So we are in Chapter 3 of 1 Thessalonians. And I'm going to actually back up a little bit into a little bit of what we read last week. I'm not going to talk about it, but there's a flow to this. And if I don't do that, I think we'll miss the flow. So when I do read here, I'm going to start with chapter 2, verse 17, and read it to chapter 3, verse 5. So you guys can get your Bibles ready for that. And I will pray for the Word. Our Father and our God, we pause before we begin our study today to ask your blessing on your word. Lord, we confess before you that we know that this is not just the words of men, although you used men, but Lord, this is the very word of God and it's powerful. But Lord, we are weak. So we are asking for a work of your grace that we would have ears that could hear, minds that can understand, hearts that can receive the implanted word. And Lord, we thank you for that. In Jesus' name. Amen. So again, this is 1 Thessalonians 2, beginning in verse 17, and we'll pretend like there's no chapter break there, and we'll just move right into chapter three. But we brethren, having been taken away from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored more eagerly to see your face with great desire. Therefore we wanted to come to you, even I, Paul, time and again, but Satan hindered us. For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? For you are our glory and joy. Therefore, when we could no longer endure it, we thought it good to be left in Athens alone and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith, that no one should be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to this. For in fact, we told you before, when we were with you, that we would suffer tribulation, just as it happened, and you know. For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor might be in vain." So let's work with that chunk of scripture to begin with. So we begin with Timothy's mission, and that's where I want to begin anyway. And so Timothy is sent by Paul, and he's sent back to Thessalonica. And I'm going to go through a little bit of the Book of Acts again, just to remind us of this Macedonian tour in the second missionary journey of Paul and Silas, just to remind us kind of where he was and what events took place there. But he's now in Athens, and he sends Timothy back to check on the church. And he has a few specific things he said, and I'm sure he told Timothy, this is what I want you to do when you get to the church. Gather them and I want you to do these things. And the first thing he said is that he wanted Timothy to go there to establish them. right, to establish them. Remember we talked about how Paul in Thessalonica ministered. There were some problems there. He had to get out of town fairly quickly. And he would have liked to have spent more time ministering and teaching the church, but he had to go. So he wants Timothy to establish. I want to look at that Greek a little bit. And I don't pronounce Greek well, so I won't probably do that too much today. But the word here that's translated in my Bible, establish, it can mean and does mean strengthen. I want you to strengthen the church, right? It's a Greek word that would have been used to buttress a wall. It's a word that would have been used to strengthen a building. If perhaps somebody had built a building, and let's go into our day. One of the things that happens in my job is they'll have house fires and we've got to figure out what's going on. We've got to take it down so far. We try to save the foundation. But then we find out that there is no foundation. There are houses not too far from here that don't have a foundation. Or they have such a pathetic foundation that's rock stacked on rocks on top of ground, no footers. So if you can imagine a house that maybe is built on sandy soil, doesn't have a solid foundation, this Greek word would be to establish or strengthen it, would be to dig down deep and underpin it and put in a foundation under this structure to strengthen it, to secure it, to support it. And that's what Paul's asking Timothy to do with the church. He knows they have a baby-like faith. They seem to have been birthed. He's going to say he's even concerned that maybe they got tempted away and renounced their faith in Christ. He doesn't know. He wants to find out. But he knows they need to be strengthened in this. And that's really what's going on here. The same word is going to be used in the prayer we're going to see in verse 13. So he's going to ask Timothy to do this work, and then in the prayer he's going to ask God to do that work. And isn't that how the church is strengthened? God will raise up imperfect men to preach and to teach, and then God's at work in that. That's really what he's talking about here. It's the work of ministry. That is the work of ministry, is to take somebody who's got faith, and maybe they've come a long way in their faith, but to continually build and strengthen that faith to establish the believer and establish the church on the rock foundation of Jesus Christ. In the Gospel, when Jesus tells Peter that Satan has asked to sift him like wheat, Remember