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Take your Bible, if you would 
please, and turn to 1st 

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Thessalonians chapter 5. 
And we're going to continue our 

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study on the model life. 
And as you're turning there, I 

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want to remind you of the 
apostle Paul and the great 

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concern of his life. 
In Second Corinthians Chapter 

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11, Paul lists a litany of 
issues that he himself went 

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through personally. 
He talks about he went through 

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imprisonments. 
He was beaten times without 

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number. 
He was in danger of death, he 

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says five times he received from
the Jews 39 lashes, 3 times he 

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was beaten with rods, once he 
was stoned, three times he was 

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shipwrecked. 
Night and day he had spent in 

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the deep. 
He had frequent journeys with 

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dangers, dangers from robbers 
and countrymen, the wilderness, 

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the sea, and even false 
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He says. 
I have been in labor and 

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hardship through many sleepless 
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often without food, in cold and 
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I mean, Paul begins to list all 
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happened to him externally, but 
what happened in him internally 

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was more of a burden, for he 
says these words in verse 28 of 

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2nd Corinthians 11. 
Apart from such external things,

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there is the daily pressure on 
me of concern for all the 

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churches. 
Who is weak without my being 

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weak? 
Who is LED into sin without my 

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intense concern? 
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not what happens to me 
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happening in me internally 
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for the churches. 
And so Paul had had two main 

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emphasis in his ministry. 
And you can read the 13 epistles

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that he himself wrote, and 
you'll see this theme over and 

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over again. 
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with making sure the church 
hears and heeds the instruction 

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of God. 
That was his number one concern.

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Do they hear God's word? 
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That's why he he told Timothy 
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and verse number six. 
Point these things out to the 

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brethren. 
Verse 11 prescribe and teach 

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these things verse 13 until I 
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public reading of Scripture to 
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Verse 16, pay close attention to
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And then second Timothy, he 
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standard, guarding the standard,
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out of season, reprove, rebuke, 
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and patience. 
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Because he says earlier in 
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God's word is profitable. 
So the man of God will be 

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thoroughly equipped for every 
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So, Timothy, make sure as a 
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preach the Word, you exhort the 
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living God. 
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was about, making sure that the 
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instruction of God. 
But on the heels of that was his

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second emphasis, and that was 
that the church would hurriedly 

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handle the transgressions of 
man, that the church would hurry

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and handle the transgressions of
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In other words, once you hear 
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understand the holy standard, 
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you deal with those who don't 
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That was His complete and total 
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church. 
Let me show you by way of 

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example, member First 
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There was a man who was living 
in sin, and Paul says these 

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words in verse number three of 
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For I on my part, though absent 
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have already judged him and has 
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were present in the name of our 
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assembled, and I with you in 
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Lord Jesus, I had decided to 
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the destruction of his flesh, so
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the day of the Lord Jesus. 
He says you're boasting is not 

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good. 
Do you not know that a little 

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leaven leavens the whole lump of
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Clean out the old leaven, say 
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you are in fact unleavened for 
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Our Passover also has been 
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He was concerned about the 
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was a man in the church who was 
who was sleeping with with his 

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mother. 
And these things are unheard of 

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even among the the pagans. 
And yet you're, you're boasting 

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about this is not good you, 
you've got to deal with this guy

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because 1 little leaven leavens 
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I've given you the word of God. 
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of God. 
You have heard what I've said. 

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Now you need to handle those who
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And then over again in in Second
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in chapter 12, he says this in 
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afraid that perhaps when I come,
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wish and may be found by you to 
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perhaps there will be strife, 
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disputes, slanders, gossip, 
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I'm afraid that when I come 
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before you. 
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those who have sinned in the 
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impurity, immorality and 
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practiced for chapter 13, verse 
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coming to you. 
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the testimony of two or three 
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I have previously said when 
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though now absent, I say in 
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in the past and to all the rest 
as well, that if I come again I 

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will not spare anyone. 
Paul was concerned that you just

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can't let people in the church 
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with those people. 
He says you've heard and you 

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have obeyed the instruction of 
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Now you need to handle those who
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the Word of God. 
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throughout his ministry because 
his concern was the purity and 

