Ministry Passages: 1 Thessalonians and 2 Thessalonians Flashcards
REPENTANCE DEMONSTRATED
1 Thessalonians 1:9
what kind of a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God.
THE SHEPHERD AS PARENTS
1 Thessalonians 2:7
we proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children. 11just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children.
THE AFFECTION OF THE SHEPHERD
1 Thessalonians 2:8
“having thus a fond affection for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives as well.
RECEIVED THE WORD
1 Thessalonians 2:13
we also constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of God’s message, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.
SEXUAL PURITY
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality.
RAPTURE
1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord.
THE DAY OF THE LORD
1 Thessalonians 5:2
For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.
NOT WRATH
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
RIGHT ATTITUDES
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
16Rejoice always; 17pray without ceasing; 18in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
NO SIN OF OMISSION
1 Thessalonians 5:19
Do not quench the Spirit
DISCERNMENT
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22
END TIMES CONFUSION
2 Thessalonians 2:1
1Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to Him, 2that you may not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.
DISCIPLINE
2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep aloof from every brother who leads an unruly life and not according to the tradition which you received from us.
DISCIPLINE
2 Thessalonians 3:14
And if anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take special note of that man and do not associate with him, so that he may be put to shame.
