Gospel Boldness, Pure Motives and Godly Living

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Gospel Boldness, Pure Motives and Godly Living

• 1Thessalonians 21-12

Presented by Bob DeWaay November 27, 2005
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Gospel Boldness

• 1Thessalonians 21, 2
• For you yourselves know, brethren, that our
  coming to you was not in vain, but after we had
  already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi,
  as you know, we had the boldness in our God to
  speak to you the gospel of God amid much
  opposition.

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Pleasing God Not Men

• 1Thessalonians 23, 4
• For our exhortation does not come from error or
  impurity or by way of deceit but just as we have
  been approved by God to be entrusted with the
  gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men but God,
  who examines our hearts.

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Paul Did Not Tailor His Message to Fit Popular
Opinion

• 1Thessalonians 25
• For we never came with flattering speech, as you
  know, nor with a pretext for greed-- God is
  witness--

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Paul Did Not Seek Fame or Fortune

• 1Thessalonians 26
• nor did we seek glory from men, either from you
  or from others, even though as apostles of Christ
  we might have asserted our authority.

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The Well Being of the Flock Came First

• 1Thessalonians 27
• But we proved to be gentle among you, as a
  nursing mother tenderly cares for her own
  children.

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Not Detached Professionalism But Personal
Involvement

• 1Thessalonians 28
• 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, because you had
  become very dear to us.

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Paul Showed His Good Motives by His Work

• 1Thessalonians 29
• For you recall, brethren, our labor and
  hardship, how working night and day so as not to
  be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you
  the gospel of God.

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No Wrong Doing Could be Charged to Paul

• 1Thessalonians 210, 11
• You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly
  and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved toward
  you believers just as you know how we were
  exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one
  of you as a father would his own children,

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Living Consistently with Ones Hope of the Coming
Kingdom

• 1Thessalonians 212
• so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the
  God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

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Applications

• We should have boldness in the Gospel.
• We should minister with godly motives.
• We should live out the practical implications of
  the gospel consistently.

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We Should Have Boldness in the Gospel

• Ephesians 619, 20
• and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be
  given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make
  known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,
  for which I am an ambassador in chains that in
  proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to
  speak.

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We Should Pray for Boldness in the Gospel

• Acts 413 (ESV)
• Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and
  John, and perceived that they were uneducated,
  common men, they were astonished. And they
  recognized that they had been with Jesus.

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We Should Pray for Boldness in the Gospel

• Acts 429
• And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and
  grant that Thy bond-servants may speak Thy word
  with all confidence,

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Answered Prayer

• Acts 431
• And when they had prayed, the place where they
  had gathered together was shaken, and they were
  all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to
  speak the word of God with boldness.

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Gospel Boldness

• Acts 2830, 31 (ESV)
• He lived there two whole years at his own
  expense, and welcomed all who came to him,
  proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about
  the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and
  without hindrance.

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We Should Minister with godly Motives

• 2Corinthians 42
• but we have renounced the things hidden because
  of shame, not walking in craftiness or
  adulterating the word of God, but by the
  manifestation of truth commending ourselves to
  every man's conscience in the sight of God.

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We Should Minister with godly Motives

• 2Corinthians 217
• For we are not like many, peddling the word of
  God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we
  speak in Christ in the sight of God.

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We Should live out the Practical Implications of
the Gospel Consistently

• Ephesians 55
• For this you know with certainty, that no
  immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is
  an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of
  Christ and God.

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We Should live out the Practical Implications of
the Gospel Consistently

• Ephesians 56, 7
• Let no one deceive you with empty words, for
  because of these things the wrath of God comes
  upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not
  be partakers with them

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We Should live out the Practical Implications of
the Gospel Consistently

• Ephesians 58
• for you were formerly darkness, but now you are
  light in the Lord walk as children of light

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We Should Care for the Lords Flock

• Galatians 513
• For you were called to freedom, brethren only
  do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for
  the flesh, but through love serve one another.

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