2 THESSALONIANS 3 Grace Bible Church of Pullman

2 THESSALONIANS 3 Grace Bible Church of Pullman Pastor-Teacher, Ron Mc. Murray

� 2 Thessalonians 3 - Exhortations to prayer and discipline in studying the Word of God. � � 3: 1 -5 Paul’s confidence in preparation for encounter 3: 6 -10 – Commands of Paul � 3: 11 -15 Rebukes for negative volition/separation � 3: 16 -18 Concluding statements

� 3: 1 “Finally brethern pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified just as it did also with you. ” � PROSEUCHESTHE – PMImpv – command to pray for them due to the pressure and opposition that Paul is receiving while in Corinth. � People who care and grace oriented spend time in prayer for other believers. LOGOS TOU KURIOU TRECHE – PASubj means to keep running in a stadium, triumphant career of running. �

� Principle: When people are praying then others will hear the gospel, be saved, and God is glorified. � DOXAZO – PPSubj to receive glorification. � Paul faced problems everywhere he went but through the prayers of others he continued to preach the gospel and establish churches. � As a result God is glorified by praying believers and by the continued work of missionaries.

� 3: 2 “and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil men, for not all have faith. ” � RUOMAI – APSubj to be rescued, delivered � APO TON ATOPON KAI PONERSON ANTHROPON- from the ultimate source of perverse, outrageous, harmful and evil men ( who reject the gospel of Christ and attack missionaries). � Unbelieving Jews and Gentiles tried to stop the spread of the gospel ( Acts 16: 19 -24, 1 Thess 2: 15, 2 Thess 1: 8 ).

� Unbelieving Jews in Corinth tried to stop Paul’s ministry as he preached in the synagogues. ( Acts 18: 5 -6, 12 -13 ) � Sometimes evil men are reversionistic believers involved in the cosmic system who have rejected sound doctrine. 1 Timothy 1: 20 � OU FAR PANTON HE PISTIS – ‘for not all men have the faith’, unbelieving Jews of Corinth. � The gospel of Christ is a threat to those who have rejected it and accepted evil doctrines.

� The angelic conflict rages against those who spread the gospel and tell others about sound doctrine. � Paul and his team were a priority one target for they taught the Biblical Gospel The Doctrine of the Biblical Gospel � 1. Definition. To define the gospel you must look at the Greek word — EUAGGELIA � EUAGGELIA is compounded: EU means good; AGGELOI means message or news. � The gospel, then, by definition is some kind of good news: the communication of doctrines of salvation.

� 2. The boundaries of the gospel — 1 Corinthians 15: 1 -4. a. The first boundary is the fact that Christ died for our sins, and “according to the scriptures” refers to the Old Testament. It is taught in the Old Testament as well as in the New. b. “He was buried” is to indicate that after He died for our sins He died physically. So we have spiritual death; physical death. c. “That he was raised in the third day, according to the scripture. ” So the gospel ends with resurrection. If you go away from the cross you are out of bounds; If you go away from the spiritual and physical death you are out of bounds; If you deny the resurrection you are out of bounds.

� Note that the gospel reveals the fact of sin or the penalty of sin. � These are true doctrines but they are out of the boundary. In other words, when you give the talk about someone’s personal sins (hamartiology) it is not the gospel. � The good news is that Christ did something about it on the cross. � Preaching the gospel is the explanation of salvation in terms of redemption (purchased from the slave market of sin) , reconciliation (brought near to God), and propitiation (God is satisfied with Christ’s work on the cross paying for sins).

� The boundaries of the gospel run from the death of Christ for our sins to the resurrection of Christ. Those are boundaries. Anything else added or taken away is NOT THE GOSPEL. � 3. The enemy of the gospel — 2 Corinthians 4: 3, 4. Satan is the enemy of the gospel and he offers hundreds of false gospels (all the religions of the world system). � 4. Usage of the word “gospel. ” Gospel is often used with other words. It is used with adjectives, participles, with all kinds of words.

