- Increased faith and love in persecution is a sign that
believers will be counted worthy of kingdom (1:5)
- Increased persecution is evidence that God is just and
right (1:5)
- God will give relief to those who are troubled,
including the apostles (1:7)
- Believers are chosen to be saved by God (2:13)
- Beleivers are saved by the sanctifying work of the
Sprit and through belief in the truth (2:13)
- Beleivers are called through the gospel to share the
glory of the Lord Jesus Christ (2:14)
- This is the basis for standing firm in the teachings
we have received (2:15)
- God loved us and gave us eternal encouragement and
good hope by His grace (2:16)
- He is the one who encourages our hearts and
strengthens us for service in deed and word (2:17)
- The Lord is faithful to strengthen and protect us from
the evil one (3:3)
- Beleivers encouraged to never tire of doing what is
right (3:13)
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- God will pay back trouble to those who trouble his
church (1:6)
- He will punish those who do notknow God or obey the
Gospel of the Lord (1:8)
- They will be punished with everlasting destruction and
shut out from the presence of the Lord (1:9)
- God sends a powerful delusion so that they will
believe the lie (2:11)
- So everyone who has not believed the truth, but has
delighted in wickedness, will be condemned (2:12)
| The Truth about Children Who Act Like Hopeless Enemies |
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- Avoidance of idler and rebel is commanded by Paul
(3:6)
- Idlers are commanded to settle down and earn the bread
they eat (3:12)
- Anyone in rebellion against apostolic authority is to
be shunned so that they will be ashamed (3:14)
- Yet, the rebel is not to be regarded as a pagan, but
as a brother (3:15)
- The man of lawlessness will set himself up in God's
temple, proclaiming himself to be God (2:4)
- The man of lawlessness will oppose and exalt himself
over everything worshipped as God (2:4)
- The one who holds it back will continue to do so until
he is taken out of the way (2:7)
- The secret power of lawlessness is already at work
(2:7)
- The man of lawlessness will be destroyed by the
splendor of Jesus coming (2:8)
- Then the man of lawlessness will be revealed (2:8)
- The man of lawlessness will be overthrown by Jesus, by
the breath of his mouth (2:8)
- The coming of lawlessness will be in accordance with
the work of Satan (2:9)
- The work of lawlessness will come with counterfeit
miracles, signs, and wonders (2:9)
- The coming of lawlessness will be with every type of
evil that deceives those who are perishing (2:10)
- God will comfort his people when Jesus is revealed
from heaven (1:7)
- Jesus will be revealed with blazing fire with his
powerful angels (1:7)
- He will be glorified in His holy people and marvelled
at among those who have believed (1:10)
- This will happen on the day he comes to be glorified
in his holy people (1:10)
- The day of the Lord will not come until the rebellion
when the man of lawlessness is revealed (2:3)
- A Community In Need Of Re-Evaluation And Focus
- A True Evaluation Of The Thessalonian Community
- Thessalonian believers were suffering on behalf of
God's kingdom (1:5)
- They are included because they believed the testimony
of Paul (1:10)
- The Thessalonians are included in the throng of
marvelling believers (1:10)
- The Thessalonians faith and love are both growing
(2:3)
- Paul boasts about their perseverence and faith in
persecutions and trials (2:4)
- Paul has confidence in the Lord that the Thessalonians
will be faithful (3:4)
- Thessalonians told to avoid the idler and the rebel
against his teaching (3:6)
- Some among the Thessalonians are idle busybodies
(3:11)
| A COMMUNITY THAT NEEDS TO KNOW THERE'S STILL HOPE:
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- Paul prays that God will count them worthy of his
calling (1:11)
- Paul prays that by God's power he will fulfill every
good purpose of theirs (1:11)
- Paul prays that God will fulfill every act prompted by
faith (1:11)
- He prays this so that they might be glorified in
Christ (1:12)
- He prays this so the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
will be glorified in them (1:12)
- God chose the Thessalonians to be saved through the
