Praying For The Men And Message Of The Gospel

Now we're turning this morning in our Bibles to Second

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Thessalonians chapter 2. And we're going to read from

verse 15 right through to 3:5. So 2nd Thessalonians 2:15 for

those who have just joined us. Let's hear the word of the Lord.

Reading, of course, from the authorized version. 2nd

Thessalonians 2:15. Therefore brethren.

Stand Fast and hold or Traditions, which you have been

taught whether by word or are a pestle.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even Our Father

which of loved us and given us everlasting consolation and

Good. Hope through Greece Comfort,

your hearts and stablish you in every good word and work.

Finally, Brethren pray for us that the word of the Lord may

have free course, and be glorified even as it is with

you, that ye may be delivered from unreasonable, and wicked.

Man, for all men have not Faith, but the Lord is faithful.

Who shall stablish? You and keep you from evil, and

we have confidence in the Lord touching you.

That ye both do and will do the things, which we command you and

the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the

patient wedding of Christ, a mammal of the Lord will stomp

with his own approval. And blessing, this reading of

his own precious and in fallible word, My text this morning has

taken from 2nd Thessalonians and chapter 3 and verse one that

reads. Finally Brethren pray for us

that the word of the Lord by a free course, and be glorified

even as it is with you. Now, I've entitled the theme for

today, praying for the man on the message of the Gospel.

This morning, I want to say Lord bless all the missionaries of

the gospel and the message of the Cross.

Now, it's lovely. Of course to hear the children.

Pray their bedtime prayers. And when they often say their

bedtime prayers, they often in their NSA, offers such prayers

as God bless Mommy and God bless Daddy, and God bless John and

Jimmy, and God bless Jian and And Judith, they name them.

God bless the minister, God bless all the missionaries are

met and I know your Swan derful and I believe that God hears the

prayers of the children and these prayers that were going to

call blanket prayers are okay. There may be short and specific

individual requests but they are blanket prayers and they're

asking God's blessing on these individuals on door.

Groups of individuals. Now if you look at 2nd

Thessalonians chapter 3, verses 1 and 2, the Paul is making

what. I'm calling an overall blanket

request. If you look at verse 1, he says

finally Brethren pray for us and then he gives us three specific

reasons that we can pray for the man and the message of the

Gospel. One, pray that the word of the

Lord may have free course to that.

The word of the Lord, It would be glorified as it runs into the

hearts and minds of men and women just like a dead in the

hearts and lives of the Thessalonians 3, that the

Thessalonians of the Lord's. People would stand strong in the

spiritual battle that they would rely on God's faithfulness.

Why for all man of not fear that you would be delivered from

unreasonable and wicked man. Is he Paul knew that the

born-again believer in thessalonica would Fierce

opposition would in Fierce intense persecution.

He was also fully aware of the presence and power of false

teachers whose teaching was spiritually damaging the church.

And so having exhorted them to stand firm, he directs them to

focus on praying for the man of the Gospel.

I'm for the message of the Cross these men need protection and

help from these. Unreasonable and evil, man,

unless I thought of this tax which could easily be another

motto tax following on from last week, I want to open it up a

little bit. I want to break it into

component constituent parts and I want us to learn the following

things. One there, a prayer request that

his sincere look. The words, finally Brethren pray

for us. The word finally means last of

all, it can mean that, but it also can mean in addition to

you, in other words, Paul is saying to I have said a lot of

things, but here's another thing or here's one more thing,

finally Brethren, you see, he's addressing those who are born

again. Those who are genuinely

converted to Christ, brothers and sisters.

Sisters in the family of God, who have God as their Heavenly

Father, you have Jesus Christ as their lord and savior who are in

dwelt on Born Again by the Holy Spirit.

And it's to these individuals that Paul makes this prayer

request. And I believe this prayer

request and sincerely meant Brethren pray for us.

He repeated that if you look at first Thessalonians chapter 5

1 Thessalonians 5:25

verse 25, he says Thessalonians chapter 5, 25 Brethren pray for

us. This is the second time he had

this request and two years, the number of wetness, the Apostle

Paul is asking for prayer for himself, us includes n But it

includes the man with them Silas and timotheus and others.

