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Living Out the Claims of The Gospel Within God’s Family

Discover the importance of appreciating, respecting, and supporting church leaders through diligent labor, overseeing, and instruction, as outlined in 1 Thessalonians 5:12-15. Explore practical ways to care for the flock and promote unity within the church family.

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Living Out the Claims of The Gospel Within God’s Family

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  1. Living Out the Claims of The Gospel Within God’s Family 1Thessalonians 5:12-15 Presented by Bob DeWaay June 11, 2006

  2. Appreciate Leaders Who Serve the Flock Faithfully • 1Thessalonians 5:12 But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you, and have charge over you in the Lord and give you instruction

  3. Three Participles That Describe Activities of Church Leaders • Diligently Labor (to work strenuously) • Have Charge Over (to manage, care for) • Give you Instruction (to instruct, admonish, warn)

  4. “Labor” in 1Thesalonians 5:12 • 1Timothy 5:17 Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. • kopiao_ “to do hard, strenuous work” often with the implication of the type of work that induces fatigue or weariness

  5. “Admonish” is noutheteo_ • Acts 20:31, 32 Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears. And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

  6. Love and Respect Those who are Faithful in their Service to the Flock • 1Thessalonians 5:13 and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another.

  7. Concrete Ways to Care for the Flock • 1Thessalonians 5:14 And we urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all men.

  8. Paul Practiced What He Told Them to Do • 1Thessalonians 2:11 just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children, so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

  9. We Are Not to Retaliate • 1Thessalonians 5:15 See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all men.

  10. Applications • Understand the leadership/flock relationship • How to find Biblical unity • Defining the church Biblically • Care about people who do not appear to have much to offer

  11. Understand the Leadership/flock Relationship • 1Peter 5:1-3 Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also of the glory that is to be revealed, shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the will of God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness; nor yet as lording it over those allotted to your charge, but proving to be examples to the flock.

  12. Understand the Leadership/flock Relationship • Romans 15:14 And concerning you, my brethren, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able also to admonish one another.

  13. How to Find Biblical Unity • Ephesians 4:3, 13 being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fulness of Christ.

  14. Defining the Church Biblically • 1Timothy 3:15 but in case I am delayed, I write so that you may know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

  15. Care about People who do not Appear to Have Much to Offer • 1Corinthians 12:22, 23 On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary; and those members of the body, which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our unseemly members come to have more abundant seemliness,

  16. Care about People who do not Appear to Have Much to Offer • 1Corinthians 12:24, 25 whereas our seemly members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

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