Matt Smethurst on Teaching 2 Thessalonians

Help Me Teach The Bible

The Gospel Coalition

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🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Nancy Guthrie Interviews Matt Smethurst

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0:36.5	You don't just want to teach the content of the Bible.
0:40.9	You want to also teach the mood of the Bible.
0:43.5	You want to communicate the emotion of the Bible.
0:47.1	And I love how Paul makes that, frankly, easy for us to maybe not do,
0:52.0	but to at least see what we ought to do, because he's so good at
0:56.2	moving from rigorous theology to warm pastoral counseling.
1:30.1	Welcome to help me teach the Bible. I'm Nancy Guthrie. Help Me Teach the Bible is a production of the gospel coalition, sponsored by Crossway, a not-for-profit publisher of the ESV Bible Christian books and tracks. Learn more at crossway.org. This is the second part of a two-part conversation with my guest today, Matt Smithhurst. Matt is the managing editor of the
1:35.2	gospel coalition, an elder at Third Avenue Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, where he taught
1:41.5	through these books, First and Second Thessalonians.
1:44.4	So, Matt, thank you for being willing to pass along to us some of what you learned in preparation for teaching these two significant books.
1:52.4	Yeah, thanks for having me here again, Nancy.
1:54.2	So in our earlier conversation, we covered the five chapters of the book of First Thessalonians. Let's take a little bit of time now to talk
2:05.1	about second Thessalonians. Now, first of all, are these two books that you could just teach
2:13.5	separately? I mean, how much do they have to do with each other? Would you always want to
2:18.3	teach both together? You don't have to teach both together, but I think it would be useful to
2:26.0	because there are things in Second Thessalonians that organically flow from First Thessalonians.
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