498 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 2 Book 42 - The Body Of Christ Removed From the Earth

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LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 42
The Body of Christ Removed from the Earth - Part 2
Remember the only reason I teach is to help people get interested in this Book. Remember from our last program we were showing that Paul had such a heart rendering concern for these new believers fresh out of paganism. Now verse 6, and we see Paul has gotten some news and the flavor changes.
I Thessalonians 3:6
Now verse 7.
I Thessalonians 3:7
To realize that they are taking to heart the things that God had spoken either through the Old Testament or through the letters of Paul. The Jewish believers naturally would have, but not these pagan Gentiles. So to start with the fundamentals of their faith was all that Paul really counted necessary at this point in time.
"Remember Faith is taking God at His Word. God has said only through the apostle Paul that He would save a person if they simply believed in their heart that Jesus died for their sins, was buried and rose again." I Thessalonians 3:8-10
"For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. Paul wanted to bring maturity to their faith. Now verse 11.
I Thessalonians 3:11
"Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you."
In other words Paul was hoping that providently God would lead him back up to Thessalonica.
I Thessalonians 3:12a
Paul saw people come out of those same kinds of backgrounds, the paganism, and the drunkenness. Now finishing the verse.
I Thessalonians 3:13b
Not according to my Bible, but rather Paul says, "we’re unblameable!" Look at the verse again.
I Thessalonians 3:13
"To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints."
So come back with me to I Corinthians chapter 1 and Paul makes this so plain. I’ve even seen people get mad in my own class when I teach that a believer is unblameable. Now verse 6.
I Corinthians 1:6
Now verse 7.
I Corinthians 1:7
"So that ye come behind in no gift; (God had given them all there was to give, and they too were) waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:"
I think you all realize that the apostle Paul honestly thought that the Rapture would take place in his life time. I Corinthians 1:8
"Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Remember it’s all under the blood of our Lord. You know for years I have felt that the Lord has more or less given me a ministry of teaching believers. I Thessalonians 4:1
"Futhermore (in other words Paul is telling us that he’s not through) then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more."
Paul is the example of the believer. No we follow Paul who follows Christ. Let me show you how the Lord inspired Paul to tell us that. It’s because the Lord Jesus was God. Here it is then in I Corinthians chapter 4, and verse 16. I Thessalonians 4:1a
"Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God,…"
I Thessalonians 4:1b
"…that as ye have received of us (me) how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more."
See, God never intended the believer to just be a little wallflower that He could say, "Oh boy look what I’ve bought with my blood." No, God wants people who are willing to grow in Grace and knowledge and be witnesses and testimonies of His Grace. Now verse 2.
I Thessalonians 4:2
"For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus."
When Paul says, "Be ye followers of me, even as I follow Christ." here is the basis of his authority as an apostle.
Galatians 1:11
12. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught (by men) it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ."
So Paul was insulated from them, and he received all these basic truths for Christianity from the ascended Lord. Now verse 13.
(Paul)
See, through Paul’s teaching is how we have the further revelation of who Jesus Christ really is. Only Paul shares "for as by one man sin entered and death by sin." Now verse 16 again.
"To reveal his Son in me, (Paul) that I might preach him among the heathen; (Gentiles)
Consequently, since Paul is going to be a designated apostle to whom God is going to reveal things that have never been revealed before, the Lord isn’t going to muddle Paul’s brain by sending him back to Jerusalem and checking in with Peter, but instead God sent him in another direction. Galatians 1:17
I Thessalonians 4:1b
Well, this is what Paul is talking about, that as a believer we are to walk and to please God so that you would abound and grow in Grace and knowledge more and more.

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