Therefore there are words with most contexts which describe certain emphases of the gospel. For example: a) We have “the gospel of Christ” in Romans 1: 16, 17. This is emphasis on the person of the gospel. b) We have the “gospel from the glory” in 1 Timothy 1: 11. This gives us the source of the gospel which is the essence of God. The gospel from the glory does not come from a church, organization, or any human being.

c) We have “my gospel” or “our gospel” as in 2 Timothy 2: 8; 2 Corinthians 4: 3, 4. This emphasizes the fact that the gospel is the same but it belongs to us as believers. We possess it, therefore we propagate it which means, for those of you who went to public school, we spread it around. d) We have in Ephesians 6: 15 “the gospel of peace. ” This is not a different gospel but the emphasis in this passage is on doctrine and the doctrine is reconciliation (bringing us near to God).

� e) We have “the gospel of the Kingdom, ” the same gospel exactly, found in Matthew 24: 14. � It emphasizes the fact that the unconditional covenants to Israel (Abrahamic, Davidic, New, Palestinic ) are only fulfilled to those Jews who believe in Christ or appropriate the gospel. That is why it is called the gospel of the kingdom. f) In Revelation 14: 6 we have “everlasting gospel, ” which is the same gospel but the emphasis is on the preparation for eternity. All of these have the word “gospel” but they have defining words, emphasizing words. The content of the gospel never changes but the emphasis of the gospel changes with the defining words in context.

5. The attitude toward the gospel is found in Romans 1: 16. What is the right attitude toward the gospel found in Romans 1: 16? 6. The emphasis of the gospel — 1 Corinthians 1: 17. Salvation is not by water baptism even as salvation is not by keeping the law ( “Not in cleverness of speech”). When you get clever about the gospel you void the power of the cross. Phrases such as “inviting Jesus into your heart”, “pleading the blood”, “confessing your sins”, “making Jesus the Lord of your life”, voids the gospel.

7. The place for the gospel — Romans 15: 20. Proselytizing (stealing people from one church to attend yours ) is not preaching the gospel. 8. The gospel without charge — 2 Corinthians 11: 7 -8. 9. There is a false gospel — Galatians 1: 8 (deals with adding circumcision and ritual keeping to make sure you get saved, remain saved, or prove that you are saved ). 10. The gospel belongs to the Old Testament — Galatians 3: 8, “preached to Abraham”, says that Old Testament people were saved the same way you are, by faith in Jesus Christ, although they called him Jehovah or Yeshua.

� 11. The gospel is revealed by the Holy Spirit — 1 Peter 1: 12. � 3: 3 “ but the Lord is faithful and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one. ” � PISTOS DE ESTIN HO KURIOS – but faithful is the Lord. � This is the assurance Paul offers the Thessalonian believers and to us. � We are strengthened and protected from Satan.

The Doctrine of God’ Faithfulness 1. God is faithful in rebound — 1 John 1: 9 This means He is always faithful to forgive us our known sins, the sins we confess, and at the same time to forgive us the sins we did not know were sins. 2. He is faithful to us under conditions of testing — Corinthians 10: 13. 1 3. God is faithful in provision — 1 Thessalonians 5: 24. 4. God is also faithful in protecting us — 2 Thess 3: 3.

5. God is faithful in the believer’s unfaithfulness — 2 Timothy 2: 13. 6. God is faithful in keeping His promises — Hebrews 10: 23. 7. God is faithful in following His plan — 1 Corin. 1: 9. “protect” – STERIZO – FAIndic - to set is a certain position or direction. It also means to be mentally stabilized, to be firmly established, to be firmly supported by something. This is accomplished through Bible doctrine. � The progressive future tense means that the action of the verb will be fulfilled progressively in future time.

