before I forget

Read 1 thess 5 12-18 before I forget

End of the first letter of Paul to the Thessalonians after processing the big questions about the end of time following the recommendation of various recommendations hour on the end times, the postscript "this is before I forget" .

In a few words we can watch, enter the intimacy of the church from the 1st century in what is more common, not serious difficulties and controversies but the daily

Compliance with recognized leaders

PS The first concerns those who work with us who lead us in the name of the Lord.

There were three men who had been accused of putting the world upside down.

This accusation was to be a calumny was actually a Paul praise, Sylvain (Silas), and Timothy

This church which was only a few months old already had drivers she had a structure.

At a certain threshold of any human group is organized around the leaders.

They can sometimes, unfortunately, impose it by cunning or violence. They can earn the respect of all their life and their skills.

They can also be recognized by an outside authority can be elected. In any case beyond a dozen people, the opinion of one or two will have more than the other.

We see that the New Testament churches have responsible. Secondly officials working at the teaching of the Word of God and the development of the life of the Church.

A Corps is organized: See you when? or ? to do what ?

They run for the Lord says the apostle Paul, he mentions another aspect of ministry officials, they warn us they are concerned about the spiritual and moral health of Christians, evoking in the public preaching or in private conversations

Third: P.S. yet it tells us that the ministry officials Thessaloniki you are not recognized by all, enjoy show them great respect, show them affection at peace. I imagine that some Christian does not deprive criticize, to see, not to do as they please.

Why officials may not be exalted shared their vision of the end of the world or try to bring them back to a sober life with respect for real life and marriage.

What will happen if we do not take account of this first reminder?

The church becomes a crab basket.

It looks like a football team of brilliant individuality without leader nor cohesion, it's a losing team.

We ask brother and sister appreciate those among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you live in the Church is to live in relationship

Verse 14 to 15 we meet for the second time the word "warn". This is another sign that there are problems

First of all

1- Notify those who live in disorder and thus disturb the peace of the church, those who live in disorder here that refuses to live in Christ.

2- Take comfort the fainthearted, those who need to be constantly exhort, encourage

3- Support the weak spiritually or physically weak.

4- Make use of all patience with this theme is very common in the New Testament.

We stand in solidarity with each other and as we urge, we are building ever, we help each other.

In short we love each other.

Who can be against that?

This is the logical consequence of our integration in the body of Christ.

I then become the keeper of my brother, his well-being for me, perhaps against its strong fraternal relations.

In fact there are two kinds of people.

First of all those who have something to hide.

They want a religion without commitment or relationship and did not understand the plan of God for Christians and for the Church.

Furthermore there is also the one injured in Church life.

Indeed the good advice of some Christians are not always appropriate, their concern is sometimes like an intrusion, discussion and confidentiality are not always respected.

Live in relationship within a church can be learned, live in peace among yourselves. This is not an option, it's an order.

What is happening in a church where people do not develop a healthy relationship between them?

It is the reign of individualism formalism

It is for the outside world a reason not to believe in Christ.

For it is the love we have for each other that people will know that we are his disciples John 13. 35

On this occasion look good in your mutual relations as towards all men.

By now speaking to Christians in general, Paul forbids any revenge.

The normal response is to reciprocate.

But the Christian must also be so intimately in fellowship with the Lord Jesus that he will react in a supernatural way, that is, it will instinctively demonstrate kindness and love for other believers, as well as towards unbelievers.

The joy can be the experience of a Christian even in the worst adverse circumstances because it is in the service and the object of his joy Incidentally, "Be joyful always" it is the shortest verse in the new Testament Greek although "Jesus wept" jean November 35 and the shortest verse in French spirit who speaks V 19-22 "do not turn off the mind" Paul is rather terse about the extent of the mind . The Holy Spirit is compared to a fire or a light that comes into the church.

In which domain ?

Paul advanced by the prophets: what is it?

In modern French prophecy is a prediction in the Bible is it sometimes but mostly it will be rather an exhortation, a slogan, encouragement, warning.

The Bible in current French called his prophecies "inspired messages." The idea is that the Holy Spirit inspires some to formulate a message, the messages for the Church.

It is a gift, one of the great 1 Cor 14.5 by which God communicated to the church, the light of the revelations.

Nevertheless it is not so obvious as that.

On the one hand people are tempted to despise these words, despise message.

From God? J

ustement perhaps it not from God.

Maybe it comes from Christians who think they are the center of the world; where wacky announcing the return of Christ and already occurred or that it takes longer to live, because Christ is about to return.

Perhaps this message comes from a well-meaning Christian, who errs and he put everyone off the scent.

There was clearly in Thessaloniki prophecies, exhortations were not reliable and will bring some Christians to master all interpellation, while personal sharing, all talk a little bit improvised. Not so do not rule out this speech, we must simply consider before accepting.

Prove all things, raise what is good, it does not allow you judge a word from God.

On the other hand we have to evaluate sort that just one just man. We do not keep any.

Short or long, processed or instant, calm or passionate, no matter the type, the content must be fair.

Otherwise we discern in the voice of a man God's message for us today act accordingly.

We do not write a new page in the Bible.

We simply better perceive how to apply the Word of God, in the current situation in our lives.

Good preaching includes a dose of education: The facts and nothing but the facts

And a dose of prophecy: it rises how to act.

It is a call to action.

Before preaching, we pray that God inspires the speaker and those who listen.

Done and mind his work.

If a church stifles the action of the Holy Spirit it means that person accepts that God calls.

Only the form of religion is maintained.

Nobody grows and progresses or changes.

If, however, the judgment is not respected, we will find a church and all fantasies are possible, a church in perpetual effervescence without stability, without a body and without doctrine

Conclusion there-he has a common point in all that has been said?

The importance of human speech in the church of God, his officials, his siblings that warn from God, edify the church through their word, the spiritual body that is the church built by relationships and footprints and words of love with the Word of God they edify the church could deviate, discussion, coldness, individualism could turn God's house into a cold room or a battlefield. Yet the church in Thessalonica not déviras.

Paul commends them for their faith, their hope, their love.

Thus he prays at once, so that we also like them, are fully saints, they are perfectly kept, blameless.

Is this a dream?

But not to the apostle V 24 states, "One who calls us is faithful and he shall accomplish all this."