Your life means more than you know. Our family, neighbors, friends, and coworkers need to witness faith in action. Now, more than ever people need to hear the hope that is in the Gospel message of salvation.
When you are an imitator of the Lord, you become a model of how a person of faith should act and live.
Let us not focus on the suffering that is going on around us, but rather focus on Jesus and living our lives out loud for Jesus and for all to see, that they would know true joy, healing, and forgiveness.
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People need to be encouraged and know others are praying for them, that they are loved and not forgotten, that they are loved by God and that He desires them to experience the grace, love and peace of God.
The believers were responding to the Gospel message that Paul preached. How each believer lived displayed the fact that the Gospel message made an impact upon their hearts and lives.
Believers across this nation and around the world need to hear a message of salvation and keeping the faith. Paul’s message was a message of: grace, God’s love, encouragement, hope and salvation.
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The gospel message is needed in both good times and in the time of physical suffering. It is needed for both the physically healthy person and those who may be dealing with a sickness, disease or a virus pandemic.
However, the gospel message is good news and it will inspire love, joy, faith and hope to all who will believe. The gospel message and the truth regarding Jesus’ life, death and resurrection will change lives today just as it did 2000 years ago. The gospel message is powerful; it is life changing; it is a free gift from God to all who will believe. It is the message of Hope that people need to hear at a time when they are feeling helpless and discouraged due to hopelessness. With that let’s read.
“Paul, Silas and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you. 2 We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. 3 We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 4 For we know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you, 5 because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake. 6 You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit. 7 And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. 8 The Lord’s message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia—your faith in God has become known everywhere. Therefore we do not need to say anything about it, 9 for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath” (1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, NIV).
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Paul opened his letter extending the greeting of God’s grace and peace, a greeting that every believer welcomes and experiences. I said last week that the order of grace and peace is important. Peace with God can only occur because of the grace of God. Experiencing the grace of God in one’s life brings true peace; however, rejecting the grace of God results in rejecting much more than the Peace of God.
We learned last week that grace is undeserved favor or kindness towards the sinner and is a gift that God freely gives.
While we were still sinners, Christ died once for all. The result is that when you put your faith in Jesus, you will experience God’s grace and also peace with God in your life.
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Knowing all this, I want to continue to list some additional evidences that Paul gives us in this first chapter of Thessalonians. Walking in faith and victory in Jesus has a look all its own. The verses we read earlier gave us additional evidences that will remove any doubt of the believer’s faith in Jesus. Paul tells us that these evidences signal to all those around that these believers are followers of Christ.
Understand, there are many people who have moral ideas. They may display a moral and kind lifestyle in public; and yet they may deny Jesus.
Paul looks deeper. Paul looks to the motives and actions that drive a person to live the way they do. What we look at today are not necessarily the key evidences of faith, but they are visible signs of a person’s faith in Christ.
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1. Receive the Gospel Paul tells us that the believers received the Gospel message with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction. Their lives were changed. The Holy Spirit made the words alive in their hearts, and with a sense of deep conviction they believed.
2. Become an Imitator The Thessalonians became imitators of Paul and the Lord (verse 6). Their way of life changed. The way they view things changed. Their priorities changed. What was once important to them had changed, and no amount of suffering that came their way because of this new way of life would cause them to return to their previous lifestyle. They remained steadfast in faith.
We also see in this verse that the believers developed a Joy in their hearts by the Holy Spirit (verse 6). Their faith in Jesus brought a new sense of Joy within them, which was not there before. A joy even in the midst of suffering. The grace and peace of God was manifesting itself in them through the love, hope, and newfound Joy that was becoming evident in their lives because of their faith in Christ.
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We find that another evidence of the believer’s faith in Christ is seen in how others viewed them (verse 7). Paul saw the Thessalonian believers as becoming models of how a person of faith should act and live by:
5. Live Your Faith Out Loud Paul brags on the Thessalonians by saying the Lord’s message rang out to regions and their faith became known everywhere (verse 8). People were hearing how the Gospel touched and changed their lives. The Thessalonians did not hide or keep the message of Christ to themselves. Their faith in Jesus became known even outside the city limits. News of their faith in Jesus traveled far and wide. They lived their faith out loud for all to see and know.
The believers turned to God and turned away from worshiping idols and false gods. They worshiped God and God alone. They proclaimed to live for the one true God.
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The believers also looked forward to the time Jesus would return and rescue them all from the coming wrath. The Thessalonian believers knew their lives were changed for all eternity and there was no denying it. Their response to the Gospel proved it. Their lives witnessed it. Their worship declared it. Their actions revealed it. Their testimony proclaimed it. And others witnessed their changed lives and could not deny it.
Be a person of faith who points others to Jesus. Let the evidences of your faith in Jesus be seen by all, so that others might know and see Jesus in you. Live each day knowing that it is only by the grace of God and the power of His word through the Holy Spirit that you are who you are in Christ; remembering always to look heavenward for His return.
Hebrews 10:19-25: We need to encourage one another to run the race and finish well. As others see and hear the power of God demonstrated in your life, you’ll experience revival.
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1 Samuel 24:1-13: People need to be encouraged today. Now, more than ever, people need to see and hear the power of God demonstrated in your life.
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10: Does your life show evidence of faith? People need to be encouraged today. When you’re an imitator of the Lord, you become a model of how a person of faith should act and live.
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10: Now, more than ever people need to hear there is hope. Live your faith so that others might see and know the joy, hope, healing, grace, and love of God.
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