� “strengthen” - FAIndic of PHULASSO – guard or preserve. � As you continue to grow to greater grace you come to the place of being preserved from evil. You are guarded by doctrine in the soul. � As you respond to doctrine and reach the greater grace life the more doctrine you have in your soul the more you are guarded from evil in life, and doctrine becomes the guard in your soul. � “from evil” — PONEROI means “the evil one. ” This is Satan who rules the world. The greatest defense you have against Satan is Bible doctrine in the soul.

Doctrine of Satan’s Strategy Toward the Believer � 1. The general principle is established by 2 Corinthians 2: 11. Satan’s strategy is to accuse every believer — Zechariah 3: 1, 2; Job 1: 6 -11; Revelation 12: 9, 10. � 2. It is the strategy of Satan to persuade the believer to ignore the Word of God, to be negative toward it. � This is done is three specific ways in the scripture. : - To be disobedient to the Word and the authority involved in teaching it — Genesis 2: 17; 3: 4. - To do this by worry and anxiety — 1 Peter 5: 7 -9. - By ignoring doctrine that you have learned — 1 Chron 21: 1.

� 3. To entice the believer from the will of God: the operational will of God, the geographical will of God, and the mental will of God — 2 Corinthians 2: 11. � 4. To destroy the believer’s focus. He does it in three ways: - to get your eyes on self — 1 Corinthians 1: 10, 11; 1 Kings 19: 10; Matthew 26: 31 -35; - to get your eyes on other people — Genesis 19: 28; 20: 1; - to get your eyes on things — Hebrews 13: 5, 6.

5. To frighten believers with regard to death. This is only counteracted by the whole principle of dying grace and all that is involved in it — Hebrews 2: 14, 15. � 6. To infiltrate the believer’s right lobe with religion (distraction by legalism, rituals, tradition, church codes that are not Biblical such as dress codes or eating and drinking codes, etc. ). � 7. To involve believers in temporal solutions to man’s problems so that divine solutions are excluded or ignored — the social action concept, becoming involved, helping the downtrodden. This is a result of reversionism in the soul.

Examples: Organizations that build schools, hospitals, medical clinics in demon controlled nations and never give the gospel of Christ. Nothing is ever spiritually accomplished. Now you have demon controlled people getting good medical care or being educated without the benefit of hearing the Gospel of Christ. � 3: 4 “and we are persuaded in the Lord concerning you, that you are doing and will do what we command. ” — the principle of spiritual confidence in the Christian life.

� “And we have confidence” — Pf AIndic – PEITHO – to be persuaded, confidence from faith, obedience. � Confidence comes from knowing what it is all about, orienting to the situation in life. This type of confidence comes from the greater grace life. Under the principle of the greater grace life the apostle Paul has confidence in every situation in life. He has doctrine in his soul and he knows how things should go in any situation. � � �

� “in the sphere of the Lord” – state of Paul’s trust � “will do what we command” – POIEITE KAI POIESETE – you do and will do – Present tense plus future tense. � “which we command you” — PAIndic – PARAGGELLO – command, to notify, to communicate. Paul is going to teach doctrine categorically and they are going to respond to it. � Paul shows his confidence in these believers for they have proven their faithfulness. 1 Thess 4: 2

� Thessalonian track record of faithfulness encourages Paul and his team. � Paul knows the Lord is working in their lives and that encourages him. � 2 Timothy 2: 12 God is able to guard what Paul entrusted to Him… � 3: 5 “and may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ. ” � “The Lord” refers here to God the Father. In the previous verse it refers to God the Son. God the Father is mentioned here in terms of His perfection.

� “direct” AAOptative KATEUTHUNO - means to make straight according to norms or standards. In this case the norms and standards are God’s. � It is God’s objective to move you to a point, namely greater grace. With that in mind the previous command is doctrine moving you to that objective. � “your hearts” — the heart is the mentality of the soul and is the objective for doctrine to reach supergrace.

