Conserving Well, Changing Wisely: Part 1
Image from Pixabay “Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle” (2 Thess. 2:15). In this verse, the apostle Paul calls the Thessalonian believers to act on the reality of God’s call on their life. In the previous two verses, he had written, “But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ” (13-14). According to the apostle, God had effectually called them by the sanctifying work of the Spirit through the gospel to belief of the truth so that they would obtain the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ in the age to come. God did not call them to some vague spiritual state. He did not call them merely to be nice people. He did not cal...
