{"id":27103,"date":"2023-07-09T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/1-thessalonians-4_1-8-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T23:24:03","slug":"1-thessalonians-4_9-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/1-thessalonians-4_9-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise Your Love Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 Thessalonians 4:9-18 \u00a0<\/strong> Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today’s passage is\u00a01\u00a0Thessalonians\u00a04:9-18. Let’s go!<\/p>\n

1\u00a0Thessalonians\u00a04:9-10 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>And in fact, you do love all the brothers throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers, to do so more and more.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses\u00a09-10: \u00a0Apparently, other than in the area of sexual immorality (1\u00a0Thessalonians\u00a04:1-8), the Christians in Thessalonica were generally quite good at loving one another.\u00a0 Paul encourages them to do so more and more.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this? \u00a0When it comes to loving others, aim to love people better and better, more and more.\u00a0 Don’t settle for where you’re at.\u00a0 Jesus’ love for people is all-surpassing and without limit.\u00a0 May His unparalleled love cause you to aim higher when it comes to loving people.\u00a0 Let’s raise our love game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1\u00a0Thessalonians\u00a04:11-12 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you,
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 11-12: \u00a0May you be known not just for your words, but even more for your actions, the way you work, the way you carry yourself and treat others. \u00a0May your lifestyle, and not just your lips, speak of Jesus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1\u00a0Thessalonians\u00a04:13-18\u00a0(NIV)<\/strong>
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope.
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
\n15<\/sup>\u00a0According to the Lord\u2019s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.
\n16<\/sup>\u00a0For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
\n17<\/sup>\u00a0After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
\n18<\/sup>\u00a0Therefore encourage one another with these words.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 13-18: \u00a0Some Christians in Thessalonica expected Jesus to come during their generation and were perplexed when they saw their Christian loved ones die (or, as Paul says, “fall asleep”) before Jesus had returned.\u00a0 What would happen to their loved ones who had already passed?\u00a0 Here Paul reassures the Thessalonian Christians that on the day that Jesus comes again, with a trumpet call all Christians who had already died would rise from their graves (v16) — presumably in a new resurrected body (1\u00a0Corinthians 15:35-49) — and join Jesus in the air.\u00a0 Then those Christians who are still alive at that time will join them.\u00a0 This must have given at least some in the Thessalonian church comfort, knowing that they would get to see their dead loved ones again.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this? \u00a0Death is not something Christians need to fear.\u00a0 For God will raise up all those who have placed their faith in Jesus, whether they are now dead and buried or still living.\u00a0 In Jesus there is hope beyond the grave.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank You, Lord, for always encouraging us to love people better.\u00a0 May my lifestyle and not just my lips speak of Your love.\u00a0 And thank You that death is not something we need to fear.\u00a0 Thank You that in Jesus there is hope beyond the grave.\u00a0 In Jesus’ name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2021 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today’s passage is\u00a01\u00a0Thessalonians\u00a04:9-18. Let’s go!
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\n1\u00a0Thessalonians\u00a04:9-10 (NIV)
\n9\u00a0Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.
\n10\u00a0And in fact, you do love all the brothers throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers, to do so more and more.\u00a0
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\nOn verses\u00a09-10: \u00a0Apparently, other than in the area of sexual immorality (1\u00a0Thessalonians\u00a04:1-8), the Christians in Thessalonica were generally quite good at loving one another.\u00a0 Paul encourages them to do so more and more.
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\nWhat can we learn from this? \u00a0When it comes to loving others, aim to love people better and better, more and more.\u00a0 Don’t settle for where you’re at.\u00a0 Jesus’ love for people is all-surpassing and without limit.\u00a0 May His unparalleled love cause you to aim higher when it comes to loving people.\u00a0 Let’s raise our love game.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27108,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27103\/revisions\/27108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}