ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER
2 Thessalonians 1-10
RECOGNIZING THE WORK OF THE HOLY TRINITY
V:1. Paul, Silas, and
Timothy: To the Church of the Thessalonians which is in God our
Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ.
A. It is good to recognize the Church in the Holy Trinity.
1. The person of
God the Father and the person of God the Son is mention.
2. The person of
the Holy Spirit is implied because our desire to the study
Word comes
through the power of His indwelling .
B. It is the conviction of the Holy Spirit that drives us
into a deep relationship
with the Father
and thus a deeper relationship with each other.
1. The Spirit is
always active, even if we are not submissive to it.
ENCOURAGING OTHER IN THE FAITH
V:2-3. May grace and
peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
3 Unceasing thanks
are due from us to God on your behalf, brethren. They are
appropriate
because your faith is growing greatly, and the love of every one of you
for all the others goes on increasing.
A. Grace is God's favor to us out of His divine Love.
1. Peace is
derived from the confidence we have in the promises of the Lord Jesus.
2. Grace is
automatic, but peace is what we have work on daily.
3. Notice, grace
and peace is granted to us from the Father and the Son.
B. We should be careful not to believe that peace is the
absent of turmoil.
1. We can have
peace in the mist of turmoil if we trust the Lord to work
things out in
our behalf.
2. This joy I have
the world didn't give it and the world cannot take it away.
C. We should encourage each other in the Lord
1. It is good to
know that someone takes the time to include you in their prayers.
2. It good to know
that a group of people have you in their prayers.
3. It is also good
to know other believers know your work for the Lord and are
praying for
your success in the minister.
D. We ought to be
thankful and encouraged that others labor in the work of
the Lord.
1. Everyone's
work for Christ is important to growth of the Church.
2. Everyone's
work is a testimony to power and unity of the Gospel.
YOUR PAIN IN BEING A SERVENT IS YOUR GAIN
V:4-5 It so increases that we ourselves make honourable
mention of you among the Churches of God because of your patience and faith
amid all your persecutions and amid the afflictions which you are enduring.
5 For these are a plain token of God's righteous judgement,
which has in view your being deemed worthy of admission to God's Kingdom, for
the sake of which, indeed, you are sufferers.
A. The work you do for God gets around to others Churches.
1. God insures
that others know of your faith.
2. The trials and tribulations we face are
designed by God to increase our faith
James says: James
1:2-5
Consider it
pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3
because you
know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4
Perseverance must finish its work so that you
may be mature and complete, not
lacking
anything.
3. The reason for our trials is the righteous judgment of
God to prove us
worthy for
admission into His kingdom.
a. This gives
meaning to this verse
Philippians
2:12-13
Wherefore,
my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but
now much
more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and
trembling.
For it is
God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good
b. Salvation is
through faith and not works.
c. James 2:17
Thus also
faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
LET GOD BE THE JUDGE OF YOUR ENEMIES
V:6 A plain token of God's righteous judgement, I say, since
it is a righteous thing for Him to
requite with affliction those who are now afflicting you;
7 and to requite with rest you who are suffering affliction
now--rest with us at the re-appearing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven, attended
by His mighty angels.
A. God is the avenger of those who trouble us.
1. Go know how
and when to care of your enemies.
2. God has a way
of hurting people in ways we cannot imagine.
3. Deuteronomy
32:35
"Vengeance is Mine, and retribution,
In due time
their foot will slip; For the day of their calamity is near."
B. Everything works best in God's time.
1. Romans 8:28
And we know
that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who
have been
called according to his purpose.
2. We never know
whether the enemy we have today will become the friend of God
tomorrow.
3. God's
discipline of those who trouble us, my be what turns them to God.
THE JUDGEMENT OF THE UNSAVED
V:8-9. " He will come in flames of fire to take
vengeance on those who have no knowledge of God, and do not obey the Good News
as to Jesus, our Lord.
9 They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, being
banished from the presence of the Lord and from His glorious majesty."
A. In God's eyes, there are two types of people; those who
obey Him and those
who reject Him.
1. There are
those who are predestine to be with Christ before the foundation of the
earth.
2. There are
those who were not predestine to be with Christ.
3. God does not give us the wisdom to know the
difference.
4. The
only thing we can do is thank God for His Grace and mercy He
bestowed
upon us calling us out of the world.
B. Those who reject Christ by their own will with face
damnation to Hell.
1. In my mind it
does not seem fair that God chose some over others to
be with Him
in heaven,
2. But our ways
are not His ways and our thoughts are not His thoughts,
3. Thank God for
choosing us.
A HOME IN HEAVEN, THE SOURCE OF JOY
V:10. When He comes
on that day to be glorified in His people and to be wondered at among all who
have believed, including you--because you believed the testimony which we
brought for your acceptance.
A. It is not by our will that we were drawn to Christ, but
His Will
1. Our will is
only evil.
2. 1 Corinthians
1:9
God, who has
called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is
faithful.
B. When God called us out of the world, the transformation
from evil heart to
a righteous heart
began.
1. 2 Corinthians 3:17-18
Now the Lord is
the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But
we all, with
unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into
the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2. We can claim
nothing in our transformation.
Romans 8:30
And those he
predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he
justified, he
also glorified.
3. Even the faith we
have in Jesus did not originate with us.
Romans 12:3
For I say,
through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to
think of himself
more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as
God hath dealt
to every man the measure of faith.
4. God is love. His
love for us originated in Him.
THANK GOD FOR HIS SERVANTS
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia
Baptist Church
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