To have the divine riches contained in the word of the Lord released and expressed in the believers' living.
To have the divine riches contained in the word of the Lord released and expressed in the believers' living.
Lit., toward.
By eternal comfort and good hope (2 Thes. 2:16-17).
The entire world lies in the evil one (1 John 5:19), but the divine life, which we have by being born of God, keeps and guards us from him (4, 1 John 5:18; 3:8-9).
2 Thes. 3:6, 10, 12; 1 Thes. 4:2, 11
Such as the charges in 1 Thes. 4:2-4, 9-12; 5:11-22; 2 Thes. 2:2, 15; 3:6, 10, 12-15.
I.e., to love God with the love of God that we have enjoyed and experienced.
Our love toward God, issuing from the love of God (1 John 4:19) that has been poured out into our hearts.
I.e., to endure with the endurance of Christ that we have enjoyed and experienced.
On the positive side, we need to enjoy the love of God that we may love Him in order to live for Him, and on the negative side, we need to participate in the endurance of Christ that we may endure sufferings, as He did, to stand against Satan, the enemy of God. Loving God and enduring sufferings are excellent characteristics of a Christian living.
See note 141 in 1 Thes. 5. Cf. vv. 7, 11. To walk disorderly not only is according to the flesh (Rom. 8:4) but also is against the building up of the church life (1 Thes. 5:11; Rom. 14:19; 1 Cor. 10:23).
See note 21 in 1 Cor. 11.
The apostles were for the building up of the church in all things (2 Cor. 12:19); they were absolutely not disorderly among the believers but were a pattern for the believers to imitate (v. 9).
2 Cor. 11:7, 9; 12:13-14, 16
1 Cor. 9:4, 6, 12
Phil. 3:17; 1 Pet. 5:3; cf. 1 Thes. 1:7
They were busy but were doing no work at all; i.e., they were busy with only what was not their own business.
cf. 2 Thes. 3:8
I.e., not to have company, not to keep company.
1 Thes. 5:12, 14; cf. Matt. 18:15; Lev. 19:17
By keeping the charge in vv. 12-15, the believers receive peace from the Lord continually in every way.
It is only when the Lord is enjoyed by us as grace that we can guard the church life from any kind of misleading and disorderliness. To live a proper church life and to keep the church life in order, we need to enjoy the Lord as the supplying grace. See note 1 Thes. 5:281a.