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1 Thessalonians 1:3
3 Remembering [mnemoneuo] without ceasing [adialeiptos] your [humon] work [ergon] of faith, [pistis] and [kai]labour[kopos] of love, [agape] and [kai] patience [hupomone] of hope [elpis] in our [hemon] Lord [kurios] Jesus [Iesous] Christ, [Christos] in the sight [emprosthen] of God [theos] and [kai] our [hemon] Father; [pater]KJV-Interlinear
3 constantly bearing in mind your
work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus
Christ in the presence of our God and Father, NASB
The believers in Thessalonica, were strong in their spiritual pursuit as
indicated here through Pauls words.
Their work of faith
indicates their strength of confidence in doctrine and of the unseen God that
they had only heard about, and not speculation or beliefs of convenience or invention.
Their labor of love,
since love represents the content of doctrine, indicates their consistency in their
studying and learning of the scriptures, and their understanding of what they
are studying. Not enticements of charm
or lofty words of human promises.
Their steadfastness of
hope compliments their faith in that they look to God with confidence for
things that are real and secure in life, and not for things that are simply
wishes or unreasonable expectations.
Spiritual maturity is
the acceptance of one s circumstances in this world, and the process of working
through your circumstances by means of the doctrinal viewpoint.It is not the wish of immediate relief in the
hope for the Rapture, or being whisked off to heaven in order to escape the
trials of this world, such that you do not have to face them.
Much of the spiritual
growth process comes from your experiences in this world, and how you respond
or react to them.
Whether in prosperity
and forgetting God, or in adversity and crying out to God, when you have
established a pattern of ignoring God throughout your life, or whether in
prosperity and placing God before your blessings, or in adversity and looking
to God with confident assurance, then your approach to God in your spiritual
life is established by your own attitude and thinking.
Your lifestyle pattern
is that which you have chosen to follow regardless of your circumstances.And your chosen pattern is that which
establishes your spiritual life, or lack of it.
With spiritual
resources, you are well able to face any and all circumstances that life can
throw your way.Without spiritual
resources, prosperity will lead you astray and adversity will find you helpless
and without Gods help.
Jesus Christ is our one
and only link to God the Father.God the Father is the ultimate target of all
religion and philosophy, who reject Christ as their path to Him.
Thus mans arrogance
(the will of dust) rejects Gods rules (infinite truth and power) and makes mans
rules (the power of dust) as an equal to those of God (the infinite essence of
God).
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Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth.
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