There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word.

Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length Bible

message given through Scott's pulpit ministry. These messages were recorded live in a local

church or gospel event in recent days. It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today. I want you to open the Word of God with me, if you will,

this morning, to the book of First

Thessalonians in your New Testament. And when you get there, if you've got a Bible ribbon or a Bible

marker, I want you to go ahead and mark your place in First Thessalonians because we're going to

return here later this morning, later this afternoon, Monday night, and Tuesday night. And we're going to pitch our tent,

drive a stake in the ground, and spend a little time, actually in first and second, Thessalonians.

And if you look over these pages and say, heaven, help us, he's going to preach all of this.

No, I'm not going to preach all of this. That would be impossible. But I am going to try to take

these two books of the Bible

and place an emphasis this week that the Holy Spirit is working on me about.

And so if you allow me to do that,

I want to just stay in the same portion of the Bible

and ask the Lord to speak to us.

If you know anything about the church at Thessalonica,

they have often been referred to as the model church. And I thought this week, as I was

preparing to be with this church, what an exemplary church this church has been. As a matter of fact,

just in the last few days, week by week, I'm in different places. This time last week I was

preaching on the Gulf of Mexico. It was a little warmer there than here. Let me tell you. And in the last few days, as people have said to me, where will you be next week?

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