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1 & 2 Thessalonians

1 & 2
Thessalonians

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PREFACE

  1. The two major themes in 1 and 2 Thessalonians are dear to my heart; the of Jesus Christ and the of the local church.
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CHAPTER 1
A CHURCH IS BORN

  1. You can visit Thessalonica today, only the travel guide will call it .
  2. Thessalonica is one of the few cities that has from the New Testament era of apostolic ministry.
  3. Paul went to Macedonia in response to a “” from a man in Macedonia who said, “ over into Macedonia and us”.
  4. If Paul were in Thessalonica only three weeks, he certainly the new Christians a great deal of basic Bible .
  5. Even though Paul’s ministry in Thessalonica was not a long one, it was enough to leave behind a thriving .
  6. It was when Timothy rejoined Paul at and gave him the report on the new that Paul wrote 1 Thessalonians. He wrote just a short time later.
  7. All of this background teaches us what helpful lessons?
    A. God .
    B. the Gospel is still “the of unto salvation”.
    C. still the Gospel and God’s people.
  8. Why did Paul write these two letters?
    A. First, .
    B. Second, .
    C. He also .
    D. Finally, Paul .
  9. First Thessalonians is a from a spiritual father to his .
  10. The second letter was written to certain wrong —and wrong —relating to the doctrine of the Lord’s return.
  11. Each New Testament letter has a special message. What is each message for?
    Romans emphasizes
    First Corinthians focuses on
    Second Corinthians focuses on
    Galatians is
    Philippians is
    Ephesians stresses
  12. What is the special blessing in the message of 1 and 2 Thessalonians?
  13. The doctrine of the Lord’s return is not a to play with, or a to fight with, but a to build with.
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CHAPTER 2
WHAT EVERY CHURCH SHOULD BE

  1. The word church in verse 1 means “a - people.”
  2. What are some obvious facts about divine election?
    A. Salvation begins .
    B. Salvation involves .
    C. Salvation involves .
    D. Salvation involves .
    E. Salvation changes .
  3. Faith, hope, and love are the three cardinal of the Christian life, and the three greatest of salvation.
  4. The church at Thessalonica was an example in what area of their lives?
    A. They received .
    B. They followed .
    C. They suffered .
    D. They encouraged .
  5. Their “work of faith and labor of love” expressed itself in their of the with others.
  6. But in New Testament churches, the entire congregation was involved in sharing the
  7. If salvation were the work of , we would have every right to be discouraged and .
  8. When they worshiped idols, the Thessalonians had no . But when they “the living God,” they had a living .
  9. The word translated “wait” in 1:10 means “to someone with patience and , expectantly.”
  10. What every church should be is what every Christian should be: , exemplary, , and .
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CHAPTER 3
HELPING THE BABY GROW UP

  1. Chapter 3 introduces us to the .
  2. A steward owns nothing, but and everything that belongs to his master.
  3. is the most important quality a steward possesses.
  4. Paul was very sensitive about matters. He did not want to give anyone a reason to accuse him of being a religious .
  5. Paul did not people into being saved, the way a clever salesman traps people into buying his .
  6. A true ministry of the Gospel deals honestly with and and leaves the unbeliever with nothing to boast of in .
  7. As an , Paul was a man of ; but he always used his authority in .
  8. Paul’s for them made him patient, because love suffers long, and is .
  9. Paul’s for the Thessalonicans was so great he would for them if necessary.
  10. If we do not the new Christians on the of the Word, they can never mature to appreciate the of the Word.
  11. Paul pointed out three of his duties as the spiritual father to the Thessalonicans. List them:
    A. His .
    A. His .
    A. His .
  12. Paul knew the importance of these new believers the truths that would help them in the Lord.
  13. List four ways Paul taught the new believers.
    A. Paul dealt with each of the believers .
    B. Paul the new believers.
    C. Paul also them.
    D. Paul them.
  14. The church at Thessalonica prospered in spite of , and shared the Gospel with . They had been born right and right.
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CHAPTER 4
GROWING PAINS

