1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in
God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
A greeting to the Thessalonians
from Paul, Timothy, and Silvanus.
3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting,
because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all
abounds toward each other, so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches
of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations
that you endure, which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God,
that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also
suffer; since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those
who trouble you, and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord
Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking
vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Thessalonians faith
continually grows and their love for one another continues to grow as well.
The
apostles boast about these men because of the patience and faith they show
during persecution and tribulation. Paul then says something very important. He
says the evidence of the Thessalonians righteous judgment of God is their patience
through tribulation. He also says they will be counted worthy of the kingdom of
God because they suffer. A take away from that point is that all of us as believers should not only expect to live through persecution and tribulation due to our faith, but hope for it because our endurance is the evidence showing us worthy.
Yeshua will take vengeance on those who do not know
God and on those who do not OBEY the gospel of Yeshua the Messiah.
This means we as believers must
submit to the gospel taught by Christ. I have more about what the Gospel is in another blog.
9 These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the
presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, when He comes, in that
Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who have believed,
because our testimony among you was believed.
Those who are not obeying what
Christ taught as well as those who do not know YHWH will be punished by never
ending death away from YHWH.
These will be separated from
those who did believe in the testimony of the apostles.
11 Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you
worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the
work of faith with power, that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be
glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the
Lord Jesus Christ.
The apostles continually pray for
the Thessalonians. They pray for specific things. 1. YHWH counts them worthy of
His calling, 2. He fulfills all the good pleasures of His goodness and the work
of faith with power, and 3. The name of Yeshua is glorified in them as well as
them in Him. They do all this in accordance with His grace.
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