They're involved in the work of the Lord.

They want you to notice the specifically he's requesting

prayer. First of all, that's personal

Brethren, pray for us. It includes himself.

They Paul's a great mom. A man with tremendous ability

and intellectual giant apar for leader.

A man who knows the Lord man, who knows the book amount is

gripped with the gospel amount of courage and tenacity, A Good

Man 1. That's true and state hearted to

the cause of Christ. Am I on of tremendous e,

Holiness Vision energy. Amount of prayer and yet he

knows in his heart that he cannot do without the prayers of

others. To me, that's real and amazing.

Paul is a real wonderful amazing man of God.

And yet in humility and honesty, he asked others to pray for him.

It's like he's saying, remember me in prayer.

I don't believe it was a false humility.

This man realizes that he needs personal help.

He needs help off the Lord, he knows the Lord doesn't help him

and intervene and bless them. Nall Paul that attempted to do

all his efforts would be in vain.

You see, it's the spirit that quickeneth.

It's the spirit that gives life. And true godliness does not lie

in a man's ability. True godliness is rooted in

total, dependence on the Lord, and the spirit of the Lord to

work on to bless. So, this is a very personal

prayer. It's also a belief, a partial

request. Notice the word, pray.

He knows. The power of prayer Devane

blessing and help. Only comes as we pray.

Someone has rightly said we can do nothing without prayer.

You see the Lord when he bless us and helps and ground

sustenance. As we pray, he only blesses and

helps and grunts assistance to us and direct proportion. in

regard to True prayer even though the Apostle Paul was a

great Apostle and even though the Thessalonians are just new

converts Paul needed their prayers, he he didn't, As it

were-- rest on toss gifts, he didn't rest and past successes.

He knew that he had to depend on the lord to bless and the Lord

bless through prayer. So this is a powerful request,

isn't it? So sad.

It's sinful. There's a lot of half-hearted

praying today in relation to the work of God Believers.

Sadly who pray and unbelief and they are forgotten, no prayer,

no blessing, little prayer, little blessing, much prayer,

much blood. That's what Andre Murray stood

for and saith Africa, a great revivalist.

You see the more we practice pray, the more God will bless.

That's a Biblical principle. God's blessing and help only

comes an answer to prayer. If I could use a Biblical

illustration and second Kings, chapter 13, we read about King

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Josh. Elisha, the prophet had come

into his room. He told him to take his bow and

his quiver of arroz. A talk to birthday arroz of the

Lord's deliverance and he said to Joe eyes, the Lord is able to

give and Grant, you total Victory and they have

opportunity to express your belief in this total Victory and

seized hold of the promise. I want you to shoot a number of

arroz out your window. How many did you wash?

Should you only shot three? He stopped at three.

He should have emptied, the quiver of six or seven but he

didn't know. We only Stopped at three.

And what did King Joe eyes, get against the enemy.

He got a partial Victory. Why did he only she'ii?

Because he was only half hearted.

He didn't fully believe in the need and the power of God

himself. His heart was not fully in it,

and he only received a partial Victory.

And this year 2023, I won't miss self and I want you to learn the

lesson that the more we pray, the more we will receive the

Blessing of God's divine intervention and help.

Rid of course and his Sovereign, Grace and Mercy.

You see, we need to get a raise in God's ability.

On God's suffering, on God's power on God's Authority.

The prayer meeting. Is the PowerHouse of the church.

We were talking at the week of prayer about the church

gathering for prayer and the church that gathers for prayer

is the True Church of Jesus Christ yet.

So often when we gather for prayer or half-hearted We don't

take the word of God. Seriously, we read these

wonderful promises, but we don't take them seriously.

We don't trust them sufficiently.

And we engage in a little bit of her, we're like the children, a

blanket prayer, Lord bless the missionaries.

Lord bless the minister, Lord blessed, the church, Lord bless

the families. Now that's good too.

As far as it goes, but we need to go further and need to go

deeper. We need to launch out into the

deep though. This year and release into

prayer and ReDiscover the power of Prayer.

I'm going to read again a book written by am binds.

