NT Come Follow Me 43
Introduction:
“Perfect That Which Is Lacking in Your Faith”
Acts 17:6 Why might some still say that Christians are turning the world upside down?
Acts 17:1–10 How does the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ still cause an uproar among the ungodly?
1 Thessalonians 3:5–6 How is it still
refreshing to those who preach and administer the gospel to find that converts
are remaining faithful?
1 Thessalonians 1:7 Are you personally striving to be an example to all those who believe in Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:1 Paul found his
work hadn’t been in vain. How can we remind ourselves that when we do the
Lord’s work, it is never in vain?
2 Thessalonians 2:2–3 Many are still falling away. How can we help ensure our own spiritual safety and the safety of others?
1 Thessalonians 3:10; 4:10 We must
continually work on perfecting that which is lacking in our faith and to work
on increasing our ability to love.
Personal Study: Disciples of Christ serve others with
sincerity and love.
How can I as the
Lord’s disciple better serve Him?
1 Thessalonians 1:5–8 I
need to live worthily of having the Spirit to be with me, in my teaching, and
as a safety to me in my daily walk.
2:1–13 I need to serve out of love. I should be striving to love others as my Father loves me, and desire their welfare in the same way that I do for my own children.
1 Thessalonians 1:7 Am I an example of the things I know?
How can I do better now?
Personal Study: “Increase and abound in love.”
1 Thessalonians 3:7–9 Heidi, you need to learn to find joy in your fellow Latter-day Saints. Think of them like unto yourself.
1 Thessalonians 4:1 How can I walk in the faith and please God more?
1 Thessalonians 4:10 How can I increase more spiritually?
1 Thessalonians 3:7–13 Stand fast in the Lord. Express gratitude to God always. Pray for God to direct your path and the paths of other saints. Seek to love others more fully. Establish your hearts, your affections, your convictions wholly with the Lord.
4:1–12 Are you seeking to please God in
your daily walk, or do you just follow your own pursuits? Are you becoming
sanctified, through faith, obedience, and repentance, allowing the Spirit to
help you become more like the Lord? Are you loving your neighbor as yourself,
and not speaking ill of anyone? Are you seeking to be holy?
Study to be quiet. What does that me for you? Don’t gossip. Don’t answer
hastily. Speak more as moved upon by the Holy Ghost.
Holy Sacred, having a godly character, or spiritually and morally pure.
SanctificationThe process of
becoming free from sin, pure, clean, and holy through the Atonement of Jesus
Christ.
Sanctification cometh to those who yield their hearts unto
God, Hel. 3:33–35.
Personal Study: If I am faithful and watchful, I will be
prepared for the Savior’s Second Coming.
1 Thessalonians 5:1–10 Metaphors that teach about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Record activities in this chapters reading.
What are you prompted to do to watch and prepare
for the Savior’s coming?
Preparing for the Lord’s Return
Personal Study: An apostasy, or falling away from truth, was
prophesied to precede the Second Coming.
2 Thessalonians 2:1–4 Paul knew that there would be an apostasy (and a restoration) before the Lord’s Second Coming.
(There definitely was an apostasy in the early church. Is there an apostasy going on in the Church today?)
Come back to the following review of the prophecies of the apostasy.
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Scriptures that foretold the
Apostasy: Isaiah 24:5; Amos 8:11–12; Matthew 24:4–14; 2 Timothy 4:3–4
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Scriptures that show the
Apostasy was already beginning in Paul’s time: Acts 20:28–30; Galatians 1:6–7; 1 Timothy 1:5–7
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Observations about the Great
Apostasy by Christian reformers:
Martin Luther: “I have sought nothing beyond reforming the Church
in conformity with the Holy Scriptures. … I simply say that Christianity has
ceased to exist among those who should have preserved it” (in E. G.
Schweibert, Luther and His Times: The Reformation from a New Perspective [1950], 590).
Roger Williams: “The apostasy … hath so far corrupted all that
there can be no recovery out of that apostasy till Christ send forth new
apostles to plant churches anew” (in Philip Schaff, The
Creeds of Christendom [1877], 851).
Family Study: Jesus
and His Apostles Show Great Love for the Saints
1 Thessalonians 3:9–13 How can I develop the love that I should have that will help the Lord to elevate those around me and myself? How can I be more demonstrative of Christ’s love through my own actions?
Family Study: Comforting
Words Concerning the Resurrection
1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 16 For the Lord himself
shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with
the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we
which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet
the Lord in the air: and so shall
we ever be with the Lord.
