1 and 2 Thessalonians 1 and 2 Timothy Titus

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1 and 2 Thessalonians1 and 2 TimothyTitus
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• All those people speak about how you received us
  when we visited you, and how you turned away from
  idols to God, to serve the true and living God
  and to wait for his Son to come from heavenhis
  Son Jesus, whom he raised from death and who
  rescues us from Gods anger that is coming. (1
  Thessalonians 19,10 GN)

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• Our brothers and sisters, the same things
  happened to you that happened to the churches of
  God in Judea, to the people there who belong to
  Christ Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions
  from your own people that they suffered from the
  Jews, who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets,
  and persecuted us. How displeasing they are to
  God! How hostile they are to everyone! They even
  tried to stop us from preaching to the Gentiles
  the message that would bring them salvation. In
  this way they have brought to completion all the
  sins they have always committed. And now Gods
  anger has at last come down on them! (1
  Thessalonians 214-16 GN)

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• We want you to be quite certain, brothers, about
  those who have fallen asleep, to make sure that
  you do not grieve for them, as others do who have
  no hope.? We believe that Jesus died and rose
  again, and that in the same way God will bring
  with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.?
  We can tell you this from the Lords own
  teaching, that we who are still alive for the
  Lords coming will not have any advantage over
  those who have fallen asleep.? At the signal
  given by the voice of the Archangel and the
  trumpet of God, the Lord himself will come down
  from heaven those who have died in Christ will
  be the first to rise,? and only after that shall
  we who remain alive be taken up in the clouds,
  together with them, to meet the Lord in the air.
  This is the way we shall be with the Lord for
  ever.? ?With such thoughts as these, then, you
  should encourage one another. (1 Thessalonians
  413-18 NJB )

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• This is how it will be when the dead are raised
  to life. When the body is buried, it is mortal
  when raised, it will be immortal. When buried, it
  is ugly and weak when raised, it will be
  beautiful and strong.  (1 Corinthians 1542,43
  GN)

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• A voice cries out, Proclaim a message! What
  message shall I proclaim? I ask. Proclaim that
  all human beings are like grass they last no
  longer than wild flowers. Grass withers and
  flowers fade when the Lord sends the wind blowing
  over them. People are no more enduring than
  grass. Yes, grass withers and flowers fade, but
  the word of our God endures forever. (Isaiah
  406 GN)
•  He alone is immortal he lives in the light
  that no one can approach. (1 Timothy 616 GN)
• For what is mortal must be changed into what is
  immortal. (1 Corinthians 1553 GN)

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• The last enemy to be defeated will be
  deathDeath is destroyed victory is complete!
  (1 Corinthians 1526,54)
• And I heard every creature in heaven, on earth,
  in the world below, and in the seaall living
  beings in the universeand they were singing To
  him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb, be
  praise and honor, glory and might, forever and
  ever! (Revelation 513 GN)

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• It is also right for God to give all of us
  relief from our suffering. He will do this when
  the Lord Jesus is revealed, coming from heaven
  with his mighty angels in a blazing fire. He will
  take revenge on those who refuse to acknowledge
  God and on those who refuse to respond to the
  Good News about our Lord Jesus. They will pay the
  penalty by being destroyed forever, by being
  separated from the Lords presence and from his
  glorious power. (2 Thessalonians 17-9, GODS
  WORD)

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• The day is coming when all proud and evil people
  will burn like straw. On that day they will burn
  up, and there will be nothing left of them.
  (Malachi 41 GN)
• The sinners in Zion are terrified trembling
  grips the godless Who of us can dwell with the
  consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with
  everlasting burning? He who walks righteously
  and speaks what is right (Isaiah 3314-15
  NIV)
• As wax melts in front of the fire, so do the
  wicked perish in his presence. But the righteous
  are glad and rejoice in his presence they are
  happy and shout for joy. (Psalms 682 GN)

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• Thats not true you will not die. (Genesis 34
  GN)

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•  Tyndale
• And ye, in putting them the departed souls in
  heaven, hell, and purgatory, destroy the
  arguments wherewith Christ and Paul prove the
  resurrection.... And again, if the souls be in
  heaven, tell me why they be not in as good case
  as the angels be? And then what cause is there of
  the resurrection? (William Tyndale, An Answer to
  Sir Thomas More's Dialogue - Parker's 1850
  reprint - book. 4, chapter 4, pp. 180, 181).