That was lent to me by brother, Ryan.

That's it, volumes bound, and one.

That's a tremendous work on prayer and we need to

ReDiscover, yes, there's a personal request to prayer, but

there's also a powerful request, the word, pray.

Or that we could understand that word.

Praise our God, remission of our sins, ask for specific things

yield ourselves to him because that's what the word pray means.

Could I tell you something else as a practical aspect to this

request? Have you think of the word

brethren? Brethren, pray for us.

Did Paul not pray for himself? Yes.

The prayers of Paul are found in the Bible.

One such wonderful prayer is Ephesians chapter 3 verses 14 to

Ephesians 3:14–21

21. Encourage you to read it.

Study it prayer for yourself, make it your own prayer, and

that's what he once such prayer recorded of Paul in the Bible.

So he didn't pray for himself, but twice, he makes this request

brethren Pray for us. He's asking for the prayers of

the people in thessalonica, and the people in thessalonica.

He was in Corinth, they're just unique inverted, sugar ordinary

Christians, new converts man, woman, young people, boys, and

girls, and as if Paul is saying I'm dependent on you people, To

pray for me. And as you pray, you'll share in

my work. And you'll bring my burdens and

needs before the Lord. And you remember my men astray

as I go forth to spread the word of God.

I'm teach the gospel. Is that not great encouragement?

Ordinary prayers? Do you can't?

The prayers of the children. The prayers of the young people,

the prayers of the mummy and the kitchen at the sink or hanging

out the washing. The prayers of the Liebherr in

the field or in the factory. Lord bless me today in my

family, Lord bless the house of God, the work of God.

Is he your prayers? Too kind and I earnestly Cree of

your prayers for me and my family.

I'm the work of God. Here, we should treasure the

prayers of one another. We should pray for one another

and I attempt to do that on a Sunday morning, we've got the

prayer of adoration And then just before the offering our

after the offering we got the prayer of intercession including

Thanksgiving for the offering and that's very important that

we remember in the in nimes before the Lord.

One after another, not just in a Wednesday night.

But but in a Sunday morning as part of our worship service

because the command of the scripture as Brethren, pray for

us, Now, that's the prayer requests and see her notice.

If you look at our text The Practical reasons that is

significant and he gives three reasons.

Here's the first reason that the word of the Lord may have free.

Course, the word. That is a demonstrative.

If he makes a request, here's the reason for the request, the

chief reason, I'm notice. The reason that he gives It

describes the gospel that the word of the Lord may have free

course. Here's the specific special

mater that he has in mind, the word of the Lord is a reference

to the gospel. I want you to notice what it's

called. The word of the Lord.

What does that mean off the Lord?

It means god is the author of the word.

Coach the producer. The gospel comes from the lord.

It's not a must message that Paul me it up.

It's not a message that other man concoct it.

Together is not something. A kind of books are eight of a

university or eight of some particular Library.

No, it's the word of the Lord, he's the author and the producer

and the maker of that word. And in fact, he calls it in

Romans chapter 1, the gospel of God because it originated with

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him, the gospel didn't originate with mount.

It's the gospel of God. If you also think about the word

of the lord, it's not only the word of the Lord, but it's a

word about the Lord. You see, this message, this word

of the Lord centers, and God's Eternal son.

The Eternal Lord Of Glory. Our Lord Jesus Christ.

He came to Earth. Is Incarnation virgin birth, he

took on him, human flesh. A real true Humanity.

He was born in the fullness of time he lived a sinless life, he

Dade an atoning death in the cross.

Bearing the guilt and Punishment of all who would trust him as

Lord. And Savior bearing, the guilt

and punishment that our sins deserved he died.

He shed his blood and we can come to God and the ground of

the finished work, a substitutionary.

Blood atonement Hebrews, 10 and 12 but this man after he had

offered one, sacrifice for sins. Forever shot down in the right

hand of God. And on the cross.

As he shed his blog, he satisfied Devane Justice.

Do you see him today as your profit the one to teach and tell

you the way of Salvation? Do you see him as your priest?

The one who offered a once and for all sacrifice in your

behalf, the one who know lives in the power of an endless life,

making intercession for you. Do you see him as your king?

