2 THESSALONIANS 1 REVIEW

 

Sunday Morning:  September 3, 2000

Text: 2 Thessalonians 1:1  "Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord [master, Col. 4:1]Jesus Christ:"

THE CHURCH

1 Thessalonians 1:4  "Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God."

THESSALONICA

Acts 17:5  "But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people."

MASTER

Colossians 4:1  "Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven."

GRACE AND PEACE

2 Thessalonians 1:2  "Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."

MULTIPLIED UNTO YOU

2 Peter 1:2  "Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,"

GRACE

1 Corinthians 9:12  "If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ."

 

Philippians 4:6-7  "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."

CHANGE

2 Thessalonians 1:3  "We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;"

FAITH

1 Thessalonians 3:10  "Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?"

LOVE

1 Thessalonians 3:12-13  "And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

UNBLAMEABLE IN HOLINESS

13. To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints."

YE ENDURE

2 Thessalonians 1:4  "So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:"

TRIBULATION

Acts 14:22  "Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God."

AFFLICTIONS

1 Peter 5:8-9  "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9. Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world."

BEAR FRUIT

John 15:8  "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples."

KINGDOM FOR FRUIT BEARERS

Matthew 21:43  "Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."

UNFRUITFUL

Matthew 13:22  "He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful."

ENDURE

2 Timothy 2:12-13  "If we suffer [endure], we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: 13. If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself."

RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD

2 Thessalonians 1:5  "Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:"

ENDURED THE CROSS

Hebrews 12:2  "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."

OVERCOMER

Revelation 3:21-22  "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches."

WOE TO THOSE WHO OFFEND

2 Thessalonians 1:6-9  "Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 7. And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8. In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;"

OFFENCES WILL COME

Luke 17:1  "Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!"

OFFENDED ARE UNFRUITFUL

Matthew 13:21  "Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended."

I WILL RECOMPENSE

Hebrews 10:30  "For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people."

OUT OF HIS KINGDOM

Matthew 13:41-42  "The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

GLORIFIED IN HIS SAINTS

2 Thessalonians 1:10  "When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day."

PRAISE, HONOR, AND GLORY

1 Peter 1:6-7  "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7. That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:"

FULFILL HIS GOOD PLEASURE

2 Thessalonians 1:11  "Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:"

GOOD PLEASURE OF HIS WILL

Ephesians 1:5-6  "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6. To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved."

HIS GOOD PLEASURE

Ephesians 1:9-11  "Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 10. That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: 11. In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:"

CALLED UNTO HIS KINGDOM

1 Thessalonians 2:12  "That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory."

ACCORDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD

2 Thessalonians 1:12  "That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ."

GLORIFIED TOGETHER

Romans 8:17  "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together."