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1 Thessalonians 5:12-28
1 Thessalonians 5:12-28
Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you. Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other. And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.
Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Do not quench the Spirit. Do not treat prophecies with contempt but test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.
May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
Brothers and sisters, pray for us. Greet all God’s people with a holy kiss. I charge you before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
1. Who Cares
Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you. Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other.
Those who care for you, those who are giving you instruction and walking through life with you as a spiritual leader
We are called to acknowledge them and to hold them in high regard
Our parents, teachers, youth leaders, pastors
Who is spiritually leading you in life?
How have you thanked them lately?
How do you appreciate them?
Are you respectful to them?
God calls us to recognize the importance of our leaders and respect them
2. You Care
Care for others
And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.
How does this scripture tell me to care for others?
Warn those who are idle and disruptive
In other words those who are lazy and those who stir up trouble
Have you ever had a group project at school and one individual never shows up or contributes? Or if they do show up they just stir up trouble and get nothing done?
The bible warns us not to be these people
Here we are even called to confront them in love and kindness to stop.
Our work that God has called us to is important
Many hands make the work light.
Let us all join together to grow closer to Jesus and tell the world about him
Encourage the disheartened
to be disheartened is to have lost hope
That is why Paul throughout this letter reminds us to encourage one another with the truth of the word
Jesus has paid it all! You can have perfect hope in Him! He is my Savior, my Lord!
When God looks at me, He sees His child. He loves me and sacrificed His one and only Son to make our relationship possible
Be encouragers
Help the weak
Paul is talking about the spiritually weak here
We are all at different places in our spiritual walk
We need to help one another grow
If your friend doesn’t know how to open the bible and read it, meet with them and read it together
If your friend doesn’t have a ride to church, offer to have your family give them a ride
You care
The final point under you care is this
Seek after what is good for others, yes even our enemies
One of my life verses is
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
I believe if we truly seek after what is good for others we will naturally help, encourage, and warn as Paul directs in the previous verse
3. God Cares
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
God didn’t just save us to make us strive to be better people
God saved us and He also promises to do the work in you
The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
God calls us to Himself and God will fulfill His calling by making you holy, guarding you, watching over you, and protecting you as His own
What God starts He will finish
And He cares for you
