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8 - 2 THESSALONIANS 3 - COMMANDS: IN THE LIGHT OF CHRIST’S RETURN</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
3:1-2, (NNT) PAUL: REQUESTS THEIR PRAYERS. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3"><i>For
</i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">the rest,
brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord run and be
glorified, even as also </span></font><font size="3"><i>it is </i></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">unto
you; </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="font-style:normal">2
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal">and that
we be delivered from the unreasonable and evil men; for all have not
the faith.” </span></font></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
marvel Father, that the apostles and prophets need the prayers of the
whole body, if Your Word and purposes are to have full sway. We
submit to Your wisdom in this. </span></span><b><i>Hallowed be your
:name.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>2.
3:3-4, PAUL: HIS CONFIDENCE IN THESSALONIAN BELIEVERS. <font size="3">“But
the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and guard from the
evil </font><font size="3"><i>one. </i></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">4
</font><font size="3">And we have confidence in the Lord as to you,
that you both do and will do what </font><font size="3"><i>things</i></font><font size="3">
we command.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">We bless
You Father, that the good work You begin in us, You mature and
perfect it unto the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. You are no
respecter of persons. You did it for Paul’s people. </span><b><i>Your
:kingdom come!</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>3.
3:5. PAUL: A PRAYER OF THE HEART.<font size="3"> “</font><font size="3">And
the Lord direct your :hearts unto the love of :God, and unto the
patience of the Christ.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Love
to God and the patience of Christ: </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">pour</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
them into our hearts, O Father! In You we have all things. You have
blessed us with </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">all</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Christ. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
3:6 (3:6-12) PAUL: HIS EXAMPLE A REBUKE TO DISORDERLY WALK. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Now
we command you, brethren, in the Lord Jesus Christ’s name, that you
withdraw from every brother that walks disorderly, and not after the
tradition which you received of us.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Thank
You Father, for being our example through Your apostles. Thank You
for the triple Plumb line: Yourself, Your Word, and Your servants.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our :daily
:bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">3:13-15. PAUL: EXHORTS
TO PERSEVERANCE AND BROTHERLY FIDELITY. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
you, brethren, be not weary in well-doing. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">14
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And if
any obeys not our :word by </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">this</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
:letter, note that one, that you have no company with him, so that he
be ashamed. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">15
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">And
count him not as an enemy, but admonish as a brother.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
we bless You Father for such balance of wisdom through Your apostles.
(“Admonish” here is equivalent to Jay Adam’s book, “Nouthetic
Counseling.” It is a transliteration of 2 Greek words - “nous”
meaning “mind,” and “TIth</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">e</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">-mi”
meaning “place” or “establish”. When a counselor </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">establishes</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
the </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">mind</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
of a patient by the “Word of God” under the guidance of the Holy
Spirit - </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">this</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is an “admonishment”). </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And forgive
us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
3:16. PAUL: HIS APOSTOLIC BLESSING. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Now
the Lord of :peace himself give you :peace at all </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">times</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
in every way. The Lord </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">be</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
with you all.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">You
who </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">are</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
peace - You alone can give peace! Our eyes are upon You alone, not
unto the gods of the hills. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">3:17-18. PAUL: CLOSING
SALUTATION AND BENEDICTION OF PEACE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“The
greeting of </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">me</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
Paul with my hand, which is a token in every epistle: so I write. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">18
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">The
grace of our :Lord Jesus Christ </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">be</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
with you all.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
see You in Your Word, Father; we see You in Your servants. The law
came through Moses but </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">grace</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
and </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">truth</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
came through or Lord Jesus Christ. What a difference between these
two covenants! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
3:10, 12 (3:6-12) PAUL: INSTRUCTIONS HOW WE SHOULD WORK. </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
even when we were with you, this we commanded you that, If any will
not work, neither let him eat. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">12
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Now
the such we command and exhort in </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">the</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, </span></font><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">and</span></i></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
eat their own :bread.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">How
practical Your words, Father! We bless You for them.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: 98:1-2 (98, ESV) MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE TO THE LORD.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Oh sing
to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right
hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">2
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">The
LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness
in the sight of the nations.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You have given a </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">new
song</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
for Your New Creations in Christ Jesus! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name! </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
bless You for Your great redemption worked out through Christ.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Title
and Subject: </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
present Psalm is a sort of Coronation Hymn, officially proclaiming
the conquering Messiah as Monarch over the nations, with blast of
trumpets, clapping of hands, and celebration of triumphs. It is a
singularly bold and lively song. The critics have fully established
the fact that similar expressions occur in Isaiah, but we see no
force in the inference that therefore it was written by him; on this
principle half the books in the English language might be attributed
to Shakespeare.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">98:1.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">O sing unto
the Lord a new song; for He has done marvelous things. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Jesus,
our King, has lived a marvelous life, died a marvelous death, risen
by a marvelous resurrection, and ascended marvelously into heaven.