� � “into the love of God” - the love of God here refers to occupation with the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. If we are going to respond to the love of God then we must have maximum doctrine which is in the greater grace status. � “steadfastness of Christ” — the greater grace life in its perspective toward circumstances in general. � HUPOMONE means patient endurance, maximum faith-rest technique which comes under the greater grace life, maximum use exploitation of doctrine.

� � 3: 6 -10 commands of Paul 3: 6 “Now we command you brethern in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you keep aloof from every brother who leads an unruly life and according to the tradition which you received from us. ” PARAGGELLO – PAIndic – to encourage, put into practice a confidence you have towards someone. “keep aloof” – STELLO – PMInfin – withdraw, stay away from negative volition, separation mentally from someone in false doctrine (no personal friendships with them, no social life with them).

The Doctrine of Separation � 1. There are certain types of carnal believers from which we must separate, e. g. 1 Corinthians 5: 10, 11 from any believer involved in abnormal sex. � 2. Separation from reversionism. Reversionism is negative volition toward doctrine. All miracle seekers and tongue speakers are reversionists — 2 Thessalonians 3: 6, 14, 15; 1 Samuel 22: 1. � 3. Separate from believers who make emotion the criterion for spirituality and maturity. They are going to enter into some system of pseudo spirituality — Romans 16: 17, 18.

� 4. Separation from the fast crowd — 1 Peter 4: 4; Proverbs 1: 10 -19. � 5. Separation from superficial social life and apostate fun crowds — Jeremiah 15: 17. � 6. Separation from unbelievers where doctrine is compromised. (You don’t separate yourself from all unbelievers if they obey Laws of Divine Estab and Divine Institutions). � If a believer marries an unbeliever it is a compromise of doctrine ( 2 Cor 6: 14; Heb. 13: 13).

� If the non believer wants to remain in the marriage then there can be no divorce ( 1 Cor 7 ) unless there is a Biblical reason for divorce ( criminal activity, abandonment, privation, imminent danger to a child or mate, spiritual persecution). � 7. Separation from human viewpoint worldliness — Romans 12: 1, 2. Worldliness is a mental attitude, not something people do. You may work with people influenced by evil so you must mentally disagree or separate from them. �

� 8. Separation from religion and apostasy — 2 Cor 6: 17; 2 Peter 3: 5. � This is a command to separate from believers in reversionism. This does not conflict with commands to love the brethren, such as Romans 13: 8; 1 Peter 1: 22; 2: 17; 3: 8; 1 John 3: 23; 4: 12. � Loving the brethren is a mental attitude only. Your mental attitude toward believers must be minus mental attitude sins. You can separate from these believers and still love them.

� “who leads an unruly life” —PAPtc PERIPATEO ATAKTOI– pattern of unruly life. means to be out of ranks, to be insubordinate. Disorderly is a good translation, or “insubordination. ” � They have rejected the authority of the pastor, Paul’s apostolic authority, the authority of Bible doctrine. Once you observe their reversionism then you are to separate from them. � Thessalonians have not separated from these people because they are under the false concept that love means that you must hang around them.

� “according to the tradition. ” The tradition of the Church is the constant intake of Bible doctrine, advancing toward the tactical victory of the greater grace life. � PARADOSI - means, in addition to tradition, delivery or transmission. The delivery or transmission of the local church is the communication of Bible doctrine. � They can recover from reversionism, but while they are in it separate from them.

� “which he received of us” — PARALAMBANO means to receive through teaching here; not “of us” but “from us. � There is no biblical justification for believers being lazy and refusing to work. � Lazy believers are a disgrace to Christianity. � Paul was a tent maker, Luke was a doctor, Matthew was a government employee, Peter was a fisherman.

� We may be raptured soon but until then we are to go to work and have a good testimony. � We are to separate from those believers who refuse to work by making excuses ( false claim of health problems) and then stay stoned on drugs all day while drawing their welfare or unemployment checks. � We are not to offer financial help to lazy believers for they are reaping what they sow. � Reversionistic and lazy believers expect churches to pay their bills and take care of them.

