God is witness: Nor of men
sought we glory, neither of you,
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nor yet of others, when we
might have been burdensome,
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as the apostles of Christ.
But we were gentle among you,
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even as a nurse
cherisheth her children:
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So being affectionately desirous
of you, we were willing to have
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imparted unto you, not
the gospel of God only,
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but also our own souls,
because ye were dear unto us.
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For ye remember, brethren,
our labour and travail:
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for labouring night and
day, because we would not be
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chargeable to any of you,
we preached unto you the gospel
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of God. Ye are witnesses, and
God also, how holily and justly
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and unblameably we have behaved
ourselves among you that believe
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As ye know how we exhorted and
comforted and charged every one
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of you, as a father doth
his children, that ye would walk
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worthy of God, who hath called
you unto his kingdom and glory.
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For this cause also thank we
God without ceasing, because,
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when ye received the word
of God which ye heard of us,
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ye received it not as the word
of men, but as it is in truth,
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the word of God, which
effectually worketh also in you
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that believe. For ye, brethren,
became followers of the churches
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of God which in Judaea are in
Christ Jesus: for ye also have
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suffered like things of your own
countrymen, even as they have
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of the Jews: Who both killed the
the Lord Jesus, and their own
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prophets, and have persecuted
us and they please not God,
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and are contrary to all
men: Forbidding us to speak
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to the Gentiles that they might
be saved, to fill up their sins
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alway: for the wrath is
come upon them to the uttermost.
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But we, brethren, being
taken from you for a short time
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in presence, not in heart,
endeavored the more abundantly
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to see your face with great
desire. Wherefore we would have
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come unto you, even
I Paul, once and again;
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but Satan hindered us. For what
is our hope, or joy, or crown
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of rejoicing? Are not even ye in
the presence of our Lord Jesus
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Christ at his coming?
For ye are our glory and joy.
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Continuing in the first book to
the Thessalonians, chapter three
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and this is the
King James version.
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wherefore when we could no
longer forbear, we thought it
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good to be left at Athens alone
and sent Timotheus, our brother,
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and minister of God, and our
fellow-labourer in the gospel
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of Christ, to establish you,
and to comfort you concerning
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your faith: that no man should
be moved by these afflictions:
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for yourselves know that
we are appointed thereunto.
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For verily, when we were with
you, we told you before that we
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should suffer tribulation; even
as it came to pass, and ye know
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For this cause, when I could no
longer forbear, I sent to know
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your faith, lest by some means
the tempter have tempted you,
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and our labour be in vain. But
now when Timotheus came from you
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unto us, and brought us
good tidings of your faith
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and charity, and that ye have
good remembrance of us always,
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desiring greatly to see
us, as we also to see you:
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Therefore, brethren,
we were comforted over you
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in all our affliction
and distress by your faith:
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For now we live, if ye
stand fast in the Lord.
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For what thanks can we
render to God again for you,
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for all the joy wherewith we joy
for your sakes before our God;
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Night and day praying
exceedingly that we might
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see your face, and might
perfect that which is lacking
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in your faith? Now God
himself and our Father,
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and our Lord Jesus
Christ, direct our way unto you.
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And the Lord make you to
increase and abound in love
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one toward another, and
toward all men, even as we do
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toward you: to the end
he may establish your hearts
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unblameable in holiness before
God, even our Father, at the
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coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ with all his saints.
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Reading in chapter four of
the first book of Thessalonians,
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and this is the
King James version.
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Furthermore then we beseech
you brethren, and exhort you
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by the Lord Jesus, that as ye
have received of us how ye ought
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to walk and to please God, so
ye would abound more and more.
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For ye know what commandments
we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
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For this is the will of
God, even your sanctification,
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that ye should
abstain from fornication:
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That every one of you should
know how to possess his vessel
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in sanctification and honour;
Not in the lust of concupiscence
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even as the Gentiles which know
not God: That no man go beyond
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and defraud his brother in any
matter: because that the Lord
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is the avenger of all such,
as we also have forewarned you
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and testified. For God hath
not called us unto uncleanness,
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but unto holiness. He therefore
that despiseth, despiseth not
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man, but God, who hath also
given unto us his holy Spirit.
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But as touching brotherly
love ye need not that I write
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unto you, for ye yourselves
are taught of God to love
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one another. And indeed ye
to it toward all the brethren
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which are in all Macedonia:
but we beseech you, brethren
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that ye increase more and more;
and that ye study to be quiet,
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and to do your own business,
and to work with your own hands,
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as we commanded you; that ye
may walk honestly toward them
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that are without, and that
ye may have lack of nothing.
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But I would not have you to
be ignorant brethren, concerning
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them which are asleep, that
ye sorrow not, even as others
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which have no hope. For if we
believe that Jesus died and rose
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again, even so them
also which sleep in Jesus
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will God bring with him. For
this we say unto you by the word
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of the Lord, that we which are
alive and remain unto the coming
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of the Lord shall not
prevent them which are asleep.
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For the Lord himself
shall descend from heaven,
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with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel,
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and with the trump of God: and
the dead in Christ shall rise
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first: then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up
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together with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air:
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and so shall we ever be
with the Lord. Wherefore comfort
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one another with these
words. Reading in chapter five
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But of the times and seasons,
brethren, ye have no need that I
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write unto you. For yourselves
know perfectly that the day of
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the Lord so cometh
as a thief in the night.
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For when they shall say,
Peace and safety; then sudden
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destruction cometh upon
them, as travail upon a woman
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with child; and they shall not
escape. But ye, brethren, are
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not in darkness, that that day
should overtake you as a thief.
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Ye are all the children of light
and the children of the day.
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We are not of the night, nor of
darkness. Therefore let us not
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sleep as do others; but
let us watch and be sober.
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For they that
sleep, sleep in the night;
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and they that be drunken
are drunken in the night.
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Bur let us, who are
of the day, be sober,
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putting on the
breastplate of faith and love;
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and for an helmet,
the hope of salvation.
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For God hath not appointed us to
wrath, but to obtain salvation
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by our Lord Jesus
Christ, who died for us,
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that whether we wake or sleep,
we should live together with him
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Wherefore comfort yourselves
together, and edify one another,
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even as also ye do. And
we beseech you, brethren,
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to know them which labour
among you, and are over you
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in the Lord and admonish you;
and to esteem them very highly
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in love for their work's sake.
And be at peace among yourselves
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Now we exhort you, brethren,
warn them that are unruly,
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comfort the
feebleminded, support the weak,
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be patient toward all men. See
that none render evil for evil
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unto any man; but ever
follow that which is good,
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both among yourselves, and
to all men. Rejoice evermore.
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Pray without ceasing.
In every thing give thanks:
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for this is the will of God
in Christ Jesus concerning you.
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Quench not the Spirit.
Despise not prophesyings.
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Prove all things; hold
fast that which is good.
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Thank you for being with us
today and please join me again
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next time to
read the word of God.
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