EXAMPLE TO OTHERS (1 OF 10)
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 1:6-10
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Example to Others (1 of 10)
Series: Authentic Faith
Stephen Whitney
I Thessalonians 1:6-10
John Stott in Christian Counter Culture wrote, ''Few men of this century have understood better the inevitability of suffering than Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He seems never to have wavered in is Christian antagonism to the Nazi regime, although it meant for him imprisonment, the threat of torture, danger to his own family and finally death. He was executed by the direct order of Heinrich Himmler in April 1945, in the Flossenburg concentration camp, only a few days before it was liberated.
It was the fulfillment of what he had always believed and taught: ''Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master. Following Christ means . . . suffering because we have to suffer. That is why Luther reckoned suffering among the marks of the true Church.
The Augsburg Confession similarly defines the true Church as the community of those 'who are persecuted and martyred for the gospel's sake . . . Discipleship means allegiance to the suffering
Christ, and it is therefore not at all surprising that Christians should be called upon to suffer.' ''
SUFFERED AFFLICTION :6
Imitators (KJB followers) - Gk. to copy what someone else does. You do what they do to become like them (2:14; II Thess. 3:7,9).
These believers imitated the faith of Paul, Silas and Timothy and Jesus in trusting themselves to God in the midst of persecution.
Luke 23:46 As Jesus was dying on the cross he cried out in a loud voice, ''Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.''
It was a statement of complete trust in his heavenly father.
Calvin - ''His faith was unshaken . . . he boldly expresses his assurance that God is the faithful guardian of his soul.''
Affliction - Gk. lit. to press together meaning anguish, distress, oppression which often resulted in persecution and suffering. In much affliction - refers to what the Jews did when people believed. ...
Series: Authentic Faith
Stephen Whitney
I Thessalonians 1:6-10
John Stott in Christian Counter Culture wrote, ''Few men of this century have understood better the inevitability of suffering than Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He seems never to have wavered in is Christian antagonism to the Nazi regime, although it meant for him imprisonment, the threat of torture, danger to his own family and finally death. He was executed by the direct order of Heinrich Himmler in April 1945, in the Flossenburg concentration camp, only a few days before it was liberated.
It was the fulfillment of what he had always believed and taught: ''Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master. Following Christ means . . . suffering because we have to suffer. That is why Luther reckoned suffering among the marks of the true Church.
The Augsburg Confession similarly defines the true Church as the community of those 'who are persecuted and martyred for the gospel's sake . . . Discipleship means allegiance to the suffering
Christ, and it is therefore not at all surprising that Christians should be called upon to suffer.' ''
SUFFERED AFFLICTION :6
Imitators (KJB followers) - Gk. to copy what someone else does. You do what they do to become like them (2:14; II Thess. 3:7,9).
These believers imitated the faith of Paul, Silas and Timothy and Jesus in trusting themselves to God in the midst of persecution.
Luke 23:46 As Jesus was dying on the cross he cried out in a loud voice, ''Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.''
It was a statement of complete trust in his heavenly father.
Calvin - ''His faith was unshaken . . . he boldly expresses his assurance that God is the faithful guardian of his soul.''
Affliction - Gk. lit. to press together meaning anguish, distress, oppression which often resulted in persecution and suffering. In much affliction - refers to what the Jews did when people believed. ...
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