that? And the idea is that Satan was told, OK, you can sift them like wheat. It's almost like Job. And he said, but I've prayed for you. And when you return, not if you return, but when you return, because you're going to fall. You're going to renounce me. You're going to deny me three times. But when you come back, I want you to do what? Go and strengthen your brethren. You be that tool that I use to strengthen my church. That's what he told Peter. And that's exactly what Paul is telling Timothy to do here. The second thing he tells them to do is to encourage the church. I want you to encourage them. This is an interesting word that you're probably familiar with. It's the root of where we get the word paraklete. Para, to come alongside. Kaleo, to call. So it's to call alongside. That word in the Greek is used in several different ways. It could be used, one, of the Holy Spirit who the Lord sends to be called along our side to strengthen us in the battles of Christianity and life. It also can be used in the sense of encouragement. If you can think of an army in battle, and they're discouraged, and maybe they were driven back like the Battle of the Bulge. And now the commander comes to be alongside the troop, to instill encouragement into them, and begins to speak to the troops, and build them up that they will get back into the battle. So it can be used in that sense, too. It can also be used in the sense of comforting. And you can imagine maybe a child who's scared in the dark and wakes up in the middle of the night and cries out for their father, and their father comes to their side to comfort that child. That's all wrapped up in this word that's used here in the Greek, that he wants Timothy to go to the church and not only strengthen them, but to come along their side and encourage them. And the third thing he asked Timothy to do, and which Paul is really responding to, is he's like, and I want Timothy for you to know and report to me their faith. Where are they at in the faith? Because Paul was concerned. Had the tempter tempted them away? That word that's translated here, Paul's wondering, did the tempter tempt them? It's only used, that I know of, one other time in the Bible, and that was in the temptations of our Lord. In Matthew 4.3, now when the tempter came to Him. and said, if you are the son of God, command these stones to become bread. Paul, the apostle, is well aware of the wiles of the devil. And you'll see that throughout the epistles. That's why it's so important that we study these letters, that we would know our enemy. That's one thing in the military world, is that you're to know your enemy. And we need to know our enemy, because we get attacked. And he's going to get into that. We're going to talk about that. When we sign up, if you will, if I can use this illustration, or this language, into the Lord's army, we have an enemy. And the enemy is Satan, the world, the flesh. And we need to know how the world comes at us, how Satan operates, and even our own flesh. When it rises up, that we can purposefully mortify the sin that still remains, right? The Bible talks about. So, I want to talk a little bit about the suffering aspect here, because Paul is going to talk about that quite a bit. And so I want to kind of go down a rabbit trail with you a little bit, because this is so important in the Christian life. Suffering as a Christian. There is a, I don't know how large of a swath, of the visible church that teaches that when you come to Christ, all your problems go away. And you know, matter of fact, the Lord's just going to pour out blessing upon blessing, and you'll have cars and houses and money and big bank accounts. And that teaching is gobbled up. It's a very strong teaching in Belize. Let me go down there. Because there's such vulnerable people that that entices people not to the living Christ, I don't think. I think it draws them to the goodies. And that is not what the Bible teaches at all. As a matter of fact, it teaches quite the opposite. It teaches that when we come to the Lord savingly, that we can guarantee that we will suffer for the cause of Christ in some way. Not everybody to the same measure. Somebody was martyred recently in America. But that happens. People are martyred all the time in other countries. But we all are called to some level of suffering. In our study here, chapter 3, verse 3, Paul says that he wanted to make sure that no one should be shaken by these afflictions. You should not be shaken when afflictions come your way, when you're called upon to suffer. It shouldn't rattle your faith. Especially as we mature in the Lord. We should know the scriptures. We should know our God. So I want to give you a couple of descriptions, I guess that's the right word, regarding the suffering that the Christian is called to go through. And the first thing I want to say is when you go through your suffering, And I don't, everybody's is different. But when you go through your time of suffering, whatever that is, it's normative. Don't think that it's not normal. It is the normal path of the Christian to go through the Via Dolorosa, the pathway of