A Practical Exhortation

 

1. Paul's

 

    a. Request - 2 Thess 3:1-2

 

    b. Reassurance - 2 Thess 3:3-5

 

    c. Reprimand - 2 Thess 3:6

             - 2 Thess 3:11-15

 

2. The recipients of this reprimand

 

    a. The disorderly - 2 Thess 3:6,11

 

    b. The busybodies - 2 Thess 3:11

 

    c. The loafers - 2 Thess 3:10

 

    d. The disobedient - 2 Thess 3:14

 

3. The nature of this reprimand

 

    a. Identify them! - 2 Thess 3:14

 

    b. Admonish them! - 2 Thess 3:15

 

    c. Excommunicate them (if unrepentant) - 2 Thess 3:6,14

 

    d. Love them as a brother (through it all) -

                                     2 Thess 3:15