� Prov 10: 1 -5 contrast between wise man and a fool. � Passages that deal with a lazy man – Prov 19: 15, 20: 4, 23: 21, 24: 30 -34. � Man was created to have a job and work. Gen 2: 5, 3: 19. Idleness is not an option in the plan of God. Doctrine of Idleness 1. Idleness in the Bible deals with an unemployed person although he is capable of working. - Idleness leads to boredom, restlessness, thrill seeking, taking risks, accidents, crime.

2. Idleness is forbidden: - Spiritual realm – Rom 12: 11 not lagging behind in zeal for the work of the Lord. - Heb 6: 12 spiritual sluggishness is a disgrace 3. Believers are to work at jobs to provide for their families and not be idle. 2 Thess 3: 11 4. Idleness leads to apathy. Prov 12: 27, 26: 15

5. Idleness is linked to arrogance for the idle man thinks he is wiser than the hard working man. Prov 26: 16 6. Idleness and laziness lead to: - Poverty – Prov 10: 4, 20: 13 - Lacking – Prov 20: 4, 24: 32 - Hunger – Prov 19: 15, 24: 34 - Bondage to creditors – Prov 12: 24 - Disappointment – Prov 13: 4, 21: 25 - Ruin – Prov 24: 30 -31, Eccl 10: 18 - Meddling in other people’s business – 1 Tim 5: 13

7. Idleness has economic results that affects your future for not working your vineyard leads to overgrowth, weeds. Prov 24: 30 -34 8. The idle man has a mouthful of excuses why he can’t or won’t work for a living. Prov 22: 13 9. In 2 Thess 3, Paul tells the believers to separate from those who are lazy and will not work because they have rejected his teaching. They are a disgrace.

� 3: 7 “ for yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you. ” � “You yourselves know” – Pf. AIndic OIDA used as a present tense for knowledge they do have, something they do understand. � “how ye ought” — DEI – PAIndic- is an idiom for obligation.

� “to follow us” — MIMEOMAI – PAInfin - which means to imitate. It is the basis for the English word “mimic. ” � The infinitive indicates God’s purpose. — “us, ” Paul and his traveling seminary. And how are they to respect his authority? � By following the thing that Paul has done. He has lived under authority and by authority before he exercised authority, and they are to do the same thing.

� “we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you” — ATAKTEO – AAIndic - it means to be insubordinate, disorderly — “we have not been insubordinate, disorderly. ” � 3: 8 — “Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nothing. ” – ESTHIO – AAIndic - “We did not eat” � “for nothing” is an adverb, DOREAN — “as a gift. ” There is no place for moochers in the ministry, or in Christianity. � So Paul goes from the principle of authority to the principle of people who come in order to mooch something.

� “but by means of hard work and travail” — ERGAZOMZI here means to engage in business, wearisome labor. � “that we might not be chargeable to any of you” or, “that we might not be a financial burden. ” � 3: 9 — “But that we might give ourselves to a pattern that you might imitate. ” � “we have not power” — EXOUSIA means authority. In other words, Paul had the authority to come in and take an offering from them.

� “but that we might give ourselves to you as a pattern” — DIDOMI- AASubj- a constantive aorist. Paul was trying to teach them a point they needed. The subjunctive mood is the potentiality of this thing, it isn’t followed everywhere. � “example” is TUPOI- a pattern; “to follow us” or “to imitate us. ” � They are to follow him in three things here: a) Verse 9 teaches the principle of taking advantage of; b) They did not scrounge; c) Authority: they respected authority.

Principle: If you have respect for authority you have respect for the rights and privacy of others 3: 10 - the background for this passage was that someone had sold believers on the story that the Rapture was going to occur at any moment, and they quit their jobs. � We have a reminder here: “For even when we were with you. ” EIMI – Impf Act Indic - Paul has been with them for the purpose of face to face teaching.

