SETTING THE STAGE FOR END TIMES (8 OF 16)
by Tim Badal
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-18, 1 Thessalonians 5:1-28
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Setting the Stage for End Times (8 of 16)
Series: Ready
Tim Badal
1 Thessalonians 4 and 5
As we continue in our series entitled ''Ready,'' we're going to be in 1 Thessalonians 4 and 5. We've been focusing on what it means to be followers of Jesus Christ as we await the Lord's coming. The Apostle Paul has been writing to this 1st-century church in modern-day Greece, telling them they need to be ready for all that happens in life-especially when it comes to living a life that pleases God.
So far they've learned what it means to be ready to endure hardships and afflictions, ready to live upright and holy lives, ready to love one another, as well as how to be ready to serve and honor God in all they say and do. They've learned to be ready to live pure lives in a world of impurity. Paul has been readying the people for a conversation he's going to have in the last two chapters of this book which contain the crux of what they-and we-need to be ready for.
You see, we live ready lives in all those different ways because we believe the truth that Jesus Christ is going to come back one day. We are told to be ready for that coming. We're going to finish this letter over the next couple weeks, and then we'll move into 2 Thessalonians, Paul's second letter to this same group of people. The theme of being ready for the coming of our Lord and Savior is a central theme in the last part of this letter and almost all of the letter we'll look at over the next couple months.
What I want to do now is to hit a ''pause'' button on our series. Before we move any farther into the text, I want to establish some terms and truths. We know that Paul has heard from Timothy about what has been going on in Thessalonica and have been reading some of what has concerned him about the church in Thessalonica.
Beginning in 1 Thessalonians 4:13, Paul addresses what seems to be an issue, where someone in the church had lost a Christian brother or someone through death, and the Chr ...
Series: Ready
Tim Badal
1 Thessalonians 4 and 5
As we continue in our series entitled ''Ready,'' we're going to be in 1 Thessalonians 4 and 5. We've been focusing on what it means to be followers of Jesus Christ as we await the Lord's coming. The Apostle Paul has been writing to this 1st-century church in modern-day Greece, telling them they need to be ready for all that happens in life-especially when it comes to living a life that pleases God.
So far they've learned what it means to be ready to endure hardships and afflictions, ready to live upright and holy lives, ready to love one another, as well as how to be ready to serve and honor God in all they say and do. They've learned to be ready to live pure lives in a world of impurity. Paul has been readying the people for a conversation he's going to have in the last two chapters of this book which contain the crux of what they-and we-need to be ready for.
You see, we live ready lives in all those different ways because we believe the truth that Jesus Christ is going to come back one day. We are told to be ready for that coming. We're going to finish this letter over the next couple weeks, and then we'll move into 2 Thessalonians, Paul's second letter to this same group of people. The theme of being ready for the coming of our Lord and Savior is a central theme in the last part of this letter and almost all of the letter we'll look at over the next couple months.
What I want to do now is to hit a ''pause'' button on our series. Before we move any farther into the text, I want to establish some terms and truths. We know that Paul has heard from Timothy about what has been going on in Thessalonica and have been reading some of what has concerned him about the church in Thessalonica.
Beginning in 1 Thessalonians 4:13, Paul addresses what seems to be an issue, where someone in the church had lost a Christian brother or someone through death, and the Chr ...
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