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the holiness of the church. 
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the church to grow, it can only 
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And so that was his burden. 
And so even when you come to the

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book of Thessalonians, and even 
when we examine this book and 

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realize that this is a model 
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quintessential church, this is 
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churches, he still has to deal 
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sin because the model church 
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The model church wasn't filled 
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No, it was filled with people 
that were sinners because that's

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what the church is. 
It's a gathering together of, of

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sinful people who have been 
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work of the living God. 
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love you have for the brethren, 
the deep love and concern you 

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have for the brethren is that 
you will want them to walk with 

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the Lord and serve the Lord. 
The church is is not about the 

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programs that has and the 
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It's about the opportunity you 
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church. 
Coming to church and sitting 

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there and, and looking at the 
back of the head of somebody in 

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front of you and singing a few 
songs and hearing the sermon and

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giving a 20 spot in the offering
basket is not what church is all

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about. 
Church is about dealing with one

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another in the way that God 
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Paul says, look, I'm going to 
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I'm going to explain to you that
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deal with the people in your 
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adapt in each situation with 
each person in a way that brings

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glory and honor of God. 
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Last week we talked about how 
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leadership, how you appreciate 
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how you affirm those because of 
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preserve the peace within the 
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But then when you come to verses
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from the leadership to the 
membership so they can learn to 

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be sweet fellowship within the 
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It's very simple. 
Look and listen to what he says.

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Verse 14. 
We urge you, brethren, stop 

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right there. 
We urge you. 

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This is important. 
He's talking to the brethren 

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earlier in verse 12, he said, 
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Now he says that we urge you 
brethren, we, we are, we, we, we

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want to, we want to move you to 
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We, we, we want to propel you. 
We, we want you to see the 

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intensity of this. 
We want you to see the magnitude

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of this. 
We want you to see how important

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this is. 
We, we urge you brethren, to do 

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5 things. 
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Admonish the unruly, encourage 
the faint hearted, help the 

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weak, be patient with everyone. 
And then he says, see that no 

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one. 
We praise another with evil for 

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evil, but always seek after that
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and for all people. 
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He is concerned about the 
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with one another. 
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I want you to admonish the 
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I want you to warn those who are
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delinquent in their 
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The word unruly is a military 
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who have gone AWOL or soldiers 
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their required position as a, a 
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And they decided to, to rebel 
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They decided to turn away from 
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They, they, they just become 
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It's like Paul said in in Second
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soldier involves himself in the 
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the affairs of this world so 
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commanding officer. 
He doesn't get involved in the 

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the affairs of this this world 
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pleasing his commanding officer.
So Paul says, I want you to warn

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those who are unruly, those who 
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are derelict in their 
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Now imagine this. 
What if we as a church really 

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engaged in this? 
This is what Paul's I'm urging 

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you to do this. 
This is what you got to do. 

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I'm not there, but you are. 
So you got to make sure He's not

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telling the leadership to do 
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required to do it. 
He's telling the membership to 

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do this. 
He's telling, talking to the 

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brethren, I want you to do this.
There's a certain warning that 

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takes place. 
There are consequences for 

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disobedience. 
There are consequences for being

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derelict and responsibility. 
And so admonish them, go after 

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them. 
Look what Paul says in in Second

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Thessalonians. 
He says this in chapter 3, verse

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6. 
Now we command you brethren, in 

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the name of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, that you keep away from 

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every brother who leads an 
unruly life, and not according 

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to the tradition which you 
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So now he is writing his 2nd 
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He said, look, have you 
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If you've admonished the unruly,
now I want you to stay away from

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them. 
Why? 

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Because they're not living in 
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Warn them. 
Listen to what it says. 