  1. In the midst of , the Thessalonian Christians experienced .
  2. The saints in Thessalonica had the right spiritual attitudes toward the Word of God. How did they honor the Word?
    A. They the Word.
    B. They the Word.
    C. They the Word.
  3. The Bible was written at great , not only to the , but to Jesus Christ who became Man that the Word of God might be given to us.
  4. Job said, “I have esteemed the words of His more than my necessary .”
  5. We appropriate the by it and receiving it into our hearts, and by on it.
  6. We must apply the Word in our lives and be and of the Word.
  7. The saints in Judea suffered at the hands of the , and the saints in Thessalonica suffered at the hands of the .
  8. There is no place in the Christian faith for -.
  9. Why did the leaders of Israel officially reject Jesus Christ and persecute His followers? .
  10. Paul encouraged the suffering Christians by them that their experiences were not or isolated.
  11. One of the great values of the local church is we stand in times of difficulty and one another.
  12. Paul wanted to remain in Thessalonica longer to help them in the faith, but the drove him out.
  13. The fact that we shall one day stand at the Seat of Christ ought to motivate us to be in spite of .
  14. The Christian who has not sincerely tried to others to Christ will not experience this and joy when Jesus Christ returns.
  15. The fact that God rewards to us is another evidence of His .
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CHAPTER 5
TAKE A STAND!

  1. Paul explained three ministries that he performed to help these new Christians become firmly established.
    A. He sent them
    B. He wrote a
    C. He for them.
  2. Paul sent Timothy to Thessalonica to help the young that was going through .
  3. List several important factors that were involved in the move to send Timothy back to Thessolonica.
    A. Paul’s
    B. Timothy’s
    C. The church’s
  4. The word translated “left” in verse 1 “to loved ones at .”
  5. Timothy was the man to send to the church to help them firm.
  6. We cannot another where we have not been , nor can we not .
  7. The trials and testings that come to our lives as Christians are not —they are .
  8. Timothy’s task was to these believers and them in their .
  9. Timothy met Paul at and gave him the glad that things were going at .
  10. Doctrine tells us what is right, tells us what is right, tells us how to right, and tells us how to right.
  11. First Thessalonians is with Bible .
  12. Paul dealt with:
    A. and salvation,
    B. doctrine of the ,
    C. work of the ,
    D. and especially the of the things.
  13. God’s Word is:
    A. to nourish us,
    B. to guide us,
    C. a to defend us.
  14. The Word of God and prayer should go .
  15. Paul prayed for three specific requests:
    A. that their faith might .
    B. that their love might .
    C. of life.
  16. God tries our faith, not to it, but to it.
  17. Our growing faith in God ought to in a growing for ,
  18. Where there is stability, there can be ; and where there is holiness there is .
  19. Paul’s prayer us how to pray not only for believers, but for believers.
  20. We should pray that their faith will , their love , and their character and conduct be and before God.
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CHAPTER 6
HOW TO PLEASE YOUR FATHER

  1. The Christian life can be compared to a .
  2. In chapters 4-5 Paul gives what four aspects of this?
    A. “Walk worthy of the wherewith ye are ” (Eph. 4:1);
    B. “walk not as other walk” (Eph. 4:17);
    C. “walk in ” (Eph. 5:2);
    D. “walk as children of ” (Eph. 5:8).
  3. Paul described a threefold walk for the Christian to follow. They are:
    A. Walk in
    B. Walk in
    C. Walk in
  4. Paul gave four reasons why the Thessalonians should live a holy life and abstain from sensual lusts. List them.
    A. To God.
    B. To God.
    C. To God.
    D. To the judgment of God.
  5. Pleasing God ought to be the major of the Christian life.
  6. It is possible to God and yet not Him.
  7. When he in Thessalonica, Paul gave the believers the of God regarding personal .
  8. God has told us clearly. “ from fornication” is His , and no amount of liberal theology or modern philosophy can it.
  9. While it is true that the Christian is not under , it is also true that he is not from the harvest of that comes when we sow to the .
  10. A holy walk involves a right with God the Father (who us), God the Son (who for us), and God the Spirit (who within us).
  11. As we to the Spirit, He us to walk in holiness and not be detoured into the of the world and the .
  12. List the four basic words for “love” in the Greek language.
    A. refers to physical love.
    B. refers to family love.
    C. love as in friendship or even marriage.
    D. is the love God shows toward us.
  13. Faith, hope, and love had been the characteristics of the Thessalonican Christians from the .
  14. Paul had that their love might “ and abound” and God that prayer.
  15. Christians not only have the obligation to one another but also to be good to the of the world.
  16. Some of the new believers in the church the in order to for His coming.
  17. Believers who are about the Father’s do not have the —or desire—to in the affairs of others.
  18. When unsaved people see Christ , they will either it with envy or to have it for themselves.
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CHAPTER 7
THE COMFORT OF HIS COMING

