Explanation of the Text: 1 Thess 3:12-13 Blameless and Holy at Jesus' Coming Again.

1Th 3:12  and as for you, may the Lord teach you to love one another and all men, with a growing and a glowing love, resembling our love for you. 
1Th 3:13  Thus He will build up your characters, so that you will be faultlessly holy in the presence of our God and Father at the Coming of our Lord Jesus with all His holy ones. 

 Notes
v.12 The Thessalonian Believers already loved each other sincerely but now Paul prays for an INCREASE and an abundance of it. That they would abound in love.

 v. 13. May the Lord Strengthen your hearts NIV.
Thus He will build up your character WNT.
To the end He may establish your hearts KJV.

 Without the Love of God and Love for your brethren in Christ,  there can be no establishment in the religion of Christ.
LOVE produces solidity and continance. He who loves fulfills the law of God and is therefore unblameable as far as holiness is concerned. He is a partaker of the Divine Nature, for GOD IS LOVE. 1 Thess 1:10 and to await the return from Heaven of His Son, whom He raised from among the dead--even Jesus, our Deliverer from God's coming anger.

Php 2:14  Be ever on your guard against a grudging and contentious spirit, 
Php 2:15  so that you may always prove yourselves to be blameless and spotless--irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as heavenly lights in the world, 

1Th 5:23  And may God Himself who gives peace, make you entirely holy; and may your spirits, souls and bodies be preserved complete and be found blameless at the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
When our Lord Comes with all His Holy Ones
a) The Lord Jesus , He is our Judge 1:10. Live so that He finds us blameless when He comes.

b)He is coming with all His Holy ones or saints (including the Angels)
Mat 25:31  "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then will He sit upon His glorious throne, 
Mat 25:32  and all the nations will be gathered into His presence. And He will separate them from one another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; 

God desires that we be BLAMELESS and fitted to be welcomed into His Glorious Presence.

 We will be numbered with the Redeemed of all Ages.
What a Glorious Meeting in the Air there will be on that DAY.







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