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He goes on for for years. 
For you yourselves know how you 

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ought to follow our example 
because we did not act in an 

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undisciplined manner among you. 
In other words, the unruly could

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be translated undisciplined, he 
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Nor did we eat anyone's bread 
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with labor and hardship. 
We kept working night and day so

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that we would not be a burden to
any of you, not because we did 

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not have the right to do this, 
but in order to offer ourselves 

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as a model for you, so that you 
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For even when we were with you, 
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If anyone is not willing to 
work, then he is not to eat 

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either. 
For we hear that some among you 

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are leading an undisciplined 
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acting like busy bodies. 
Now such persons we command and 

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exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ 
to work in quiet fashion and eat

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their own bread. 
But As for you, brethren, do not

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grow weary in doing good. 
So Paul is following up his 

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first letter with the second 
letter saying, look, have you 

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admonished the unruly If they 
are undisciplined, if they are 

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derelict in their 
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follow what God's Word says, 
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Why? 
Because they're going to lead 

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you astray as well. 
Seems a little harsh, doesn't it

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seems a little out there. 
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We're, we're the brethren, we're
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We care for what we are. 
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have is when someone's in sin or
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responsibility, you go to them 
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you. 
I mean, this is what you got to 

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do. 
I I love you not to come to you.

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Listen, if it's your wife and 
she's living in sin, do you just

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let her live in sin? 
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Don't worry about it. 
No big deal. 

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It's going to crush our 
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But who cares? 
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You go out there and say, honey,
you can't do that. 

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Or if you're the wife, you say 
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You say, honey, honey, we can't 
do this. 

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You, you got to turn from your 
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This is not going to work. 
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go to your kids, say you're 
going the wrong direction. 

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You can't do this. 
This is wrong. 

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Let me, let me, let me move you 
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that's what you do with your 
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Well, the church is a family. 
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That's how we function. 
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we are concerned enough. 
We love you enough to go to you.

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Listen, if you don't love them 
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sin. 
Just let them live in sin. 

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of their lives, you're concerned
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the Lord. 
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not derelict in their 
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actually fulfill the 
responsibility. 

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I have in my pocket a church 
covenant cart that when you 

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became a member, you agreed to. 
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this, but it's very important. 
It's all biblically based, he 

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says. 
I, I covenant to preserve the 

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unity of my church. 
I, I promise to preserve the 

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unity of my church. 
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Personal examination, mutual 
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confrontation, and beneficial 
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I'm going to preserve the unity 
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church. 
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strategy of my church by making 
it my passion to pursue Christ, 

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my priority to portray Christ, 
my my purpose to proclaim Christ

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and my my practice to praise 
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Are you doing that? 
Is somebody around you derelict 

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in the responsibility in doing 
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word God? 
Because all this is scriptural 

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mandate based on the epistles 
#3II. 

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I make a promise to protect the 
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How you can do that? 
Attending faithfully, praying 

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fervently, giving financially, 
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I'm going to protect the 
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this is where I want to be. 
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in the ministry of my church. 
I'm going to do that by 

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exercising my spiritual gift, by
edifying the Saints, by 

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evangelizing sinners, and by 
exalting my Savior. 

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You made a promise to do that 
when you became a member of our 

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church. 
You said, this is my promise. 

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I will do this. 
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do that, then when other people 
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what do you do? 
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faithfully, what do you do? 
If they're not giving 

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financially, what do you do? 
If they're not living 

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fruitfully, what do you do? 
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Is there a beneficial 
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people and talk to people? 
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You see, this is where the 
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This is church. 
That's what the church is all 

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about. 
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Sunday morning, singing a few 
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money and hear the sermon. 
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church. 
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to the church because Christ 
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church is his bride. 
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the bread of Christ. 
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unruly, they don't live 
according to the instruction 

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that we've already given to you.
They're delinquent, they're 

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disobedient. 
You need to warn them, go to 

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them, warn them. 
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because he knows that the 
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to be the church is when the 
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when the church is is is living 
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and says, man, I want to help 
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You're living an unruly life. 
You're not. 

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You're not using your giftedness
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We need you. 
We need you to exercise your 

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giftedness in the church because
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We need you to continue to give 
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because we can't function 
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We need to exercise your 
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We need you to help with the 
salvation of the lost. 

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We need you to help with the 
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We need you. 
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You admonish them, you pray for 
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That's the church. 
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So he says admonish the unruly. 
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He says, I, I, I want you to 
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The word faint hearted means 
small sold those who have a 

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small soul that they need 
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much persecution. 
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persecution within the the city 
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even among their own families. 
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really small in their soul. 
Their, their, their, their faith

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had grown weak and they were 
discouraged. 

