1 Kings 7:23 (ESV): “It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim…and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.”

“Towards the close of the year 1850, the Author first formed the design of rectifying the Circle to upwards of 300 places of decimals. He was fully aware, at that time, that the accomplishment of his purpose would add little or nothing to his fame as a Mathematician, though it might as a Computer; nor would it be productive of anything in the shape of [financial] recompense at all adequate to the labour of such lengthy computations. He was anxious to fill up scanty intervals of leisure with the achievement of something original.” (From William Shanks’ Contributions to Mathematics: Comprising Chiefly the Rectification of the Circle to 607 Places of Decimals)

1 Thessalonians 4:1-2 (ESV): “Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.”

PAUL IS PUTTING THE “ORDINARY” BACK IN “EXTRAORDINARY.”

1 Corinthians 1:27 (KJV): “God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.”

1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 (ESV): “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. 7 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. 8 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.”

1 Thessalonians 4:4 (NASB): “That each of you know how to possess his own vessel.”

1 Thessalonians 4:4 (NASB): “That each of you know how to possess his own vessel.”

Matthew 10:9 (ESV): “Acquire no gold or silver or copper for your belts.”

1 Thessalonians 4:4 (NASB): “That each of you know how to possess his own vessel.”

Matthew 10:9 (ESV): “Acquire no gold or silver or copper for your belts.”

Luke 21:19 (ESV): “By your endurance you will gain your lives.”

1 Thessalonians 4:4 (NASB): “That each of you know how to possess his own vessel.”

Acts 9:15 (KJV): “He is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name.”

1 Thessalonians 4:4 (NASB): “That each of you know how to possess his own vessel.”

Acts 9:15 (KJV): “He is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name.”

1 Peter 3:7 (BSB): “Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel.”

Romans 4:24-25 (NIV): “God will credit righteousness for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. 25 He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.”

John 3:36 (ESV): “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life.”

1 Thessalonians 4:9-12 (ESV): “Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, 10 for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, 11 and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, 12 so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.”

Matthew 20:25-26 (ESV): “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 26 It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant.”

STRIVE FOR THE EXTRA ORDINARY LIFE.

Micah 6:8 (ESV): “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”

Matthew 6:33 (ESV): “Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”

Matthew 24:45-50 (ESV): “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? 46 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 47 Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. 48 But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’ 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know.”

1 Timothy 3:12-13 (ESV): “Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well. 13 For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.”