2nd Thessalonians 3 1 to 3 18

good data you god bless you say welcome to the Shepherd's chapel welcome to this family Bible study our our father's word the books of Thessalonians you know the subject of the two books is the return of Christ at the second Advent which is yet to happen and in the last couple of lectures he has illustrated to us exactly how it's going down so there's no need for anyone to be confused or upset or anxious you got it made he's your father and the son shall return and we've got the victory it's all in the book and that's exactly how it's going down he made one thing very clear though in this 2nd chapter that we just completed Christ is not going to return until after the spurious Messiah the false messiah Satan Lucifer son of perdition littlehorn Morningstar Lucifer appears first claiming to be jesus i list off his names so that you're not confused because satan has a lot of acts he likes to play he's a fine actor so see that he doesn't deceive you but having covered that 2nd chapter which is one of the most fulfilling chapters in god's words at 2nd thessalonians chapter 2 we pick it up with chapter 3 we get this time kind of into family you have family problems well maybe this will help you we asked her where wisdom from our father chapter 3 verse 1 Paul's teachings and it reads finally brethren I mean after this after you've got that down pray for us that the Word of God may have free course that we got free speech and be beep glorified even as it is with you now I want you to analyze Paul a little bit you know he was beaten treated terribly thrown in jail did he say pray for us that we don't get in trouble now he will add that but what did he put fir the Word of God pray that the word can be glorified pray that the word is spread freely that nothing holds it back and there you see the mark of one God sent to bring forth that word yes in all three levels verse two and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men for all men have not faith not not all people love the Lord not all people even care about the Lord and you're going to have to walk through them among them around them and if possible you're going to have to get along with them and at the same time that you're getting along with them this doesn't mean you have to take anything off of them don't misunderstand what I'm saying Christians are not second-class citizens we're first-class citizens we're God's children but if as best you can set the set the example whereby they want to emulate they want to follow you they want to have the blessings you have and that is you know many people said well I just wonder what God wants you to me to do he wants you to have credibility and and have the Spirit of God within you and be blessed that people will take from you and and you are that example that will brighten up a room even it will make people feel better there are wicked and unreasonable people in the world so what they they are confused misled in many cases and many of them just looking for truth you've got the truth don't ever be afraid to share it this is why he would first pray help the word to be glorified help the word to spread let it be free and even among the unbeliever and the unreasonable those that don't love the Lord and and that we are delivered or he is delivered from them they're not that big the step okay there it's not a step for a stepper to get through and around wicked people all you got to do to be wiser in the serpent know what there you know what it is they're after coming out the gate okay so forewarned is forearmed verse three but the Lord is faithful you got that you can count it the Lord is faithful who shall stablish you and keep you from evil he will make you a strong agent against the satanic force do you know what stablish means it means make rock solid he will establish you in your life we're about you don't sway with the wind every time the wind changes directions you bow a different way you know what God's Word says he is faithful to give you the strength and the power to hold on to that truth that word the word of God and to progress even among unreasonable people you know how to handle them it's not that big a deal so at the same time always being wiser than the serpent and you know the serpent has a certain area he can strike in stay out of the strike zone you can you can lead direct God and everything but stay out of the strike zone now that's a fig that's an analogy a figure of speech I should say telling you use common sense you know you're wiser than the serpent don't let him bite you okay don't let unreasonable people get into your pocket okay don't let them take advantage of you well how can you say that the Lord is faithful to establish you above that to know and to understand what through his word it's one thing to be street-smart and you know it doesn't take much of a stepper to be street-smart but all wisdom truly comes from our Father and after all he is the one that is faithful and that is stabbed you rock-solid Rock of Gibraltar verse four and we have confidence in the Lord touching you we know he's going to that you both do and we'll do the things which we command you that is to say the things of the word that we have confidence in the Lord touching you not the wicked one but the Lord when he touches you with that Holy Spirit that's what establishes you that's what he's faithful in doing but there's a little bit of a condition along with this that ye both do and will do the things which we command you he never commanded anything but what is written okay Paul never instructed anything out of the blue made anything up it was always from the Word of God excellent scholar knew all the languages could speak in any one of the languages Hebrew big Aramaic okay Roman he had it okay verse five and the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God that's the