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They were downcast that they 
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You know, there are people in 
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right? 
They live in fear. 

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And he says encourage them, 
speak, speak a word of 

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encouragement to them. 
Take the word of God and, and 

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and build them up, strengthen 
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have courage and still them 
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They don't have the stability. 
They don't have the strength to 

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continue on. 
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them and encourage them because 
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And so as a believer you use the
scripture to come alongside of 

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them and encourage them. 
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On the eve of the crucifixion, 
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They were living in fear, not 
knowing what's going to happen 

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to the Lord the next day. 
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going to be crucified, they did 
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of that. 
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He encourages the faint hearted.
He encourages the small soul. 

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What's he say? 
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troubled. 
If you believe in God, believe 

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also in me, for in my Father's 
house are are many dwelling 

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places. 
If we're not so I would have 

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told you and I'm going to go and
prepare a place for you. 

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And when I go, I will come again
and I will receive you and to 

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myself that where I am, there 
you may be also. 

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That's how you encourage the 
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that their future is bright. 
It's not bleak, it's bright and,

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and, and listen, I read that. 
I think to myself, you know, you

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know why God hasn't called you 
home yet Because he hasn't 

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finished your dwelling place. 
In my focus house are many 

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dwelling places. 
I go and prepare a place for 

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you, right? 
So is that evidently preparing 

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your dwelling place? 
Evidently your place is not 

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prepared yet because you're 
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Because when your place is 
prepared, guess what, You're 

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gone. 
You're gone. 

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House is ready, Swami, places 
are ready. 

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They're coming back. 
Let's go, go get them. 

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Take them right back home. 
Take them to glory. 

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And that was that was their 
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And you know what all those 
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future they lived in light of 
the coming presence of Christ 

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and their future glory in the 
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They lived lives strong sold not
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Yeah, you admonish the unruly, 
those who are delinquent and 

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derelict in their 
responsibilities, those who are 

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disobedient to the word of God. 
Yes, you need to do that. 

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But there are people that live 
in fear, who are small soul, who

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need to be encouraged, someone 
to come along the side and speak

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a word of encouragement to them.
And they says not only do you 

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admonish the unruly, not only do
you encourage the faint hearted,

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I want you to help the weak, 
help the weak. 

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These are the people who are 
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These are the kind of people 
that that just have a hard time 

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not falling back into sin. 
They're weak. 

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Remember in James chapter 5 when
it says if any among you are 

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sick, the real translation 
should be if any among you are 

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weak because that's the same 
word used here in First 

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Thessalonians chapter 5. 
It's not that you were sick 

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physically, but that it's you're
weak spiritually, you're weak 

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mentally, you're weak 
emotionally. 

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If any of you are weak, let them
call upon the elders. 

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If you're spiritually weak, call
upon the spiritually strong to 

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pray with you and to pray over 
you. 

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Why? 
Because they're gonna instill 

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strength in you, help the weak. 
There are many people in the 

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church that are so fragile and 
they just, they just, they're 

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trying to run away from sin. 
They're trying to get away from 

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sin, but there's something about
it that just pulls them back in 

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again and they fall into 
invitation. 

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Those kind of people, they, they
need, they need help. 

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Galatians chapter 6 Remember 
Galatians 6, Paul says you who 

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are spiritual are to restore 
those who have fallen. 

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You got to help them up. 
Then you got to hold them up. 

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There are some people in the 
church that once you help them 

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up, you just got to keep holding
them up because they can't stand

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by themselves, and so you hold 
them up. 

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Romans 15, verse #1 We then, who
are strong ought to bear with 

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the weaknesses of others. 
That's a church man. 

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That's how church functions. 
Admonish the unruly, encourage 

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the faint hearted, help the 
weak. 

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And this is this. 
This is so good. 

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He says be patient with 
everyone. 

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Why did he say that? 
Because you know what? 

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It takes a lot of patience, a 
lot of long-suffering. 

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When you're holding up the weak 
who keep falling back into sin, 

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when you're trying to instill 
courage and those who are 

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fragile and filled with fear and
you're trying to admonish the 

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unruly, guess what? 
It takes a long time for most 

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people to turn. 
So you got you got to be patient

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with them. 
Be patient with with all of 

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them. 
Paul says be be long-suffering, 

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be be long fused with them. 
Remember God's love. 