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• Luther
• that the soul is immortal and all these
  endless monstrosities in the Roman dunghill of
  decretals
• Thus after death the soul goes to its bedchamber
  and to its peace, and while it is sleeping it
  does not realize its sleep, and God preserves
  indeed the awakening soul. God is able to awake
  Elijah, Moses, and others, and so control them,
  so that they will live. But how can that be? That
  we do not know we satisfy ourselves with the
  example of bodily sleep, and with what God says
  it is a sleep, a rest, and a peace. He who sleeps
  naturally knows nothing of that which happens in
  his neighbors house and nevertheless, he still
  is living, even though, contrary to the nature of
  life, he is unconscious in his sleep. Exactly the
  same will happen also in that life, but in
  another and a better way (Auslegung des ersten
  Buches Mose, in Schriften, vol. 1, cols. 1759,
  1760).

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• It is beyond the power of the human mind to
  estimate the evil which has been wrought by the
  heresy of eternal torment. The religion of the
  Bible, full of love and goodness, and abounding
  in compassion, is darkened by superstition and
  clothed with terror. When we consider in what
  false colors Satan has painted the character of
  God, can we wonder that our merciful Creator is
  feared, dreaded, and even hated? The appalling
  views of God which have spread over the world
  from the teachings of the pulpit have made
  thousands, yes, millions, of skeptics and
  infidels. The theory of eternal torment is one of
  the false doctrines that constitute the wine of
  the abomination of Babylon... (EGW, GC, page
  536)

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• There is no need to write to you, brothers and
  sisters, about the times and occasions when these
  things will happen. ?For you yourselves know very
  well that the Day of the Lord will come as a
  thief comes at night. When people say,
  Everything is quiet and safe, then suddenly
  destruction will hit them! It will come as
  suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in
  labor, and people will not escape. (1
  Thessalonians 51-3 GN)
• ?But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the
  darkness, and the Day should not take you by
  surprise like a thief. All of you are people who
  belong to the light, who belong to the day. We do
  not belong to the night or to the darkness. ?So
  then, we should not be sleeping like the others
  we should be awake and sober. (1 Thessalonians
  54-6 GN)

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• Do not let anyone deceive you in any way. For
  the Day will not come until the final Rebellion
  takes place and the Wicked One appears, who is
  destined for hell. ?He will oppose every
  so-called god or object of worship and will put
  himself above them all. He will even go in and
  sit down in Gods Temple and claim to be God.
  Dont you remember? I told you all this while I
  was with you. ?Yet there is something that keeps
  this from happening now, and you know what it is.
  At the proper time, then, the Wicked One will
  appear. ?The Mysterious Wickedness is already at
  work, but what is going to happen will not happen
  until the one who holds it back is taken out of
  the way. (2 Thessalonians 23-7 GN)

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• Then the Wicked One will be revealed, but when
  the Lord Jesus comes, he will kill him with the
  breath from his mouth and destroy him with his
  dazzling presence. The Wicked One will come with
  the power of Satan and perform all kinds of false
  miracles and wonders, ?and use every kind of
  wicked deceit on those who will perish. They will
  perish because they did not welcome and love the
  truth so as to be saved. ?And so God sends the
  power of error to work in them so that they
  believe what is false. The result is that all who
  have not believed the truth, but have taken
  pleasure in sin, will be condemned. (2
  Thessalonians 28 13 GN)

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• I was born and came into the world for this one
  purpose, to speak about the truth. (John 1827
  GN)
• And eternal life means knowing you, the only
  true God, and knowing Jesus Christ, whom you
  sent. I have shown your glory on earth I have
  finished the work you gave me to doI have made
  you known to those you gave me out of the world.
  (John 173-6 GN)

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• The dragon was furious with the woman and went
  off to fight against the rest of her descendants,
  all those who obey Gods commandments and are
  faithful to the truth revealed by Jesus.
  (Revelation 1217 GN)
• I am a servant together with you and with other
  believers, all those who hold to the truth that
  Jesus revealed. Worship God! For the truth that
  Jesus revealed is what inspires the prophets.
  (Revelation 1910 GN)
• I also saw the souls of those who had been
  executed because they had proclaimed the truth
  that Jesus revealed and the word of God.
  (Revelation 204 GN)

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Timothy
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• ?The purpose of this order is to arouse the love
  that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience,
  and a genuine faith. (1 Timothy 15 GN)
• But the aim of our instruction?? is love that
  comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a
  sincere faith.? Some have strayed from these and
  turned away to empty discussion. (1 Timothy
  15,6 NET)
• But avoid stupid arguments, long list of
  ancestors, quarrels, and fights about the Law.
  (Titus 39 GN)

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• that we may live a quiet and peaceful life with
  all reverence towards God and with proper
  conduct. This is good and it pleases God our
  Savior, ?who wants everyone to be saved and to
  come to know the truth.? For there is one God,
  and there is one who brings God and human beings
  together, the man Christ Jesus, ?who gave himself
  to redeem everyone. That was the proof at the
  right time that God wants everyone to be saved,
  and that is why I was sent as an apostle and
  teacher of the Gentiles, to proclaim the message
  of faith and truth. I am not lying I am telling
  the truth! (1 Timothy 22-7 GN)

