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Our Sunday morning Bible studies as taught by Jim Spoerl at libertymessenger.org.

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May 11, 2020“Paul’s Second Letter to the Thessalonians — To You Who Are Troubled, Rest”
As we begin Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians, the subject remains the return of the Lord although in chapter one the emphasis is not with the timing of his return (that we will come to in chapter 2) but with the contrast between members of Christ’s Body Church and unbelievers as far as their eternal hope or lack of it is concerned. The return of the Lord will secure that destiny for ever for unbelievers. There is a principle taught here that is quite profound: when we suffer at the hands of unbelievers, Paul writes, this is but a token or sure indicator of coming judgment on those persecuting us. They will themselves be judged severely and eternally by Almighty God. Truly, it is our privilege to suffer with him therefore as the apostle writes often. He is our head and we his body - he suffers with us therefore and our privilege is to suffer with him. This is a major theme of the apostle, even here in this early letter. Amen!
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May 04, 2020"Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians — In Everything Give Thanks, for This is the Will of God”
Today we finish Paul’s first letter, his first letter to the Thessalonians. What a blessing it has been to learn so much about our Blessed Hope, the Rapture of the Church which is His Body. Having presented in chapter 4 the teaching that Christ’s Body saints will be regathered into the heavenlies (not into the earthly Millennial Kingdom) when Christ returns, the saints were encouraged regarding the loss of loved ones. In chapter 5 the apostle finishes his early teaching on this subject by explaining why the saints of this current dispensation of grace are entirely different in their heritage from the Jews of the Tribulation period. He writes that the difference between living in this dispensation is like day and night in comparison to them of judgment coming to this earth as the Lord refocuses his work on his chosen nation. The Rapture, we must conclude, is pre-Tribulational therefore.
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50min
April 30, 2020“Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians — We Are Not Appointed to Wrath, but to Obtain Salvation”
Chapter 4 of this letter announces the details of our Blessed Hope, the Rapture of our Lord Jesus Christ. The details given are very important to know and for the Thessalonian believers, some of whom were sorrowing even “as those that have no hope”, this teaching was surely comforting indeed. Then, in chapter 5, the apostle gets to some really important teachings that provide quite literally a “black and white” contrast between the Kingdom hope and our hope. The one is a message of the coming judgment with its focus according to Prophecy on Israel and the Jews though the entire world will be involved. The latter is quite different in so many ways. Salvation (the Rapture and our heavenly inheritance) and not wrath is appointed for we who live under the rule of God’s abundant grace. What a contrast. What an encouragement whatever this life brings our way with its many burdens — and blessings.
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49min
April 23, 2020"Resurrection Sunday — If They Had Known ..."
We now will begin to consider this detailed account in chapter 5 of Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians believers. Here the apostle contrasts the coming conditions during the prophesied Tribulation period with what is true of believers today living under the Dispensation of the Grace of God. The one teaching they do not need to know about since we will not live during the Tribulation, the Rapture having been already brought to pass before those “times and seasons” begin. The dispensational contexts need to be kept separate, he writes, and the Thessalonians (and we ourselves, by extension) do not need to know the details of the Tribulation when we will never be living in that time. The “they” references in this chapter must be distinguished from the “we” references or confusion results. Seeing these differences will be our primary teaching today. Praise God for his abundant grace, for it is so different from the life of believers during the Tribulation.
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50min
April 22, 2020"Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians — The Coming of the Lord, Dispensationally Considered: Living in the Light, Not in the Darkness”
Paul’s revelation in chapter 4 of this first letter to the Thessalonians establishes much regarding the upcoming Rapture of the Church which is His Body. The nature of that event is quite different from what was revealed for the Jewish saints by Christ in his earthly ministry for those awaiting their earthly kingdom inheritance. Christ’s detailed revelation fits into the period of the oft prophesied Tribulation and the details he gives match perfectly with the books of Daniel and Revelation among others. That revelation is very different from what Paul gives here in this letter. Here the focus is on believers who have died being resurrected gloriously concurrently with living believers — and then the much-awaited entry into heavenly glory. There is nothing here about entry into the earthy kingdom because that is not the promised inheritance for us living in the Dispensation of the Grace of God. Chapter 5 will continue this dispensational subject and more precious truth will be found there.
