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🗓️ 27 November 2024
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:10.5 | If you're doing our New Testament plan, today we finished our 7th and 8th books. And if you're |
0:17.5 | doing the whole Bible, we finished our 46th and 47th books. These two books |
0:22.2 | are Paul's letters to the church at Thessalonica. We met them yesterday in Acts 17. Paul, Silas, |
0:27.9 | and Timothy spent a lot of time with them until the local Jews who were jealous of their ministry, |
0:32.6 | formed a mob and basically drove them out of town. Paul really loves the people of this church, |
0:38.4 | so he writes them this letter to speak words of encouragement and love. He starts out by telling them a few of the ways |
0:42.6 | their lives demonstrate that God has chosen them to be a part of his family. First of all, |
0:47.3 | they've received the gospel wholeheartedly, and the Holy Spirit came to them as well. Second, |
0:52.3 | they started spreading the word to other people. They received |
0:55.3 | and lived out and shared the gospel. Paul says he and the guys mentored them and then they started |
1:00.2 | mentoring others. They took what they learned from Paul and made Macedonian mentees. Third, they've |
1:05.9 | turned from their idolatry and worship the one true God. We also see here that there is wrath coming, but Jesus is the |
1:13.4 | one who delivers us from it, because God's kids will never experience his wrath. Then Paul recounts the |
1:19.3 | story of how they met. He had just been beaten up and imprisoned in Philippi, but he didn't stop preaching. |
1:24.5 | He came to Thessalonica to share the gospel with them even in the face of opposition. |
1:28.7 | He didn't come there to be popular or powerful, and he didn't come there to get rich. |
1:32.7 | Even though the apostles had a right to demand that the church take care of them, they didn't make use of that right. |
1:37.8 | In fact, they worked overtime so that they could share the gospel and their lives with the Thessalonians. 212 says Paul exhorted and encouraged and |
1:45.7 | charged them to live in a way that shows they believe the gospel and that glorifies God. |
1:49.9 | They did, and as a result, they encountered persecution. Paul really wants to see them again, |
1:55.8 | but he says Satan hindered him. Some scholars think this is a reference to what happened the last |
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