I THESSALONIANS
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CHAPTER 1

1. They had spread the Word and others had heard of their faith in God and how they had abandoned their former ways of sin and idolatry.
2. They turned from serving idols to serving God.

CHAPTER 2

1. Believers should walk worthy of God - in such a way as to be pleasing to Him, to make Him proud of us as a father is of his child, and to be an example of a follower of Christ to those who do not know Him yet or those who are still growing in Him.
2. The Word of God works in us to change us from our old man to the new and to allow us to work for God as witnesses to others.
3. To have the Thessalonians present with him at the return of Jesus.

CHAPTER 3

1. a. He needed to see if they were still in the faith even though there were fears of persecution. b. He worried that Satan may have caused them to fall away from or to abandon their faith because of the fears of or actual persecution of the Christian followers in the nearby regions. Therefore, all his work would have been done in vain.
2. If they stood fast in the Lord and did not depart, he would have joy and strength to carry on the worthwhile work of spreading the Word.

CHAPTER 4

1. We should abound in how to walk to please God.
2. We are rejecting God.
3. They will be taken when God sends Jesus for the saints.
4. The dead will rise first, and then those who remain will go to God.

CHAPTER 5

1. He will come as a thief in the night - you will not see Him coming and gathering.
2. We must keep our faith in love and live to please God by staying out of darkness.
3. By rejecting the Spirit's direction and conviction continually.
4. Every form of evil.