Professor Tom Halstead of the Master’s College preaches in today’s message from 1 Thessalanians 5:16-18, showing us three essentials that are necessary for our spiritual growth.
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Our passage of Scripture begins, “In this you rejoice.” The “this” of the rejoicing is all of verses 3-5 that we considered so carfully last Sunday—the doxology for life that we are working to memorize. And because of the “salvation ready to be revealed in the last time” (v.5) we do have a tremendous joy in the present. Today we learn to maintain joy even as our faith develops.
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The opening of 1 Peter is quite lengthy, as it is really one sentence extending from verse 3 to verse 12. However, the main clause, our thesis, is found right at the begining, not to be forgotten. Most appropriately then, we we begin today with an opening doxology: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
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The Book of First Peter holds a seeming irrelevance to the Western World, and few would name it their favorite book of the Bible. This is because, among other things, the recipients’ experiences don’t appear to match our own. However, not only can we learn from others’ experiences and situations, the more we examine them, the more we will find them to be quite similar to our own. Things will change for many of us, and First Peter will become one of our favorite books. In the opening or our Apostle Peter’s letter, he makes his purpose quite clear: “May grace and peace be multiplied to you.” Our Apostle reminds us of our identity as the elect and as exiles.
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Joining a church is expected of Christains as a natural expression of belonging to Christ’s Church. There are many ways to talk about the topic of church membership. This fourth and final message in our series on the Lancaster EFC community focuses on what is of immediate importance—our membership and what we believe membership means, that it “expresses our deep and full commitment to one another in Christ.”
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