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And so I know last Sunday as I Was preparing just before I entered the pulpit and I was going over my sermon.

I thought I'm never going to make it through all seven commands and sure enough.

We stopped at number three.

And we'll look at the four remaining for today.

1st Thessalonians, chapter 5 and verse number 16.

Says Rejoice always pray without ceasing in everything.

Give thanks for.

This is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Do not quench the spirit, do not despise prophecies test all things, hold fast.

What is good abstain from every form of evil?

Let's pray once again, our gracious father.

As we come to this moment in which we hear and listen to the preaching of your word.

Father, I pray that we understand that it is not the words of man.

But it is your word to man.

I'm nothing more than a messenger.

Hey haraldur of your word.

So father I pray that you use me as a vessel.

That you feel me?

Hide me behind the cross.

So that so that through your word, people would see Jesus.

Father, we love you.

We ask all of these things and Christ name, amen.

I said last Sunday is very easy for us.

And honestly, I think it's really natural for us to many times dwell on the possibilities that can worry us.

It's not the things that we know that can worry us just that just two possibilities.

That are out there that can concern us and cause us to worry.

And I think again, that's really kind of our natural instinct to do in our fallen nature is to worry about those possibilities but instead what we should do is dwell on those things which are good that we know is true and I know that's easy preaching and hard living for sure.

But that is certainly the principle in which we should live those things and which we'd should dwell on or those things which are good and those things which we know to be true.

Now again, what will the remainder a 2023 hold for us?

We have no idea.

We don't know.

And so, instead of focusing on an uncertain future and all the possibilities that are out there, a economic recession, world war three, whatever it maybe instead of fixing our hard, upon those things, we should fix our heart and mind upon the things, which we do know.

And that's the things I want to focus on and live as a church that we should live by in this new year.

7 things that are found in, I want us to focus on these seven things that are found in.

Just this one short passage of scripture, just 43 words in our English translation that God commands for us to obey.

I believe if we will Implement these seven commands in our life, if we will live by the seven commands, it will absolutely change our life.

It would draw us nearer to God, no matter what happens in our life individually, no matter what happens to our church, no matter what happens in the world in which we live.

As I mentioned last week that grammar in our text indicates that these are commands.

They are imperatives that are to be obeyed.

These are not suggestions.

These are not Paul's recommendations to the church at Cecil anaika.

These are commands from God as Paul is divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit to write these things.

So, these are commands.

These are imperatives and which we are to be obeyed, but noticed, not only are these imperatives but these commands are also in the present tense which speaks of a continuous action.

Another word for these commands should control the way we walk through life.

This should be the habitual pattern of our life that we Rejoice always and pray without ceasing and everything.

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

until we looked at the first three, but I want us very quickly to recap those first three commands that Paul gives us as he's riding to the church at Cecil anaika, The first command is Rejoice, always we see that in verse 16, Rejoice always, I remember, it's very wise to understand this instruction, as meaning rejoice in the lord always rejoice in the lord, always is not that we are to be not that we're to be.

It's not that we're to Rejoice because a tragedy strikes.

No it's not.

That we are to Rejoice because of a hardship that we go through.

However, it means we can rejoice in the Lord in the midst of experiencing a hardship, we can rejoice in the Lord in the midst of experiencing a tragedy.

And remember this was the setting in Tesla nykaa.

It was to A persecuted Church to whom Paul writes.

It was to a church that was experiencing hardship and persecution because of their faith.

In the Lord Jesus, Jesus Christ States.

They had many troubles and Paul gives them this exportation to Rejoice.

Always.

Well, they are to rejoice in the lord.

Always So how can we rejoice in the lord, always even in the midst of difficult circumstances?

Or remember we mentioned last week?

First Christians rejoice in the father's gift up his son to be our savior.

We can rejoice in the lord always because God the father has sent his only begotten son.

The Lord Jesus Christ.

To be our savior to live the life that we could not live by the death that we should have died.

And God raised him from the dead as Vindication and as an event occasion that he was the perfect sacrifice for sin forever.

We can Rejoice, even the missing parts.

And so a true Christian says, he's in the mist of persecution and hardship, no matter what the world may do to me, God has given his son Jesus for my salvation.

So has tragedy your hardship.

Hit your home.

Listen as Christians.

We can Rejoice because we can save for this.

We have Jesus.

For this, we have Jesus that's a great phrase to remember when you're going through a difficult situation.

You can just say that for Hayes for this Lord, we have Jesus.

We have Jesus.

A second source of Christian.

Joy is a relationship with the father that Jesus has secured by his saving work.

So a second source of our rejoicing is that because of Christ and because of what he did on the cross of Calvary, we now have peace with God, through our Lord, Jesus Christ is what Paul said, and Romans five, and verse one, we're no longer alienated from the Commonwealth of God, we're no longer separated from God because of our seeing, but we have been made knives.

We have been made near unto God by his son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

So we can Rejoice always in the Lord even the midst of tragedy.

Because I only God, the Father sent his son Jesus, but because Jesus died on the cross for our sin.

We have now.

Peace with God.

There's been a Reconciliation now.

And we can Rejoice that we're no longer in tamizh against God.

And then a third source of the Believers Joy.

Is that we have the Bible's testimony to God's saving promises.

That is we have a the full revelation of God to man God's.

Holy word.

And so this is not a man's world.

This is God's word.

We have the word of God to look upon.

Not the word of man.

God's word Usher's us.

God, God's word encourages us to cast, your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you.

He will never permit the righteous to be moved.

So we have the word of God that we can glean tooth, we can read and it's not that we are God has just given us only the memory that which we hear other men of God speak but we can see and we can read for ourselves the promises that God has made for us in his word.

so these in a myriad of other promises and able to Christian to rejoice, in the hope of the glory of God and even to rejoice in our sufferings, as Paul said, it's a very the very Act of rejoicing is rooted in the person of Christ.

Rejoicing is rooted in the purposes of Christ and the Perfection of Christ.