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1 Thessalonians 5 - Introduction
I THESSALONIANS, CHAPTER FIVE
Chapter Topics
1.
Times and Seasons of the Lord's Coming. 5:-11
2.
Practical Exhortations. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-22
Let us not sleep (and be drunken) as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 1 Thessalonians 5:6-7
I THESSALONIANS CHAPTER FIVE
Chapter Topics:1.
Time and Seasons of the Lord's Coming. 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
2.
Practical Exhortations. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-22
1.
Concerning what did Paul have no need to write to them? 1 Thessalonians 5:1. ____________________ and
______________________________.
2.
The day of the Lord so cometh as a ______________________________. in the ______________________________. 1 Thessalonians 5:2.
3.
What will people be saying when the Lord returns? 1 Thessalonians 5:3. ______________________________.and ______________________________.
4.
True or false (circle which)Those who are saying, Peace and safety, will escape on the day of the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 5:3.
5.
Christians are not in ______________________________. 1 Thessalonians 5:4.
6.
True or false (circle which), The day of the Lord will overtake Christians as a thief. 1 Thessalonians 5:4.
7.
Christians are children of ______________________________.and children of the ______________________________. 1 Thessalonians 5:5.
8.
As children of the day, what should we not do? 1 Thessalonians 5:6 ______________________________.
9.
As children of the day, what should we do? 1 Thessalonians 5:6. (two answers) ______________________________; ______________________________.
10.
What two things are done in the night? 1 Thessalonians 5:7 ______________________________; ______________________________.
11.
Rather than being drunken, we are to be ______________________________ 1 Thessalonians 5:8
12.
What spiritual armor are we to put on? 1 Thessalonians 5:8
(1) __________________________________________________________________________________________________;
(2) __________________________________________________________________________________________________.
13.
God has not appointed us to ______________________________, but to ______________________________ by our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:9
14.
Christ ______________________________ for us, that whether we are alive or dead, we should ______________________________with him. 1 Thessalonians 5:10
15.
Paul begged the Thessalonians to ________________them which ______________________________among you, and are ___________________you in the Lord and ______________________________you. 1 Thessalonians 5:12.
16.
The Thessalonians were to ______________________them very ______________________________in love for their work's sake. 1 Thessalonians 5:13
17.
Be at ______________________________among yourselves. 1 Thessalonians 5:13
18.
_____________________them that are unruly. 1 Thessalonians 5:14
19.
______________________________the feebleminded (or faint-hearted). 1 Thessalonians 5:14
20
______________________________the weak. 1 Thessalonians 5:14
21.
Be ______________________________toward all men. 1 Thessalonians 5:14
22.
See that none render ______________________________for ______________________________unto any man. 1 Thessalonians 5:15
23.
______________________________evermore. 1 Thessalonians 5:16
24.
______________________________without ceasing. 1 Thessalonians 5:17
25.
In every thing ______________________________ 1 Thessalonians 5:18
26.
______________________________not the Spirit. 1 Thessalonians 5:19
27.
______________________________not prophesyings. 1 Thessalonians 5:20
28.
____________________all things; _________________ _____________ that
which is good. 1 Thessalonians 5:21.
29.
______________________________from all ______________________________of evil. 1 Thessalonians 5:22
30.
The very God of peace ______________________________you wholly. 1 Thessalonians 5:23.
31.
Paul prayed God that their whole ______________________________, and ____________________, and ______________________________be preserved blameless unto the ______________________________of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:23
32.
We shall be preserved blameless, because God, who calls us, is ______________________________1 Thessalonians 5:24
33.
What did Paul ask the Thessalonians to do for him? 1 Thessalonians 5:25. ______________________________.
34.
With what were the Thessalonians to greet their brethren? 1 Thessalonians 5:26 ______________________________.
35.
Unto whom was this epistle to be read? 1 Thessalonians 5:27 ______________________________.
36.
What did Paul wish would be with the Thessalonians? 1 Thessalonians 5:28. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
37.
