SNT 0492 - 1 Thessalonians 1:1ff
March 7, 1971 SNT 492 (Act 17); 1Th 1:1; Act 15:22, 32; Eph 2:8, 9 1Th 1:1-4; 2:9; Col 3:12 1Th 1:4-8; Act 8:4-6; (Act 3:4, 6) 1Th 1:9, 10 __________________ DRAFT snt-0492-1_thessalonians-1_1ff(vpw)(03-07-1971) DRAFT SUMMARY KEYWORDS: church, believing, chosen, Thessalonica, Paul, ceasing, called, lord Jesus Christ, joy, grace, lord, Thessalonians, true, ministry Do you like to take your Bibles tonight and turn the fruits that Solonian bleeds? Last Sunday after I finished the conversation with you people back here at headquarters. And John Townsend and I were talking is when I got the guidance to teach the first chapter of First Thessalonians tonight. And later on, I'm sure you'll see why. But I deliberately had water Commons to read X 17 tonight. Because when you begin working church epistles, you many times have to go back to the book of Acts to find out how these churches were organized, and what happened in the areas where the churches were organized. And in Acts 17. Tonight, he read to you the founding of the church in Thessalonica years later, he addressed the Epistle to them. There were some very interesting things here, if you remember in that lesson that Walter read, because this happens to be the place where he went into the synagogue, and he openly alleged to them that Jesus was the Christ. And he proved this from the scriptures, reasoning with them out of the scriptures. And it was here that they got into a number of opportunities, because the religious people just couldn't believe it would be true. Furthermore, they didn't want to accept it. So they got they got themselves some lewd failings, whatever that means. And they started a real persecution. And when they couldn't find the apostle Paul, they took his buddies, Jason and some of the rest of them and brought them out, and they were going to whip them and so on and so forth. And the accusation first was that these are the fellows who have come over here and turn the world upside down. And that's th
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Tweet Topic: DRAFT, church, believing, chosen, Thessalonica, Paul, ceasing, called, lord Jesus Christ, joy, grace, lord, Thessalonians, true, ministry Format: audio Publication Date: 03-07-1971 Victor Paul Wierwille was a Bible scholar and teacher for over four decades. By means of Dr. Wierwille's dynamic teaching of the accuracy and integrity of God's Word, foundational class and advanced class graduates of Power for Abundant Living have learned that the one great requirement for every student of the Bible is to rightly divide the Word of Truth. Thus, his presentation of the Word of God was designed for students who desire the in-depth-accuracy of God’s Word. In his many years of research, Dr. Wierwille studied with such men as Karl Barth, E. Stanley Jones, Glenn Clark, Bishop K.C. Pillai, and George M. Lamsa. His formal training included Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Theology degree