"But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no ______."
Hope (4:13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope*.
In chapter 5, what are we to abstain from?
Every form of evil (5:22 abstain from every form of evil.)
"For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of ______, but for what it really is, the word of ______."
2:13 For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men*, but for what it really is, the word of God*.
"So that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own ______ and ______."
Kingdom | Glory (2:12 So that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom* and glory*.)
Who teaches us to love one another?
God (4:9 Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another)
"We are not of the night nor of darkness, so then let us not sleep as others do but let us be what?
Alert and self controlled (5:6 so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and self controlled.)
For God has not called us for the purpose of ______, but in ______.
Impurity | Sanctification (4:7 For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity*, but in sanctification*.)
Paul compares himself to what in the way he treated the Thessalonians?
A Mother (2:7 But we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother...)
and
A Father (2:11 Just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father...)
Who is 1 Thessalonians addressed to?
Christians in Thessalonica
Paul urged the Thessalonians to make it their ambition to do what? Hint: Three answers
1) Lead a quiet life 2) Attend your own business 3) Work with your hands (4:11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands)
"But since we are of the day, let us put on the armor of ______ and ______, and as a helmet, the hope of ______."
Faith and Love, hope of Salvation (5:8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the armor of faith* and love*, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation*.
From what did the Thessalonian church turn from in order to serve the living and true God?
A. Idols B. Sin C. Philosophers
A. Idols
They had been worshiping idols and had to turn away so they could serve God