suffering, right? And we'll go all the way down this pathway of suffering our Lord did. And yet, even though he was crucified and was buried, he came out the other side and rose from the dead. And the Lord is taking us somewhere, right? Even when we're in the waters of, let's say, the Sea of Galilee, and the storms are upon us, and if Jesus is in the boat, we will get to the other side. He will get us to the other side. I was reading J. Verdon McGee. He said, when Jesus is in the boat, the boat never goes to the bottom of the Galilean Sea, right? He's gonna get you to the other side, but it might be down through a rocky way, but he goes with us. And that's the beauty of calling upon the Lord. In verse three, he says, no one should be shaken by these afflictions for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this. Does that rattle anybody that we are appointed to this? This has to do with the sovereign hand of God, of God's providence for the life of a Christian. In 1 Peter, and 1 Peter really deals with this subject even more than the Thessalonian letters do. But in 1 Peter 4.12, it says, Beloved... And take this in and listen to what Peter says. This is the Spirit speaking through Peter. Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you. Remember that the Bible says that. When you go through your difficult days, when you go down your Via Dolorosa, that you understand that no strange thing has happened. This is common to all of Christianity. To those who truly have repented and put their faith in Christ, we're gonna go through these things. 2 Timothy 3.12 says, yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. It doesn't say might. They will suffer persecution. So the first description I have here is that it's normative. The second I'd like to convey is that it's purposeful. Don't think that you're going through sufferings and it's meaningless. It is not. In Jesus Christ, our sufferings are not meaningless, right? Doesn't the psalmist say that God stores up our tears in a bottle? I mean, it's not meaningless. He's accomplishing something through the suffering. And again, I want to take you to 1 Peter 1, verse 6. It says, "...in this you greatly rejoice..." Now, he had just talked about the gospel, and salvation, and all of that. And of course, they greatly rejoiced. Now, he says, "...in this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while..." And I want to emphasize that. And Peter might have been talking about, it's just this lifetime. Life is short. I'm starting to learn that as I age. And it's just for a little while. And we'll be given new bodies and be brought to heaven, where there is no pain or suffering, and there's no sin. Righteousness reigns. So it's just for a little while. Remember that, beloved. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, might be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ." He goes right to the parousia, right to the coming of Christ. God's at work in this. And Peter likens it to a crucible, where metals are placed, and it's heated up, and the dross comes to the top, the impurities, and they're scraped off. And Peter's saying basically, in this, one of the things that's occurring is God is purifying you. As you go through your times of sufferings, through your times of trials and pressure in your Christianity, God's at work in that. It's going to cause us to cry out to God. So it's purposeful. Thirdly, it's participatory. And I know that's a big $5 word, but the Bible talks about how we partake of these sufferings. We're actually partaking of the sufferings of Christ himself. Our Lord was caused to suffer, right? And the perfect man, and yet he lived a life where the Bible described his life. He was a man of sorrows. He was acquainted with grief. I was reading Tim Keller on that and he said the reason why that was was because he was the perfect man. He wasn't absorbed with self in a sinful way and therefore he felt the full brunt of the pain and the anguish of this world. And I think that's true. I think Tim Keller is right on that. 1 Peter 4.13 says, "...but rejoice to the extent..." Now, we're to rejoice in this. Listen to this. "...rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may be glad with exceeding joy." We're to rejoice that we partake of Christ's sufferings. Acts 5.41, speaking of the apostles in the early days of the church. They were taken, they were abused for the faith. And it says, so they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. for His name. They were counted worthy to suffer for the cause of Christ. And they rejoiced in that before the Lord. And I think that's why when Paul, and I'm just going to pull out a snippet of what Paul has to say in 2 Corinthians 6, but he's describing the condition of him and his companions as they went through all they went through. And he says, as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing. And you see that as, my mind always goes right to Philippi, right, where they were abused, they were beaten, they were jailed. Yet, there they are, praising God. Praising God in the midst of their sufferings. And it really does draw the world