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1 Thessalonians 5:23-28 Exploring The Way


1 Thessalonians 5:23-28 May the God of peace himself make you entirely pure and devoted to God; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept strong and blameless until that day when our Lord Jesus Christ comes back again.

God, who called you to become his child, will do all this for you, just as he promised.

Dear brothers, pray for us.

Shake hands for me with all the brothers there.

I command you in the name of the Lord to read this letter to all the Christians.

And may rich blessings for our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, every one.

Sincerely, Paul

1 Corinthians 10:1-14 FOR WE MUST never forget. dear brothers, what happened to our people in the wilderness long ago. God guided them by sending a cloud that moved along ahead of them; and he brought them all safely through the waters of the Red Sea.

This might be called their "baptism" --baptized both in sea and cloud!-- as followers of Moses-their commitment to him as their leader.

And by a miracle God sent them food to eat and water to drink there in the desert;

they drank the water that Christ gave them. he was there with them as a mighty Rock of spiritual refreshment.

Yet after this most of them did not obey God, and he destroyed them in the wilderness.

For this lesson we are warned that we must not desire evil tings as they did,'

nor worship idols as they did. (The Scriptures tell us, "The people sat down to eat and drink and then got up to dance" in worship of the golden calf.)

Another lesson for us is what happened when some of them sinned with other men's wives, and 23,000 fell dead in one day.

And don't try the Lord's patience--they did,-- and died from snake bites.

And don't murmur against God and his dealing with you, as some of them did, for that is why God sent his Angel to destroy them.

All thees things happened to them as examples--as object lessons to us-- to warn us against doing the same things; they were written down so that we could read about them and learn from them in these last days as the world nears its end.

So be careful. If you are thinking, "Oh, I would never behave like that"--let this be a waning to you. For you too may fall into sin.

But remember this--the wrong desires that come into your life aren't anything new and different. Many others have faced exactly the same problems before you. And no temptation is irresistible. you can trust God to keep the temptation from becoming so strong that you can't stand up, against it, for he has promised this and will do what he says. He will show you how to escape temptation's power so that you can bear up patiently against it.

So, dear friends, carefully avoid idol-worship of every kind.