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Send us Fan Mail 1 Corinthians, Chapter 14 - Operation of the Gifts 1 Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. 2 For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries. Important instruction – pursue love (this must be our motive) We learned the important of love in chapter 13, o...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 5 The Day of the Lord 5  Now as to the periods and times, brothers  and sisters , you have no need  of anything  to be written to you.  2  For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord is coming just like a thief in the night.  3  While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction will come upon them like labor pains upon a pre...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13 The Excellence of Love 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Corinthians 12 Don’t be ignorant concerning Spiritual Gifts Preparation 1 Cor 1 – we learned humility & about God’s power and wisdom through grace (Grace & Peace) 1 Cor 2 – not through eloquence or wise words but in demonstration of the (Power of the Spirit) 1 Cor 3 – All things are ours, we should be building on a strong foundation (Kingdom view) 1 Cor 4 – We are servan...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Thessalonians 3 1 Therefore, when we could no longer endure [it,] we thought it best to be left behind, alone at Athens, 2 and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you for the benefit of your faith, Therefore refers back to what happened in Chapter 2 We learned Paul wants to revisit Thessalonica after he h...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4 Plea for Purity 4  Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;  2  for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3  For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorali...

Send us Fan Mail 2 Thessalonians, Chapter 3 Study notes (2004) 2 Thessalonians Chapter 3:14 Class instruction: Choose a verse that you want nothing to do with from chapter 3. 2Th 3:14 If anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take special note of that person and do not associate with him, so that he will be put to shame. Observation Interpretation Application Does not obey our instru...

Send us Fan Mail Philemon Chapter 1 Salutation 1  Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved  brother  and fellow worker,  2  and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:  3  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philemon is one of the four prison epistles written by Paul. It’...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Thessalonians 1  - Praying for people by name with full conviction 1  Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. Paul means small or little = humility; however his Hebrew name Saul means “asked for” or “requested” Silvanus means wood, woods or forest or rooted and also “asked for” Timothy m...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Corinthians Chapter 11 – The Lord’s Supper 1 Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ. A bit about Paul 2 Cor 11:23 …more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death. 24 Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Corinthians, Chapter 10 The Cloud and the Rock 1 For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea; 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 and all ate the same spiritual food; 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them;...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Corinthians, Chapter 9 Grace gives us the liberty to win the race; we must train to win souls (and run for the prize). Intro to Outbless.com Outbless.com outro encourage others

Send us Fan Mail 1 Corinthians Chapter 7 Celibacy or Marriage 1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. 3 The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Corinthians, Chapter 6 Lawsuits Discouraged 6 Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and not before the saints? 2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to form the smallest law courts? 3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more m...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Corinthians, Chapter 5 Sexual Immorality Rebuked 5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, namely , that someone has his father’s wife. 2 You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst. It is ac...

Send us Fan Mail Study notes  II Thessalonians Chapter 1 2Th 1:1 Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:  Paul, a.k.a. Saul of Tarsus asked for King Paul Servant Chief of Sinners Roman Citizen Greek Legal Rights Jew of Jews Gamaliel 2Th 1:2 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  2Th 1:3 We ought...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Corinthians, Chapter 4 1. Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2. In this case, moreover, it is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy. - In what manner? “as servants of Christ” – a servant is “one who serves a Master Are we Christ’s servants? And” stewards of the mysteries of God – what are the mysteries of...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Corinthians, Chapter 3 (Infants or Men) 1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, 3 for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and a...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Corinthians, Chapter 2 Preaching not by wisdom but demonstrating the power of God 1 And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. What is superiority of speech? (fancy speech; lots of big words; man’s wisdom) Who comes using superiority of speech today? (false prophets; politicians; con men) Any...

Send us Fan Mail 1 Corinthians Chapter 1 - The Family of God 1Cr 1:1 Paul, called as an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, 1Cr 1:2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling, with all who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours: Notice that Paul was an apost...

3 John 1 - A Good Report 1 The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth. -          The elder is John the Apostle who is about 90 years old at this point. -          To the beloved Gaius (Gaius means Happy or One who rejoices) -          Whom I love in truth (John loved him because he served the Lord which is why he was happy and rejoicing. 2 Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may pr...

2 John 1 1 The elder, To the lady chosen by God and to her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I only, but also all who know the truth— 2 because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever: 3 Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love. 4 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking...

1 John 5 - Faith in the Incarnate Son of God 5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes t...

1 John 4 - On Denying the Incarnation 4 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. T...

3 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,[ a ] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope...