The Galatians were admonished concerning another gospel,
While heeding the traditions of men
they too could be sinful;
When the fullness of time had come
God sent forth His Son
To redeem those under the under law
and give to them freedom.
Christ has called us to freedom, away
from the grip of slavery
So we ought to walk in the Spirit
reflecting God’s sovereignty;
The deeds of the flesh are evident:
immorality, strife, idolatry,
But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy and peace and humility.
The Ephesians had lost their love;
Paul had written to Timothy,
They concentrated on their deeds
while forgetting God’s mercy;
In Christ we are redeemed; with the
Holy Spirit we were sealed,
Christ’s hope, his glory, his
greatness to us are being revealed.
Paul wrote to the Philippians to
thank them for their love gift
But he also paid attention to a
dangerous and widening rift;
He admonished us to think on things
that are true and pure,
We can do all things through Christ;
of this we can be assured.
The Colossians were being bombarded
with a Gnostic heresy,
Paul sought to draw their attention
to Christ’s deity and supremacy;
He told them to forgive one another
as Christ had forgiven them
And to seek those things are above
was another precious gem.
Three more spiritual commodities were
peace and love and unity,
The peace of God should rule our
hearts for we are all one body;
Wives are to submit to their
husbands; husbands love their wives,
Children must obey their parents;
this is how the family thrives.
Thessalonians number one: to persevere
despite persecution,
To moral laxity and laziness some were
showing an inclination;
Paul had to refute charges of
preaching to fatten their wallets,
And when he did not return that he was a
coward and hypocrite.
Satan having thwarted him he decided
to send to them Timothy,
Paul taught on sanctification;
abstaining from sexual immorality;
Love one another and lead a quiet
life; two of the other concerns
And those who die in Christ will be
first to rise when he returns.
The day of the Lord will come, said
he just like a thief in the night,
People will say peace and safety then
sudden will be their plight;
Do not quench the Spirit and examine
all prophecies carefully,
And may the peace from God himself
sanctify all of us entirely.
Thessalonians number two; Paul spoke
to the church condition,
The Thessalonians continued to grow
in spite of persecution;
But there was some false teaching
concerning the Lord’s return,
Some saints had quit their jobs and
this was a serious concern.
Some of them were undisciplined and
were not working at all,
Let them eat their own bread was the
instruction given by Paul;
Do not grow weary in well doing was
given to those of diligence,
And the Lord of peace grant them
peace in every circumstance.
Paul’s first pastoral epistle was
addressed to Pastor Timothy,
To instruct certain men to restrain
from the teaching of heresy;
He spoke of the mercy of God, about
His enduring patience,
About fighting the fight of faith and
having a clear conscience.
Paul addressed relationship like
between a woman and a man,
Adam was created first; how the woman
was deceived, not Adam;
Overseers must be above reproach;
free from the love of money,
In the second letter to Timothy Paul
was confined to a Roman jail,
He encouraged Timothy even in times
of hardship he must prevail;
In God was no spirit of fear but of
love, a sound mind and power,
To guard the treasure entrusted him
should be his sole endeavour.
For men will love themselves and
vigorously attacked the truth,
But all Scripture is good for
teaching, for correction and reproof;
Paul had fought a good fight; the
time of his departure had come,
He was certainly confident that he
would enter God’s kingdom.
Titus was a Gentile convert that had
travelled with the apostle Paul,
Working with the church in Corinth he answered the master’s call
To organise the churches in
Crete and appoint elders in every city,
Called to exhort in sound
doctrine and refute those that disagree.
Philemon had a slave, Onesimus, that
robbed him and ran away,
But divine providence would have it that
he met Paul a certain day;
Philemon was Paul’s brother in Christ
so Paul did write him a letter
To receive the repentant Onesimus,
not as a slave, but as a brother.
Stewart Russell © 2013
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