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Last Things
Last week Sara went down to spend a few days w/ her parents in Tucson.
She tries to go down every month or two.
As she gets ready to head out the door there’s always a list of things she needs to remember to do and things to tell me to do.
She made a quiche, remember to take it.
Take Diamondbacks clothes.
She’s ordered some thing for VBS and the house that will be delivered while she’s gone.
I need to watch.
She called me as she was in the car heading out of town, like she always does, saying she had a couple things she needed to tell me.
1st, I needed to water her garden.
W/ specific instructions.
Every day, not wide open, 10 minutes.
If I don’t water, the plants will die.
If I open the valve too much it will blow the ends off her watering lines and wash out the seeds.
I needed to water her garden.
Important if it doesn’t rain or else her plants will die.
Then, the 2nd thing.
She couldn’t remember.
10 minutes later she called me.
She remembered.
She left a window open I needed to know about to close at night.
Hopefully, not that important.
Important last minute things to remember.
We’ve got to get these things right.
Important last minute things to remember.
We’ve got to get these things right.
When you’re getting ready to close your house in the valley for the summer and head up to MP what are the important things you have to do?
Cut off the water so no leaks all summer.
Or, irrigation so your plants don’t die.
Trash collection.
Get the trash out so it doesn’t rot in the trash can all summer in the heat.
Are your windows closed?
Doors locked?
Or, when you close your cabin and head down for the winter.
Or, when you get ready to leave on vacation.
You know that list you always have.
And, once you’re on your way you always get that feeling you forgot something.
Usually, you didn’t.
But the feeling is always there.
This morning we’re wrapping up the first part of this series, Significant Lessons from Second Letters.
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We don’t know if Paul ever wrote any more letters to the Thessalonian church.
He probably didn’t.
If he did, they weren’t preserved for our bible.
We have two of them.
And, this is the last chapter of the last letter he wrote that we have.
That list, the last couple of important things to make sure they get.
This could be it from him forever.
That list, the last couple of important things to make sure they get.
This could be it from him forever.
They’ve got the HS.
But this might be it from Paul.
The last couple of things on his list of all the important things they need to be encouraged to do
1 and 2 Thess include a list of things he wanted to remind them of, that they needed, in their lives
He had already taught them when he was there but now they are getting some things wrong.
Be watchful for Jesus’ return.
Be strong and stay faithfully ob to God’s word.
And, the HS preserved them for us.
So, it’s a list we need to be encouraged to do, too.
This was important to them and it is to us.
The last couple of things he needed to make sure he encouraged them to do.
Loading up the Caravan w/ the fake wood paneling on the side, or maybe it was a Ford Country Squire station wagon, getting ready to be done w/ it all.
The back seat that face backward, no one wore a seat belt.
If anyone was going to get car sick it was the kid facing backward w/ the wagon rocking and rolling down the highway.
It was a vomit wagon if ever there was one.
Anyway, Paul saying his good-byes...
Oh yea, don’t forget to do these 2 things:
What are they?
Let’s get into them.
The first important last thing he reminded them to do was pray!
Pray
As for other matters… A Greek phrase that could also be translated, “And, finally...”
He’s wrapping it up.
Final thoughts.
Making sure he finished the list of things he wanted them to get.
The first of these last 2 things: Pray
In general, how we view God determines how we pray.
How I view you determines how I talk to you.
I talk to Sara differently than I talk to anyone else.
I talk to my kids differently than I talk to other 20 year olds.
W/ Sara, we talk intimately.
I tell her things I don’t tell anyone else.
I ask her about things and for things I don’t ask anyone else.
I talk to her more than I talk to anyone else.
Contrast a stranger walking down the sidewalk.
We might make eye contact.
At most, say “Hi.”
Why bother saying anything else.
We may never see each other again.
And there’s nothing we could do for each other.
Is there anyone in your life who, when you speak to them, all they ever do is ask you for stuff or only talk about themselves, their lives, their issues?
They take no interest in you, ask you about what’s important to you, what you’d like to see happen?
So, how do you view God?
Do you only talk to him when you need something?
Only talk about yourself, like He doesn’t already know, and never complement Him, thank Him, or ask Him what He’d like to see done?
When you were a child, how did you speak to Santa Claus?
Do you view God like he brings gifts to good boys and girls?
He has a nice list and a naughty list?
Do you view him as aloof, impersonal, no relationship.
Then prayer is like meeting the stranger on the sidewalk.
Why bother.
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