Chapter 4

1 Thessalonians: Chapters -1- -2- -3- -4- -5-

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4:1 Finally, then, brothers and sisters, we implore and encourage you inside of the Lord Jesus, that, just as you have received from us the manner in which it is necessary for you to walk and to please God, just so now you should walk and abound even more. 2 For you are aware what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. • 3 For God’s desire [h] is that you be made Devoted [by God], that you stay away from sexual immorality; 4 that you be aware how each of you should win his own vessel inside of purity, devotion, and honor, 5 not in the passions of unmoderated desire like the ethnic peoples who are not aware of God. 6 Do not go beyond or overreach in the matter of your brother, because the Lord is a just advocate all around all these things, just as also we told you before and gave full evidence. 7 For God has not called us upon impurity, but inside of devotion. 8 So then, the one disregarding this, disregards, not man, but God, the One who gives His Spirit Devoted into you.

• 9 Now, concerning brotherly love, you have no need for me to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God into loving one another. 10 For you are doing this into all the brothers and sisters, the ones in all Macedonia. We encourage you, however, brothers and sisters, to abound more and more, 11 and to seek after quiet rest and each to practice his own, to work with your own hands, just as we entreated you, 12 so that you may walk in good form towards those outside and that you might have need of no one.

13 We do not want you to be ignorant, brothers and sisters, concerning those who have died, so that you should not be grieved, as the rest of those having no hope. • 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God will carry those who have died, in joint-togetherness with Him, through Jesus. 15 For this we declare to you inside of the word of the Lord, that we who live and remain into the presence of the Lord, shall not arrive ahead of those who have died, • 16 because the Lord Himself, in a great shout, in the voice of an archangel, and in the trumpet of God, will descend out from heaven, and the dead inside of Christ will rise first. 17 Then, we who live and remain, right along with them, will be seized inside the clouds into the meeting, connecting with the Lord into the air; • and so, we will always be jointly-together with the Lord [sharing the same form] (i). 18 Therefore, encourage and comfort one another in these words.

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Gospel Comments	Notes
• Definition: Devotion places our eyes upon God, the One to whom we are devoted. It is our reciprocity to God, returning to Him what He first gives to us. • Ruling Verse 8: We love one another only as God personally teaches us of Himself. God alone is Love, and we are able to love only inside the continual acknowledgement of the Father sharing with us our relationships together inside the Church. Then, as we acknowledge God as Love among us, so our love for one another increases and abounds. • Kingdom: The Gospel continually references Jesus present here and now, that all Christians live inside the presence of God, inside the Most Devoted (See Hebrews 10:21-22). Here inside of God, we strengthen our hearts blameless, for God alone removes sin; God alone makes us pure. Our part is to believe and to place all of ourselves, even our sin and our shame, through faith into God. Our devotion to God is then the reciprocal return to the Father of God’s Devotion first given to us. This reciprocal Devotion is God’s Path through us to become Life to all, the Kingdom. • Definition: Heaven is not a geographical location somewhere else. Heaven is the realm of spirit, vitally connected to earth in all ways. All humans live in heaven and earth together at the same time. Our human spirit is “heaven” and the physical part of our body is “earth.” When the two are split apart, death happens (See James 2:26). In like manner, “air” is a metaphor of spirit, a picture of the heavens in which all live. • Definition: Paul asserts that we together are the literal body of the Lord Jesus, His Spirit-Physic form forever towards all earthly and all heavenly. The phrase “down out from heaven,” does not reference a separated Jesus, for all believers, with earth bodies or not, are jointly together with Him, sharing the same form. It references, rather, the Unveiling of Jesus as He is.	h. The Greek word thelema is always translated as desire when referencing humans, but “inflexible will” when referencing God (unless the translators want you to believe that it’s not). But God does not sin, that is, He does not force Himself on anyone, and thus I am convinced that the Spirit is always referencing God’s desire and intention. God’s desire shared with us is a movement together towards His purpose, not an iron “will” serving only as a barrier. i. Paul has not yet invented the word “symmorphosed,” sharing the same form, but he begins to insert the prefix “sym” utterly together with what Jesus is.

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Notes

• Definition: Devotion places our eyes upon God, the One to whom we are devoted. It is our reciprocity to God, returning to Him what He first gives to us.

• Ruling Verse 8: We love one another only as God personally teaches us of Himself. God alone is Love, and we are able to love only inside the continual acknowledgement of the Father sharing with us our relationships together inside the Church. Then, as we acknowledge God as Love among us, so our love for one another increases and abounds.

• Kingdom: The Gospel continually references Jesus present here and now, that all Christians live inside the presence of God, inside the Most Devoted (See Hebrews 10:21-22). Here inside of God, we strengthen our hearts blameless, for God alone removes sin; God alone makes us pure. Our part is to believe and to place all of ourselves, even our sin and our shame, through faith into God. Our devotion to God is then the reciprocal return to the Father of God’s Devotion first given to us. This reciprocal Devotion is God’s Path through us to become Life to all, the Kingdom.

• Definition: Heaven is not a geographical location somewhere else. Heaven is the realm of spirit, vitally connected to earth in all ways. All humans live in heaven and earth together at the same time. Our human spirit is “heaven” and the physical part of our body is “earth.” When the two are split apart, death happens (See James 2:26). In like manner, “air” is a metaphor of spirit, a picture of the heavens in which all live.

• Definition: Paul asserts that we together are the literal body of the Lord Jesus, His Spirit-Physic form forever towards all earthly and all heavenly. The phrase “down out from heaven,” does not reference a separated Jesus, for all believers, with earth bodies or not, are jointly together with Him, sharing the same form. It references, rather, the Unveiling of Jesus as He is.

h. The Greek word thelema is always translated as desire when referencing humans, but “inflexible will” when referencing God (unless the translators want you to believe that it’s not). But God does not sin, that is, He does not force Himself on anyone, and thus I am convinced that the Spirit is always referencing God’s desire and intention. God’s desire shared with us is a movement together towards His purpose, not an iron “will” serving only as a barrier.

i. Paul has not yet invented the word “symmorphosed,” sharing the same form, but he begins to insert the prefix “sym” utterly together with what Jesus is.