The As Christian As Christians, we are sometimes accused of being uptight or intolerant when we respond to issues in our culture with the truth of scripture.

Today on Truth for Life will learn the difference between rightly showing compassion

for those who are perishing and wrongly tolerating unbiblical beliefs.

Halister Begg is teaching from 1st Thessalonians chapter 2.

We're focusing on verses 13 through 16.

Now I have a number of points this evening all that begin with the letter P and I will try I'm not going to notice the process to

which he refers the process to which he refers I'm not going to spend a long time

on any of these tonight but just to try and move through the text.

Secondly, notice the product, for the process has a product, and the transforming power of God's word is then seen at work within

their lives. Well that brings us to the third P, the word persecution. We need to look

at this issue of persecution for a moment.

First of all, the process, and then the product, and then this issue of persecution.

Halfway through, verse 14, he says,

you suffered from your own countrymen the same thing those churches suffered from the Jews

and now Paul makes these graphic statements concerning what the Jews have done.

And I want you just to follow along with me as I note them.

This is what he says.

First of all, he says, they killed the Lord Jesus.

They killed the Lord Jesus. They killed the Lord Jesus. Now you ought probably just to turn back to

Matthew's Gospel for a cross reference here, Matthew Chapter 27 and verse 25. As you're turning to that, let me say this,

that to say such a thing today would be regarded as anti-Semitic.

After all we know that the Romans were involved in the death of Jesus and so to where all of us in so far it was as it was our sins that

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