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Today on Truth for Life, we'll hear about three identifying marks of the Thessalonian Church,

marks that endeared them to the apostle Paul.

Alistairbegg is teaching from the it only in its opening couple of verses.

Now having opened your Bibles to First

Thessalonians I'd ask you to turn back into the acts of the Apostles and to

chapter 16 so that we might put this in historical context and what we discover when we turn

back into acts chapter 16 is this quite incredible and wonderful truth that the existence of the church in Thesel and Aika was

directly related to Paul's obedience to a vision which Luke records for us in Acts chapter 6 and in verses 9 and 10.

And there we're told that the Holy Spirit having kept Paul and his companions from going forward into Asia.

Simultaneously during the night, verse 9 of act 16, during the night,

Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia,

standing and begging him, come over to Macedonia

and help us. After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia,

concluding that God has called us to preach the gospel to them.

Now, why have I got you to Corinth?

Through the process, as Paul has gone in obedience to God and has now found himself in Corinth with all the

daunting prospect of it all, with the bruises and the beatings on his body as a result of

his commitment to Christ, with the apparent disinterest that had marked his visit to

Athens and now facing all the daunting challenge of this, what did he need? He needed a

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