� “with you” is “face to face with you” — PROS - face to face teaching and it indicates the fact that face to face teaching is the order of the day for the Church Age. � “we commanded” —Progressive present – PARAGGELLO - means that this was a constant, repeated command, it has the idea of taking charge — “we took charge of you. ” They kept on taking the responsibility for them, for teaching them spiritual things. � “that if any would not work (ERGAZOMAI- PMInfin ), neither should he eat” — “if” is a first class condition; “if any believer would not” —QELO – PAIndic - the function of free will.

� Of their own free will they would not get a job, they would not work for a living. � “neither should he eat” – ESTHIO – PAImpv This is a principle of economy and it is applied here to the local church because a lot of people have simply quit working under the excuse of the Rapture. � 3: 11 — “we hear” – AKOUO – PAIndic - iterative present which means from time to time we hear.

� “some which walk disorderly” — PERIPATEO – PAPtc - believers who do not understand doctrine and have misapplied and distorted the doctrine of the Rapture � It is in the retroactive progressive present, which means these people who have distorted the Rapture are now doing something that they should not do. � They have a manner of life which is contrary to the Word of God. The active voice indicates a segment of believers in reversionism doing this.

� ATAKTOI - a military term meaning out of ranks, insubordinate, out of line. It refers in this case to a distortion of doctrine. � “working not at all” —ERGAZOMAI – PAPtc plus the negative. This is a static present tense to indicate that this continues to be their status. � When people should be working and they are not working they get into trouble.

� “but are busybodies” — PERI-ERGAZOMAI – PAPtc - means to be doing something you shouldn’t be doing. PERI means around; ERGAZOMAI means to work. � Now they are going all around work. This also means to make a business of going around and intruding on the privacy of others. � 3: 12 — referring to these who have quit their jobs, who are loafing, who are meddlers, trouble makers.

� “such” is a dative of disadvantage; “we command” — PARAGGELLO – PAIndic - Here is a present tense using a point of time, like the aorist. ; “command” means orders to get under authority. � “exhort” means to take doctrine and show them the way out of their problem � “that with quietness” — META HSUCHIA - means “accompanied by quietness. ” This means that they need to learn some doctrine. � Learning has to be associated with quietness. They have to, as it were, withdraw from every activity, good or bad, and go on a crash program to learn doctrine.

� “they work” — ERGAZOMAI – PAPtc - customary present, meaning that this should be a routine. � “and eat their own bread” — ESTHIO – PASubj They should make their own living. � 3: 13 - addressed to “brethren” which means believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. � Secondly, it says “be not weary” – EGKAKEO – AASubj - means “do not be discouraged or despondent by the routine of life. ”

� It indicates the fact that to have a routine in life is good, not bad. When people start to loaf they start to become despondent. � The mental attitude of despondency leads to other mental attitudes. The ingressive aorist says do not begin to get this way because when you do you get into this other pattern. � EGKALEO - means to be weary, to be despondent, discouraged, faint-hearted. The general connotation is discouragement.

� Many times we will be discouraged with the idea of going on. There seems to be, just before the believer reaches greater grace, a special test or pressure. � You have to get through this pressure in order to make it, and this pressure can be any one of the reactor factors; disillusion, boredom, discouragement, overcome with self-pity, lonely and not able to handle it, the problem of frustration, mental attitude sins, or special pressure of some kind.

� “in well-doing” KALOPOIEO – PAPtc - means to be in the routine of life. KALOI means noble, so it is noble doing. � God regards what you do for a living as noble function — “stop being weary in noble function. ” The royal priesthood is designed to work for a living. The very principle of being bored means that you are like a bomb. Boredom is the basis for detonating the bomb. � One of the occupational hazards on the way to greater grace is weariness. � Weariness = routine + pressure, or Weariness = normal living without anything unusual or boring living + pressure. �

� If you are going to dedicate yourself to reaching the tactical objective of the greater grace life there is going to have to be a lot of routine, a lot of things that you will not want to do and you will do them. � This is where the apostle takes the Thessalonian believers at the point of verse 13. � He recognizes, first of all, that they are members of the same family that he is. � They are members of the royal family and he tells them not to be weary. He has already warned them about the importance of taking in doctrine.