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First Corinthians 13 four, the 
love of God, the love it says 

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the definite article. 
The love is patient. 

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The love is kind. 
It has a definite article 

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because it it describes a 
particular kind of love. 

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It's God's love. 
First Corinthians 13 four the 

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love of God is patient. 
The love of God is kind. 

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God's love is long fused. 
God is not patient with 

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circumstances. 
He controls circumstances. 

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He's in charge of circumstances.
He makes circumstances happen. 

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He's not patient with 
circumstances. 

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He's patient and long-suffering 
with people. 

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So the love of God is patient. 
The love of God is is kind and 

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possibly wants to be patient. 
He says over in in Colossians 3 

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verse #12 put on a heart of 
patience. 

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Ephesians 4/2 show forbearance, 
long-suffering to one another in

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love. 
Second to me 4/2 All leaders and

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teachers are to minister with 
great patience. 

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Great patience and the Lord 
exemplified this. 

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Remember in Mark 9, when, when 
Peter, James and John and Jesus 

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were up on the, on the mount of 
Transfiguration and the other 

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disciples are down below. 
And, and so Peter, James and 

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John and Jesus come, come down 
the mountain and, and the 

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encounter a man whose son was 
demon possessed. 

451
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,680
And he says to the Lord, Lord, 
I, I, I, I, I took my son to 

452
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:48,240
your men that they might cast a 
demon out of my son because he, 

453
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,840
he's thrown to the ground. 
He, he foams at the mouth. 

454
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:55,120
He, he, he goes into convulsion.
So I I gave him to your men, but

455
00:30:55,120 --> 00:31:03,280
they were unable to help my son.
So what does Jesus say? 

456
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:11,560
Jesus says this. 
How long shall I be with you? 

457
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:19,760
How long shall I put up with 
you? 

458
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:28,640
Bring your son to me. 
She brings a son and son goes to

459
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:33,000
the convulsions and Christ casts
out the demon and disciples 

460
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,480
marvel. 
They go into a house and and, 

461
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:41,800
and they, they say that Jesus, 
Jesus, come over here. 

462
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,600
We got to ask you a question. 
How come we couldn't do that? 

463
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:48,400
You've already empowered us to 
do it. 

464
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,080
We've already done it in the 
past, but on this occasion we 

465
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,040
couldn't do it. 
How come? 

466
00:31:55,760 --> 00:32:00,480
And Jesus says these things only
come out by prayer. 

467
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,280
He told him. 
He says, look, you didn't do 

468
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:09,840
this depending upon me. 
You did this depended upon you. 

469
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,280
And once you depend upon you, 
you can't do anything without 

470
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:15,400
me. 
You can do nothing. 

471
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,360
And so now you're trying to do 
this on your own power. 

472
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,600
You can't do that. 
You need me and you try to 

473
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,840
operate in this ministry in the 
flesh, and you failed. 

474
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,760
But if you'd have depended upon 
me, these things come out by 

475
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:37,400
prayer. 
And they're like earlier Siphons

476
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,200
were on a boat. 
Jesus said let's go to the other

477
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,320
side. 
They get in the boat, storm 

478
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,080
happens. 
They fear for their lives. 

479
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,520
Jesus, don't you care that we're
perishing? 

480
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:46,840
Wake up. 
He gets up. 

481
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,320
Hush, be still. 
Everything becomes like glass. 

482
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:57,680
What'd you say? 
Oh, you cowards calls them 

483
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:06,200
cowards not to believe. 
How do you of all men have no 

484
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,440
faith? 
Not that. 

485
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,040
How come you guys have a little 
faith? 

486
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:12,640
He says. 
How is it that you of all men 

487
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,080
have no faith? 
Because faith is believing what 

488
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:17,800
God has said. 
What did God say? 

489
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,080
Let us get in the boat and go to
the other side. 

490
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,480
But they didn't believe that 
because they when they got in 

491
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:23,960
the middle, they thought, oh, 
we're not going to make it to 

492
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:25,920
the other side. 
That's not what Jesus said. 