Either I will rise as a mortal in the air to meet Jesus and all His holy angels
at His coming, or I will rise from the grave. Through Him, I will be
resurrected. I look forward to Adam, trumpeters, and Jesus returning to bring
to pass the resurrection of the dead.
Family Study: Choose
a phrase to focus on
1 Thessalonians 5:14–25 There is
great counsel from Paul in these verses for all Christians.
Family Study: Be
not weary in well doing.
2 Thessalonians 3:13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
What can I do when I am feeling weary in well-doing? Where is my refreshment? (Turn to the Lord, not to chocolate.)
Galatians 6:9 And let us not
be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
There is not always immediate gratification in the life of a disciple. The very work suggests that we need to practice disciple and patience.
Doctrine and Covenants 64:33 Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great.
We will not always see the results of our labors in this life. We need to practice Faith in Jesus Christ and rest assured that He keeps His promises.
How can I be supportive of others when they are feeling weary? What can I do when I feel this way myself?
https://site.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/1-thes/1?lang=eng
The gospel comes both in word and in power.
Vs 2-3 Heidi, try to make mention of those you
minister to by name in your prayers. Remember them unto the Lord.
Vs 5-7 Be the kind of
missionaries and minister that helps others know the Lord through following
you.
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True ministers preach in a godly manner—Converts
are the glory and joy of missionaries.
Vs 4-8 Learn to love those you minister too with the
preciousness of their souls in your mind and heart.
https://site.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/1-thes/3?lang=eng
The Saints are told to perfect that which is
lacking in their faith.
Vs 7-10 What joy there is when the leaders know the
followers of Christ are walking in righteousness before Him.
https://site.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/1-thes/4?lang=eng
The Saints are told to be holy, sanctify
themselves, and love one another—The Lord will come, and the dead will rise.
Vs 4-7 Spiritual cleanness is intertwined with sexual
purity. It is important to behalf well and to not take away anyone's virtue.
Vs 9-10 Love you brother
as yourself, more and more. Increase in charity.
Vs 13-14 Those who are dead will rise again at Jesus's
Coming.
Truths found in 1 Thessalonians 4:16–18
Vs 16-18 Let everyone
know, the dead will rise. When Christ comes again, those who have had faith in
Him will rise up to meet Him in the air.
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The Saints will know the season of the Second
Coming of Christ—Live the way Saints should live—Rejoice evermore—Do not
despise prophesyings.
Vs 4-6 Live in faith
and stay on the covenant path. Then you will be prepared for Jesus's Coming.
Vs 8-11 There is such
great hope in staying sober and steadfast. Keep on the armor of God and be
vigilant and valiant in your testimony of Jesus. Edify each other.
Vs 12-13 Be thankful for
those who are called as your spiritual leaders.
Vs 14-23 Much admonition
to the Saints in how to act appropriately.
1 Thessalonians 5:1–10 Metaphors that teach about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
“A thief in the night”:
“Travail upon a woman with child”:
Additional metaphors and truths found in these
verses:
https://site.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/2-thes/1?lang=eng
At His Second Coming, the Lord Jesus will take
vengeance upon the ungodly.
Vs 3-5 Those who preach the gospel and the new
converts to the gospel should all become the same type of ministers. True
conversion is posiible through patience and faith.
Vs 7,10 It is amazing that
we will find rest in the Lord at His appearing; and we can be glorified with
His saints in that day.
Truths found in 2 Thessalonians 1:4–10
https://site.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/2-thes/2?lang=eng
Apostasy is to precede the Second Coming—The
gospel prepares men for eternal glory.
Vs 3-4 Again, I am no longer sure that this falling away had to do with
the dark ages before the reformation and the beginnings of the restoration. I
think there is a great falling away right now.
Satan, and the world, is exalting all things that are evil and
wrong. We need to make sure we stay on the Lord's side and on the covenant
path.
Vs 8 The brightness of the Coming of the Lord will
reveal the great wickedness, and it will be stopped and destroyed.
Vs 10 It's imperative that
we teach the truth and teach people to love the truth, that they may be saved.
Vs 15-17 Stand Fast in the
truth and work righteousness. Find comfort in staying true to Jesus and your
covenants with Him.
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Pray for the triumph of the gospel cause—Paul
preaches the gospel of work—Be not weary in well-doing.
Vs 1-3 Always pray for the safety of the missionaries
and that the word of the Lord will move forward without obstruction; and pray
that the saints will remain faithful.
Vs 4-5 Let's have
confidence in one another, that we will remain faithful.
Vs 10 My Dad has always
believed this. He said, "If I don't work, I don't eat. And I love to eat."
Vs 13 Ask for more faith
to find joy in the work. Don't become weary with the jobs that you must do.
16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
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