{"id":7447,"date":"2025-05-16T06:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=7447"},"modified":"2025-05-16T06:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:20:24","slug":"1-thessalonians-program-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=7447","title":{"rendered":"1 Thessalonians (Program #16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bible_light.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\">1 Thessalonians (Program #16) &#8211; Cooperation with the Divine Operation (2)<\/p>\n<p>1 Thessalonians chapter 4 is a chapter presenting the promise of the Lord&#8217;s return and the rapture of all the believers at the end of this age. And to the young believers in Thessalonica these word were encouraging and fill them with hope.<\/p>\n<p>But in Chapter 5, Paul begins with the word &#8220;but&#8221;, implying that though it&#8217;s good to be encouraged by the hope of the Lord&#8217;s second coming, before He does come, we need to be watchful and sober, and most of all prepared and ready for His coming.&nbsp; It&#8217;s in this light that we come to the last half of the final chapter of the short book to the new believers in the Church in Thessalonica.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 5:12 begins this way, &#8220;<i>Furthermore we ask you, brothers, to acknowledge those who labor among you and take the lead among you in the Lord and admonish you, And to regard them most highly in love because of their work. 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