Receiving Christ Amidst Adversities
Receiving Christ Amidst Adversities
Series: 1 Thessalonians
Topic: Gentle, Holy Spirit, Hostility, Kind, Persecution
Book: 1 Thessalonians
1 Thessalonians 2:13-16
A. True Faith Hears the Sender, Not Only the Messenger (v13)
□ I will look for the ways that God’s word is at work in me. And nurture it.
B. Disbelief, No Matter the Community, Often Brings Trouble to Those Who Believe (v14)
□ I will choose rather to be mistreated with God’s people that to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin in this broken world (Hebrews 11:25).
C. Christ’s Good News is FOR the Benefit of All Mankind (v15-16)
□ I will pray that, in His power, God would transform my enemy, even while recognizing that, in His power, God may punish their wicked unbelief.