second bring your minds into the love of God why for what he has done for you the fact that he would establish you the fact that he would give you a word that strengthens you and into the patient waiting for Christ Hey waiting don't jump the gun Christ is not going to be the first one to return so don't don't QuickStart yourself to jump out there and get in afraid that you don't belong in as chapter 2 very clearly stated false ones coming first he's going to sit in Jerusalem claiming to be jesus and the hope most of the world is going to chase after him why they're ignorant of God's truth that is a sad set of affairs you know it wait on the Lord you know what did Jesus ever asked you to lead him okay you know a lot of people try to a lot of people want to lead the Lord even you're a follower you follow him you don't leave him so you wait for him hey he's he's got your number he knows where you're at okay when he's waiting for you he'll certainly use you this this is very important beloved because he's going to depend on you as mark 13 so stipulates be ready but don't jump the gun verse 6 now we command you brethren in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly and not after the tradition which he received of us that he didn't see our hard work he didn't see our truth and this disorganized means unarranged you know it means haphazardly operates it kind of means in the Greek glazy okay you know a lot of people wonder well how am i what am I supposed to be I have a brother that's owned drugs and if I give him money he you probably go out and buy more drugs don't do it okay it says here we could manage you brother in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you withdraw yourselves from every brother you didn't say it didn't say some foreign clan it said brother that walketh disorderly you don't have to put up with it now a lot of people wonder whoa I thought God said I was responsible for my brother only to a point and if a person is simply out of control withdraw yourself from them there's a reason and will he'll he will be very careful to explain how you reach someone like this and you had better listen it's the only way you can reach them you cannot you know God has the ability to change someone's mind you don't okay you most nine times out of ten if somebody doesn't want to do something you're not going to talk them into a total change they may agree with you for a little bit and walk a little ways with you and they're gonna go rap if they don't want to break a habit they're gonna go right back to it okay you got to want to quit yourself whatever that habit might be to rise to a new level a higher level of understanding from the Word of God but you do not have to put up with a disorderly brother why you know what'll happen don't you you are running the risk of destroying your own credibility for his bad reputation you know friends of the feather flock together have you ever heard that what it means is drunks usually hang out together misfits usually hang out together kind after kind so you hang out with them and guess what's going to happen to your credibility your reputation down the tube now what kind of servant are you going to be to set an example in the community of what a Christian looks like okay you want to you want to remember those things this is the reason God says withdraw from your kin folks that are disorderly disorganized and are simply you can't deal with them and what do you do then verse seven for yourselves know how you ought to follow us you should imitate us that's Paul and the teachers for we behaved not ourselves this orderly among you we were this disorderly again means loafing lazy like we weren't that way among you we didn't live off you they worked okay they paid their own way were saved neither did we eat any man's bread for nod we worked for it but wrought with labour we were working that's what labor is okay and prevailed night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you that we would set an example for you and you know Paul was a tentmaker and he always earned his own way he didn't take a salary okay why because he didn't want to he wanted people to know he wasn't in the ministry for the money so to speak now this doesn't this does not mean that a pastor is not worthy of his hire a servant always is always remember that don't go telling your pastor of your church he's going to have to do away with salary that's his business okay but this was Paul's way of saying follow us do like we did we weren't chargeable to any of you we weren't lazy we weren't afraid to work because you know you have people that are lazy you got people who'll say my love is 35 years old he can't seem to find a job and he still lives with me and Momma right there at home well and you know there comes a time and a little weaning kind of does good for somebody ok this that's what this is leading up to and that's why that same Greek word means lazy people ok God quite frankly doesn't like loafers God doesn't like lazy people he liked some in he likens of them in the great book of Proverbs to a set of hinges on a door only their hinge to the mattress just flopping from one side to the other and never accomplishing anything now what kind of example does that set in the community not very good okay that's what he would say take our example separate yourself from your own can that set that kind of an example verse 8 neither did we eat and I see I believe we got that verse 9 not because we have not power none of we had the right but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us we set that way and and it is good for you and to know this is why that it's good for you to separate yourself from a brother that is a druggie or whatever ok and now let me so somebody doesn't go overboard with this if you are able to help a brother if that brother is trying then you're doing some