Category: 1 Thessalonians
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Assurance of Election
1 Thessalonians 1:5 Nothing gives a believer greater joy than having assurance of salvation. The Thessalonians had been shaken by bad actors who sought to challenge whether they had been saved at all. Paul took aim at their uncertainty and sought to persuade them of being chosen by God. By appealing to both objective and…
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A Church in God
1 Thessalonians 1:1-4 As Paul addresses the saints in Thessalonica after a lengthy season of separation, he greets them in a unique and unusual way calling them “a church in God.” In speaking of them in this way, he reinforced the point that they were a true church since they were in God the Father…