Paul speaks of the justice of God to persecuted people in his second letter to the Thessalonians. 2 Thessalonians 1: 7 And God will provide rest for you who are being persecuted and also for us when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven. He will come with his mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire, bringing judgment on those …
Scripture tells us that God is just. This is a character of God, no matter what the circumstances look like in our world. There may have been a time in your life or at the present when you questioned God’s justice. As people, we don’t see what God sees or know what He knows as …
Suffering helps me look upward and is not something that happens to people of the Bible but also to every believer in Jesus who cries out to Him. When you reflect on a difficult time, how did the Lord use that to draw you to Him in prayer? When Paul wrote to the Thessalonians, they …
Paul shows us the dangers of end-times speculation in his second letter to the Thessalonians. Between the first and second of Paul’s letters to the Thessalonians, it seems that some false teachers had come in with information they claimed to be from Paul. 2 Thessalonians 2:2 Don’t be so easily shaken or alarmed by those who …
Paul gave repeated instructions in his second letter to the Thessalonians. He wrote this second letter a few months after the first. Paul had evangelized Thessalonica on his second missionary trip but could only stay a short time because of opposition. Paul had sent Timothy back to check on the new church. Timothy returned with …
Paul deals with correction and conflict in 2 Corinthians. Paul planted the church in Corinth on his second missionary trip and stayed there for eighteen months before planting other churches. Later, he received a message from a friend that the church was struggling with some problems. Paul wrote a letter with advice as he attempted …
When your life falls apart, the importance of spiritual correction begins to be significant. Perhaps you are struggling, and the Holy Spirit is prompting you to make spiritual corrections. Then your life can get back on track. There has been more than one marriage or relationship saved when one or both partners made serious spiritual …