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JESUS IS COMING SOON

The writer is the Apostle Paul

Date : time and place is uncertain(not known or definite)

It is generally thought that this was the earliestof Paul’s epistles and was probably written from Corinth between 49 AD and 54 AD.

The Church , was founded by Paul on his second missionary journey.

He met with violent opposition in his work , but he succeeded in winning some Jews and a multitude of Greeks which enabled him to establish a faithful church . (Acts 17 : 1 - 10 )

Main Themes : This is one of the most personal of all of Paul’s epistles . It is not so doctrinal or polemical ( Expressing or constituting a strongly critical attack on or a controversial opinion about someone or something ) as some of the others .

The body of the epistle consists chiefly of commendation, personal reminiscenes , counsels , and exhortations .

The central truth which is especially emphasized , is the future hope of the advent of JESUS CHRIST !

Historically , Pau had sent Timothy to encourage and strengthen the church. On his return , the report that he gave apparently inspired the apostle to write the epistle. (1 Thess 3 : 6 )

Staying in the Will of God

Timothy’s Encouragement Report : ( I Thess 3 : 6 - 13 )

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13Living Bible

6 And now Timothy has just returned and brings the welcome news that your faith and love are as strong as ever and that you remember our visit with joy and want to see us just as much as we want to see you. 7 So we are greatly comforted, dear brothers, in all of our own crushing troubles and suffering here, now that we know you are standing true to the Lord. 8 We can bear anything as long as we know that you remain strong in him.

9 How can we thank God enough for you and for the joy and delight you have given us in our praying for you? 10 For night and day we pray on and on for you, asking God to let us see you again, to fill up any little cracks there may yet be in your faith.

11 May God our Father himself and our Lord Jesus send us back to you again. 12 And may the Lord make your love to grow and overflow to each other and to everyone else, just as our love does toward you. 13 This will result in your hearts being made strong, sinless, and holy by God our Father so that you may stand before him guiltless on that day when our Lord Jesus Christ returns with all those who belong to him.

2. ) Jesus return

Matthew 24:3-14

  3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately*, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.8 All* these are the beginning of sorrows.9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Believers Who Have Died

1 THESS 4 : 13- 18

13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.18Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Quote : The New Testament Church lived in constant anticipation of the rapture. So should we

Testimony of my Dream of the Rapture

Hebrews 10:16–25

 16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17 and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 and having an high priest over the house of God; 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 24 and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Quote by Pastor Wayman Mitchell

It is the business of the Church to make God known to every generation. It’s not God’s business, it is the Church’s .

Qoute : Character is what you are....when no one’s looking !

Quote : The greatest service given to the Christian people would be to convert them to Christianity

3.) The Ressurection Promises : 1 Peter 1:3 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,”

1.) Devine Protection : 2 Chronicles 16:9 ( KJV)

9 For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. 

Psalm 91:4 (KJV )

4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

2.) Weapons and Armor : 1 Samuel 17:45 (KJV)

45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.

2 Corinthians 10:4

4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

Ephesians 6:17

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

Hebrews 4:12 KJV 1900

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Revelation 12:11 (KJV )

11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

CLOSING : We are victorius and overcomers in God’s kingdom

Romans 13:12 (NLT)

12 The night is almost gone; the day of salvation will soon be here. So remove your dark deeds like dirty clothes, and put on the shining armor of right living.