Fr. Mike Schmitz
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We'll meet them again is the hope we have.
St.
Paul concludes this first letter with these words of exhortation, which are so great.
Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in all circumstances for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
I love this line.
It's the last thing here.
He says, do not quench the spirit.
Do not despise prophesying, but test everything.
Hold fast to what is good.
There's that piece of, yep, people have a word from the Lord.
Okay, great.
Let's test it.
That's so important for us to do because too many people can be too easily misled if they just say, oh, that's from God.
I guess I'll believe it.
Nope.
If someone is given a word, given a word of prophecy, we've read the entire Bible, you
false prophecy.
And so what we need to do is test everything and retain what is good.
Ah, so good.
What an incredible, incredible gift today has been concluding that second letter of St.