What a Way to Say Good-bye!, Part 2

Insight for Living Daily Broadcast

Chuck Swindoll - Insight for Living

Christian, Religious And Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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1 Thessalonians 5:23–28 In some of Paul’s final words in his first letter to the Thessalonians, he writes, “God will make this happen, for he who calls you is faithful” (1 Thessalonians 5:24). With Pastor Chuck Swindoll, examine Paul’s profound farewell to the Thessalonians. Reflect on the God of peace and grace. Remember the cross. Live out the great truths found in this small but impactful letter.

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0:00.0	What does it mean to be preserved? Not sheltered from the world, but insulated in it.
0:12.0	Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall brings his 12-part study on contagious Christianity to a close
0:19.0	by highlighting Paul's remarkable farewell.
0:22.6	It's a benediction in which Paul asks God to seal us completely from the contamination of this
0:27.6	world, spirit, soul, and body until Jesus returns.
0:31.6	And it all rests on one word that Paul used to open his letter, Grace.
0:36.6	Chuck titled this message,
0:39.0	What a way to say goodbye.
0:41.1	And we're beginning in 1, Thessalonians, Chapter 5.
0:51.1	Now, he's saying here,
0:53.4	may the God himself set you apart entirely, free from contamination, confusion, and wickedness.
1:00.8	All that poison removed.
1:03.5	Second, may he preserve you completely.
1:07.5	Eyeball the word preserve for a moment, okay?
1:11.2	Preserve.
1:12.6	It means to watch over, to guard, to keep.
1:16.8	One old lexicographer named Thayer wrote,
1:21.2	this term expresses watchful care.
1:23.5	It indicates safe custody and often implies assault from without.
1:29.0	Hmm. Assault of what? Contamination. Think of the word preserves. Okay? I remember as a little boy, helping my folks can. They let me help them one time. We canned tubs of peaches. My mom got a run on
1:48.5	peaches at the farmer's market, and she came home with bushels of those things. And so, well, we
1:54.1	were boiling them up, and we had cur jars, and we had seal them tight, and I got tired and had
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