August 26
1Chronicles 16:1-22 & 1Thessalonians 4
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1Chronicles 16:1-22

1Chronicles 16:1-22

16:1They brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent David had pitched for it. Then they offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in God's presence. 2When David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh. 3Then he distributed to each and every Israelite, both men and women, a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.
4David appointed some of the Levites to be ministers before the ark of the Lord, to celebrate the Lord God of Israel, and to give thanks and praise to Him. 5Asaph was the chief and Zechariah was second to him. Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel played the harps and lyres, while Asaph sounded the cymbals 6and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.
7On that day David decreed for the first time that thanks be given to the Lord by Asaph and his relatives:
8Give thanks to Yahweh; call on His name;
proclaim His deeds among the peoples.
9Sing to Him; sing praise to Him;
tell about all His wonderful works!
10Honor His holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
11Search for the Lord and for His strength;
seek His face always.
12Remember the wonderful works He has done,
His wonders, and the judgments He has pronounced,
13you offspring of Israel His servant,
Jacob's descendants-His chosen ones.
14He is the Lord our God;
His judgments govern the whole earth.
15Remember His covenant forever-
the promise He ordained for a thousand generations,
16the covenant He made with Abraham,
swore to Isaac,
17and confirmed to Jacob as a decree,
and to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
18"I will give the land of Canaan to you
as your inherited portion."
19When they were few in number,
very few indeed, and temporary residents in Canaan
20wandering from nation to nation
and from one kingdom to another,
21He allowed no one to oppress them;
He rebuked kings on their behalf:
22"Do not touch My anointed ones
or harm My prophets."

1Thessalonians 4

Chapter 4

4:1Finally then, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you must walk and please God-as you are doing-do so even more. 2For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3For this is God's will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality, 4so that each of you knows how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, 5not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don't know God. 6This means one must not transgress against and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you. 7For God has not called us to impurity but to sanctification. 8Therefore, the person who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who also gives you His Holy Spirit.
9About brotherly love: You don't need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. 10In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers in the entire region of Macedonia. But we encourage you, brothers, to do so even more, 11to seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, 12so that you may walk properly in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.
13We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. 14Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, in the same way God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus. 15For we say this to you by a revelation from the Lord: We who are still alive at the Lord's coming will certainly have no advantage over those who have fallen asleep. 16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel's voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17Then we who are still alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so we will always be with the Lord. 18Therefore encourage one another with these words.

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