Work of Faith and Labor of Love and Endurance of Hope
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Let's Pray:
Lord, But we need Your Spirit to give us the wisdom and revelation that we may see the intrinsic contents of Your Word. Lord, this is what we need, not only now but also for our whole life.
Remembering unceasingly your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
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1 Thes. 1:3 faith indicates the nature and strength of the (work); love, the motivation for and characteristic of (labor); and hope, the source of (endurance). These depict the (structure) of the genuine Christian life, a life constructed with faith, love, and hope (see note 131 in 1 Cor. 13). Such a life originates not from the ( ability) of the believers' natural being but from the infusion of what God, in whom they believe, (is).
It is a life of three dimensions in the light of the Lord's coming back, having (faith) as the beginning, the foundation, (love) as the process, the construction, and (hope) as the consummation, the completion. Faith is toward (God) , love is toward the (saints) , and hope is in the (Lord's) coming. (See 1 Thes 1:3 note 2 paragraph 1 and 3)
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