[:en]LIVING TO PLEASE GOD (vs. 1-12)
Instructions on how to live:
- Be sanctified. Avoid sexual immorality and live a holy life (v. 3)
- Love all the brothers more and more (V. 10)
- Lead a quiet life by minding your own business (v. 11)
- Work with your hands and do not depend on anybody (v. 12)
COMING OF THE LORD (vs. 13-18)
God assures us that the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel, with the trumpet call of God and the dead in Christ wil rise first. After that, we who are still alive wil be caught up together with them in the clouds and meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
Therefore, we need not despair when loved one dies because all believers will be united and live with Christ forever. We will be in God’s presence safe and secure. The promise of resurrection gives us the hope of comfort and encouragement.
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