Paul

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Pauls Epistles to the ThessaloniansLesson
11What Everyone Needs to KnowAbout the Second
Coming2 Thessalonians 11-4September 5,
2010
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• Introduction to Lesson 11
• Is 2 Thessalonians a Re-run?
• What we already know from Acts 17 and 1
  Thessalonians
• The birth of the church
• Pauls sudden (forced) departure
• Thessalonians reception of the gospel
• Apostles conduct their identification with
  their Judean brethren (chapter 2).
• Pauls inability to return, sent Timothy
• Sanctification
• Second coming and dead saints (raised)
• Second coming and living saints (watchful)
• Final instructions, benediction, closing

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• So whats new in 2 Thessalonians? Why the need
  for a second epistle?
• Persecution it may have intensified, or at lest
  raised questions, doubts (2 Thes. 1).
• Pauls teaching on the Second Coming was being
  twisted (2 Thes. 2).
• Pauls teaching on idleness must have been
  ignored (2 Thes. 3)
• The structure of our text 3 sections
• Vss. 1-4 Greeting, thanksgiving, praise
• Vss 5-10 Encouragement for sufferers, based upon
  the Second Coming.
• Vss. 11-12 Pauls prayer for Thessalonians
• My (changed) approach in this message

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• Greeting, thanksgiving, boasting (11-4)
• Note three changes from 1 Thes. greeting
• Paul prayed for growth in 1 Thes. (312 410)
  he praises God for growth here.
• 1 Thes. Praised God 2 Thes. emphasizes the
  necessity (ought) appropriateness (rightly
  so) of praise.
• In 1 Thes., no need for boasting (18-10) here,
  Paul does boast to churches (vs. 4).
• So what how should Pauls words affect us?
• Ecclesiology (how we do church)
• Eschatology (the Second Coming)
• Persecution
• Prayer