Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 5:25-28
(1 October 2017)
SERMON NOTES: PRAYING, GREETING, READING (1 Thessalonians 5:25-28)
Sanctification, or growing in holiness, is often, as B. B. Warfield says, ‘a slow process’, but it should be a real and energetic process.
– 5:25; these Thessalonian Christians, who …
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 5:22-24
SERMON NOTES: GROWING IN GRACE (1 Thessalonians 5:22-24)
H. Auden was an atheist when he met the novelist Charles Williams, and he recorded that he felt ‘for the first time in my life … in the presence of personal sanctity’.
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 5:19-21
SERMON NOTES: DISCERNMENT WITHOUT QUENCHING (1 Thessalonians 5:19-21)
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
SERMON NOTES: REJOICING, PRAYING, GIVING THANKS (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)
Notice the ‘all’ language in each of the three verses. In all things, we are to be a people who rejoice, who pray, and who give thanks.
– 5:16. Paul was a rejoicing man …
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 5:14,15
SERMON NOTES: RELATING TOGETHER (1 Thessalonians 5:14-15)
– John Chrysostom says that Paul is writing to leaders, but Paul actually says that Christians are to admonish each other (5:14a). Larry Crabb: ‘We tend to relate to one another with the hidden purpose of maintaining our …
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 5:12,13
SERMON NOTES: ELDER-CONGREGATIONAL RELATIONS (1 Thessalonians 5:12-13)
Calvin: ‘This admonition is very necessary.’ It is directed mainly at the congregation but also the elders (see Acts 14:23. John Stott is right to say that the Bible opposes both clericalism and anti-clericalism.
(a) work …
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 5:9-11
SERMON NOTES: FROM ELECTION TO ENCOURAGEMENT (1 Thessalonians 5:9-11)
– he traces salvation all the way through from election to being with Christ forever, and then applies that. It shows how closely doctrine (what we believe) is connected to ethics (what we do).
Peter Barnes : 1 Thessalonians 5:4-8
SERMON NOTES: BE AWAKE AND SOBER! (1 Thessalonians 5:4-8)
In 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Paul has been comforting Christians who were worried about the state of those Christians who had died before Christ’s return, and in 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 he is encouraging Christians to live …
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-4
SERMON NOTES: KNOWING ABOUT THE SECOND COMING (1 Thessalonians 5:1-4)
– they needed some clarification on some issues – 3:9-10. In 4:13-18 Paul had dealt with deceased believers; in 5:1-11 he deals with living believers awaiting the second coming.
Peter Barnes: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
SERMON NOTES: GRIEF WITH HOPE (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
Some became confused when a Christian died before the second coming. From their conversion, they knew about the second coming – 1:9-10. Paul is wanting to clarify more than correct. Hence we have the problem (5:13); the …
