TEXT: 1 Thess 5:12ff

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The Church at Work with Hope
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TEXT 1 Thess 512ff

• Pauls requests to the Thessalonians covers three
  areas of relationships

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With each other

• Appreciate your leaders v12-13
• Who labor among you
• Who have charge over you in the Lord
• Who give instruction/correction
• Know them so that you may pray for them
• Live in peace with one another

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• C. Work at relationships v14
• Admonish the unruly
• Encourage the fainthearted
• Help the weak
• Be patient with all

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II. With the Lord

• Rejoice v16
• Pray v17
• Give thanks v18
• Quench not the Spirit v19

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III. With the truth

• Do not despise the proclamation of the truth v20
• Examine everything v21
• Abstain from appearance of evil v22
• Trust God to make you holy v23
• Promulgate the truth v27