Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. The title of our post today, Help Turn the Tide.

Second Thessalonians 3, 1 and 2, the Passion Translation, Tell us, finally, dear brothers and sisters, pray for us, this is Paul speaking,

pray for us that the Lord's message will continue to spread rapidly and its glory be recognized

everywhere just as it was with you. And pray that God will rescue us from wicked and evil people, for not everyone believes the message.

Passages such as these as this make clear the incredible importance of prayer, and also that God's will is not automatic or guaranteed simply because of his

sovereignty. As I stated in yesterday's post, we involve Holy Spirit through our prayers. In these

verses, Paul says that prayer is needed in order for the Lord's message to spread rapidly

and its glory be recognized. The success of the gospel is linked to our prayers. Incredible. He also instructed us, Paul, that is, in this passage,

to pray for rescue from wicked and evil people. The word wicked comes from the Greek word

atopas.

The note in the Passion Translation says this Greek word can also be translated as weird,

irrational, absurd, and disgusting.

Evil, in the above verses is translated from Poneros.

Thayer's lexicon says this word can refer to a bad condition in a physical sense,

such as being diseased or blind, and in an ethical sense, evil, wicked, bad.

In what is often referred to as the Lord's Prayer, the word is used to refer to Satan as the

evil one. Using these definitions, all of the above, we are told to pray for rescue from wicked, weird,

irrational, absurd, disgusting, evil people. It's pretty easy to apply some of these terms to what goes on at our government today,

insisting that toddlers have enough understanding to want to change to their gender,

and allowing confused children to be castrated is wicked, weird, irrational, absurd, and disgusting, and evil.

Sending drag queens to indoctrinate innocent kindergartners is wicked, weird, irrational, absurd, disgusting, and evil.

Allowing criminals to go free and walk our streets to steal, rape, and murder is wicked, weird,

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