1. R. Henderson 10/28/07 Lesson # 4 1 1 Thessalonians 2:9-16 The Gospel Preaching part 2 9 For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. 10 You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers; 11 just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children, 12 so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory. 13 For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, 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. 14 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, 15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men, 16 hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

2. R. Henderson 10/28/07 Lesson # 4 2 v:9 you recall - we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. v:10-12 we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring - that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you v:13 we also constantly thank God – that you accepted our preaching not as the word of men but as the word of God v:14-15a you became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus v:15b-16 those who are hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved – not pleasing to God - wrath has come upon them Summary of 1 Thessalonians 2:9-16

3. R. Henderson 10/28/07 Lesson # 4 3 For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God how working night and day so as not be a burden to any of you, SV S V 9 For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. What is the gospel ? see 1 Cor 15:1-4 What is the “gospel of God” ? see Rom 1:1;15:16 & 2 Cor.11:7

4. R. Henderson 10/28/07 Lesson # 4 4 10 You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers; You are witnesses and God is (witness) how we behaved (were) toward you believers devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly

5. R. Henderson 10/28/07 Lesson # 4 5 11 just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children, we behaved toward you believers (from v 10) just as (even as) you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children

6. R. Henderson 10/28/07 Lesson # 4 6 12 so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory. so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory How is walk used here ? see Rom. 6:4, 2 Cor. 5:7, Gal. 5:16

7. R. Henderson 10/28/07 Lesson # 4 7 For this reason (or because of this) What is this referring to? we also constantly thank God (or we also unceasingly give thanks to God) that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, (or because when you appropriated to yourselves the word of the message which came from us, even the word of God) S V 13 For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, 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.

8. R. Henderson 10/28/07 Lesson # 4 8 you accepted it not as the word of men, (you welcomed it, not as a word finding its source in men) but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe. (but as it truly is, God's word which is being constantly set in operation in you who believe.) 13 For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, 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.

9. R. Henderson 10/28/07 Lesson # 4 9 14 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, 15a who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea What was being imitated ? for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews SV SV

10. R. Henderson 10/28/07 Lesson # 4 10 15b They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men, 16 hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins But wrath has come upon them to the utmost

11. R. Henderson 10/28/07 Lesson # 4 11 1 Thessalonians Class Schedule