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Church in View of Christ’s Coming!
1 THESSALONIANS 5:5, 8, 11 5For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness… 8But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation… 11Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. One of the primary themes of 1 Thessalonians is Christ’s second coming.…
Living for God’s Pleasure in View of Christ’s Coming!
1 THESSALONIANS 4:1 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. While the first part of this letter recounts all that had happened so far, the rest focuses on instructions for the believers, especially as they waited in hope for Christ’s glorious return. Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy urged the…
Suffering in View of Christ’s Coming!
1 THESSALONIANS 3:1–3 1Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone, 2and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith, 3that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this. Imagine losing contact with someone you love and not knowing how the person is doing. Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy…
Serving in View of Christ’s Coming!
1 THESSALONIANS 2:11–12 11For you know how, like a father with his children, 12we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory. Acts 17 gives us the account of how the church in Thessalonica was birthed. The gospel was preached, people responded, and persecution quickly followed, which led to Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy being separated from the new believers. This…
Faith in View of Christ’s Coming!
1 THESSALONIANS 1:9–10 9For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come. Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy wrote a letter to encourage the young church in Thessalonica. This church-planting team had preached the gospel and planted a thriving…
A Charge to Stay on Mission
DEUTERONOMY 9:5 “Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” God, through Moses, was making it clear to the Israelites that He had a purpose for bringing them into…
Fatherly Encouragement to Continue
2 TIMOTHY 1:8 “Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God…” Paul went through many hardships as he carried out his mission of preaching the gospel. This was causing people to abandon him and the mission. But relying on God as he went through these trials enabled him to impart valuable lessons to the next generation. He wrote this letter…
A Charge to Trust
DEUTERONOMY 8:18 “You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.” For forty years, the Israelites depended completely on God for their survival. But as they were about to enter the land He had promised, Moses told them that God would give them the power to get wealth. They may or may not have…
A Charge to Remember
DEUTERONOMY 8:2–4 2“And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. 3And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by…
A Charge to Obey
DEUTERONOMY 8:1 “The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers.” In his last message to the Israelite nation in Deuteronomy 8, Moses addressed them before they entered the Promised Land. He reminded them that they had a covenant relationship with the Lord their God. This covenant or agreement, which God Himself initiated…