I want to explain that when I give a number next to a word out of the Bible, the number is from the Strong's Concordance and gives the meaning to either the Hebrew word if in the Old Testament or the Greek word if in the New Testament. The Strong's Concordance is a great study guide and I highly recommend you get one to help you in your study of the Bible.
Chapter 2
V1 not in vain or not without results
V2 shamefully treated in Philippi
Lord made them bolder
with much contention
This is important, because a lot of times contention makes people back off
V3 exhortation didn’t come from bad motives
V4 put in trust with the gospel
We have to have the right motives––to please God and to share the Gospel or the Good News.
they didn’t change the truth to impress anyone, or just because certain people were listen
In other words if someone was living a life style that God said was wrong, they didn’t make light of it––they spoke the truth, the plain truth without compromise.
V5 never used flattering words
spoke the truth without motives no matter what.
and not greedy for gain
no compromise
V6 they didn’t seek to glorify themselves or others
V7 at the same time they were gentile and not brash or overbearing
Ephesians 5:15 the first part: But speaking the truth in love…
this is so important that we conduct ourselves in love to others to show them Jesus and how much He loves them.
V8 They cared about them so much they were pleased to share the Word of God and their very lives
Because the Thessalonians were so dear to them
V9 It was important to Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to not be a burden on the Thessalonians
See V4-5
V10 holily––3743 hos-ee-oce piously; from 3741 Hos-ee-os holy, righteous, unpolluted with wickedness, right us conformed to God and His Laws.
Justly1346 dikaios equitably—fairly, impartially
unblameably
we behaved ourselves among you.
How we behave is very important. Paul, Silas, and Timothy are great examples to us on how to behave.
V11 exhort 3870 parakaleo to call upon someone to do something, to admonish
comforted 3888 paramutheomai, encourage, console
charged 3140 to be well reported of, to be a witness, bear witness
As a father teaches, admonishes, guides his children how to live in life. How to act not only as a child, but how to conduct themselves as an adult.
V12 the charge: Walk worthy of God…
Who called you into His kingdom and glory
V13 When they heard the Word of God preached, they received it as Truth
which effectively works in you
effectively works 1754 en-erg-eh-o This is where we get our word: energy from
to be active, effectually or fervently (intense, hot, glowing, burning), to produce effect, to show forth, be mighty in, work
V14 Followers of Jesus often suffer.
the Thessalonians suffered
Acts 17:1-9
V9 They took bail from Jason and the others they had arrested and let them go.
17:10-15—Jews of Thessalonica: not the Christians from there, but the unbelievers
like your own countrymen
V15 who killed the Lord Jesus
and persecuted us
V16 forbidding us to speak to the gentiles––When I read something like this it reminds me of the verse Matt 23:15 scribes and Pharisees proselytizing and making two-fold the child of hell than themselves.
we can see that here: Acts 17:5
as well as other places through Acts
…to fill up their sins alway… Amplified Classic “Forbidding and hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles (the nations) that they may be saved. So as always they fill up (to the brim the measure of) their sins. But God’s wrath has come upon them at last––completely and forever!
fill up 378 an-ap-lay-ro-oo complete, occupy, to accomplish, fill up, fulfill, spoken of measure
Genesis 6:5
Genesis 15:16
Other examples:
Ecc 9:3
Matt 23:31-32
Acts 13:10
Romans 1:29
But it can be for good as well
Galatians 6:2
Measure (part of the definition of fill-up) as a measuring up—How full are we with the things of the Lord—His Word, thoughts of Him etc.
V17 we being taken from you Back in Acts 17
Like desiring to see a child
V18 hindered—God works through people, so the demons do also
Romans 15:22 For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.
V19-20 This is our desire!!
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