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April 02, 2020"Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians — He Is Coming Again! Our Faith Will Make All the Difference”
The last section in Chapter 4 contains the teaching about the Rapture of the Church which is His Body. This teaching is distinctive for the Body Church and its timing is pre-Tribulation. That begins to be clear here but it is the special focus of chapter 5 and the second chapter of the second Thessalonian letter. Here though, Paul instructs believers regarding the resurrection of those saints that had already died and the teaching is clear — their resurrection will immediately precede our own catching up to be with the Lord. In fact, they will return with the Lord and we shall meet them in the air along with the Lord at the appointed time. This teaching is designed to comfort the believers who will read this letter and it surely did. The teaching here is a critical one without which our own faith will surely be influenced.
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51min
March 27, 2020"Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians — How We Live Awaiting His Coming Is Most Important”
Chapter 4 is divided into two parts, the first containing an exhortation to live responsibly awaiting the return of the Lord. The second is about the return of the Lord for us saints living under grace, the Rapture. Today we consider the practical responsibilities of believers who are living under grace and the many challenges that the saints endure. The primary focus here is worldliness and carnality in the church, especially in the area of sexuality and marriage although personal independence in daily living is also mentioned. Marriage is the “norm” for relationships between the sexes and Paul strongly exhorts the Thessalonians believers in that area here. Apart from the marriage union between one man and one woman, no sexual contact between the sexes is acceptable to God and other sexual experiences are indeed carnal and ungodly. Believers should not even publicly need to concern themselves with these worldly matters — if all were well in the churches, but it is not. God’s standard for believers is very high and has not changed since Adam and Eve, it seems.
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49min
March 16, 2020"Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians — The Blessings of Pastoral Fellowship and Care, From Now Until Eternity"
Chapter 3 of Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians believers will lead us directly into the fourth chapter where the corrected teaching of the Lord’s Pre-Tribulational return for us saints is provided. These believers were dear to the apostle and he had wanted to visit them again, but Satan had prevented that. But he exhorts the believers not to let Satan interfere in their thinking and faith though he may cause issues everywhere nevertheless. He writes how encouraged he is by God’s work in them already and has great expectations for the future. The work of almighty God is for now AND for eternity — that is his message here. At the Lord’s calling into glory that great work will be made clear to all. This is his message of encouragement for all those under trial in this life who have believed and are now awaiting his calling glory and to be reunited with those that have gone before.
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44min
March 11, 2020"Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians — Paul’s Ministry in Thessalonica and Its Eternal Fruit -- Part 2”
Paul had traveled on his second missionary journey to the city of Philippi. Then, after preaching the risen Christ, he and his companion Silas were treated harshly, beaten, and imprisoned in the local jail. You will remember the salvation of the jailer. Then, due to the miraculous opening of the door of the jail, they were free again. As a consequence of these miracles, the magistrates sent Paul and Silas (and Timothy) away. Their journey then took them to Thessalonica where they ministered a little over three weeks before departing. The Thessalonians received his word gladly as the word of the living God — 1 Thess. 2:13 “… which effectually worketh also in you that believe.” The consequence was an expected persecution which led the apostle to visit them again, “if God would permit.” But he did not and allowed Satan to interfere — verses 18 & 19. But, nevertheless, “For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? [Are] not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?” The Lord gave the victory nevertheless. And Paul’s hope for future fellowship in glory sustained him with his words here becoming such a great blessing for them and for all of us. Satan’s interference was only the basis for God’s blessings in ways that could never be anticipated.
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50min
March 02, 2020"Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians — Paul’s Ministry in Thessalonica and Its Eternal Fruit”
We continue in our study of First Thessalonians today. Chapter 2, verses 1-12 will be our focus. The second chapter begins with a simple request: “Just remember how I came unto you!” As Paul knew so well by now, persecution has a way of following the bold proclamation of the gospel of Christ. Verses 2-4 are so very compelling: “We were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention . . . But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.” These words are so memorable and so powerful. He continues with the analogies of a mother and child and a father and his children. These words closed our teaching, verses 7 & 8: “But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.” May they grip our souls as well as the apostle intended, even today!
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46min

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