to look at us in the midst of our sufferings, rejoicing and praising God. And for them to, like Peter said, always be prepared to give an answer when they come to you. Because they're going to ask you, why do you have this hope? Why do you have hope in the midst of all that you're going through? Why do you have such joy and hope? And you could point them to Jesus Christ and say, it's because of my Savior. Because He's taking me somewhere. Because this suffering won't go on forever. It's just in this life. And then I go to glory. And we hold that out to people, and invite them, with the Gospel call to repentance and faith. Lastly, our suffering is a window of opportunity. And for that, I want to take you to the Gospel of John, chapter 9, and verse 1 and following. Now as Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from birth, and his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? And Jesus answered and said, Neither this man, nor his parents sinned." Now, he wasn't saying they were sinless. He's saying, what you see in this man's condition of blindness from birth is not a direct cause of a personal sin he committed or a sin that his parents committed. That's not why he's here blind from birth. That's an amazing thought. He says, neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. In other words, God and His glory is going to be put on display in this man's suffering. And we have to look at our sufferings that way, beloved. We have to. Again, if I could do one more 1 Peter for you. 1 Peter 4.16, Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter. I alluded to Tim Keller a little bit. He wrote a book, I think it was 2013, called Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering. And in that book, a little quote, he writes, Christianity teaches that Contra-fatalism, or against fatalism, the opposite of fatalism. So he says, Christianity teaches that contra-fatalism, suffering is overwhelming. Contra-Buddhism, suffering is real. Contra-karma, suffering is often unfair. But contra secularism, suffering is meaningful. And then he writes, there is a purpose to it. And if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine. to suffer is to follow in the master's footsteps, right? Keller writes in my last Keller quote, I believe, he writes, Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only true innocent sufferer, right? So Jesus knows all our troubles. We sing that, don't we? He does. So, secondly, verses 6 to 10, the joy of encouragement. Encouragement. So here we are in the Via Dolorosa, we're suffering, we're going through so much, and yet God loves to encourage us. God loves to shed joy in the life of the believer, even as we suffer. So let me read these verses. But now that Timothy has come to us from you and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always have a good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us as we also to see you, Therefore, brethren, in all our affliction and distress, we were comforted concerning you by your faith. For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sake before our God? night and day, praying exceedingly that we may see your face and perfect what is lacking in your faith. My New King James translates that verse six a little differently than some of the other translations, and I won't get into all the reasons why, but in the original Greek, the word that's used there can be translated immediately. So like the New International Version translation will translate that as a just now. It says in verse 6, but Timothy, just now, he just now has come to us from you. Why do I even labor that? Because I think that's the right way to translate that verse. Because Paul immediately sends this letter back to the Thessalonians. He immediately wants to respond. He's overjoyed. He's heard all they're going through. They're suffering. They're going down a rocky road, a difficult path. And he wants to encourage them. He wants to teach them further. And you'll see one of the primary things he wants to educate them on is, that the Lord's returning. Much of the rest of this letter and the second letter is dealing with the subject of the return of Christ, right? And we'll talk about that a little bit in a moment here. So this letter is sent back, we don't know by who, none of those details are really given to us, but he dispatches a letter to the church immediately. So he sees, in whatever Timothy conveyed to him, signs of a living faith. Signs of a vivacious living faith in the church. And he's thrilled. He's overjoyed. He's encouraged. Even though he's going through his own trials, it brings encouragement to him. And what he sees, what's laid out here, is a couple things. I jotted down two. One of the signs that just proved positive in the heart of Paul that they were walking with the Lord is that amidst their persecutions, They retained faith and agape love. And that doesn't come across in our translation, but it's the word agape. The love that God poured out in their hearts, right? It's a love that's bestowed upon, not because the object of our love is lovely, right? God sets His love on us. When we