Thanksgiving
1Th 1:2-5 LSB -
[2] We give thanks to God always for all of you, making mention [of you] in our prayers;
[3] remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before our God and Father,
[4] knowing, brothers beloved by God, your election,
[5] for our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full assurance; just as you know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.
Entrusted with the Gospel
1Th 2:2 LSB - [2] but after we had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much struggle.
1Th 2:13 LSB - [13] And for this reason we also thank God without ceasing 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 is at work in you who believe.
Timothy’s Good Report
1Th 3:2 LSB - [2] and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you as to your faith,
1Th 3:6-8 LSB - [6] But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always remember us kindly, longing to see us just as we also long to see you, [7] for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction we were comforted about you through your faith; [8] for now we [really] live, if you stand firm in the Lord.
1Th 3:9-10 LSB - [9] For what thanks can we render to God for you in return for all the joy with which we rejoice before our God because of you, [10] as we night and day keep praying most earnestly that we may see your face, and may complete what is lacking in your faith?
Sanctification and Love
1Th 4:7 LSB - [7] For God did not call us to impurity, but in sanctification.
1Th 4:9-10 LSB - [9] Now concerning love of the brothers, you have no need for [anyone] to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, [10] for indeed you do practice it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel still more,
The Dead in Christ Will Rise
1Th 4:16-17 LSB - [16] For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of [the] archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. [17] Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
John Logan (1748-1788)
Take comfort, Christians, when your friends
in Jesus fall asleep;
their better being never ends;
why then dejected weep?
Why inconsolable, as those
to whom no hope is giv’n?
Death is the messenger of peace,
and calls the soul to heav’n.
As Jesus dy’d, and rose again
victorious from the dead;
so his disciples rise, and reign
with their triumphant Head.
The time draws nigh, when from the clouds
Christ shall with shouts descend,
and the last trumpet’s awful voice
the heavens and earth shall rend.
Then they who live shall changed be,
and they who sleep shall wake;
the graves shall yield their ancient charge,
and earth’s foundations shake.
The saints of God, from death set free,
with joy shall mount on high;
the heav’nly hosts with praises loud
shall meet them in the sky,
Together to their Father’s house
with joyful hearts they go;
and dwell for ever with the Lord,
beyond the reach of woe.
A few short years of evil past,
we reach the happy shore,
where death-divided friends at last
shall meet, to part no more.
The Day of the Lord
1Th 5:2 LSB - [2] For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.
1Th 5:8-10 LSB -
[8] But since we are of [the] day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
[9] For God has not appointed us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, [10] who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.
Admonishment and Instruction
1Th 5:16-19 LSB - [16] Rejoice always; [17] pray without ceasing; [18] in everything give thanks, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. [19] Do not quench the Spirit;
1Th 5:23 LSB - [23] Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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