<p>4:1 <i>Finally, brothers, we urge and exhort you in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God</i>- &ldquo;The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another... to the end He may establish your hearts&rdquo; (1 Thess. 3:12,13) gives an insight into the upward spiral of development which the Lord wishes us to partake in. The theme continues here in chapter 4: &ldquo;abound more and more&hellip; increase more and more&rdquo; (4:1,10). &quot;As you received from us&quot; lends further weight to the argument that Paul's limited contact hours with them were spent teaching them practical things about how they &quot;ought to walk&quot;, rather than theological issues- hence the gap in their knowledge about the resurrection which Paul addresses later in this chapter.</p>