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    [Editor's note: Beyond Sunday is a Monday refresher to carry you through the week.] Focus Verse of the Week For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. (1 Thess. 5:2) Classic Commentary The apostle applies this difference of position - namely, that we belong to the day, and that it cannot therefore come upon us as a thief - to the character and walk of the Christian. Being a child of the light he is to walk as such. He lives in the clay, though all is night and darkness around him. One does not sleep in the day. They that sleep, sleep in the night: they that are drunken are drunken in the night; these are the works of darkness. A Christian, the child of the day, must watch and be sober, clothing himself with all that constitutes the perfection of that mode of being which belongs to his position - namely, with faith and love and hope - principles which impart courage and give him confidence for pressing onwards. He has the breastplate of faith and love; he goes straight forward therefore against the enemy. He has the hope of this glorious salvation, which will bring him entire deliverance, as his helmet; so that he can lift up his head without fear in the midst of danger. We see that the apostle here brings to mind the three great principles of 1 Corinthians 13 to characterize the courage and steadfastness of the Christian, as at the beginning he showed that they were the mainspring of daily walk. Faith and love naturally connect us with God, revealed as He is in Jesus as the principle of communion; so that we walk with confidence in Him: His presence gives us strength. By faith He is the glorious object before our eyes. By love He dwells in us, and we realize what He is. Hope fixes our eyes especially on Christ, who is coming to bring us into the enjoyment of glory with Himself. (Adapted from John Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament) A Thought to Keep Regardless of when Christ returns, we are charged to keep faith, hope and love at the center of our daily lives.
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