The final chapter of First Thessalonians begins with the coming Day of the Lord (5:1-2) as it relates to the unbeliever (5:3) and the believer (5:4-10). For the unbeliever, the Day of the Lord will bring sudden destruction. However, for the believer, God has appointed us to obtain salvation. The teaching now moves from this future event to the fellowship within Christ’s church today. The church is a place of fellowship. Fellowship refers to expressions of genuine Christianity that are freely shared among members of God’s family. This includes comforting each other, edifying one another, along with leaders laboring and God’s people respecting their leaders (5:11-13). We will learn about four people and four commandments (5:14). This verse teaches us who inhabits the church and God reveals who inhabits the church and how each person is to be treated. In the church, there are unruly, discouraged, and weak or sick people. We’ll learn how we are to love and care for each other. God calls us to put God’s Word into the minds of the unruly, to remain at the side of the discouraged, and to assist those who are sick. As we follow these commands, we are to practice patience and long-suffering with all. This is how our community of faith becomes a place of sweet and dear fellowship. This is such a beautiful display of what the gospel produces in God’s people and in Christ’s church.