  1. The pagan world in Paul’s day had no of life after .
  2. The believers in Thessalonica were about their ones who had .
  3. Paul answered their questions basing his encouragement and comfort on five fundamental facts:
    A. : We Have God’s Truth
    B. : Christ Is Coming Again?
    C. : The Christian Dead
    D. : Living Believers Caught Up
    E. : Christians Forever with the Lord
  4. We Christians need not wonder about or life after death, for we have a from God in His .
  5. God’s revelation is based on the historic of Christ’s .
  6. Paul was to state that Jesus ; the word is not applied to His experience.
  7. The fact that Paul used the pronoun in verses and suggests that he to be when the Lord returned.
  8. Whether we Christians live or , we have nothing to because Jesus will either us or us!
  9. The dead body is the “” that is planted in the ; the resurrection body is the “” that comes from that .
  10. What three unique sounds will be involved in the return of Jesus?
    A. the Lord’s ,
    B. the sound of the ,
    C. the of the archangel.
  11. The Christian doctrine of resurrection us that is not the .
  12. The word means “to , to carry off;” and from it we get our word “.”
  13. We are and in this world. Our true citizenship is in .
  14. Since the shout, voice, and trumpet to God’s , there is no reason to believe that the unsaved will them.
  15. The Greek word translated “” carries the idea of meeting a person or an important person.
  16. The goal of redemption is not just to us from judgment, but to us to Christ.
  17. Contrast the Judgment Seat and the White Throne Judgment.
    Judgment Seat of Christ White Throne Judgment
    Only .
    Immediately after the .
    Determines rewards for .
    Only .
    After the thousand-year .
    Determines amount of .
  18. We will not only meet our Lord Jesus Christ at the , but will also be with our believing and who have died.
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CHAPTER 8
DON’T WALK IN YOUR SLEEP!

  1. Jesus Christ both and .
  2. Faith in Jesus Christ not only us to other ; it also us spiritually from the rest of the .
  3. List the three phrases in verses 1-2 that need careful consideration.
    A. “Times and .”
    B. “The Day of the .”
    C. “Thief in the .”
  4. The Lord’s use of the phrase Times and Seasons in indicates that times and seasons primarily to .
  5. The Day of the Lord is that when God will the world and the nations.
  6. Thief in the night describes the and the involved in the of the Day of the Lord.
  7. These “times and seasons” that relate to and the do not apply to the or affect the truth of the Lord’s coming for the church.
  8. The unsaved world will be enjoying a time of and just before these cataclysmic events occur.
  9. The world is caught by because men will not God’s Word or God’s warning.
  10. No “signs” must be before He can for His church.
  11. What truth do Isaiah, Jesus, and Paul teach us? The truth that out of the Day of the Lord will come the of the .
  12. There is a between being to go to heaven and being to meet the Lord.
  13. To be soberminded means to be , to live with your eyes , to be sane and .
  14. The soberminded believer has a calm, sane on .
  15. The unsaved people of the world are not . They are like men, living in a false paradise and enjoying a false .
  16. Faith and love are like a that the heart. Hope is a sturdy that the mind.
  17. What are the three tenses to salvation?
    A. —I have been saved from the guilt and penalty of sin.
    B. —I am being saved from the power and pollution of sin.
    C. —I shall be saved from the very presence of sin when Christ returns.
  18. Give the 5 reasons the author believes the church will not go through the tribulation.
    A. The nature of the .
    B. The nature of the .
    C. The promise of Christ’s imminent .
    D. The course of the in Revelation 2-3.
    E. The order of in 2 Thessalonians 2.
  19. If our Lord did not for us until the of the period, then we would when He was coming.
  20. We must permit the study of prophecy to become purely .
  21. The truth of our Lord’s imminent return encourages us to keep and to do whatever work He has assigned to us.
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CHAPTER 9
IT’S ALL IN THE FAMILY

Answer the following T (True) or F (False).

  1. Paul’s favorite name for believers was brethren.
    The child of God does not need the church family if he is to grow.
    Without leadership, a family falls apart.
  2. What responsibilities do the brethren have toward their spiritual leaders?
    A. them.
    B. them.
    C. them.
    D. them.
  3. Spiritual leadership is a great and a difficult .
  4. The church leaders alone cannot do all of the of the .
  5. According to , the spiritual leaders in the church are supposed to the members to do the of the .
  6. Name some special family members who Paul said needed personal help:
    A. The .
    B. The .
    C. The .
  7. Paul added some wise counsel to encourage us in our personal ministry.
    A. Be .
    B. Watch your .
    C. Be .
  8. We should always in , and be to .
  9. Joy takes the out of service.
  10. Worship is the most activity of a local family.
  11. According to Paul what are the various elements that make up the worship ministry of the church?
    A. .
    B. .
    C. The of God.
    D. Godly .
    E. Christian .
  12. Apart from God’s , we have no certain from the Lord.
  13. When the Holy Spirit is at work in our and , we have a warmth of in our hearts, for our minds, and for our wills.
  14. The purpose of worship is that we might more like Christ in and .
  15. We are to the Word , but we also need to the Word in the fellowship of the local .
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CHAPTER 10
NO REST FOR THE WICKED

