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W O W - T H E B I G P I C T U R E
by Thomas Nelson Publishers
Stand Firm in Our Teaching and Example
-- 2 Thessalonians 1:1-3:16; Psalm 119:73-75; Proverbs 21:22
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy,
To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting,
because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you
all abounds toward each other, so that we ourselves boast of you among
the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your
persecutions and tribulations that you endure, which is manifest
evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted
worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer; since it is a
righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble
you, and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus
is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking
vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey
the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with
everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the
glory of His power, when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His
saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our
testimony among you was believed.
Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you
worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His
goodness and the work of faith with power, that the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the
grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our
gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or
troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as
though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means;
for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the
man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts
himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he
sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these
things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed
in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work;
only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume
with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His
coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of
Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all
unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not
receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this
reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the
lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but
had pleasure in unrighteousness.
But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved
by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation
through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth, to which
He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions
which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has
loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace,
comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.
Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run
swiftly and be glorified, just as it is with you, and that we may be
delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all have faith.
But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the
evil one. And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, both that
you do and will do the things we command you.
Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the
patience of Christ.
But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not
according to the tradition which he received from us. For you
yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we were not disorderly
among you; nor did we eat anyone's bread free of charge, but worked
with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any
of you, not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an
example of how you should follow us.
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will
not work, neither shall he eat. For we hear that there are some who
walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are
busybodies. Now those who are such we command and exhort through our
Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.
But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary in doing good. And if
anyone does not obey our word in this epistle, note that person and do
not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet do not count him
as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in every way.
The Lord be with you all.
2 Thessalonians 1:1-3:16
WORSHIP:
Your hands have made me and fashioned me;
Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.
Those who fear You will be glad when they see me,
Because I have hoped in Your word.
I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are right,
And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
Psalm 119:73-75
WISDOM:
A wise man scales the city of the mighty,
And brings down the trusted stronghold.
Proverbs 21:22
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