Spirit's sanctifying work (2:13)
- Paul's request is that the Thessalonians might be
encouraged and strengthened by God (2:16,17)
- Paul's desire is that God will direct their hearts
into His love and Christ's perseverence (3:5)
- Paul's desire for the Lord of peace to grant them
peace and be with them (3:16)
| PAUL'S PRAYERS AND DEVOTION FOR THE THESSALONIAN BELIEVERS |
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- Paul prays that God will fulfill every act prompted by
faith (1:11)
- Paul prays that God will count them worthy of his
calling (1:11)
- Paul prays that by God's power he will fulfill every
good purpose of theirs (1:11)
- Paul prays this so that they might be glorified in
Christ (1:12)
- Paul prays this so the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
will be glorified in them (1:12)
- Paul's request is that the Thessalonians might be
encouraged and strengthened by God (2:16,17)
- Paul's prayer request that the word will spread
rapidly (3:1)
- Paul's prayer request is to be delivered from the
hands of evil men (3:2)
- Paul's request is that God will direct their hearts
into His love and Christ's perseverence (3:5)
- Paul's request for the Lord of peace to grant them
peace and be with them (3:16)
- Paul sees it as necessary to thank God for the
Thessalonians (1:3)
- Paul doesn't want them to be confused or deceived
about the coming of the Lord (2:1-3)
- Paul had instructed the Thessalonians about the man of
lawlessness when with them (2:5)
- Paul rejoices in the election of the Thessalonian
believers (2:13)
- Paul reminds them of his model, and the reason for
such a model in their presence (3:6-10)
- Paul worked day and night to provide for himself while
he was with them (3:8)
- Increased persecution is evidence that God is just and
right (1:5)
- Increased faith and love in persecution is a sign that
believers will be counted worthy of kingdom (1:5)
- God will give relief to those who are troubled,
including the apostles (1:7)
- The Lord is faithful to strengthen and protect us from
the evil one (2:3)
- Believers are saved by the sanctifying work of the
Sprit and through belief in the truth (2:13)
- Believers are chosen to be saved by God (2:13)
- Believers are called through the gospel to share the
glory of the Lord Jesus Christ (2:14)
- This is the basis for standing firm in the teachings
we have received (2:15)
- God loved us and gave us eternal encouragement and
good hope by His grace (2:16)
- He is the one who encourages our hearts and
strengthens us for service in deed and word (2:17)
- God will pay back trouble to those who trouble his
church (1:6)
- He will punish those who do notknow God or obey the
Gospel of the Lord (1:8)
- They will be punished with everlasting destruction and
shut out from the presence of the Lord (1:9)
- God sends a powerful delusion so that they will
believe the lie (2:11)
- So everyone who has not believed the truth, but has
delighted in wickedness, will be condemned (2:12)
- This will happen when Jesus is revealed from heaven
(1:7)
- Jesus will be revealed with blazing fire with his
powerful angels (1:7)
- This will happen on the day he comes to be glorified
in his holy people (1:10)
- He will be glorified in His holy people and marvelled
at among those who have believed (1:10)
- The day of the Lord will not come until the rebellion
when the man of lawlessness is revealed (2:3)
- The man of lawlessness will oppose and exalt himself
over everything worshipped as God (2:4)
- The man of lawlessness will set himself up in God's
temple, proclaiming himself to be God (2:4)
- The one who holds it back will continue to do so until
he is taken out of the way (2:7)
- The secret power of lawlessness is already at work
(2:7)
- The man of lawlessness will be destroyed by the
splendor of Jesus coming (2:8)
- Then the man of lawlessness will be revealed (2:8)
- The man of lawlessness will be overthrown by Jesus, by
the breath of his mouth (2:8)
- The coming of lawlessness will be in accordance with
the work of Satan (2:9)
- The work of lawlessness will come with counterfeit
miracles, signs, and wonders (2:9)
- The coming of lawlessness will be with every type of
evil that deceives those who are perishing (2:10)
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