were yet in sin and transgressions, God poured out His love and sent His Son to die for us. It's not because we were so lovely. It was a decision God made to set His love upon His elect. And he says, I see that love in you. I've heard of it from Timothy and your strong faith. And also, the second thing that he sees in the church is their mutual yearning to be reunited with Paul and his companions. The church basically told Timothy, oh, tell him to come as soon as he can. We would love to have him come. We'll try to get everything ready for him. We want to go to the school of God. And we would love if Paul could be the teacher, is what they're saying. They want to have Paul return. They have mutual affection and a yearning to be reunited. And so Paul's comforted concerning their faith. You ever know somebody that maybe you had influence with, or maybe you got to teach for a while, maybe you shared the gospel, and then you watched God bring them to Christ through the gospel, and you lose touch with them for so long, and then you're finally, you look and you think, that's so-and-so, and you go up to them, and you want to know, first thing you're thinking, at least for me, is are you still in the faith? A number of years ago, I was reunited with the man that led me to the Lord, and he had gotten away from the Lord. Because I just said, well, how's your walk? His name's Mike. I said, how's your walk, Michael? He goes, well, lately, not too good. And he had just drifted. He hadn't lost his faith. He had drifted. And I was able to encourage him some. But we're longing, when we meet people, to see that they have a rock-solid faith. And when they do, aren't you thrilled? We've had, in this little church, people come through the door that had came here years earlier. And I think it encourages them, that they see that the church is still here, the Word of God is still being preached, we're still in the faith, they're still in the faith. It does thrill the soul, and that's what the Apostle Paul is describing here. When I read this, my mind immediately went to 2 John. Because I love the verse I'm going to read to you in 2 John, the letters, you know, there's three letters, in 2 John, the second letter. And it says in 2 John, in verse 4, I rejoiced greatly that I have found your children walking in truth as we received command from the Father. I rejoiced greatly when I saw that people I know are walking with God. And it just thrills my heart. Oh sure, I'm going through trials. I'm going through problems. I'm on a rocky road. But when I hear that a brother or sister is still rock solid in the faith, I'm thrilled in my soul over that. That's why I like that we have our little praise time. Every once in a while, somebody will speak something along those lines, and it encourages me. That's why I like to fellowship with other churches, to hear what God's doing in their churches, the other pastors, and it thrills my soul. I rejoice with them that rejoice when they tell me what God's doing in their little congregation, in their little town, right? He says that he heard that they stand fast in the Lord. Somebody wrote, I can't remember where I got this at, the word here that is translated, stand fast, carries the connotation of a soldier holding their position against an enemy attack. This image of warfare is used metaphorically in the New Testament to describe spiritual conflict. It's the same idea as 1 Corinthians 16.13, which is also a military idea, which says, watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. Now doesn't that sound like a commander in a military campaign speaking to the troops? Doesn't it? And yet the Lord sends apostles who wrote the Bible, much of the Bible, to say these things to the church. Watch. Stand fast in the faith. Be brave. Be strong. Know the wiles of the devil. Understand you're under attack. The pressures are there. But stand fast in your faith. And Paul says that of this church. So Paul and his companions are also going under affliction and distress, he says in verse 7. And I want to go through just briefly that Macedonian campaign. You can look in the maps of your Bible and kind of see how they went up north and Greece and circled around and whatnot. So in Philippi we talked about they were beaten and jailed and defamed in Philippi. They go to Thessalonica and they're persecuted and they're expelled. They go to Berea and the Jews from Thessalonica follow them there and stir up the crowd. They're expelled again. They have to leave. He goes to Athens and alone he can't stand it anymore. He's seen so many idols and sees such faithlessness and idolatry that he finally has to preach. And Karen and I, I think I told you before, I was blessed to be able to go to Athens and we weren't meant to go to Morris Hill and all that. And I asked my tour guide, I said, can I go where Paul stood and preach? She goes, it's right over there. But it's just a rock now. I don't know what it looked like then that day. And I got up on that rock. And I was thrilled of soul to just think, can you imagine Paul preaching there? But what happened? They mocked him. They jeered him. What's this