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Shmoop 1 thessa3/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Yet we must not be excessive in our sorrows this is too much like those who have no hope of a better life. Christianity does not forbid, and grace does not do away, our natural affections. Grief for the death of friends is lawful we may weep for our own loss, though it may be their gain. Verses 13-18 Here is comfort for the relations and friends of those who die in the Lord. People often by slothfulness reduce themselves to great straits, and are liable to many wants while such as are diligent in their own business, earn their own bread, and have great pleasure in so doing. Christianity does not take us from the work and duty of our particular callings, but teaches us to be diligent therein. They seldom mind the other exhortation, to be diligent in their own calling, to work with their own hands. Those who are busy-bodies, meddling in other men's matters, have little quiet in their own minds, and cause great disturbances among their neighbours. Satan is busy to trouble us and we have in our hearts what disposes us to be unquiet therefore let us study to be quiet. It is very desirable to have a calm and quiet temper, and to be of a peaceable and quiet behaviour. Those remarkable for this or any other grace, need to increase therein, as well as to persevere to the end. The teaching of the Spirit exceeds the teachings of men and men's teaching is vain and useless, unless God teach. All who are savingly taught of God, are taught to love one another. Verses 9-12 We should notice in others what is good, to their praise, that we may engage them to abound therein more and more. Some make light of the precepts of holiness, because they hear them from men but they are God's commands, and to break them is to despise God. The Lord calls none into his family to live unholy lives, but that they may be taught and enabled to walk before him in holiness. In aspiring after this renewal of the soul unto holiness, strict restraint must be put upon the appetites and senses of the body, and on the thoughts and inclinations of the will, which lead to wrong uses of them. Sanctification, in the renewal of their souls under the influences of the Holy Spirit, and attention to appointed duties, constituted the will of God respecting them. The rule according to which all ought to walk and act, is the commandments given by the Lord Jesus Christ. Verses 1-8 To abide in the faith of the gospel is not enough, we must abound in the work of faith. (9-12) Not to sorrow unduly for the death of godly relations and friends, considering the glorious resurrection of their bodies at Christ's second coming. (1-8) To brotherly love, peaceable behaviour, and diligence.
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