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1 | Really live? | 1 Thess 3:8 | Mommapbs | 151587 | ||
How does another's firm stand in the Lord enable us to "really live"? What is the priciple behind this? | ||||||
2 | Really live? | 1 Thess 3:8 | DocTrinsograce | 151601 | ||
Hi, Momma... More John Gill is helpful here (as well as reading this passage in context). In Him, Doc For now we live,.... Before they were dead men, lifeless, disconsolate, dispirited, carrying about with them the dying of the Lord Jesus, and death working in them, and they, as it were, under the sentence of that, being killed all the day long for Christ's sake; but now, upon this news, in the midst of all their sore trials and troubles, their spirits revived, and they became alive and cheerful; see Psa_22:26, it was like life from the dead unto them: if ye stand fast in the Lord: or "our Lord", as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions read; that is, "in the faith of the Lord", as the Arabic version renders it: they were in the Lord secretly by electing grace, and openly by regenerating grace, and they abode in him; and by persevering grace, they were rooted and built up in Christ, and established in the faith of him, of his person, office, and grace; they were steady in the exercise of grace upon him, and stood fast in the liberty wherewith he had made them free, and continued steadfastly in the doctrines and ordinances of the Gospel; for the "if" here is not expressive of doubting, but of reasoning, "seeing ye stand fast in the Lord"; of which they were assured by Timothy: and this gave them fresh spirit and life amidst the deaths in which they often were. |
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3 | Really live? | 1 Thess 3:8 | Mommapbs | 151634 | ||
Thanks Doc - Our faith is firm in the Lord, and it is the Lord who does all the work, so by refelecting upon this I can understand how seeing His work in the lives of others would be an encouragement to me when I am discouraged. God is faithful. mommapbs |
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4 | Really live? | 1 Thess 3:8 | DocTrinsograce | 151644 | ||
Dear Momma, Reading the biographies of great men and women of faith should be a discipline of every believer. For example, I strongly encourage that you read the biography of John Newton, the man who wrote Amazing Grace. By the way, you might also be blessed by the biography by Corrie ten Boom. When I read your words, I remembered something she said: "Look within, be depressed; look without, be distressed; look above, be at rest!" Be encouraged, dear sister, the Lord is the author and perfector of our faith! In Him, Doc |
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5 | Really live? | 1 Thess 3:8 | Mommapbs | 151645 | ||
Thanks for the encouragement. Ps 119:71-72 | ||||||