493
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,600
He didn't say, look, you're not 
going to make hopefully you make

494
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,920
it to the other side. 
He says we're going to the other

495
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,600
side. 
They didn't believe that. 

496
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:37,520
They thought they weren't going 
to make it. 

497
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,840
They didn't believe that. 
So he calls them cowards. 

498
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:48,880
Oh, you men who should have 
faith to believe and all that. 

499
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:53,920
I've said same thing on the road
to Emmaus. 

500
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,320
At the end, Luke 24 disciples 
were confused. 

501
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:59,720
I couldn't believe that Jesus 
died and rose again. 

502
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,320
Where is he? 
What happened? 

503
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:06,840
How did he die? 
O ye men of little faith not to 

504
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:12,280
believe and all that the 
scriptures had already said. 

505
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:20,120
God was long-suffering with his 
men patiently, because the 

506
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:25,719
church, unfortunately, like the 
disciples, take a long time to 

507
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,560
get it. 
So you got to be patient. 

508
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:33,280
You got to be long-suffering. 
You got to hold up the week. 

509
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,080
You got to help them up, hold 
them up. 

510
00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:38,719
You got to encourage the faint 
hearted, you got to admonish the

511
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,920
unruly. 
And they don't just turn around.

512
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,679
I'm happy. 
Some do, but for the most part 

513
00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:47,320
they don't. 
You got to keep going back and 

514
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,280
going back. 
That's the church. 

515
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,280
That's what the church does. 
Both. 

516
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,520
I'm going to give you the 
instruction now. 

517
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,960
Handle man's transgression. 
When they disobey the 

518
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:01,840
instruction, that's the church. 
It's not functions. 

519
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,760
It's what separates the church 
from everything else because we 

520
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:13,560
are so desperately concerned 
about the people in their walk 

521
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:17,640
with the Lord. 
This is this. 

522
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:23,320
I know, I know, my time is gone.
By the time I'm done, it's going

523
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:29,000
to be way gone. 
Verse 15 See that no one repays 

524
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:34,200
another with evil for evil, but 
all we seek after that which is 

525
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:38,800
good for one another and for all
people. 

526
00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:43,000
There were people in the church 
that would repay evil for evil. 

527
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,080
Believe it or not, that happens.
It doesn't happen to people in 

528
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,280
the first service, only the 
people in the second service. 

529
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,360
But it does happen in the 
church. 

530
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,640
We, we, we pay caustic comments 
with caustic comments. 

531
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,280
We repay slander with slander, 
gossip with gossip, backbiting 

532
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:06,160
with backbiting, fists with 
fists, blows with blows. 

533
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,440
Paul says, you know what? 
Don't do that. 

534
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:15,080
No, don't do that. 
Instead, those who have done 

535
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:19,000
evil, I want you to repay them 
with goodness and kindness. 

536
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,240
God's love is patient. 
God's love is kind, right? 

537
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,400
All the while God in his 
long-suffering, His patience 

538
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:30,440
with us, what's he do? 
He just bestows acts of kindness

539
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,000
upon us. 
When you sin, you don't die, 

540
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:36,800
although the Bible says the 
wages of sin is death. 

541
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,920
Why don't you die? 
Because God is patient, 

542
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:43,440
long-suffering and kind. 
He lets you live right? 

543
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,240
And so all the while you are 
living your life, the patience 

544
00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:50,280
of God, the long-suffering of 
God is bearing with you. 

545
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,360
And what does he do? 
He lets the sunshine upon the 

546
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,680
just and the unjust, let's the 
rainfall upon the just and the 

547
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,800
unjust. 
God, God is just good to all 

548
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,360
men. 
Read the Old Testament. 

549
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:04,920
God is good to all men, not just
some men, because he's a kind 

550
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,640
and loving God and he's a 
patient God. 

551
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:09,920
So Paul says, look, I want you 
to know this. 

552
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,840
I want you now to not re repay 
evil for evil, but I want you to

553
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,360
repay everybody who does evil to
you with goodness and kindness. 

554
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:26,040
Well, we don't want to do that. 
That's just, it's not right. 