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• Do not drink water only, but take a little wine
  to help your digestion, since you are ill so
  often. (1 Timothy 523 GN)
• This is a true saying if a man is eager to be a
  church leader, he desires an excellent work. A
  church leader must be
• Church helpers must also have a good character
  and be sincere they must not drink too much wine
  or be greedy for money (1 Timothy 31, 8 GN)

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• Noah
• Abraham
• David
• Solomon
• Hosea
• Peter
• Martin Luther
• king of hops

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• C.S. Lewis
• God will look to every soul like its first love
  because He is its first love.
• From the moment a creature becomes aware of God
  as God and of itself as self, the terrible
  alternative of choosing God or self
• Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their
  present life so satisfactory that they cannot
  turn to God the proud, the avaricious, the
  self-righteous, are in that danger.

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• Health reform
• Church attendance
• Sabbath observance
• Bible reading
• Mission and outreach
• Tithe paying

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Hebrews 11

• It was faith that kept the prostitute Rahab from
  being killed with those who disobeyed God, for
  she gave the Israelite spies a friendly welcome.
  Should I go on? There isnt enough time for me to
  speak of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David,
  Samuel, and the prophets. (Hebrews 1131,32
  GN)

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• I do not judge as people judge. They look at the
  outward appearance, but I look at the heart. (1
  Samuel 167 GN)
• God does not judge by outward appearances.
  (Galatians 26 GN)

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• If, along with the Messiah, you died to the
  elemental spirits of the world, then why, as if
  you still belonged to the world, are you letting
  yourselves be bothered by its rules?  Dont
  touch this! Dont eat that! Dont handle the
  other! Such prohibitions are concerned with
  things meant to perish by being used not by
  being avoided!, and they are based on man-made
  rules and teachings.? They do indeed have the
  outward appearance of wisdom, with their
  self-imposed religious observances, false
  humility and asceticism but they have no value
  at all in restraining people from indulging their
  old nature. (Colossians 220-23 JNT)

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• you were once an example of perfection. How
  wise and handsome you were! ?You lived in Eden,
  the garden of God, and wore gems of every kind
  rubies and diamonds topaz, beryl, carnelian, and
  jasper sapphires, emeralds, and garnets. You had
  ornaments of gold. They were made for you?? on
  the day you were created. (Ezekiel 2812,13 GN)

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• Remember that there will be difficult times in
  the last days. ?People will be selfish, greedy,
  boastful, and conceited they will be insulting,
  disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and
  irreligious ?they will be unkind, merciless,
  slanderers, violent, and fierce they will hate
  the good they will be treacherous, reckless, and
  swollen with pride they will love pleasure
  rather than God they will hold to the outward
  form of our religion, but reject its real power.
  Keep away from such people. (2 Timothy 31-5
  GN)

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• Rather, the real Jew is the person who is a Jew
  on the inside, that is, whose heart has been
  circumcised... (Romans 229 GN)

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• For God has revealed his grace for the salvation
  of all people. That grace instructs us to give up
  ungodly living and worldly passions, and to live
  self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this
  world, as we wait for the blessed Day we hope
  for, when the glory of our great God and Savior
  Jesus Christ will appear. He gave himself for us,
  to rescue us from all wickedness and to make us a
  pure people who belong to him alone and are eager
  to do good (Titus 211-14)
• But when the kindness and love of God our Savior
  was revealed, he saved us. It was not because of
  any good deeds that we ourselves had done, but
  because of his own mercy that he saved us,
  through the Holy Spirit, who gives us new birth
  and new life by washing us. God poured out the
  Holy Spirit abundantly on us through Jesus Christ
  our Savior, so that by his grace we might be put
  right with God and come into possession of the
  eternal life we hope for (Titus 34-7)

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• Surely you know that God is kind, because he is
  trying to lead you to repent (Romans 24 GN)
• In our Latin Bible, 'repent' has come to mean
  'to do penance.' But in the original Greek it
  means 'to change one's mind' and that is what
  Jesus meant. Jesus didn't ask for penance...
  works, deeds or rituals... he asks for a simple
  change of heart. (Martin Luther)
• All who receive Gods abundant grace and are
  freely put right with him will rule in life
  through Christ (Romans 517 GN)

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• pray for us that the Lords message may
  continue to spread rapidly and be received with
  honorMay the Lord lead you into a greater
  understanding of Gods love (2 Thessalonians
  31,5 GN)