Category: 2 Thessalonians
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The Gift of Peace
2 Thessalonians 3:16 “Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.” One of the types of evidence that the Bible is the very Word of God is the way in which it says so much with such an economy of words. …
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Tolerance
1 Corinthians 5:9-11 “I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people — not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to…
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Failure
2 Thessalonians 3:3-5 “But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one. And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things that we command. May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness…
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A Prayer that God Honors
2 Thessalonians 3:1-2 “Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. “ One of the temptations that can come to us as we read the Bible…
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The Holders On
2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 “But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers, stand firm and…
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Wonderful Words of Life
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 “But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.” In the verses…
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Spiritual Siblings
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 “But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord” When God blesses us with the gracious gift of eternal life through faith in His Son, He becomes our Father. What an unspeakable blessing it is to know that we have a God Who loves us as His…
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Refusing to Believe the Truth
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 “The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that…
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The Mystery of Lawlessness
2 Thessalonians 2:7 “The mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.” In the verse above, Paul is talking to the Thessalonian church about the coming Day of the Lord. This “Day” is one of the ways that the Bible refers…
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Traditions
2 Thessalonians 2:15 “So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.” Throughout the Bible we are warned over and over again about being deceived by false teachers. This was one of the problems Paul dealt with in his…
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