555
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,320
I, I, they got to, they got to 
know that I was hurt. 

556
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,600
They, they got to know that he 
pained me. 

557
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,200
They, they got to know that this
was very, very uncomfortable for

558
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,600
me. 
They they got to know this. 

559
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,040
And if I don't tell them who 
will? 

560
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:50,160
Probably nobody but you repay 
kindness for, for evil. 

561
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,520
Peter says it this way. 
This is so good. 

562
00:37:55,120 --> 00:38:01,160
Peter says, 3 verse #8 To sum up
all of you be harmonious, 

563
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:07,320
sympathetic, brotherly, kind 
hearted, and humble in spirit. 

564
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,400
He says to these Christians who 
are, who are scattered abroad, I

565
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,720
want you to be harmonious, I 
want you to be brotherly, I want

566
00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:20,040
you to be kind, I want you to be
one in spirit. 

567
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,880
And so he says this, not 
returning evil for evil or 

568
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:27,400
insult for insult, but giving a 
blessing instead. 

569
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:31,040
For you were called for the very
purpose that you might inherit a

570
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:35,040
blessing. 
Do you know why you return good 

571
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,640
for evil? 
Because you have been called by 

572
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,600
God to inherit a blessing and 
the only way you inherit that 

573
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,480
blessing is by blessing those 
who curse you. 

574
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:49,720
So inherit the blessing. 
He said but, but, but but wait 

575
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,560
and but Peter answers that 
because he knows there's going 

576
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,760
to be a but there but but but 
what about this person or but 

577
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,960
what about that person? 
But, but and Peter answers that 

578
00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:05,200
by quoting Psalm 34. 
He says, for the one who desires

579
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:10,920
life to love and see, good day, 
good days must keep his tongue 

580
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:12,840
from evil and his lips from 
speaking to see. 

581
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:20,280
He must turn away from evil, do 
good, he must seek peace and 

582
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,160
pursue it. 
Why? 

583
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,840
Here it is ready, for the eyes 
of the Lord are toward the 

584
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:31,280
righteous, and his ears attend 
to their prayer. 

585
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:37,160
But the face of the Lord is 
against those who do evil. 

586
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,800
God hears your prayer. 
God attends to you and your 

587
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:46,480
need. 
But know this, His face is 

588
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:50,560
against those who do you evil. 
He will deal with them. 

589
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,960
Let him do that. 
What do you do? 

590
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,680
You repay evil with goodness and
kindness. 

591
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:07,120
Because you've been called to 
inherited blessing, he says in 

592
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,800
First Thessalonians Chapter 5. 
These words, he says, seek 

593
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:12,920
after, pursue after that, which 
is good. 

594
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,240
In other words, it's a hunting 
term. 

595
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,880
I'm not a hunter, but I know 
that when you go hunting you, 

596
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:23,360
you go to search for that which 
you want to shoot and kill and 

597
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,160
then, Lord willing, eat right. 
That's what you do. 

598
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,720
I don't know, I'm not a hunter. 
But you pursue you, you hunt, 

599
00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:31,080
you track him down. 
Well, that's what you got to do 

600
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:35,600
when it comes comes to to your 
acting, acting good. 

601
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:40,800
You got to pursue. 
You got to hunt down goodness. 

602
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,000
Why? 
Because for some people it's 

603
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:48,760
hard to be good to, right, you 
know, those people, it's hard to

604
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,720
be kind to them. 
It's hard to be good to them. 

605
00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:53,720
It's it's hard to, to, to bestow
a blessing upon them. 

606
00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:57,120
They, they are so out there. 
But, but you got to pursue it. 

607
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,360
You got to hunt it down. 
You got to find a way to get it.

608
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,360
And once you get it, do it. 
That's what you do. 

609
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:05,440
Paul said, man, this is the 
church. 

610
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,160
That's what you do and run the 
membership. 

611
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:11,200
That's how you make it happen. 
Admonish the unruly. 

612
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,520
Make sure that you, you truly 
encourage the faint hearted, 

613
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,840
those were small souls, and help
the weak. 

