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Speaker 1: Good morning, friends and faith listeners, and welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Bible Explain podcast. We are finishing up Second Thessalonians today

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Speaker 1: with a fantastic topic, those who are not willing to

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Speaker 1: work should not eat man. Today's topic, I think is

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Speaker 1: a really good one. So let's go ahead and just

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Speaker 1: dive right into Second Thessalonians three and finish up this book.

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Speaker 1: It's a very short chapter, so it won't take very

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Speaker 1: long to read. I'll be reading this from the web

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Speaker 1: version as I usually do, which, by the way, the

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Speaker 1: WEB stands for World English Bible. It's a really good

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Speaker 1: translation because it is public domain, and they also use

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Speaker 1: the proper name of God, which I really like, which

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Speaker 1: is Yahweh. So that's the reason I use the web version.

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Speaker 1: But of course feel free to grab the version of

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Speaker 1: the Bible that you prefer. This morning, let's go ahead

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Speaker 1: and read Second Thessalonians three the entire thing. Grab you

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Speaker 1: a cup of coffee to share with me, and let's

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Speaker 1: read this together. Finally, brother, pray for us that the

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Speaker 1: word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified,

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Speaker 1: even as also with you, and that we may be

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Speaker 1: delivered from unreasonable and evil men. For not all have faith,

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Speaker 1: But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and

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Speaker 1: guard you from the evil one. We have confidence in

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Speaker 1: the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will

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Speaker 1: do the things we command. May the Lord direct your

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Speaker 1: hearts into God's love and into the perseverance of Christ.

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Speaker 1: Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our

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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother

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Speaker 1: they receive from us. For you know how you ought

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Speaker 1: to imitate us. For we didn't behave ourselves rebelliously among you.

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Speaker 1: Neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying

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Speaker 1: for it, but in labor and travail, work tonight and day,

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Speaker 1: that we may not burden any of you. This was

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Speaker 1: not because we don't have the right, but to make

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Speaker 1: ourselves an example to you that you should imitate us.

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Speaker 1: For even when we were with you, we commanded you this.

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Speaker 1: If anyone is not willing to work, don't let him eat.

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Speaker 1: For we hear of some who walk among you in

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Speaker 1: Now those who are that way, we command and exhort

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Speaker 1: in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness

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Speaker 1: and eat their own bread. But you, brothers, don't be

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Speaker 1: weary in doing what is right. If any man doesn't

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Speaker 1: obey our word in this letter, note that man, and

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Speaker 1: have no company with him to the end that he

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Speaker 1: admonish him as a brother. Now, may the Lord of

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Speaker 1: Peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways.

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Speaker 1: The Lord be with you all. I Paul write this

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Speaker 1: every letter. This is how I write the grace of

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Speaker 1: our Lord Jesus Christ, to be with you all amen.

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Speaker 1: This chapter reveals another problem that was going on in

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Speaker 1: The first one being that the Thessalonian Christians had received

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Speaker 1: possibly a fake letter claiming to be from Paul, and

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Speaker 1: this letter apparently said that the day of the Lord

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Speaker 1: had already come and that the Thessalonian Christians had not

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Speaker 1: why Paul wrote this letter was to set everybody straight, like, no,

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Speaker 1: Lord has not already come, and it can't come until

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Speaker 1: several things happen. And we talked about those things on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday and also last Thursday. But now today Paul reveals

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Speaker 1: another reason why he wrote this letter. The Thessalonian Christians

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Speaker 1: Second Thessalonians three verse one. Finally, brothers, pray for us

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Speaker 1: that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and

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Speaker 1: be glorified, even as also with you. Now, Paul was

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Speaker 1: not afraid to ask people to pray for him. In fact,

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Speaker 1: he did that quite often throughout all of his letters.

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Speaker 1: He asked for courage, he asked for six sets in

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Speaker 1: prayers of other people. You know, so many ministries, myself included.

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Speaker 1: you could give somebody because you're asking God to provide

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Speaker 1: I should ask for you guys more often. Will you

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Speaker 1: But yeah, if you guys could pray for my ministry.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of irritating things happening behind the scenes

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Speaker 1: that I don't regularly talk about, and it is inhibiting

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Speaker 1: my ability to produce podcast episodes effectively. So if you

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Speaker 1: guys could pray about that, pray for my ministry, and

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Speaker 1: just pray for me to have courage and boldness to

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Speaker 1: spread the gospel, and maybe I'll ask for that more

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Speaker 1: God to be glorified. This week, we discussed that the

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Speaker 1: gospel message needed to go to the entire world before

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Speaker 1: Jesus can come back. That is what Jesus said in

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Speaker 1: Matthew twenty four. He said, the entire world will hear

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Speaker 1: the gospel message and then the end will come. Paul,

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Speaker 1: of course he's going to pray that the gospel message

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Speaker 1: for not all have faith. No matter what generation you're in,

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Speaker 1: there are going to be people who hate the Gospel message,

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Speaker 1: Paul asks the Christians to pray against these people, because

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Speaker 1: the Gospel message spreads rapidly around the world. And if

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Speaker 1: even faster, and that's a good thing for us. He says,

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Speaker 1: The Lord is faithful in verse three, who will establish

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Speaker 1: you and guard you from the evil one. So there

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Speaker 1: you go. When Christians have faith in God, they understand

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Speaker 1: God's plans, understanding that when Jesus comes again, that's a

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Speaker 1: to fear that. We should look forward to that. Actually,

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Speaker 1: both do and will do the things we command. May

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Speaker 1: the Lord, direct your hearts into God's love and into

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Speaker 1: the perseverance of Christ. So the phrase perseverance of Christ,

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Speaker 1: that right there shows you know that Christians are going

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Speaker 1: to suffer. I mean, it is clear in scripture. Jesus

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Speaker 1: incantations using a very specific type of water. Now those

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Speaker 1: all times in all ways. The Lord be with you

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Speaker 1: and then he says, the grace of our Lord Jesus

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Speaker 1: Christ be with you all amen. I absolutely loved the

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Speaker 1: Book of Second Thessalonians. Like honestly, this was probably one

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Speaker 1: really long time. It was just so fun to discuss

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Speaker 1: this book, and I hope you guys enjoyed it as well.

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Speaker 1: We are done with Second Thessalonians. I thought Man Today

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Speaker 1: Explain podcast and also pray for this ministry to succeed.

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Speaker 1: That is the best way to get more people to

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Speaker 1: find this podcast in the future. Faithful listeners, have a

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Speaker 1: fantastic rest of your day. We will be in the

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Speaker 1: Book of First Timothy on Tuesday, so I hope to

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Speaker 1: see all of you guys then, Happy listening, and God

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