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Today is Tuesday December 8, 2009 and we are studying the book of II Thessalonians, please read chapters 1-3

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Today's Message: Spiritual Battle
We are in a constant spiritual battle between doing what God and Satan wants us to do, but by the grace of God we can overcome Satan's deception.

The book of II Thessalonians is the 14th book of the New Testament, 53rd book of the Bible and contains 3 chapters. The author of the book (epistle) is Paul and this was the second letter written to the church at Thessalonica. The purpose of the letter was to instruct believers awaiting for the return of Jesus. What we are to learn is that it is important to teach and live by the sound doctrine of the Bible.

There are two events that everyone in the world must face, death and judgment when the return of Jesus takes place. It is a devastating fact that the vast majority of mankind is blindly heading toward hell. Good people, including many family and friends are ignorantly ignoring the call to receive Jesus into their lives and sadly will suffer greatly if they do not come to the realization without Jesus God does not know who they are, no matter how much praying or how faithful they are to church. Paul continues, "Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ." - II Thessalonians 1:6-10. When our physical body dies it is not over, we must first go before God and anyone not found written in the book of life will not join Him in heaven and will suffer greatly. The only way to avoid this is by accepting Jesus Christ as our Savior.

Much of the world has it's heart set on gaining more and more of this life's material luxuries, they are never satisfied with what they have, and always longing for more and more of what they really do not need. When they can not meet these expectations fears and frustrations grow as a result of their inability to cope adequately with situations they can not change, which then leads to things like physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion, depression, and burnout. “For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: ” - II Thessalonians 2:7-11. People will do and believe anything in order to feel some sort of relief as it is much easier to believe a lie than to believe the truth. I will tell you that I know this to be a fact, there was a time in my life when I wanted to taste what the world had to offer and I fell right into it, oh I was happy for a little while, but it did not last and I was always looking for something to make me happy again. This lead me to a relationship that I did not need as well as getting caught up in somethings that I really did not need. I was delusional and believing all the lies that I thought were truths. However, God picked me up and got me to see the truth and I am alive today only because of that.

We need to remind ourselves daily that we are in a spiritual battle against satanic forces, but through God's grace we are saved and comforted by the Lord Jesus Christ. “Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.” - II Thessalonians 2:14-17. Take a stand right now to live for Jesus and never let anyone talk you out of it, life is hard enough as it is without having to go through it alone. We do not have to be alone, we can get through every situation with the hope and comfort of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Have a wonderful and blessed day/night and Merry Christmas.
God Bless You,
Christina

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