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The Thessalonian Assembly was a Charismatic Assembly.
They had been timid about Prophecy.
1 Thessalonians 5:19-21 WNT
1Th 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit.
This language is taken from the way of putting out a fire, and the sense is, we are not to extinguish the influences of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. Possibly there may be an allusion here to fire on an altar, which was to be kept constantly burning. This fire may have been regarded as emblematic of devotion, and as denoting that that devotion was never to become extinct.
Barnes Notes on the NT.
I wanted you to heard the Podcast of my daughter preaching on this verse. "The Parable of my Mum's Old Wood Stove.. She was simply Brilliant. I had said to her as a teen when I was going away for the weekend in Winter while living in Toowoomba Qld., "Don't let the fire go out or you won't have hot water and you and your teen visitors will have to have a cold shower." How true this is also in the spiritual. Sorry I could not find the link.
I wanted you to heard the Podcast of my daughter preaching on this verse. "The Parable of my Mum's Old Wood Stove.. She was simply Brilliant. I had said to her as a teen when I was going away for the weekend in Winter while living in Toowoomba Qld., "Don't let the fire go out or you won't have hot water and you and your teen visitors will have to have a cold shower." How true this is also in the spiritual. Sorry I could not find the link.
Compare these verses:
1Th 5:20 Do not think meanly of utterances of prophecy;
NIV. Don't treat prophecies with contempt.
KJV. Despise not prophesying. i.e Don't consider prophesying as of little importance.
Cp. 1 Corinthians 14.1.
1) prophecy
1a) a discourse emanating from divine inspiration and declaring the purposes of God, whether by reproving and admonishing the wicked, or comforting the afflicted, or revealing things hidden; especially by foretelling future events
1b) Used in the NT of the utterance of OT prophets
1b1) of the prediction of events relating to Christ’s kingdom and its speedy triumph, together with the consolations and admonitions pertaining to it, the spirit of prophecy, the divine mind, to which the prophetic faculty is due
1b2) of the endowment and speech of the Christian teachers called prophets
1b3) the gifts and utterances of these prophets, especially of the predictions of the works of which, set apart to teach the gospel, will accomplish for the kingdom of Christ
1Th 5:20 Do not think meanly of utterances of prophecy;
NIV. Don't treat prophecies with contempt.
KJV. Despise not prophesying. i.e Don't consider prophesying as of little importance.
Cp. 1 Corinthians 14.1.
Prophesying ( prophēteia)
Thayer Definition:1) prophecy
1a) a discourse emanating from divine inspiration and declaring the purposes of God, whether by reproving and admonishing the wicked, or comforting the afflicted, or revealing things hidden; especially by foretelling future events
1b) Used in the NT of the utterance of OT prophets
1b1) of the prediction of events relating to Christ’s kingdom and its speedy triumph, together with the consolations and admonitions pertaining to it, the spirit of prophecy, the divine mind, to which the prophetic faculty is due
1b2) of the endowment and speech of the Christian teachers called prophets
1b3) the gifts and utterances of these prophets, especially of the predictions of the works of which, set apart to teach the gospel, will accomplish for the kingdom of Christ
1Th 5:21 but test all such, and retain hold of the good.
NIV. Test everything. Hold on to the good.
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