Memorize 1 Thessalonians 5:1-2; 1 Thessalonians 5:23
CHAPTER FIVE
I THESSALONIANS, CHAPTER FIVE
Chapter Topics1.
Times and Seasons of the Lord's Coming. 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
2.
Practical Exhortations, 1 Thessalonians 5:12-22
Outline
II.
The Lord's Coming; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
A.
The dead in Christ and the Lord's coming; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
B.
Times and seasons of the Lord's coming; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
1.
Comes as a thief; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3
a.
No need of Paul to try to write to them; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-2
b.
When men are saying, Peace and Safety; 1 Thessalonians 5:3
c.
As travail upon a woman
2.
Will not come to Christians as a thief; 1 Thessalonians 5:4-11
a.
Why it won-'t overtake us thus; 1 Thessalonians 5:4-5 (We are not in darkness.)
b.
What we should be doing; 1 Thessalonians 5:6-8
(1) Let us not sleep; 1 Thessalonians 5:6
(2)
Let us watch;
(3)
Let us be sober; 1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 a
(4)
Put on the armor of God
(a)
Breastplate of faith and love;
(b)
Helmet of the hope of salvation; 1 Thessalonians 5:8-10.
(5) Comfort and edify one another; 1 Thessalonians 5:11
III.
Practical exhortations; 1 Thessalonians 5:12-22
1.
Know them which labor among you. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13
2.
Warn the unruly; 1 Thessalonians 5:14
3.
Comfort the faint-hearted; 1 Thessalonians 5:14
4.
Support the weak; 1 Thessalonians 5:14
5.
Be patient toward all men; 1 Thessalonians 5:14
6.
Render to no man evil for evil; 1 Thessalonians 5:15
7.
Rejoice evermore; 1 Thessalonians 5:16
8.
Pray without ceasing; 1 Thessalonians 5:17
9.
In everything give thanks; 1 Thessalonians 5:18
10.
Quench not the Spirit; 1 Thessalonians 5:19
11.
Despise not prophesyings; 1 Thessalonians 5:20
12.
Prove all things; 1 Thessalonians 5:21
13.
Abstain from all appearance of evil; 1 Thessalonians 5:22
CONCLUSION
1.
Prayer for their entire sanctification; 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
2.
Request for prayer; 1 Thessalonians 5:25
3.
Command to greet the brethren; 1 Thessalonians 5:26
4.
Command to read the epistle; 1 Thessalonians 5:27
5.
Benediction of grace; 1 Thessalonians 5:28
(You should now memorize the two chapter topics of chapter five, and the two divisions (1 and 2) in section 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11.)
THOUGHTS FROM THE OUTLINE
Of I Thessalonians, chapter five
The first eleven verses of this chapter are actually a continuation of the discussion of the Lord's coming, which was started at 1 Thessalonians 4:13.
In 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Paul discussed the relation of the dead in Christ to the Lord's coming. In 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11, Paul discusses the relation of the living to the Lord's coming.
The Lord's coming will affect the living in two completely opposite ways. Neither the Christians nor the unsaved can know the times and seasons of the Lord's coming. But to sinners that day will come as a thief, bringing destruction. To Christians it will not come as a thief, because they are always watching, and spiritually awake, and sober.
What a sermon it makes to compare the way the Lord's coming will come like a thief to sinners, but to the children of God, since they are always looking for His coming, it will not come as a thief.
Paul closes his epistle with some brief pointed exhortations. The exhortations may be brief, but their application is very broad.
DID YOU LEARN?
(Questions over I Thessalonians, chapter five)
1.
What are the two topics of chapter five, and what are the Scripture limitations of each? (See outline)
2.
What are the two divisions in the first topic of chapter five? (See outline)
3.
What are three points of resemblance between sections 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11? (1 Thessalonians 5:1)
4.
Concerning what subject did Paul say (in 1 Thessalonians 5:1) that he had no need to write to them?
5.
As what will the day of the Lord come? (1 Thessalonians 5:1)
6.
