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THE APOSTLE PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS

THE APOSTLE PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS. AN OUTWARD CHRISTIAN PROFESSION CAN APPEAR TO BE GENUINE SANCTIFICATION .

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THE APOSTLE PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS

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  1. THE APOSTLE PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS

  2. AN OUTWARD CHRISTIAN PROFESSION CAN APPEAR TO BE GENUINE SANCTIFICATION. “WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! FOR YE ARE LIKE UNTO WHITED SEPULCHRES, WHICH INDEED APPEAR BEAUTIFUL OUTWARD, BUT ARE WITHIN FULL OF DEAD MEN'S BONES, AND OF ALL UNCLEANNESS. EVEN SO YE ALSO OUTWARDLY APPEAR RIGHTEOUS UNTO MEN, BUT WITHIN YE ARE FULL OF HYPOCRISY AND INIQUITY. “ (MATT. 23:27-28) • IT NOT ONLY DECEIVES THOSE WHO WITNESS IT, BUT ALSO THOSE WHO PRACTICE IT. “NOT EVERY ONE THAT SAITH UNTO ME, LORD, LORD, SHALL ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN; BUT HE THAT DOETH THE WILL OF MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN. MANY WILL SAY TO ME IN THAT DAY, LORD, LORD, HAVE WE NOT PROPHESIED IN THY NAME? AND IN THY NAME HAVE CAST OUT DEVILS? AND IN THY NAME DONE MANY WONDERFUL WORKS? AND THEN WILL I PROFESS UNTO THEM, I NEVER KNEW YOU: DEPART FROM ME, YE THAT WORK INIQUITY. (MATT. 7:21-23)

  3. SANCTIFICATION KEEPS BELIEVERS FROM DEFILING HOLY THINGS. “ UNTO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE: BUT UNTO THEM THAT ARE DEFILED AND UNBELIEVING IS NOTHING PURE; BUT EVEN THEIR MIND AND CONSCIENCE IS DEFILED. “ (TITUS 1:15) • UNBELIEVERS MOCK AND BLASPHEME GOD AND HIS SON. “ AND MANY OTHER THINGS BLASPHEMOUSLY SPAKE THEY AGAINST HIM. “ (LK. 22:65) “BECAUSE THE CARNAL MIND IS ENMITY AGAINST GOD: FOR IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF GOD, NEITHER INDEED CAN BE. “ (ROM. 8:7) “AND YOU, THAT WERE SOMETIME ALIENATED AND ENEMIES IN YOUR MIND BY WICKED WORKS, YET NOW HATH HE RECONCILED .” (COL. 1:21)

  4. FINAL REQUESTS. ”BRETHREN, PRAY FOR US.“ (5:25) 1. PAUL WAS ALWAYS REQUESTING THE CHURCHES TO INTERCEDE BEFORE THE LORD FOR HIM . “NOW I BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, FOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST'S SAKE, AND FOR THE LOVE OF THE SPIRIT, THAT YE STRIVE TOGETHER WITH ME IN YOUR PRAYERS TO GOD FOR ME; “ (ROM. 15:30) “YE ALSO HELPING TOGETHER BY PRAYER FOR US, THAT FOR THE GIFT BESTOWED UPON US BY THE MEANS OF MANY PERSONS THANKS MAY BE GIVEN BY MANY ON OUR BEHALF.” (2 COR. 1:11) “PRAYING ALWAYS WITH ALL PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION IN THE SPIRIT, AND WATCHING THEREUNTO WITH ALL PERSEVERANCE AND SUPPLICATION FOR ALL SAINTS” (EPH. 6:18);

  5. ”FOR I KNOW THAT THIS SHALL TURN TO MY SALVATION THROUGH YOUR PRAYER, AND THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST . “ (PHIL. 1:19) “CONTINUE IN PRAYER, AND WATCH IN THE SAME WITH THANKSGIVING; WITHAL PRAYING ALSO FOR US, THAT GOD WOULD OPEN UNTO US A DOOR OF UTTERANCE, TO SPEAK THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST, FOR WHICH I AM ALSO IN BONDS: THAT I MAY MAKE IT MANIFEST, AS I OUGHT TO SPEAK” (COL. 4:2-4) • ”BRETHREN, PRAY FOR US.“ “US,” INCLUDES PAUL’S CO-LABORERS SILAS AND TIMOTHY. • “US,” INCLUDES, ALL OF “US!” NOT ONLY PASTOR MARK, BUT ALSO HISCO-LABORERS TONY, LEE, BRO. HAROLD, ELLIS, PATTY, DORSEY, MYRA, CURTIS, LORETTA, ETC., ETC., ETC.., ETC., ETC. . . ALL OF THE CONGREGATION OF CALVARY GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH!!!! • QUESTION: AT THE RAPTURE, WILL HE FIND US/YOU FAITHFULLY PURSUING THE GREAT COMMISSION?

  6. ”AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD, AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE. HE THAT BELIEVETH AND IS BAPTIZED SHALL BE SAVED; BUT HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT SHALL BE DAMNED. AND THESE SIGNS SHALL FOLLOW THEM THAT BELIEVE; IN MY NAME SHALL THEY CAST OUT DEVILS; THEY SHALL SPEAK WITH NEW TONGUES; THEY SHALL TAKE UP SERPENTS; AND IF THEY DRINK ANY DEADLY THING, IT SHALL NOT HURT THEM; THEY SHALL LAY HANDS ON THE SICK, AND THEY SHALL RECOVER. “ (MARK 16:15-18) • COMMISSION: PREACH THE GOSPEL. • TO WHOM? ALL THE WORLD! • “TELL AS MANY AS YOU CAN, AND BID THEM TO TELL OTHERS.

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