On the ground of the finish work.

He now rules over us, he's a king of Greece.

A king of glory, a king of Peace, a king of righteousness,

the one who has power to subdue your enemies and as Prophet

priest and King, God raised him from the dead.

And, you know, lives in heaven and God's right hand in the

Parvin endlessly. And one day is going to return

to this earth and Rule and reign in glory.

So, when Paul talks about the word of the Lord is talking to

put the word about, The lord, it's about the Lord.

Jesus Christ. The Gospel message centers and

ham. And I'm saying this morning.

This beware of substitutions, beware of counterfeits.

Sometimes you'll get a knock on the door, you open it and it's

two men there and they'll tell you, they're from the church of

the Latter-Day scenes, or they'll put that was your

through the door from the see him.

Sooo cold Church. It might be notification about

The Seventh-Day, Adventists move.

Movement. It might even be about the

Jehovah Witnesses. It might even be information

about some new novel extreme Pentecostal church.

That's emerging, the emerging churches, flourishing, Don't

like this. Church will go down the road.

We'll start a new church and then will claim that there's

been a miracle. Some of these didn't realize

from the dead. Somebody who's blamed as myth.

The see that the theme of walked as in the days of Jesus, but you

investigate it and then you discover what's not all about

Christ. It's not christ-centered.

And as you pray a bit more, you discover, well, it's nothing to

do with the true gospel. It's not the word of the Lord,

that's all about him. And him alone.

You see the true gospel is not a perversion.

You see, I hear today this called believe in Jesus and

Jesus will make you healthy and Wealthy like a billionaire or a

millionaire believe in Jesus and be baptized.

As if baptism was the the Gateway into God's heaven.

Believe in Jesus and other good works to that belief.

It's a word about him and him alone exclusively.

As the only grind of Salvation Acts, 4:12 says, neither is

there salvation in any other? For there is no other name under

Heaven, given among men whereby, we must be sieved.

I'll tell you something else. It's a word for him.

It's called the word idea. See that, that the word of the

Lord, the word. That takes us back to God's

eternity. God the father and God the son,

and God, the Holy Ghost and The Trinity of their Parsons Before

Time began before the word was me and entered into a confident,

they agreed to Covenant. It's called The Covenant of

redemption and part of that Covenant between Father Son and

Holy Spirit involved promises that were made by the father.

I'm the spirit to Christ as a reward for has his coming into

the World. And his life of full obedience

and companies and have full Redemption.

And Christ was promised a people for his own inheritance of

people who be with him in heaven, one day, where he is a

people that would form the body of Christ, the bride of Christ,

the household of fear, I want to ask this, are you one of his

people? Well you the hope and assurance

that one day, you'll be with Christ where he is and Heaven.

Are you one of the brothers in Christ?

Are you? One of the sisters?

You see? This is all part of this.

Meaning the word of the lord, it's a word of the lord.

It's a word about the Lord, out of the word for the Lord.

Notice not only the gospel describe but notice the gospel

distributed. It says here in our text.

The word of the Lord may have free.

Course, what does that mean? I want you to think of a runner.

And he's got an open road in front of him. and there's no

obstacles, there's nothing to impede his progress, and it's as

if the gospel Had good legs and it was running into hearts and

Minds. Those are dead and send those

that are darkened and send with no thought.

Fear of God, those who are diseas'd in their factions,

you've no real love for God. And you've got to think of the

gospels, Robert progress in the first century.

I'm not prayer that the gospel, the word of the Lord, May our

free course, and be glorified. It was answered in.

Paul's day, the whole of Asia heard, the word of the Lord, the

whole of Asia was turned upside down. 94, Jesus Christ.

But even in that day there was those who were banned on,

impeding the gospel progress and even as the gospel was

distributed and spread abroad, there was those rules up by the

evil, one to oppose it. And what is true?

Then is true Knight the 21st century we have plenty to impose

and impede the gospel progress, let me illustrate.

I want you to think of homes and carried off fathers and mothers.

They say to the children in regard to some of this school.

No sun disk, don't name the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in this

house. They'll be no Bible here.