good ok and only you can judge this but don't be premature if someone is listening to you if they're if they are trying Christ has a way of if they are really trying real hard he counts that is perfect okay and that's good because when someone is trying they within their months their ownselves wishes to change and probably because of you because you're setting that example for them and but at the same time I have so many people that write and they are absolutely abused by kin because they get on a guilt trip about practicing discipline you've got to you've got to have discipline in your life you know you you cannot function properly without discipline you show me a church that has no discipline and I'll show you a church that's not fit it takes discipline from Christ and as you've heard me say many times that's where the word disciple comes from a student is to discipline themselves in the way that they are to go so Paul then set this example that it was a good example for people to be around to see him and want to follow and act as he acted though he had the right to do otherwise he chose to be very independent and to set a good example verse 10 for even when we were with you this we commanded you that if any would not work neither should he eat ok you got that if a man won't work don't feed him and a lot of parents get real upset with this they feel you know this goes with aiding someone's habits if you're not real careful you can do it you can be a facilitator of their bad deeds by making it possible for them to continue the practice when they're not trying in the least but it's very difficult and very painful for a parent not to feed the child but as you probably heard me say before in teaching this same scripture between the belly button in the backbone there's a microswitch and when somebody when those get closer and closer together and somebody gets hungry enough that micro switch clicks and it says work work work working you won't be hungry hungry hungry so the person jumps out and gets out there and goes to work before they starve ok that's meaning the point if they're absolutely no good don't feed them and it will cause them to change ok and make them healthier all of the same time ok and you know and but many do not understand that 10th verse of the great book of chapter 3 is a great book of Thessalonians second Thessalonians but it's God's way of handling people family members that give trouble to where yeah tough you know tough love this is tough love it isn't that you hate the person that you don't feed them it's that you love that person you care about them you care enough that you help them and you have to help them even with tough love sometimes that's just the way it is alright verse 11 for we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly that means lazy working not at all but are busybodies just yakety yakety gossip gossip gossip that's all they got time for is to to cause people trouble fairytales that that hurt people's reputations this is why you wanted to pull away from okay you don't want to be around somebody like that there they will not help you in spreading the word and they will even damage your credibility with gossip if it were possible and first of all gossip can't hurt you I want to say that coming out the gate this is why it would be written in the final chapter of Mark 13 mark rather the great book of Mark chapter 16 that you can pick up a snake and it won't bite you or you can drink poison and you won't kill you and those are figures of speech meaning the picking up a serpent I mean you you could he actually pick Satan up and shaking and he can't hurt you but it don't mean a rattlesnake don't rat a snake hadn't read the Word of God so don't pick up a rattlesnake but in the name of Jesus he gives you power over Satan even in your life and to drink poison that means your reputation your reputation is so strong and so established that people can pour poison all over you that's gossip bad talk accusations rolls off like water off of a duck's back okay because God knows and he blesses you it is you know living in flesh bodies there's a tough old life sometimes and tough love is hard to come by but it's what gets things done that's God's orders don't ever forget it okay gossiping sticks and bones may hurt my bones but words shall never hurt you something like that okay an old thing they cannot dent your fender all right when you're a Christian and you're doing what's right if it if we were all perfect that would be real easy to say well we're not sometimes we do fall short sometimes that can aid the gossipers a little bit be that as it may we are human right okay verse 12 now then that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ that with quietness they work and eat their own bread you got it you know that solves a lot of problems did it say sleep quietly it said work wor pay work quietly and eat their own bread there's just something about that when you earn it yourself that makes it delicious that makes it really good I'm speaking spiritually okay and physically as well make your own way be your own self verse 13 but you brethren be not weary in well-doing this this doesn't quite bring in be not weary in doing what's right you know a lot of people get discouraged and that's what this means don't get discouraged don't get blue don't get down in well-doing meaning doing so much good all the time that pretty soon you feel like well it's just not getting anywhere not doing any good don't you dare get weary doing right it is doing good it always does good people take note they know some wait on the Lord be patient and don't grow don't be weary don't be blue don't be disturbed you know you know if you're not careful you can be so depressed sometimes if you think you're not accomplishing anything and it can be depressing but what you gotta realize you're serving