You Are Being Built Into a Spiritual House

1 Peter 2

You Are Being Built Into a Spiritual HouseYou are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood. 1 Peter 2:4

Dear friends, I urge you, abstain from sinful desires which war against your soul. 1 Peter 2:11

Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the supreme authority, or to a governor, for it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men. 1 Peter 2:13-15

Show proper respect to everyone. 1 Peter 2:17

Slaves (and all men and women), if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in his steps. 1 Peter 2:18 & 20-21

Carelessness is an insult to the Holy Spirit. Oswald Chambers

Only Christ Can Satisfy the Absolute Depth of the Hurting Human Heart

1 Peter 1

Only Christ Can Satisfy the Absolute Depth of the Hurting Human HeartYou were chosen by God through the sanctifying (transforming) work of the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 1:2

Through faith you are shielded by God’s power. 1 Peter 1:5

The prophets tried to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ pointed when He predicted the sufferings of Christ. 1 Peter 1:11

By the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, you have been told and heard the gospel. 1 Peter 1:12

* Therefore, prepare your minds for action. 

* Be self-controlled.

* Do not conform (bend) to the evil desires you had when you were ignorant. 1 Peter 1:14

Every relationship that is not based on faithfulness to Christ will end in disaster.

If we love someone but do not love God, we demand total perfection. When we do not get it, we become cruel, demanding, and vindictive.

Only Christ can satisfy the absolute depth of the hurting human heart. Oswald Chambers

 They Were Slain Because Of The Word Of God

Revelation 6

 They Were Slain Because Of The Word Of GodWhite HorseIts rider was bent on conquest. Revelation 6:2

Red HorseIts rider made men slay each other. Revelation 6:3

Black HorseIts rider carried a pair of scales. Revelation 6:5

Pale HorseIts rider was named Death. Hades followed close behind him. The pair were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth. Revelation 6:8

Those slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained were killed just as had been their brothers and sisters. Revelation 6:11

There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black, the whole moon turned blood red. The stars fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.  The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up. Every mountain and island was removed from its place. Revelation 6:12-14

Pray That the Message of the Lord May Spread Rapidly and Be Honored

2 Thessalonians 3

Pray That the Message of the Lord May Spread Rapidly and Be HonoredPray that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored. Also pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. Not everyone has faith. 2 Thessalonians 3:1-2

Keep away from every brother who does not live according to the teachings you received from us. 2 Thessalonians 3:6

Do not associate with him in order that he may feel ashamed. You do not regard him as an enemy. Rather, warn him as a brother. 2 Thessalonians 3:14-15

Sanctification is Jesus Himself in me (see 1 Corinthians 1:30). Oswald Chambers
Because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption.

The Rebellion Will Occur

2 Thessalonians 2

The Rebellion Will OccurThe Rebellion will occur. 2 Thessalonians 2:3

The Man of Lawlessness will oppose God. He will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshipped. He will set himself up in God’s temple. He will proclaim himself to be God. 2 Thessalonians 2:4

The coming of the lawlessness one will be in accordance with the work of Satan. Those deceived by the Man of Lawlessness will perish because they refused to love the truth. They chose to believe the lie. 2 Thessalonians 2: 9-11

All will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness. 2 Thessalonians 2:12

Romance 1:18-28
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,  slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Christ came to make me what he teaches I should be. be. The redemption means that Jesus Christ can place within anyone the same nature that ruled His own life, and all the standards God gives us are based on that nature. Oswald Chambers

From the beginning God chose you to be saved through the Spirit and through belief in the truth. 2 Thessalonians 2:13

Hold to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter. 2 Thessalonians 2:15

I Pray God May Fulfill Every Good Purpose of Yours

2 Thessalonians 1

I Pray God May Fulfill Every Good Purpose of YoursYour perseverance and faith in all persecution and trials is evidence that God’s judgement is right. 2 Thessalonians 1:4-5

God is just. He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you. He will give relief to you who are troubled. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven. 2 Thessalonians 1: 6-7

God will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be shut out from the presence of the Lord. 2 Thessalonians 1 8-9

I pray God may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith. 2 Thessalonians 1:11

 If our everyday decisions are not according to His will, He will press through them, bringing restraint to our spirit. Oswald Chambers

May God Himself Change You Through and Through

1 Thessalonians 5

May God Himself Change You Through and ThroughRespect those who work hard among you. Thessalonians 5:12

Warn the idle.
Encourage the timid.
Help the weak.
Be kind to each other and to everyone. Thessalonians 5:14-15

Do not put out the Spirit’s fire.
Do not treat prophesies with contempt.
Test everything.
Hold on to the good.
Avoid every kind of evil. Thessalonians 5:19-22

May God himself sanctify (change) you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be blameless. Thessalonians 5:23

The creative power of redemption comes through the preaching of the gospel, but never because of the personality of the preacher. Oswald Chambers