Part 1 | I’m In!
From 1 Thessalonians 1
📖 1 Thessalonians 3:6-7 ESV But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you— 7 for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith.
Having in a world:
1. I am the .
📖 1 Thessalonians 1:1 ESV Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians
The (ekklesia) is an of people has out of this to the world.
📖 Matthew 16:18 ESV And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church (assembly), and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
📖 1 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that, 15 if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.
2. I am .
📖 1 Thessalonians 1:1 ESV Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God
📖 Colossians 3:1-4 ESV If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
📖 Ephesians 3:8-10 ESV To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9 and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things, 10 so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.
3. I am because I am .
📖 1 Thessalonians 1:1 ESV To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.
Grace – is the of God to people who it.
Peace (shalom) – in , in , right with people and God.
📖 John 4:10:7-10 ESV So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