God and that's not depressing so don't ever ever get depressed doing God's work and doing what you know is right you look up and you smile and you enjoy yourself okay God counts it perfect okay verse 14 and if any man obey not our word by this epistle note that man and have no company with him that he may be ashamed ashamed of what ashamed of himself now a lot of people think they've got to just bend over backwards and let somebody use them for a welcome mat what did it say mark that man and have no company with him there's some people you have to do this is tough love and it must happen it is the rules of happiness it is the rules that truly can change lives that can make a difference you know many times if you're breaking an animal let's say if you're breaking a horse to ride don't ever break his spirit while you're break gentling him down to ride don't don't don't destroy his spirit okay I don't like to see that I don't like to see anybody break the spirit of anything there's better ways so when you're helping someone don't don't totally break their spirit okay and this may sound confusing but everyone must have that faith in themselves don't just what I'm saying leave a thread okay and you can you can people are easy to deal with you know like let's say that you've got a corn crib right by the creek and you know this old boy that's working for you is taking corn out of that crib just as sure as God made little green apples and well the way you would handle that is take old GM over there to the corn crib and say Jim that wicked man across the creek is coming over here stealin my corn I'm putting you in charge of it I want you to make sure nobody steals it and then Jim will stand out there on the ready all night long watching across that Creek to make sure nobody steals that corn so you know there's more than one way to handle something okay so make sure that you know those ways and how to the psychology necessary to touch people's minds and hearts leave that spirit and add to it and you go a lot further okay let's go with the next verse verse 15 that count him not as an enemy but admonish him it's to say mourn him as a brother okay there's a very good advice in this chapter on family relations tough love yeah tough love can it can be just that it can be tough and you know something they're really the sad part about this and I'll just tell you the truth about it sometimes the hard part about tough love it's harder on the person that has to administer it and the person that receives it when you really truly love somebody it is it just breaks your heart to have to be Stern that's one thing old Marines come by this pretty easy okay no old soldiers do also old coaches do the same thing they don't they're not bashful and they're not backward okay if they know somebody needs a little they'll get it okay it's called the old goat - goat somebody long and and get the very best from them okay but let the brother if you don't warn him then it's your fault okay in part so and sometimes it can hurt you I'm just forewarning you verse 16 now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means the Lord be with you all now it is his peace that he will bring upon you when you help a brother in this way by withdrawing yourself from him for a period of time until he can mature until he can get up on his own feet you see sometimes a man has got to pick his own himself up he can't be picked up or he'll fall right back down he's got to learn how to pick himself up and to stand to stand for something because a man that won't stand for something won't stand for our Father he won't stand for his family he won't stand for anything verse 17 the salutation of Paul with mine own hand which is the token of in every epistle so I write he usually just signed off Luke usually did his writing for him I believe it was because the thorn that was in his side was his eyesight after he was struck down and blinded on the road to Damascus that day in another gospel he would sign off so they look at the big letters because he had to write real big but Luke was usually described that did describe work for Paul and Paul is saying I'm signing this off because it's the truth I want you to know from my heart I know it's the truth so therefore I'm taking the trouble to sign it myself and so that you will know I mean every word of it and naturally where did the word come from from God God instructing him well how do you know that Acts chapter 9 verse 15 Paul hey Paul freewill was to destroy the church not help it God struck him down on the road to Damascus that day and made a man out of him a man of God Paul was zealous what he was doing he thought was right and God had to turn his head a little bit and boy he was a zealous then for the churches before he was against it what what a guy Paul and his teachings verse 18 to complete the book the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all amen and what does amen mean that's that it's written that's it it's over no more need be said that's all she wrote and when he says that's that that's exactly what he means the Antichrist will come first he will sit on Mount Zion in Jerusalem claiming to be God claiming to be Christ he's written in both the Old Testament and the new and never could he write a sweeter letter from the father for warning you on exactly how you should act and react to these end times and what God expects of you you know you're real special to our Father he said I will establish you if you'll serve me I'll use you I'll set you up like the Rock of Gibraltar and give you what you need for that time take it from my letter what a book 1st 2nd Thessalonians I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have bringing it to you all right bless your hearts you miss in a moment once you please the mark of the beast on CD

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