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04/29          1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

For some of the Jews had killed their own prophets, and some even killed the Lord Jesus. Now they have persecuted us and driven us out. They displease God and oppose everyone 16 by trying to keep us from preaching the Good News to the Gentiles, for fear some might be saved. By doing this, they continue to pile up their sins. But the anger of God has caught up with them at last.

AVOID

Avoid displeasing the Lord. Accept Jesus as your Lord. Accept His free gift of life and light for living. He is Lord.

04/28          1 Thessalonians 2:13-14

And we will never stop thanking God that when we preached his message to you, you didn’t think of the words we spoke as being just our own. You accepted what we said as the very word of God — which, of course, it was. And this word continues to work in you who believe. 14 And then, dear brothers and sisters, you suffered persecution from your own countrymen. In this way, you imitated the believers in God’s churches in Judea who, because of their belief in Christ Jesus, suffered from their own people, the Jews.

IMITATION

Imitation is called for-we are to imitate the Lord Jesus Christ as we live our life. He put the Father first and did everything the Father told Him to do. Listen to Jesus and do what He says.

04/27          1 Thessalonians 2:10-12

You yourselves are our witnesses — and so is God — that we were pure and honest and faultless toward all of you believers. 11 And you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children. 12 We pleaded with you, encouraged you, and urged you to live your lives in a way that God would consider worthy. For he called you into his Kingdom to share his glory.

BE

We must first learn to be the person that the Lord Jesus called. Forgiven, focused and forgiving. This is step one. Learn to be first and then learn to do. Do what He says, be who you are and let Him have control of you.

04/26          1 Thessalonians 2:8-9

We loved you so much that we gave you not only God’s Good News but our own lives, too. 9 Don’t you remember, dear brothers and sisters, how hard we worked among you? Night and day we toiled to earn a living so that our expenses would not be a burden to anyone there as we preached God’s Good News among you.

GOOD NEWS

The Good News is a message from God that He loves you. He died for your sin while you were still dead in your sin. He lives today and gives you His life. When we come to Jesus we accept His free gift of life and live in Him.

04/25          1 Thessalonians 2:6-7

As for praise, we have never asked for it from you or anyone else. 7 As apostles of Christ we certainly had a right to make some demands of you, but we were as gentle among you as a mother feeding and caring for her own children.

NEW

When we minister with New Christians we are responsible for their well being. Mature Christians never demand their way, are not puffed up nor self centered. They deal with them out of love caring for them as if they were precious little children. We are responsible for our brother/sister and as a mature Christian we often have to put ourselves second or third.

04/24          1 Thessalonians 2:5

Never once did we try to win you with flattery, as you very well know. And God is our witness that we were not just pretending to be your friends so you would give us money!

FRIENDS

Be a friend. Ask for nothing. Give everything. Jesus loves you therefore love one another. Be the Gospel where you are.

04/23          1 Thessalonians 2:3-4

So you can see that we were not preaching with any deceit or impure purposes or trickery. 4 For we speak as messengers who have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He is the one who examines the motives of our hearts.

TRUST

We trust the Lord. He gives us His marching orders. We follow Him. We say only what He calls us to say. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

04/22          1 Thessalonians 2:1-2

You yourselves know, dear brothers and sisters, that our visit to you was not a failure. 2 You know how badly we had been treated at Philippi just before we came to you and how much we suffered there. Yet our God gave us the courage to declare his Good News to you boldly, even though we were surrounded by many who opposed us.

BOLDLY

We can live our life boldly for the Lord. He is worthy of our temporal life and momentary death-Christ is the Lord and He is our Lord. Do not let the cares and worries of this life sidetrack you because the One we follow is greater than anything. He gives you His joy and His peace.

04/21          1 Thessalonians 1:10

And they speak of how you are looking forward to the coming of God’s Son from heaven — Jesus, whom God raised from the dead. He is the one who has rescued us from the terrors of the coming judgment.

SECURITY

Jesus is our security. He gives us His life, His light and He is the Living Lord in whom we depend for all things. Jesus is Lord and He is Lord of my life.

04/20          1 Thessalonians 1:6-9

So you received the message with joy from the Holy Spirit in spite of the severe suffering it brought you. In this way, you imitated both us and the Lord. 7 As a result, you yourselves became an example to all the Christians in Greece. 8 And now the word of the Lord is ringing out from you to people everywhere, even beyond Greece, for wherever we go we find people telling us about your faith in God. We don’t need to tell them about it, 9 for they themselves keep talking about the wonderful welcome you gave us; and how you turned away from idols to serve the true and living God.

LIVE

Live your life in such a way that all will know that you are following the Lord. How do we do this? Love one another, care for the hurting and die to self for others. This will require the leadership of the Holy Spirit. You cannot live this way in the flesh.