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1 Thessalonians 5:28
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28 The grace [charis] of our [hemon] Lord [kurios] Jesus [Iesous] Christ [Christos] be with [meta] you. [humon] Amen. [amen] KJV-Interlinear
28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. NASB
The subject of 1 Thessalonians is, ‘waiting.’ And though most of us, when we are born into this world, will live for many decades, we spend most of our time, waiting.
We wait to grow up. We wait for the days work to get done. We wait for the weekend. We wait for the next event of our life. We wait for the meals to be prepared, for the water to boil, for the car to get fueled up. And this list can go on almost forever.
But the most important waiting we will ever have, is our waiting for the call of the Lord.
For certainly as most of the other waiting things are transitory or repetitive, our wait for the Lord will have the greatest impact on our lives, than anything else.
Paul has made it very clear, that Christ will return in the next great historical event. When that will occur, no one knows, but it is a certainty that it will one day occur.
To those who acknowledge it and prepare for that day, great things await them. For those who take these things lightly or with skepticism, great disappointment awaits them.
The scriptures were written for everyone, not just for the elite, and certainly not for some privileged few, who would like to have an advantage, authority or control, over the masses. Indeed, history has demonstrated that the powerful want to keep their power, by preventing the masses from gaining access to their inner circle.
Not so with God. God gave us all Bible doctrine, so that we could all be set free and made to be independent and autonomous from the confining powers of this world. Without information, without truth, you have slavery. Only with information, only with truth, can you have independence and freedom in your life.
And therefore, the grace of God, and grace means His favor, be with you. For only through Bible doctrine, which is the written doorway to truth, can you gain access to the favor of God. The best and greatest possible connection you could ever attain, in life.
And His grace is available to anyone who genuinely and objectively pursues truth, and their spiritual life.