  1. The Christians in Thessalonica were to God for Paul’s , but it did not immediately all their problems.

    2. Answer the following T (True) or F (False).

  2. Some of the believers concluded that since the Lord’s coming was so near, they ought to quit their jobs and spend their time waiting for Him.
    Not only does prayer change people and situations, but so does praise
    No doubt the Thessalonican believers did consider themselves to be very spiritual.
    Tribulation and persecution are God’s ways to strengthen our faith.
  3. Paul shared three encouragements with his suffering friends.
    A. The Encouragement of
    B. The Encouragement of
    C. The Encouragement of
  4. Paul used several words to describe what these believers were enduring.
    A. , which means “ from without”,
    B. , which literally means “”,
    C. , which means “to be into a place.”
  5. The word translated “” in 1:3 and 4, can be translated “.”
  6. Three experiences are involved in the promises of God for His people.
    A. .
    B. .
    C. .
  7. One day Jesus Christ will turn the tables and the will while the are .
  8. To recompense means “to .”
  9. As Christians, we must live for and not just for the .
  10. The purpose of vengeance is to God’s holy ; the purpose of revenge is to a personal .
  11. The word rest means “, release, not under .”
  12. Answer the following T (True) or F (False).
    Trials do not make a person; they reveal what a person is made of.
    Obedience and service do spring from human talents and efforts.
    Jesus Christ will be glorified in His saints when they return with Him.
    As we receive His love we reveal His glory.
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CHAPTER 11
GOD’S TIMETABLE

  1. Our Lord us not to set for His coming.
  2. Someone had the Thessalonian believers into thinking they were already in the Day of the Lord.
  3. To their hearts and their faith, Paul explained that they were in the Day of the Lord.
  4. Paul stated for them the prophetic events that make up God’s timetable.
    A. The of the
    B. The of Antichrist
    C. The of Jesus Christ
  5. Why is Satan unable to reveal his “man of sin” sooner?
    .
  6. Many Bible students identify the as the of God.
  7. There are two programs at work in the world today.
    A. God’s program of ,
    B. Satan’s program of .
  8. Satan not only Christ, but he wants to be and instead of Christ.
  9. Give a description of Antichrist in the last days.
    A. The .
    B. The .
    C. The .
    D. The -.
    E. The .
  10. The Antichrist will be a peaceful leader who unites nations of into a power .
  11. The coming Antichrist will belong to a that was part of the old .
  12. There is a between the and the week. We are now living in that .
  13. The 70th week will start with the arrival of . He will make a with Israel to her and her to rebuild her .
  14. It is the of the covenant, not the of the church, that the start of Daniel’s 70th week.
  15. After and - years, Antichrist will break his with the Jews and take over their .
  16. The man of sin will oppose everything that belongs to any other , true or false. He will organize a church that will, by worshiping him, worship .
  17. Satan will so control the world’s system that citizens must bear “the mark of the ” to be able to and ().
  18. “Will anybody be saved during the seven-year period?” .
  19. Jesus Christ will return “in and great glory” and take and his associates prisoner and them into the bottomless pit.
  20. It is important that we distinguish His of the from His to the .
  21. The purpose of God’s miracles was to people to the ; the purpose of Antichrist’s miracles will be to people to believe his .
  22. As the coming of the Lord for His church draws near, Satan’s in this world will .
  23. Paul taught a sobering truth: a person can so the truth that he finally becomes and has to believe a .
  24. The lie is the .
  25. Those who have heard the Gospel before the rapture of the church cannot be saved after the Rapture. .
  26. No lost sinner can afford to treat God’s truth or reject God’s Son .
  27. The human heart becomes each time the sinner God’s truth.
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CHAPTER 12
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

