Gods Word Changes Lives

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Gods Word Changes Lives

• 1Thessalonians 213-20

Presented by Bob DeWaay January 8, 2006
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Receiving Gods Word in Faith is Life Changing

• 1Thessalonians 213
• And for this reason 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.

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The Gospel Offends Everyone

• 1Thessalonians 214
• For you, brethren, became imitators of the
  churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in
  Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings
  at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they
  did from the Jews,

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Paul Indicts Jews Who are Hostile to the Gospel

• 1Thessalonians 215
• who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets,
  and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God,
  but hostile to all men,

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The Jewish Leaders who Kept People from the
Gospel

• Matthew 2313
• But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
  hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of
  heaven from men for you do not enter in
  yourselves, nor do you allow those who are
  entering to go in.

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A Proleptic Description of Wrath

• 1Thessalonians 216
• hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that
  they might be saved with the result that they
  always fill up the measure of their sins. But
  wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

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A Proleptic Description of Wrath

• Prolepsis
• The anachronistic representation of something
  as existing before its proper or historical time.

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Example of Prophetic Prolepsis

• Isaiah 533
• He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of
  sorrows, and acquainted with grief And like one
  from whom men hide their face, He was despised,
  and we did not esteem Him.

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A Proleptic Description of Wrath

• 1Thessalonians 216
• hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that
  they might be saved with the result that they
  always fill up the measure of their sins. But
  wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

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Stored Up Wrath

• Romans 25
• But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant
  heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in
  the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous
  judgment of God,

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Paul Feels Orphaned From Them

• 1Thessalonians 217, 18
• But we, brethren, having been bereft of you for
  a short while-- in person, not in spirit-- were
  all the more eager with great desire to see your
  face. For we wanted to come to you-- I, Paul,
  more than once-- and yet Satan thwarted us.

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Paul Has Joy Now Anticipating the
Eschatological Gathering of The Lord and His
People

• 1Thessalonians 219, 20
• For who is our hope or joy or crown of
  exultation? Is it not even you, in the presence
  of our Lord Jesus at His coming? For you are our
  glory and joy.

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Applications

• Gods Word Changes Lives, Not Human Wisdom
• The Gospel Is Always Offensive Unless it is
  Tampered With
• Satans Hindrances are Part of Gods Providence

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Gods Word Changes Lives, Not Human Wisdom

• 1Corinthians 118, 19
• For the word of the cross is to those who are
  perishing foolishness, but to us who are being
  saved it is the power of God. For it is written,
  I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the
  cleverness of the clever I will set aside.

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Gods Word Changes Lives, Not Human Wisdom

• 1Corinthians 121
• For since in the wisdom of God the world through
  its wisdom did not come to know God, God was
  well-pleased through the foolishness of the
  message preached to save those who believe.

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The Gospel Is Always Offensive Unless it is
Tampered With

• 1Corinthians 122-24
• For indeed Jews ask for signs, and Greeks search
  for wisdom but we preach Christ crucified, to
  Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles
  foolishness, but to those who are the called,
  both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and
  the wisdom of God.

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Satans Hindrances are Part of Gods Providence

• 2Corinthians 127
• And because of the surpassing greatness of the
  revelations, for this reason, to keep me from
  exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in
  the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me-- to
  keep me from exalting myself!

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Satans Hindrances are Part of Gods Providence

• 2Corinthians 128, 9
• Concerning this I entreated the Lord three times
  that it might depart from me. And He has said to
  me, My grace is sufficient for you, for power is
  perfected in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I
  will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the
  power of Christ may dwell in me.

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