By His divine power, He has sent forth the Holy Spirit doing
marvels, and by that sacred energy His disciples have also wrought
marvelous things and astonished all the earth. Idols have fallen,
superstitions have withered, systems of error have fled, and empires
of cruelty have perished. For all this, He deserves the highest
praise. His acts have proved His Deity, Jesus is Jehovah, and
therefore we sing unto Him as the Lord. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">His
right hand, and His holy arm, has gotten Him the victory. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Jesus
never stops to use policy or brute force; His unsullied perfections
secure to Him a real and lasting victory over all the powers of evil,
and that victory will be gained as dexterously and easily as when a
warrior strikes his adversary with his right hand and stretches him
prone upon the earth. Glory be unto the Conqueror; let new songs be
chanted to His praise.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">98:3.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">All the ends
of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Pentecost
deserves a new song as well as the passion and the resurrection; let
our hearts exult as we remember it. Our God, our own forever blessed
God, has been honored by those who once bowed down before dumb idols;
His salvation has not only been heard of but seen among all people;
it has been experienced as well as explained; His Son is the actual
Redeemer of a multitude out of all nations.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">98:5.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">With the
harp. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">God,
Who accepts the unlettered ditty of a plowman, does not reject the
smooth verse of a Cowper or the sublime strains of a Milton. All
repetitions are not vain repetitions; in sacred song there should be
graceful repeats; they render the sense emphatic and help to fire the
so</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">u</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">l;
even preachers do not amiss when the</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">y</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
dwell on a word and sound it out again and again till dull ears feel
its emphasis. The singing of these Psalms became so popular
that D’Israeli suggests that “it first conveyed to the sullen
fancy of the austere Calvin in the project” of introducing the
singing of Psalms into his Genevan discipline. “This infectious
frenzy of Psalm-singing,” as Warton almost blasphemously describes
it, rapidly propagated itself through Germany as well as France, and
passed over to England. D’Israeli says, with a sneer, that
in the time of the Commonwealth, “Psalms were now sung at Lord
Mayor’s dinners and city feasts; soldiers sang them on their march
and at parade; and a few houses which had windows fronting the
streets, but had their evening Psalms.” We can only add, would to
God it were so again.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">98:9.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Before the
Lord; for He comes to judge the earth. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Stiller
music such as made the stars twinkle with their soft kind eyes suited
His first coming at Bethlehem, but His second advent calls for
trumpets, for He is a judge; and for all earth’s acclamations, for
He has put on His royal splendor. The rule of Christ is the joy of
nature. All things bless His throne, yes, and the very coming of it.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">As
the dawn sets the earth weeping for joy at the rising of the sun till
the dewdrops stand in her eyes, so should the approach of Jesus’
universal reign make all creation glad. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">With
righteousness shall He judge the world, and the people with equity.
</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">If
ever there was a thing to rejoice in upon this poor, travailing
earth, it is the coming of such a Deliverer, the ascension to the
universal throne of such a Governor. All hail Jesus! all hail! Our
soul faints with delight at the sound of Your approaching chariots,
and can only cry, “Come quickly. Even so, come quickly, Lord
Jesus!”</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon </span><span style="text-decoration:none">abridged
by D.O. Fuller)</span></b></font></font></p>
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