  1. Paul’s emphasis was on the of God’s Word, in contrast to Satan’s great .
  2. Every believer has four responsibilities to God’s truth. List them:
    A. the Truth
    B. the Truth
    C. the Truth
    D. the Truth
  3. In verses 13 & 14, Paul reviewed the stages in the Thessalonian’s experience.
    A. God them.
    B. God them.
    C. God set them .
    D. God them.
    E. God gave them .
  4. The word sanctify means “to set .”
  5. The sanctification Paul mentions in Chapter 2 refers to the Spirit’s work in the unbeliever to in Christ.
  6. The greatest encouragement to evangelism is the that God has His people who have been to to His Word.
  7. Paul warned in his that there was a present , and that the church must God’s truth and not from it.
  8. Paul stated the believer’s dual responsibility in guarding the truth: “ fast, and the traditions”. Stand fast , “Do not move from the of the Gospel”.
  9. Each generation of Christians must the truth from others, it, and make sure it is intact for the next generation.
  10. “The faith” that has been handed down to us must not be with man’s and .
  11. We must not the truth so that it loses its life and .
  12. Paul’s desire and prayer for his friends:
    A. He wanted God to them and
    B. them.
  13. Paul was concerned about two aspects of Thessalonican Christian life:
    A. their
    B. their
  14. One of the best ways to the truth is to put it into .
  15. As we the truth and for the ministry of the truth, God’s Word will have freedom to run and God’s in the world.
  16. When the Word of God does the , then God gets the .
  17. There is always to the and work of God.
  18. The theme of Paul’s two letters to the Thessalonicans has been He is for us.
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CHAPTER 13
ORDER IN THE CHURCH

  1. When Paul wrote his first letter to the Thessalonican church, he the idle to get to .
  2. Some members of the assembly had Paul’s teachings about the return of Christ, left their , and were living off the of the church.
  3. Paul gave four motives to encourage the careless believers to turn from their sins and start earning their own bread.
    A. The of the Word (3:6)
    B. The of the Apostle (3:7-10)
    C. The of the Church (3:11-15)
    D. The of the Lord (3:16-18)
  4. In the four Gospels and the Book of Acts, our Lord is often called ; but this name is used very in the rest of the New Testament.
  5. Labor was a of man’s life before entered the .
  6. As an , Paul had the right to expect financial ; but he gave up this right that he might be an to the young believers.
  7. Authority comes from ; comes from practice and .
  8. The faithful Christians in Thessalonia were discouraged by the of the saints who refused to work.
  9. Work is a great to unbalanced and activity.
  10. Church discipline is to the church what family discipline is to a : it is an exercise of, and evidence of, love.
  11. There are various levels of church discipline that must be distinguished.
    A. Personal between Christians.
    B. error.
    C. A believer by sin.
    D. A repeating .
    E. Open .
  12. When a Christian is caught in sin, the spiritual members of the church must seek to him with and .
  13. Second Thessalonians 3:14 does not apply to every of discipline. It applies only to the matter of not working for a .
  14. If Christ is Lord, then there is in the . If there is in the , then Jesus Christ is Lord.
  15. “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all” was Paul’s official to his . He mentioned this because of the letter they had received.
  16. The Lord is coming . BE !

Merrill Tenney writes:
Practically every major doctrine in the catalogue of faith is represented in these two small epistles. Although they were not written as doctrinal treatises, nor primarily to present the author’s general theological views, they contain a well-rounded body of theological teaching. Paul and those who received his epistles believed in one living God (1, 1:9), the Father (2, 1:2), who has loved men and has chosen them to enjoy His salvation (2, 2:16; 1, 1:4). He has sent deliverance from wrath through Jesus Christ, His Son (1, 1:10), and has revealed this deliverance through the message of the gospel (1, 1:5; 2:9; 2, 2:14). This message has been confirmed and has been made real by the power of the Holy Spirit (1, 1:5; 4:8).
The gospel concerns the Lord Jesus Christ, who was killed by the Jews (1, 2:15). He rose from the dead (1, 1:10; 4:14, 5:10). He is now in heaven (1, 1:10), but He will come again (1, 2:19; 4:15, 5:23; 2, 2:1). To Him is ascribed deity, for He is called Lord (1, 1:6), God’s Son (1, 1:10), and the Lord Jesus Christ (1, 1:1; 3; 5:28; 2, 1:1). Believers (1) receiving the word of God (1, 1:6), (2) turn from idols, serve God and wait for the return of Christ (1, 1:9, 10). Their normal growth is in sanctification (1, 4:3, 7; 2, 2:13). In personal life they are to be clean (1, 4:4-6), industrious (1, 4:11, 12), prayerful (1, 5:17), and cheerful (1, 5:16). Theoretically and practically the Thessalonian letters embody all the essentials of Christian truth.

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