You're not be going to the children.

Now these are good parents by and large.

They feed their children to close them, they educate them.

As far as school is concerned filling their minds with

information and they see to it that they have recreational

activities yet loads of Don't Starve and depraved the children

from hearing the Simplicity of the Gospel that Jesus loves

them, that Jesus died to see if the new Jesus calls them to come

unto him. So many Godless and heedless

mommies and daddies and they visit that Godless listeners and

that heedlessness upon the hearts and minds and lives of

the children. I heard a story recently of a

man of the house told us wife and children.

They couldn't get to the house of God, but they were receiving

CDs. They'd got a copy of the Bible.

They got other literature to do. Bible studies that were

listening online. This mom told him there'll be no

religion, here. There'd be no Bibles or Jesus

and the size is, he's a guilty man.

What's he guilty of impeding, the progress of the Gospel to

many young people and their teens Through school University,

went to the work please. And and there's those I'll poke

fun at them. You're a Christian, right?

You can't be serious. Are you?

You go to the free Presbyterian Church for sure?

They're a bunch of bigots their narrow-minded.

You need to be a bit more free-spirited you, you need to

two ways up. And you see the fear of mine

comes because the fear of man, brings a snare on peer pressure.

I'm wanting to be popular in one thing to be part of a group and

feeling a part of community. And and then they leave off with

the word of God. And the Christ of God in the

house of God, At what about University?

Godless professors educated man intelligent man knew Gordon new

grease about them. No gospel.

And they urge you to read the philosophies of Plato and

Aristotle and others, and they want you to take on their views

and adopt their lifestyle, but they're not beasts in the word

of God. They have a different worldview,

even the modern philosophies and they're destroying the lives of

Manning underworld, it's okay to go into a drink culture.

Or a drug culture or or adopt a party, pleasure hedonistic

lifestyle. But these young people, these

young people souls are being destroyed and murdered at the

hands of these Godless professors.

What about professing Christians?

With their lips. They say they love the Lord.

They've asked him to be their lord and savior.

Yet their life stage doesn't match up.

They're Hypocrites in the eyes of many others and that's a big

obstacle to some and if you love the Lord Jesus and that's love

them and truth. Let's love them indeed.

What a big man in the pulpit? You'll get Willy waffle, you'll

get morality. You told to be good, but it's

devoid of any call to repent of your sin.

It's devoid of a call that remission of sin is necessary to

enter Heaven on without the blood.

There's no remission of sin and there's no call to Redemption on

the ground of the savior's blood, unfaith and Christ, and a

call to be born again. You're not going to hear that.

It's Hobson from me and stream churches.

And there's not a squeak about the Evils and elves of today.

And yet the wonderful thing is this.

God can open doors despite the obstacles.

God can make a way where there isn't a way I think of Nepal

1960s, it was closed, radio Ministry key and I know there's

110, free Presbyterian, churches and Nepal.

I think of Muslim countries like Iran and Iraq and Babel chirping

distributed in those countries. Under their been read, their

been studied unpeople of got converted from a Muslim

background. You see the word of the Lord is

not brined. The word of the Lord has free

course, and those who attempt to hinder, the progress and Withers

manly. And the devil is busy, and they

put up barriers here and they are.

And that times, yes, it feels impossible.

But when it feels impossible, don't quit, don't give up what

we do. Supplicate God's Throne be

strong, be steadfast unmovable in the work of the Lord, pray on

pray three, because people need to hear it.

People need the Holy Ghost to work.

People need the Holy Ghost to apply the word of truth.

That they might be brought to faith in Christ.

The gospel described, the gospel, distributed, the gospel

dignified, notice the words and be glorified, it's not

tremendous, you see as the gospel wrongs forth here and

there, here's the character of The Gospel and brings honor and

glory to the Lord. He's not only the god of pace

from the god of Hope and the god of page, but he's the god of

Truth and he's revealed his word.

The Bible talks about the Glorious Gospel of our Lord, and

Savior. Jesus Christ, listen to what

Paul says, in Corinth, he says in.

