Category: 1 Thessalonians 1
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Tests of True Faith – Part 5
1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 “You turned to God . . . to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.” Tests of true faith are found many places in Scripture. One such place is in the opening chapter of 1 Thessalonians. Here, the…
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Tests of True Faith – Part 4
1 Thessalonians 1:9 “You turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.” Marks of true belief: Paul is telling us about them as he writes to the believers at Thessalonica in the verse above. He tells us a whole series of things about them that identified them as those who are…
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Tests of True Faith – Part 3
1 Thessalonians 1:8 “The word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and in Achaia.” Tests of true faith: the Bible is full of them, for God would not have us to be self-deceived about who we really are. Often you hear people talk about how they are trying to “find themselves,” “know…
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Tests of True Faith – Part 2
1 Thessalonians 1:6 “You received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit.” Are you a true Christian? How would you describe yourself? Do the words above describe you, for it’s with these words that Paul was describing the true believers that made up the Thessalonian church? So, what is he…
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Tests of True Faith
1 Thessalonians 1:2-5 “We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not only in word,…
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Predestined
1 Thessalonians 1:4-5 “For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction.” Despite what the Bible says about the topic, one of the greatest sources of disagreement among Christians over the centuries has been the…
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Motivated by the Invisible
1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 “We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.” Those who call themselves born again believers in Jesus Christ believe in a God that they cannot see. Because…
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The Gospel and the Power of God
1 Thessalonians 1:5 “Our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction.” The gospel message is like no other in many ways. For one, it is a message of salvation to the lost. It is hope to the hopeless, and peace to those who…
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The Gospel
1 Thessalonians 1:5 “Our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction.” The gospel: the meaning of the word is “good message” or “good news.” Throughout the Bible it is further identified as “the gospel of the kingdom of God” (Mark 1:14), “the gospel…
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Influence
1 Thessalonians 1:2 “We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantlymentioning you in our prayers” Influence. The dictionary defines it as follows: “the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself.” It’s something that we desire to exert in the lives…
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