� These are all designed to give you that final sprint into greater grace, and this is a test that comes maybe once, maybe twice or three times on the road to greater grace. � This is a specific warning about that when you are doing the right thing ( when you are persistent and consistent in the intake of doctrine). � When ever you become involved in one of the reactor factors the first move is generally toward the frantic search for happiness. Therefore the next verse is designed to cut you off from that.

� 3: 14 — “And if any man obey not our word by this epistle. ” These are the people who are on the road to reversionism and who are on the frantic search for happiness. “If” is a 1 st class condition. The word “any man” is “anyone. ” � “obey not” —HUPAKOUO – PAIndic - one of the two major verbs for authority. This is a military terms an it means to be under the authority of someone who is over you as a commanding officer. � The ones who are on the frantic search for happiness always break out of the authority of the pastor-teacher, whoever their right pastor-teacher happens to be.

� � In doing so they get onto emotional revolt. This opens up MATAOITAI valve in the soul and causes the infiltration of false doctrine into the heart or the right lobe. This is a warning against it, and it also indicates that often these people do hang around. � “our word” — note that the authority of the pastorteacher is tied up not only in the spiritual gift but also in what he communicate, Bible doctrine. � In the case of the apostle Paul it is written. With pastor-teachers it is spoken.

� “through this epistle” — part of the Word of God. � “note” — SHMEION – PMImpv - means several things: to put a tag on someone, to make a reconnaissance for the purpose of avoiding. � When you get discouraged, when you have reactor factors in your life, the worst thing you can do is hook up with someone who is on a frantic search for happiness because you will follow them instead of the Word. � It is the tendency of all who become involved in reactor factors to immediately gravitate to and accept the leadership of anyone they know who is on a frantic search for happiness.

� The iterative present indicates that this will happen from time to time. It doesn’t happen all the time but when it does mark out these people for avoidance. � Principle: Troublemakers must always be tagged in your mind avoided. � “and have no company with him” — SUNANAMIGNUMI – PMInfin - When a word this long is used Paul usually has something very important in mind. Means to mix. With the negative it means “do not with again mix with that person. ”

� It means to mix again and again with. In other words, it indicates a very close relationship, it indicates a social life. � It means to have your social life with those who are on the road to reversionism. � Principle: You cannot have social life with born-again believers on the road to reversionism without getting on the same road. � Either doctrine continues to be your criterion and therefore the authority of your right pastor-teacher or on the road to reversionism with someone on a frantic search for happiness.

� The tendencial present tense of SUNANAMIGNUMI means the action is purposed but it hasn’t been taken. � That is wrong with the Thessalonians. This is an action which they should be following and definitely have not. � They have failed to do this. It is also a warning of social unfaithfulness to the Word of God. This is the command of separation. � “that he may be ashamed” - ENTREPO – APSubj means to receive guilt or shame. Ordinarily it means to receive guilt.

� If you cut yourself off from this one whom you have joined on the road to reversionism, then he faces the issue , he will have received shame or guilt. � Shame is a better translation here for the simple reason that the nobility of the priesthood is on the road to greater grace and shame here is the opposite of nobility. � The frantic search for happiness starts to produce shame when this person finds himself cut off from someone whom he admires, whom he loves, and who is not going along for the ride in the frantic search for happiness but instead is going in the direction of doctrine.

