WHILE WE WAIT (1 THESSALONIANS): Keep It Up!
Message Date: 3/17/24
Speaker: Pastor Renee Hidalgo

Happy 9 th Birthday, CLife!

1 Thessalonians 5:18
In

give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day.
There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year.
There are 283,824,000 seconds in 9 years!!!
God has been faithful every single second of Community Life Church!

In the closing section of 1 Thessalonians, Paul has

still left to say!

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28
12  Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among
you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you.  13  Hold them in the highest
regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other.  14  And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive,

the
disheartened, help the weak, be

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with everyone.  15  Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

16 

always,  17 

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continually,  18  give

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in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
19  Do not quench the Spirit.  20  Do not treat prophecies with contempt  21  but test them all; hold on to what is good,  22  reject every kind of evil.
23  May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your
whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  24  The one who calls you is

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, and he will do it.
25  Brothers and sisters, pray for us.  26  Greet all God’s people with a holy

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.  27  I charge you before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters.
28  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Many of Paul’s letters were filled with corrections and rebukes…but not 1 Thessalonians!

1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally, dear brothers and sisters, we urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live in a way that pleases God, as we have taught you. You live this way already, and we encourage you to do so even more.

CLife:

*Live in a way that pleases God…
*You live this way already…
*Do so even more…
*KEEP IT UP!

In the last 9 years, 172 people have been baptized at CLife.

Vs. 13: Live in

with one another…

Vs. 14: Encourage the

… Help the

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…
Vs. 14: Be

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with everyone…
A testimony to this is the ESL Classes that CLife is currently
offering!
Vs. 16, 17, 18:
Rejoice always…
Pray continually…
Give thanks…
Camp 2016 = 3 campers
Camp 2023 = 150 campers
College Ministry started in the last year… Rejoice, Pray, Give
Thanks…

Brothers & Sisters

Vs. 12: Now we ask you,

and sisters…
Vs. 14: And we urge you, brothers and

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…
Vs. 25: Brothers and sisters,

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for us…

KEEP IT UP!

1 Thessalonians 5:26
Greet all God’s people with a holy

…

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24,28
May God himself, the God of

, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is

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, and he will do it. The grace of our

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Jesus Christ be with you.

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https://bible.com/p/65442182/1c9dd27c17bd030f43deb669d11ffc5e