2 Thessalonians 3 - Introduction
CHAPTER 3. FINAL THOUGHTS AND AN EXHORTATION TO RIGHT LIVING.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 3. FINAL THOUGHTS AND AN EXHORTATION TO RIGHT LIVING.... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Finally, brothers and sisters, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also with you, and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men. For all have not the faith.' Paul the seeks their prayers continually, not for himself and his needs, but for the effe... [ Continue Reading ]
‘But the Lord is faithful who will establish you and guard you from the Evil One (or ‘evil'). The faithfulness to His own of God and the Lord is Paul's constant theme (1Co 1:9; 1 Corinthians 10:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:24; 2 Timothy 2:13 compare also Hebrews 2:17; Heb 10:23; 1 Peter 4:19; 1 John 1:9).... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And we have confidence in the Lord with regard to you that you both do and will do the things which we command.' Confident that the Lord will establish and guard them he also has confidence that they are fulfilling and will fulfil what he and his companions ask of them. Whether ‘in the Lord' refer... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patient endurance of Christ.' Once again he prays that their lives may be filled with love resulting from God's activity within them, and may have patient endurance through Christ's strengthening (compare 2 Thessalonians 1:3). It is... [ Continue Reading ]