� In other words, you subordinate yourself to the Word of God and leave him in the Lord’s hands, and this is the way the Lord deals with that individual. � Guilt or shame is one of the knocking factors. The Lord stands at the door of the reversionist soul and knocks, knocking is through shame. � Verse 15 — “Yet count him not as an enemy. ” HEGEOMAI – PAImpv - Once you have wisdom on the launching pad you make conclusions, so HEGEOMAI means to make conclusions or to have doctrine on the launching pad. � “Conclude” is a better word than “count” here. “Do not conclude that person an enemy. ”

� Tag them for avoidance when it comes to any kind of social relationship but do not tag that person as an enemy. Why? � Because if you as a believer separate yourself from just such a person your tendency is to react against them. � Your reaction against them produces mental attitude sins which are just as bad as hooking up with them in social infidelity to doctrine. � “but admonish” — be careful because admonishing is a form of teaching. NEUTHETEO – PAImpv – NOUS + TITHEMI – to place in the left lobe. � In other words, you don’t go around and talk to these people and tell them they are all out of line, that they’re wrong, and so on.

� But if they solicit information from you the only thing you can do is to put some information in their NOUS , their left lobe. � It does not mean to admonish. , it means to inject information into the left lobe. The iterative present means that this will occur from time to time, it doesn’t occur all of the time. � This is generally accomplished by the pastor-teacher, not members of the local congregation. Do not regard as an enemy but provide information. � “brother” – fellow believer. As a result of this a life of tranquillity emerges.

� Verse 16 — “The Lord of peace, ” refers to God the Father, means here “tranquility. ” � Principle: Before you have happiness you must first of all have tranquility. This is the title of God the Father to show that He does not provide something frantic to counter something frantic. � A frantic search for happiness is a desperate person suddenly trying to get their kicks out of life. Therefore they are subjective in their attitude. They are reacting.

� A principle of doctrine that is very important: If you stay on the road to greater grace you will have tranquility before you have the ecstatic type happiness. � Tranquility must precede any other type of happiness. It actually means that you are now qualified for happiness, you have the true basis for happiness. � So He is called the “Lord of tranquility”- Himself. It is the basis for your greater grace happiness. He has provided in doctrine the basis of tranquility. Tranquility leads to a more pronounced type of happiness.

� “give” —DIDOMI – AAOptative - a culminative aorist. As a result of tranquility in the soul through doctrine. � Tranquility = capacity, capacity through a maximum amount of doctrine. As a result of this tranquility in the soul we have the culminative aorist which emphasizes the results. � As a result of taking in the Word, going through a test or two now and then, you come to the point of tranquility. � God the Father gives you this. In eternity past God gave you these things. � The optative is important, it expresses a personal desire for every believer. It is God’s personal desire for you to have the capacity for blessing so that He can pour the blessing.

� “peace” — EIRON tranquility or +H in the top floor of the ECS. This is the capacity for the happiness that God will provide. � “through all” — DIA plus the genitive singular of PAJ. That means through all your intake of doctrine, not “always. ” � “by all means” - “through all doctrine in all places. ” This indicates that once you reach +H then you can handle any circumstances in life. � “The Lord with you all” — this is the second use of KURIOI, it refers this time to Jesus Christ indwells you when you are on the road to greater grace.

� You always have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, you do not always have the indwelling of Christ. Meta is a preposition of association. � Vs 17 – “ ASPASMOI is used for salutation. It is generally used in the concept of the one who has the authority passing on information or orders to those who are under his authority. � � “mine own hand” indicates that Paul dictated it through a secretary, but it indicates he is signing it which means it is official.

� So this is another way of saying, “This is official and you are under the authority of what has been taught. ” � “which is the token” — EIMI – PAIndic - a retroactive progressive present which means “is and always was a distinguishing mark” — an evidence or proof of authority. � In other words, SHEMION here refers to the sign of authority. Paul’s signature is the sign of authority, the evidence of authority

� Verse 18 — the benediction is again a reminder of the objective in the Christian way of life: “the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. ” � This is not just grace, it is greater grace. It can be translated, “The grace that belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ. ” � “associated with you all. ” That is the objective of the Christian way of life and that is the way that Paul closes out the epistle — by restating the objective. � “Amen” — I believe it.