1 Thessalonians 5



1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 Will be the focus point of this post. 

As soon as I heard what Pastor Greg Laurie was teaching on yesterday, I quickly past over and didn't listen to his sermon. He was teaching on 'The End Times'. I love learning about this topic and what awaits us after but yesterday it just didn't appeal to me; I can't explain why either. Although this morning I decided to listen to his part 2 and I'm so happy I did. 

Pastor Greg Laurie broke it down into three points. 

Number 1 comes from 
So then, let’s not sleep like the others, but let’s stay awake and stay sober. 
1 Thessalonians 5:6
We as Christians should be excited for Christ's return. We should be already prepared for this day as it can come at any moment. 

Number 2 belongs from the first half of verse 8 
'Since we belong to the day, let’s stay sober'
What does it mean to stay 'sober'? We should always have a clear mind and focus on our main goal. What are we really living for? Do not be influenced by anything other than God's will. Stay away from temptation and everything that will lead you away from God. We should live for the day God makes His return and rescues us; His chosen. (Mark 13:27) 

Lastly, number 3; we should suit up! 
The second part of verse 8 says: 
'Wearing faithfulness and love as a piece of armor that protects our body and the hope of salvation as a helmet.' 1 Thessalonians 5:8
People will begin to fall away from God (Mark 13:5). People will claim to be Christ and might led you to false teachings. Always be in the Word for this is our protection and guide. We need to always keep our eyes on God and use our faith to protect us from the worldly things. 

Mark 13 explains what will happen during the end times, which some are happening now! (Mark 13:5-27) We need to be prepared because we do not know when the exact time will come. God gives us warning but it's up to us to be ready! 

If this day were to come tomorrow, when God comes to judge all of us, do you believe you will be one of His chosen? 
I don't doubt my faith but I believe I need to study more and become more clear minded. I am not so positive as to if tomorrow was the day, that I would be the one of His chosen. 
How about you? Are you sure? 
Pray, pray, pray. Ask God to completely change  your life so that you will serve only Him. Ask for His guidance and reassurance. He will walk with you every step of the way. It's just up to us to agree and be fully committed to Christ. It needs to be our desire. 

Pastor Greg Laurie has an alter call at the end of each sermon. His sermons are on his site www.harvest.org and you can read, listen and download his sermons and be a part of one of his alter calls and give your life to Christ. I highly recommend it because I would love to see you in Heaven for eternity! 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

In Prayer

Image
Do you want to grow spiritually?  Of course we do! I do!  Pastor Greg Laurie goes more into depth of prayer while studying The Lord's Prayer in Luke 11.  The basic things are the main things we need to focus on. Stating the most important things are the simplest things. Prayer is communicating and listening to God. In Luke 11 the disciples are asking Jesus to teach them how to pray. Jesus then began ' The Lord's Prayer '.  And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. Luke 11:2 We must pray according to the will of God. We need to ask God to give us the plan for our life. His will for us will be done on this earth, only if we ask.  And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. Luke 11:4 We need to confess our sins, even if we don't believe we have do
Read more

The 'Traditional Family'

Image
Tuesday while listening to Greg Laurie, he said something that really hit home and I began to feel sad, upset, hurt and even a little angry. This is what he said and I quote  "The idea of a traditional family seems to be something of the past. So many broken homes today... We have to visit dad and his new wife and we have to visit mom and her new boyfriend and I have all these new step brothers and sisters and the whole thing is sort of...icky. Uncomfortable. Awkward." -Greg Laurie  Well Pastor Greg, you hit that one spot on. Before he made that quote he addressed that there are broken home in the result of divorce. However, to be in that situation he described doesn't always have to be the result of a divorce. It could simply be the result of ignorance as well!  Growing up, I always told myself I would never have a broken family, and if you have kept up with my blog you have heard that plenty of times.  Well no one ever wants to have a broken family. But for me, that was
Read more

Who Are We?

Image
I listened to a sermon on the 4th and I have been trying to put all my thoughts together to write a post about it because it was so meaningful for me. It helped me realize a lot about myself and my faith. I am still trying to get all my ducks in a row for that post but I just wanted to give a little bit of encouragement. It seems like most sermons preached lately are about this craziness but out of that craziness there is a lot to learn! In Exodus 13-16 we read about how Pharaoh finally let the Israelites out of Egypt. All the Isrealites wanted was to be let go and what was one of the first things they did when they got out of Egypt? They complained. They started complaining about how they 'missed' things from Egypt.  Exodus 16:3 says   The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the  Lord ’s hand in Egypt!  There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food  we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”
Read more