Second Corinthians, chapter 4 and the verse 4 listen to these

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words in whom the God of this world, hath blinded the minds of

them, which believe not lest the light of the Glorious gospel of

Christ, is the image of God should shine unto them.

That's what I'm talking about. Impeding this progress of the

Gospel, blinding the minds of those that believe not and yet

thus message as the Glorious gospel of grace.

It Part of change part of transform lives.

It was this message. It turned, the ancient world

upside down. It was this message that Paul

advised Tate us whenever he wrote and Titus Chapter 2 and

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verse 10. He says not purloining, but

showing all good Fidelity that they may Adorn.

The doctrine of God, our savior in all things, adorning, the

doctrine of God, adorning the gosh.

People and that word adorned has to do with beautifying yourself.

You think of a girl going to eat an idiot.

What'd she do she purifies yourself?

Think of a bride? Getting married or not wedding

day. She beautifies herself puts on

the best attire. Well that's what that word

adorned means I'm going to do that with the gospel be

beautified by the gospel Paul outs, even as it is with you.

Notice thirdly and lastly for of got communion this morning, The

powerful results that is special.

He says here, if you look back at our taxed even as it is with

you, do you understand that? Can you grasp out this morning,

even as it is, With you, it's important because he was

thinking about those investment, banker.

He was thinking about the police.

There's no - he was thinking about the people you Converse.

And it was easy and thessalonica.

The word of God had run into their hearts and Minds.

These Thessalonians were adorning.

The gospel. They had been beautified by the

gospel. Their lives have been changed

and transformed that. There was a difference 9, the

Bible says, therefore, If any man be in Christ, he is a new

creature, old things are passed away, and all things have become

new and all things are of God. Now I've already told you Paul

was in Corinth whenever he wrote to the church, that's asinine

Anka and this is what he says in Acts chapter 18.

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He says this about himself thinking of Corinth Acts,

Acts 18:9

chapter 18, verse 9 and 10 and with us we finally stay and

speak the Lord to Paul in the Night by a vision.

Be not afraid. But speak in, hold, not thy

peace. For I am with thee and no man

shall set a need to hurt the French.

Much people in this city verse 11 and he continued there a year

and six Months teaching the word of God among you.

See, at that time, Paul wasn't discouraged.

It was the night time. Paul was depressed.

He was despairing. This is a city given over to

idolatry. And what am I going to do you?

Lord I feel like quitting. I want to leave this place.

I want to go home and the Lord comes and the Lord tells them

besides other things. I have much people in this city

and he stayed 18 months, and he saw many converts and a great

church that was raised up. What can I tell you that?

He wrote to the Thessalonians before he wrote first and second

Corinthians and I believe that the Lord answered the prayers of

the Thessalonians, it was not a waste of time for Paul to pray.

It was not a waste of time for Paul to encourage others to

prayer because there was the powerful result that a special,

even as it is with you, the word of God come to them.

And here was part of the That word brethren, pray for us, and

they gave themselves to prayer. And I say this, as we finished

this morning, We can all do that.

So if you're converted to Christ and you love the Lord Jesus,

then you can pray at home, you can pray in the prayer meeting.

We must pray. All we are praying people but we

must pray on. We must pray up and all and

don't give up. We must not slacken, do not

think that your prayers are not needed.

If I could say this morning as we finished Brethren, pray for

us. What are you going to pray for

this year for souls to be saved? Souls received last year?

But we need sold. See if this year.

We did you families brought and on these pews filter Again, we

lost 10 individuals last year, we can't afford to lose 10

board. This year, we need to attend to

be brought in and more We need our own families.

Converted pray for mine. Pray that the Lord will help us

to be faithful to the blood in the book.

Pray, the Lord will help in the children's ministry, the some

disc of the children's ministry. And when you come into the house

of God to pray, you know it's not complicated.

Think of the children as we finish the blanket prayers, Lord

bless the church, Lord bless the some of these God bless the

Children's Mercy. Lord bless that family plaster,

Sewell. That's what you need to pray.

Specific individual prayers. That God would do this because

much prayer results in much blessing.

I pray this morning. That we will get a hold of this

thought, under the Lord will encourage us as we go forward

this year.