614
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,080
But make sure that as you go 
through this, you were very 

615
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,640
patient with everybody because 
it's going to take a long time 

616
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,600
for most of them to ever get the
strength and to turn from where 

617
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:30,160
they're at. 
And all the while you're trying 

618
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,400
to help them and they're upset 
with you and mad at you, you 

619
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,560
just keep returning kindness and
goodness and blessing upon 

620
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,920
blessing because you've been 
called to inherit a blessing. 

621
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:53,000
That's the church. 
So Paul says simply, I, I, I 

622
00:41:53,000 --> 00:42:00,400
want you to to obey the 
principles and precepts of 

623
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,680
Scripture. 
Then what? 

624
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:07,560
You rely on the person and power
of the Holy Spirit some way to 

625
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:11,040
do this. 
There is no other way. 

626
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,320
That's what Paul would say over 
in Second Thessalonians. 

627
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,440
These words, chapter 3, verse 
14. 

628
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:22,200
If anyone does not obey our 
instruction in this letter, take

629
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,160
special note of that person and 
do not associate with them, that

630
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,040
he will be put to shame. 
Yet do not regard him as an 

631
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:33,760
enemy, but admonish him as a 
brother. 

632
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,880
Don't treat him as the enemy, 
acknowledge him as a brother, 

633
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:43,960
but they need to obey the 
instruction of the word. 

634
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,440
You'd do that. 
You know, it's so interesting 

635
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:57,960
because because you know, Paul 
lists these things and honestly,

636
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,760
unruly didn't tell you how it 
just says do it help the weak, 

637
00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:04,160
then tell you how it just says 
do it. 

638
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:09,080
Encourage the faint hearted, 
then give you instead of instead

639
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:13,200
of lists of things to do to 
encourage them. 

640
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:19,440
He says you're paid good for 
evil just gives commands. 

641
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,320
Why? 
Because you see, the model 

642
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,400
church doesn't have to have an 
explanation. 

643
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:31,760
They just need to know what the 
expectation is because they're 

644
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,160
going to obey the principles of 
precepts of the word of God. 

645
00:43:36,720 --> 00:43:39,920
And as we go into next week, 
you'll see how he just keeps 

646
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:44,200
giving. 
Rejoice, always pray without 

647
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:48,520
ceasing and everything. 
Give thanks doesn't tell you how

648
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:52,520
to give thanks, doesn't tell you
how to rejoice, doesn't tell you

649
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,240
why it is you are to pray 
without ceasing or even how you 

650
00:43:56,240 --> 00:44:00,200
do that doesn't have to. 
It's the model church. 

651
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,200
He just gives them the 
exhortation and they're like, 

652
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:08,720
OK, we can do that. 
And that's the way we should be.

653
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:15,040
OK, Lord, we, we can do that 
because you, you gave us the 

654
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:16,120
word. 
We'll do that. 

655
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:21,400
We might not do it perfectly, 
but we do it because we want to 

656
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:27,200
honor the Lord. 
So here is the model life. 

657
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:36,000
The model life abstains from 
sexual immorality, aspires to a 

658
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:42,840
life of charity, anticipates the
return of deity, is alert to the

659
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:50,400
world's destiny and my 
responsibility adapts within 

660
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:55,680
God's wonderful family. 
And lastly, which is next week, 

661
00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:01,360
They adore their God 
continually. 

662
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:06,280
They'll rejoice always. 
They'll pray without ceasing. 

663
00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:10,040
They will give thanks and 
everything, for this is the will

664
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:14,440
of God in Christ Jesus 
concerning you. 

665
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:19,360
That's the model of life. 
That's the life Paul wanted them

666
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:22,320
to live. 
That's the life we as a church 

667
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,040
need to live. 
Let's pray together. 

668
00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:28,720
Father, we thank you for this 
day. 

669
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:34,720
It's a great day because we 
realize Lord, this is what we do

670
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:41,400
as a church, to be the church, 
to act like the church, to live 

671
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:45,000
like the church. 
Our prayer Father, is that we 

672
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:49,800
would be obedient and fulfilling
our responsibility. 

673
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:57,760
Lord, we love you and because 
you died for us and rose again, 

674
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we now live for you and we 
celebrate that in Jesus name, 

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Amen.