STUDIES FROM BRETHREN IN CHRIST

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2/26/2006 ~ Don't Quit


... Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil. ...
~ 1st Thessalonians 5:1-28


Thessalonica was a city in Greece.
The message was that the Lord hasn't come back, but keep it going.


... we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, ...
~ Titus 2:11-14


Jesus is coming back ... How?

... Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? ...
~ James 4:4


Nearness to God = Close to God         
Nearness to world = Distance from God  

... "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble." ... ~ James 4:5-10

Distance from God = Darkness

Ask, if I do this, does it bring me closer to God?

┌──── Faith, Love, Hope ────┐

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen.
~ Hebrews 11:1


Trust more in God than ourselves.

... by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. ... ~ Acts 20:35

More blessed to give than to receive.
~
So many youths look for what others do to them.


... whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, ... ~ Matthew 7:12
└──── Golden Rule ────┘

Not what you do to others but for others.


... hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.
~ Romans 8:24-25


Hope is not based on what you see.

Many churches gauge there success in numbers.


... putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet
the hope of salvation. ... ~ 1st Thessalonians 5:8-10


Success lays in the individual.

... comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all.
~ 1st Thessalonians 5:12-14


... but to make ourselves an example of how you should follow us. ...
~ 2nd Thessalonians 3:6-11


People were lazy in Thessalonica.
Paul wanted them to "Wake Up!"


... always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all.
~ 1st Thessalonians 5:14-15


Rejoice always, ... ~ 1st Thessalonians 5:16

Rejoice in Christ.

Complainers = Jesus is not coming back
Thankful = Jesus is coming back

Don't quit because you need to be ready today.
If He dosen't come back today, we have not wasted our time.

CHRIST is a way of Life.



 

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