Sermon Tone Analysis

The Future is Light

1 thess 5.

Paul was explaining to the believers that the believers have knowledge of what is going to take place!

They needed to acts like the light they had been given

Paul Goes on to say

“the day of the Lord” was extensively known and taught in the OT

The “day of the Lord,” to which Paul refers here, is the subject of extensive Old Testament revelation.

There are seventeen references to it in the Old Testament (; , ; ; ; ; , , ; ; , ; ; , ; ; ).

The “day of the Lord” is sometimes found combined with such words as wrath and vengeance.

It is referred to four times in the New Testament (here and in ; ; ).

Ladies and gentlemen what Paul was saying you have truth start living and acting like it .

We have seen the future and it is good!

Paul contrasts night and day, dark and light, to explain that believers should be different from the world not just in lifestyle but also in view of Jesus’s eminent return.

Paul contrasts night and day, dark and light, to explain that believers should be different from the world not just in lifestyle but also in view of Jesus’s eminent return.

The most important preparation for Jesus’s return is to be in right relationship with him through salvation—rather than to be caught up in predicting his return.

Application Point: The most important preparation for Jesus’s return is to be in right relationship with him through salvation—rather than to be caught up in predicting his return.

Facing a Future with out Fear means we are to have right relationship with the Lord now!

I Remember the Truth

It starts out peaceful then ......

Paul felt no need to go over such ground again.

He refers his converts back to a prior revelation.

He refers them, also, to a perfect revelation: “For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night” (5:2).

The Lord’s coming for His church is likened to the coming of a thief.

A thief comes unexpectedly, when people are asleep, or when they are busy and occupied with other things.

The “day of the Lord,” to which Paul refers here, is the subject of extensive Old Testament revelation.

There are seventeen references to it in the Old Testament (Isa.

2:12; 13:6, 9; Ezek.

13:5; 30:3; Joel 1:15; 2:1, 11, 31; 3:14; Amos 5:18, 20; Obad.

15; Zeph.

1:7, 14; Zech.

14:1; Mal.

4:5).

The “day of the Lord” is sometimes found combined with such words as wrath and vengeance.

It is referred to four times in the New Testament (here and in 2 Thess.

2:2; 2 Peter 3:10; Rev. 1:10).

You know all this

Paul felt no need to go over such ground again.

He refers his converts back to a prior revelation.

He refers them, also, to a perfect revelation: “For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night” (5:2).

The Lord’s coming for His church is likened to the coming of a thief.

A thief comes unexpectedly, when people are asleep, or when they are busy and occupied with other things.

The “day of the Lord,” to which Paul refers here, is the subject of extensive Old Testament revelation.

There are seventeen references to it in the Old Testament (; , ; ; ; ; , , ; ; , ; ; , ; ; ).

The “day of the Lord” is sometimes found combined with such words as wrath and vengeance.

It is referred to four times in the New Testament (here and in ; ; ).[1]

Look we know what the Truth is lets remember who we are ......

Right now, man exalts himself and tries to rule God out of His own world.

In “the day of the Lord,” the Lord reasserts His claim over this planet.

It is primarily a day of wrath and judgment.

It does, however, extend on into the millennial age and to the dramatic climax and end of that magnificent era.

The focal point of “the day of the Lord” is the Apocalypse (the book of Revelation) and the judgments that follow the Rapture, especially the terrible vial judgments when God will pour out His undiluted wrath upon this world that murdered His Son.[1]

The Thessalonians knew “perfectly” about these things.

The word that Paul used means literally “accurately.”

Key - Matthew used the word to describe the instructions that Herod gave to the wise men.

He inquired of them “diligently” as to exactly when the guiding star first appeared and urged them to search “diligently” for the young child and then bring him the coveted information ().

Paul had taught his Thessalonian converts with painstaking care.

As a result, they had accurate knowledge of the salient features of the Day of the Lord.

Stop it ..... we have gone over this extensively ..... now how is your relationship with the Lord....

II Remain Awake

Paul now contrasts the essential differences between saints and sinners, between children “of the day” and those “of the night.”

Their condition is different: “But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief” (5:4).

Twice in the original text the personal pronoun is emphatic.

The Holy Spirit thus draws emphatic attention to the marked difference between the nature and destiny of Christians and the nature and doom of unbelievers.

Paul is now talking to “brethren,” to the Lord’s people.

Illustration - alert

By being alert we are ready and waiting

complacency

compromise

Auburn Sr. Year - made galosh and fell asleep and there was a fire and almost burned down house

Alert mean be ready ........

It is hard to see how we can comfort one another with the assurance that we are all going to go through the Great Tribulation, whether in whole or in part.

key - The word for “edify” isoikodomeō, which means “to build a house.”

It is used to depict the development of spiritual growth and the building of Christian character.

It implies that spiritual progress results from patient and diligent labor.

All believers are to help develop Christian character in others in view of the Lord’s return.

Paul now turns his full attention to that point.[1]

The word for “edify” isoikodomeō, which means “to build a house.”

It is used to depict the development of spiritual growth and the building of Christian character.

It implies that spiritual progress results from patient and diligent labor.

All believers are to help develop Christian character in others in view of the Lord’s return.

Paul now turns his full attention to that point.[1]

Differences between Day and Night

Paul now contrasts the essential differences between saints and sinners, between children “of the day” and those “of the night.”

Paul now contrasts the essential differences between saints and sinners, between children “of the day” and those “of the night.”

1 thess 5.3

vs 4 - Their condition is different: “But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief” (5:4).

Twice in the original text the personal pronoun is emphatic.

The Holy Spirit thus draws emphatic attention to the marked difference between the nature and destiny of Christians and the nature and doom of unbelievers.

Paul is now talking to “brethren,” to the Lord’s people.[1]

expand here - our condition is different we have the light and we are forgiven

We are not in the dark about these things.

We will not be overtaken by them.

We see clearly what is coming.

That day will not overtake us as a thief in the night!

On the contrary, the Rapture is going to overtake us first.[1]

vs 5 Their character is different: “Ye are all children of the light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.”

Night and day are opposites; light and darkness are opposites.

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vs 6 Then, too, their conduct is different: “Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let expand here

Let us not sleep,” says Paul.

When a person is asleep, he looks like one dead.