Sermons on 1 Thessalonians

1 Thessalonians 1:1-2 Please be seated. Please turn in your copy of the scriptures to Second Thessalonians. Today, we’ll be looking at chapter one, verses one and two. So several years back, we began in Luke’s gospel. Luke wrote to Theophilus, his patron, to tell him all that Jesus had said and done. And then he wrote the book of Acts, which we also considered. He wrote the continuing work of Jesus through the apostles who were sent to the…

1 Thessalonians 5:25-28 You can be seated. Turn in your copy of the scripture to 1 Thessalonians 5, verses 25 through 28 are the ending, the last verses of this little letter. We’ll pick up in 2 Thessalonians probably in January, February. Next week, we’ll look at, I believe, Psalm 65 ahead of Thanksgiving, a Psalm of Thanksgiving. for the bounty of the earth. And then afterwards, we’ll spend several Sundays on the various covenants God makes with various people,…

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 1 Thessalonians 5, 23 and 24. The Apostle Paul says to the Thessalonian church, as he writes from Corinth, Amen. The word of the living God. I think a number of you are familiar with the ancient church father, St. Augustine. He was the Bishop of Hippo, a city in North Africa. Perhaps some of you in Western civilization have had to read the confessions of St. Augustine, basically his autobiography, his long writing of how he…

1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 Amen. You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of the scriptures to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5, 19 through 22. 1 Thessalonians 5, 19 to 22. We’re just a couple verses away from ending and then we’ll make our way into 2 Thessalonians. The Thanksgiving break will give us time to think about a psalm, I think the third week or so, maybe a couple weeks from now. And then we’re gonna look at the theme…

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of the scriptures to 1 Thessalonians 5. Today, we’ll look at another set of Christian commands or ending exhortations, verses 16, 17, and 18. These are probably familiar commands to you. Remember, as we prepare to read God’s word, that often it is the case that the Apostle Paul speaks in the first half of his letters in the indicatives. This is who you are and what you…

1 Thessalonians 5:14-15 First Thessalonians chapter five verses 14 and 15. This section of scripture we started last week and got maybe one or two more in it. Speaks of what we owe one another. Last week we looked at what we owe our spiritual leaders. We owe them esteem. Today we want to look at what we owe the weak, the weaker brothers and sisters in the church. And then in the next two weeks we’ll look at what…

1 Thessalonians 5:12-13 Amen. You can be seated. Turn in your copy of the scriptures to 1 Thessalonians 5. 1 Thessalonians 5 verses 12 and 13 will be our passage for today. We are getting into the last sort of grab bag of verses in this letter. We’ll move next into 2 Thessalonians and today we’ll look at a couple verses on how the Christian community ought to live together in light of membership in church leadership. We’ll look at…

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 Amen. You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of the scriptures to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5. Today, we’ll be looking at chapter 5 verses 1 through 11. Last week, we looked at the end of chapter 4 and it pairs with the beginning of chapter 5 of our scripture for today. And it’s sort of the, what happens when I die passage, where are people who are dead in Christ? So that’s what we looked…

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Amen. You can be seated. Please turn again in your copy of the scriptures to First Thessalonians chapter four, verses 13 to 18. As you’re making your way there, remember that every person, every human being has ultimate questions and where we find those answers to ultimate questions is very important. Today we will ask and answer one of those ultimate questions, which is what happens when I die, particularly what happens when a Christian dies. And…

1 Thessalonians 4:9-12 You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of the scriptures to 1 Thessalonians 4. Our passage today will be verses 9 through 12. Remember, in our couple months long study of 1 Thessalonians, that the first three chapters, Paul gives his love to the Thessalonians, the people he had to leave so quickly in the night because of persecution. He had been with them for a month. They converted to faith in Christ. and he…

1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of the scriptures to 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. 1 Thessalonians 4. Our passage today will be verses 3 through 8. As I mentioned last week, chapter 4, 1 through 12 is an exhortation to holiness and there are There’s a general exhortation. We should live lives that please God. Today, we should live in holiness with our bodies. And then next week, it’s going to speak of kind…