Part 2 | Signs of a True Church
From 1 Thessalonians 1
📖 1 Thessalonians 1:4-5 ESV For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you, 5 because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.
📖 John 15:16 ESV You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
📖 John 15:19 ESV If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
📖 1 Peter 2:9 ESV But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
📖 Ephesians 1:4 ESV He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him.
📖 Psalm 4:3 ESV know that the LORD has set apart the godly for Himself
Signs of a True Church:
1. and action.
📖 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 ESV We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, 3 remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
You don’t have because of .
You have a that .
Signs of a True Church:
2. faith on the of others.
📖 1 Thessalonians 1:6 ESV And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit…
📖 1 Thessalonians 1:7-8 ESV so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. 8 For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything.
Genuine Christianity Christ others, and sets an of Christ others.
📖 1 Peter 4:3-5 ESV For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. 4 With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; 5 but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
Signs of a True Church:
3. focused, not obsessed.
📖 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 ESV For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
What is an ?
Any of that undermines your in God.
Sermon in a Sentence:
A true Church is active in the faith, by others, and focused in life.