babbler babbling about? And now he goes to Corinth. where he's writing this letter. And when he goes to Corinth, if you remember, Jesus appears to him in a vision, in a night vision, because Paul needed to be encouraged. He wasn't Superman, right? He needed encouragement. And Jesus comes in a night vision and says, if you want to read it later, whatever, Acts 18, 9, 10, 11, Jesus says, do not be afraid. Why did Jesus say that to Paul? I think because he was afraid. He had been through a lot. And his faith was, not his faith was rocked, but he was just afraid that people were going to take him and beat him. Jesus says, do not be afraid, but speak. And do not keep silent, for I am with you. And no one will attack you to hurt you, for I have many people in this city." What's Jesus talking about? He had many people in the city. They were the elect that hadn't heard the gospel yet. And he says that you need to go forth and don't be afraid and speak. And if that's not a word to us as a church, because don't we get fearful? Don't we think, oh, I really ought to say something to this person. I really ought to share the Lord. I really ought to tell them that what they're doing is actually the Bible calls that sin, and let them know there's a way out, that there's a Savior that was sent. And we get afraid, and we don't speak. And Jesus says, don't be afraid, but speak, is what he says. And later, Paul writes to the Corinthian church in 1 Corinthians 2, 3, and he himself says, I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. So Paul was rocked a little bit by everything that was going on around him. Remember when God was calling Saul, who became the apostle Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles, that he said, I'm going to show him all he must suffer for my name's sake. And that wasn't, in my opinion, that wasn't punitive. He wasn't saying, I'm going to punish him by making him suffer. And what Jesus was saying, I'm going to use him so mightily that the suffering is automatically going to follow. It's always going to follow faithfulness to Christ. It's always going to, beloved. Don't let that catch you unawares that some strange thing has happened to you. So prayers, night and day, Paul says. We've been praying for you night and day, earnestly praying for you. And he ends this section here by... Oh, one other thing I want to point out before I read the prayer, because he actually puts a prayer into the letter. is that he says that he wants to come back to them and perfect what is lacking in their faith. perfect what is lacking in their faith. He didn't mean they didn't have saving faith. It's the same word that's used when Jesus comes to the shores, he's James and John, and says that they were in the boat mending their nets. It's the same word that's used there, mending, mending. And so somebody wrote, I wish I tried to tell who wrote these great quotes, but somebody wrote, Paul's use here beautifully illustrates his intense desire to return to the Thessalonians, not just for fellowship, but for the specific intentional purpose of strengthening and maturing their faith, repairing any areas of weakness, and fitting them for a life of Christian service." I thought that was so well said. It's not that they didn't have saving faith. He went to go there to repair any areas of weakness. Right? Through the teaching and the preaching. I thought that was worth pausing and sharing with you. So let's read the last of this, verses 11 to 13. And this is Paul's actual prayer. Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way to you. And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you, so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all the saints." That end part there, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all the saints, that is a repeated theme in the letters to the church in Thessalonica. that we're to live our lives in light of the coming of Christ. And there's two things that he says. He wants them to be blameless, and that has to do with moral living. He's going to deal in chapter 4 with some immorality that's still lingering in the church, that Timothy obviously told Paul about. So he wants them to be blameless, and to be found in holiness. Now that's a little bit different. That's the idea of being set apart by God for God. We're set apart unto God. And he says to the church, when the Lord shows up, when the Lord arrives, could be today, I want him to find you blameless, morally so, and found set apart unto Christ, is what he's saying to the church. That's a good place for me to stop. So I will. Our Father and our God, we thank you for your word. It's so wonderful. It's so edifying. It's so instructive, Lord. It rebukes us at times. So Lord, I pray that you take your word, which is perfect, and whatever teaching I did, which is not. Lord, I just pray that you just allow the solid kernel of wheat truth to remain and blow any of the chaff away. And Lord, let us meditate on these things this week. And Lord, I thank you for that. In Jesus' name, amen. The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Go in the peace of Christ Jesus to a world