2 Thessalonians 1
2 Thessalonians 1 New International Version (NIV)
1 Paul, Silas[a] and Timothy,
To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanksgiving and Prayer
3 We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters,[b] and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. 4 Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.
5 All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. 6 God is just:He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you 7 and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. 8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might 10 on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.
11 With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. 12 We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.[c]
Footnotes:
- 2 Thessalonians 1:1 Greek Silvanus, a variant of Silas
- 2 Thessalonians 1:3 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 2:1, 13, 15; 3:1, 6, 13.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:12 Or God and Lord, Jesus Christ
2 Thessalonians 1 (NIV)
Who is this letter written to? (verse 1)
Who is grace and peace extended from? (Verse 2)
Thanksgiving and Prayer
Why are Paul, Silas, and Timothy thankful to God in verse 3?
What does Paul boast about among God's churches? (verse 4)
What is evidence that God's judgment is right? (verse 3-5)
Why was church of the Thessalonians suffering? (verse 5)
Is God just? (verse 6)
Who will pay back trouble to those who trouble you? (verse 6)
Does God give relief when we are troubled? (verse 7)
When will this happen? (verse 7)
How will Jesus Christ appear? (verse 7)
Who will be punished? (verse 8)
Who will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might? (verse 9)
Where will God be glorified? (verse 10)
Where will God be marveled at? (verse 10)
Who is included in marveling at God? (verse 10)
Why do Paul, Silas, and Timothy constantly pray for the Thessalonian church? (verse 11)
Why do they pray this? (Verse 11-12)
Interpretation
He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
What does it mean to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus?
How are desires for goodness and every deed prompted by faith brought to fruition? (verse 11)
Application
Pray this for someone-
God make them worthy of your calling, and by your power, bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in them and they in you according to your Grace and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thoughts
What are the marks of a church/family that is healthy?
"...faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing..." - verse 3
"...perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring." - verse 4
Is God just? (verse 6)
Vengeance is Mine, and recompense;
Their foot shall slip in due time;
For the day of their calamity is at hand,
And the things to come hasten upon them.’ - Deuteronomy 32:35
Their foot shall slip in due time;
For the day of their calamity is at hand,
And the things to come hasten upon them.’ - Deuteronomy 32:35
"This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God." - Genesis 6:9
You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the Lord your God is giving you. - Deuteronomy 16:20
You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. - Deuteronomy 25:15
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He. - Deuteronomy 32:4
The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: ‘He who rules over men must be just, Ruling in the fear of God. - 2 Samuel 23:3
God is a just judge, And God is angry with the wicked every day. - Psalm 7:11
Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him. - Isaiah 30:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God? - Micah 6:8
You have wearied the Lord with your words; Yet you say, “In what way have we wearied Him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil Is good in the sight of the Lord, And He delights in them,” Or, “Where is the God of justice?” - Malachi 2:17
And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. - Luke 2:25
And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God. - Luke 16:15
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. - Romans 1:16
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.” - Romans 1:17
Hebrews 5 (NKJV)
Qualifications for High Priesthood
5 For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. 2 He can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject to weakness. 3 Because of this he is required as for the people, so also for himself, to offer sacrifices for sins. 4 And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was.
A Priest Forever
5 So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him:
6 As He also says in another place:
7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, 8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, 10 called by God as High Priest “according to the order of Melchizedek,” 11 of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
Spiritual Immaturity
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Comments
Post a Comment