Loading…

1 & 2 Thessalonians—The Hope of Salvation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul wrote to the church in Thessalonica to encourage them to live in the light of the gospel. In his two letters he addresses a number of topics, including the persecution they were enduring, the second coming of Christ, and how they were to live in the present times. While the letters were written nearly two thousand years ago, Pastor James H. Grant Jr. insists that Paul’s audience includes us...

says they received the word of God with much affliction, and that was imitating what had happened to him (v. 6). Both Paul and the church faced suffering, but the conversation about suffering and affliction runs through the whole book. Paul goes on to explain to us a central theological perspective about suffering in 2:14–16. Paul is encouraged that this church imitated other churches in the midst of their suffering, but he reminded them that those who hinder us are also “displeas[ing] God and oppos[ing]
Page 18
Buy this book at Logos.com