I Thessalonians Chapter 1
1. Silas and Timothy
2. Verse 2 records that Paul always
gave thanks for the Thessalonians. 5:17 says it is the will of God to
give thanks in everything
3. 1)
Their work of faith, 2) Labor of love, 3) Patience of hope and trials
4. 1) In word, 2) In power, 3) In
the Holy Ghost, 4) In much assurance
5. Us—Paul, Silas, Timothy
6. “Much” affliction, See
Introduction Question #2
7. The believers in Macedonia and
Achaia
8. Macedonia—northern Greece,
Achaia—southern Greece
9. From idols
10. Gentiles, former idolaters
11. From the wrath to come
I Thessalonians Chapter 2
1. Probably the beating and
imprisonment in the Philippian jail
2. They spoke the gospel with much
contention (strong opposition)
3. Deceit, uncleanness, guile, not
as pleasing men, flattering, covetous, glory seeking, burdensome
4. As a nurse (mother) caring fot
her children
5. Their own souls
6. He would not be chargeable
7. Holily, unblameably, and justly
8. As a father deals with his own
children
9. They received the word of God,
not as the word of man, but in truth
10. The Jews killed Jesus, their own
prophets, and Paul’s group endured persecution
11. Satan
12. The Thessalonian church in the
presence of the Lord Jesus Christ at his coming, They were Paul’s glory
and joy
I Thessalonians Chapter 3
1. Athens
2. 1) Our brother 2) minister of
God 3) our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ
3. 1) To establish you. 2) To
comfort them concerning their faith, 3) So that no one would
be unsettled because of these trials
4. We are appointed unto afflictions
but not unto wrath
5. In verse 1 it says we “could no
longer forbear.” In verse 5 he says “I” could no longer forbear
6. Good news about their faith and
love and that they with good memories longed to see Paul
7. Paul was encouraged and gave
thanks to God
8. To perfect that which was lacking
in their faith
9. 1) Direct his way unto them, 2)
Make them increase and overflow in their love for each other and
everyone else, 3) Strengthen their hearts so that they would be
blameless and holy when Jesus comes
I Thessalonians Chapter 4
1. 1) Abstain from fornication, 2)
In every thing give thanks
2. To control his body in a way that
is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust
3. Unto holiness
4. God
5. 1) To lead a quiet life, 2) To
mind your own business, 3) To work with your own hands
6. Walk honestly
7. About Christians who were dead
8. We have hope
9. Shout, voice of archangel,
trumpet of God
10. The dead in Christ shall rise
first, Those alive and remaining shall be caught up to meet the Lord in
the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord
I Thessalonians Chapter 5
I. 1) Like a thief in the night
2) As labor pains on a pregnant woman
2. Light and day
3. Not alert, not watching
4. Alert, self-controlled
5. This is an abbreviated version of
the whole armor of God. In this chapter Paul only mentions the
breastplate of faith and love and the helmet, the hope of salvation: In
Ephesians, he calls it the breastplate of righteousness
6. All three mention faith, love and
hope.
7. God
hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord
Jesus Christ
8. 1) Know them, 2) Esteem them very
highly in love for their work’s sake
9. 1) Labor, 2) supervise (over
you) 3) admonish you
10. 1) Be at peace among yourselves,
2) Warn them that are unruly, 3) Comfort the feeble minded, 4) Support
the weak, 5) Be patient to all men, 6) Don’t render evil for good, 7)
Follow that which is good, 8) Rejoice evermore, 9) Pray without ceasing,
10) In everything give thanks, 11) Quench not the Spirit, 12) Despise
not prophesyings, 13) Prove all things, 14) Hold fast that which is
good, 15) Abstain from all appearance of evil
11. Spirit, soul, body
12. Read it to all the brothers
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I Thessalonians Study Questions
II Thessalonians Chapter 1
1. Silas and Timothy
2 Their faith grew exceedingly,
Their charity toward one another abounded, For their patience and faith
in all their persecutions
3. Scripture talks about being
counted worthy to suffer
4. A righteous thing
5. His mighty angels
6. 1) Them that do not know God and
2) them that do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
7. Everlasting destruction
8. That God would count them worthy
of his calling, Fulfil every good purpose of theirs and every act
prompted by faith, That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ be glorified
in them
II Thessalonians Chapter 2
1 Spirit, word, letter supposedly
come from Paul
2 1) A falling away 2) The
man of sin be revealed
3. Opposes and exalts himself above
all that is called God 2) As God he sits in the temple of
God 3) Works counterfeit
miracles
4. The church
5. The Lord shall consume and
destroy him
6.
Because they received not the love of the truth and believed not the
truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness
7. 1) A lie 2) The truth
8. Sanctification of the Spirit and
belief of the truth
9. Traditions they had been taught
by word and Paul’s epistles
II Thessalonians Chapter 3
1. That the word of the Lord may
have free course, that his group would be delivered from unreasonable
and wicked men
2. Stablish and keep from evil
3. That they were doing and would
continue to do what Paul had commanded
4. Into the love of God and into the
patient waiting for Christ
5. Withdraw yourselves from him,
note the man, and have no company with him that he might be ashamed
6. Don’t count him as an enemy but
admonish him as a brother
7. He did not behave disorderly, he
did not eat what he didn’t pay for, he labored night and day so he would
not be chargeable to them
8. Busybodies
9. Both say “be not weary in well
doing” Galatians 6:9 adds “for in due season we shall reap if we faint
not”
10. He wrote the salutation with his
own hand