What will men be saying before the day of the Lord? (1 Thessalonians 5:3)
7.
What will come upon people as travail upon a woman with child? (1 Thessalonians 5:3)
8.
Why will not the day of the Lord overtake Christians as a thief? (1 Thessalonians 5:4)
9.
Of what are Christians children? (1 Thessalonians 5:5)
10.
Of what are Christians NOT children? (1 Thessalonians 5:5)
11.
What two things should the children of light NOT do? (1 Thessalonians 5:6-7)
12.
What three things should the children of light do? (1 Thessalonians 5:6-8)
13.
What armor are the children of light to put on? (1 Thessalonians 5:8)
14.
Unto what has God NOT appointed us? (1 Thessalonians 5:9)
15.
Unto what has God appointed us? (1 Thessalonians 5:9)
16.
Christ died for us, so that whether we wake or sleep we should do what? (1 Thessalonians 5:10)
17.
In 1 Thessalonians 5:11, what two things are the Thessalonians told to do for one another?
18.
What word the word edify mean? (1 Thessalonians 5:11)
19.
How many practical exhortations are listed in the outline of section 1 Thessalonians 5:12-22?
20.
What two duties do we have toward them which are over us in the Lord? (1 Thessalonians 5:12-13)
21.
At what are we to be among ourselves? (1 Thessalonians 5:13)
22.
What does unruly in 1 Thessalonians 5:14 mean?
23.
What were some of the Thessalonians doing (or not doing) that caused Paul to call them unruly? (1 Thessalonians 5:14)
24.
What does feebleminded in 1 Thessalonians 5:14 mean?
25.
What are we to do for the weak? (1 Thessalonians 5:14)
26.
Toward whom are we to be patient? (1 Thessalonians 5:14)
27.
What are we to return for evil? (1 Thessalonians 5:15)
28.
When are we to rejoice? (1 Thessalonians 5:16)
29.
How can we pray without ceasing? (1 Thessalonians 5:17)
30.
What are we to give in every thing (or every experience)? (1 Thessalonians 5:18)
31.
To what is the Spirit compared in the verse, Quench not the spirit?; (1 Thessalonians 5:19)
32.
To what does the statement about not quenching the Spirit primarily refer? (1 Thessalonians 5:19)
33.
How important were prophets and prophesying in the early church? (1 Thessalonians 5:20)
34.
To what activity does the word prophesying refer in the New Testament? (1 Thessalonians 5:20)
35.
What two Scriptures are given in the notes to support the view that prophesyings are not now to be found in the churches? (1 Thessalonians 5:20)
36.
What are we to do with all things? (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
37.
From what are we told to abstain in 1 Thessalonians 5:22?
38.
With what does Part Two of I Thessalonians close? (1 Thessalonians 5:23)
39.
What two things did Paul request that the God of peace might do for the Thessalonians? (1 Thessalonians 5:23)
40.
What are the three parts in man's nature? Explain what each is. (1 Thessalonians 5:23)
41.
Paul prayed that our entire nature might be preserved blameless at what event? (1 Thessalonians 5:23)
42.
Who is going to sanctify and preserve us? (1 Thessalonians 5:24)
43.
According to 1 Thessalonians 5:24, the one who call us is
44.
In 1 Thessalonians 5:25, what did Paul ask his brethren to do for him?
45.
What is the purpose of the holy kiss? (1 Thessalonians 5:26)
46.
Is the holy kiss a church ordinance? (1 Thessalonians 5:26)
47.
What did Paul command the Thessalonians to do with his letter? (1 Thessalonians 5:27)
48.
Under what form did Paul issue his charge to read his letter publicly? (1 Thessalonians 5:27)
49.
What is the benediction in every epistle of Paul? (1 Thessalonians 5:28)
50.
Recite or write out from memory 1 Thessalonians 5:1-2; 1 Thessalonians 5:23.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-2 begins, But of the times.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 begins, And the very.
51.
As a final question over I Thessalonians, see if you can say all the chapter topics of the epistle.