{"id":5349,"date":"2022-12-07T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5349"},"modified":"2022-12-02T19:13:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T02:13:58","slug":"the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5349","title":{"rendered":"The Message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yesterday<\/a> we talked about the messenger: what kind of men were Paul and his team? Another essential piece is the message. How ought we to live? 1 Thessalonians 4 answers that question, but before we look at that, let&#8217;s remind ourselves of a verse my son Mark memorized when he was two years old:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6.8, NASB)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How ought we to live? Micah 6.8, of course, is one answer: \u201cDo justice, love kindness, walk humbly with your God.\u201d Here\u2019s another:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>to love one another, for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, and\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>to aspire to live quietly, and&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>to mind your own affairs, and&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.<\/em> <em>(1 Thessalonians 4:9-12, ESV, bulleted for clarity)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s clear! And in this Advent season, it&#8217;s good to remember that Jesus spent his first 30 years living quietly, minding his own affairs (as far as we know), and working with his hands. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1669\" target=\"_blank\">He didn&#8217;t grow up in the Temple<\/a> but in an out-of-the-way town in Galilee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Our people must also learn to engage in good deeds to meet pressing needs, so that they will not be unfruitful. (Titus 3.14, NASB)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we talked about the messenger: what kind of men were Paul and his team? Another essential piece is the message. How ought we to live? 1 Thessalonians 4 answers that question, but before we look at that, let&#8217;s remind ourselves of a verse my son Mark memorized when he was two years old: He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Message<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1oh","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5351,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions\/5351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}