Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the

Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church

in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Okay, we'll go ahead and get started.

When we get started, here in just a moment,

we'll be picking up in St. Paul's first epistle to the Thessalonians Chapter 4, verse 1.

We don't have a ton of catch-up to do.

I think we'll get some of it in stream because St. Paul here is going to

in his we're getting to sort of his closing this is the the beginning of the end as you could

see verse one of chapter four begins with finally then so but much like let us complete our prayer unto the Lord, there's still a couple chapters.

But there's still some time left here.

But it's the beginning of the end.

And so he's going to refer back to some of the things he's been talking about.

But most of what we've seen St. Paul talking about so far,

this has been one of St. Paul's more positive letters

to the Christian community in Thessalonica.

We've seen like St. Paul's letters to the Corinthians didn't go quite this well.

This is more like his epistle to the

Philippians where good things are happening there. So it's a more positive report. He's gotten a

report back from Timothy. He's talked about how he's wanted to go visit Thessalonica again, but he hadn't

been able to be back there. As we talked about, St. Paul's writing this around 50 AD from Corinth, back to Thessalonica,

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