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Upperclassmen
Monday start-up
Ask your 3:00 where did we leave Paul before his letter
to the Galatians.
3 Pray MonDAY3 REQUESTS
Paul’s Origin Story…
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
ACTS 15-16
THE JERUSALEM
COUNCIL
THE BREAKUP
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY
TIMOTHY JOINS TEAM
ACTS 17-18
THESSALONICA
BEREA
ATHENS
CORINTH
1 THESS
A.B.O.U.T.
1 THES
CHAPTERS 1 & 2
FAITH, MINISTRY, LONGING
1 THESS
CHAPTERS 3 &4
TIMOTHY’S REPORT
PLEASING THE LORD
Reading Log Due
THIS WEEK IN NEW TESTAMENT LIT
Paul’s StoryACTS CHAPTER 15
-Judiazers are infiltrating Antioch. P & B dispute them.-P & B are sent to Apostles in Jerusalem for official
ruling on what to require of Gentile Christians.
THE COUNCIL-Grace opponents believed Gentiles must be
circumcised and required to obey the law. -Peter explains that God knows their hearts and has sent His Holy Spirit. (They are already Christians)
-Key verse 15:11-Paul & Barnabas share about their mission-James speaks with final authority.
Paul’s StoryACTS CHAPTER 15
15:19-21 Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. For from ancient generations Moses has had in in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in thee synagogues.
Why even these rules? Sensitivity to Jewish brothers.
Paul’s StoryACTS CHAPTER 15
15:22 Then it seemed good to the Apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas.
Paul, Barnabas, Judas-Barsabbas, and Silas.
The Gentile response was very positive.
Missionary dream team breaks up over John Marks involvement.
Barnabas and John Mark head to Cyprus. Paul & Silas to Syria.
Paul’s Second Missionary Journey
ACTS CHAPTER 16
Paul ends up in Asia Minor/Turkey/Galatia in the town of Derbe. Here he picks up a half Jew, half Greek disciple named Timothy.
Churches are strengthened, people are coming to Jesus!
Paul wants to take the Gospel to Asia but the Spirit of Jesus stops him. He receives a vision from a man in Macedonia (Greece) pleading with him to take his mission there.
First stop in Greece is Philippi.
ACTS CHAPTER 16
Place of prayer at the river. What does this mean?
Lydia trusts in Jesus and was baptized, persuades the missionaries to stay with her.
Story of the slave girl and her masters. -She has ability to tell the future by the power of evil spirit. -Her owners make money off of her. -She is telling the truth about Paul’s message but annoyingly. -Paul casts the evil spirit out of her. -She is useless to her owners.
ACTS CHAPTER 16
Slave owners take revenge. Paul & Silas end up flogged and imprisoned.
Paul & Silas are singing praises to God at midnight. God sends a large earthquake to shake the doors open, but supernaturally unlocked everyone’s chains too.
But not to escape?
Prison guard discovers empty prison and is going to kill himself. Paul reveals that all the prisoners are just outside.
ACTS CHAPTER 16
Prison Guard- “How can I be saved?”Paul- “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved.”
He cleans the missionaries wounds and then he and his family are baptized.
City leaders send word that Paul & Silas are to be released.
Paul, a Roman citizen wants justice. Public exoneration.
City leaders- “Please leave town.”
Upperclassmen
Tuesday start-up
If you were Paul would you leave Greece after the beat
down in Philippi?
2 Pray TUESDAYSCHOOL & COUNTRY
Paul’s Origin Story…
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
ACTS 15-16
THE JERUSALEM
COUNCIL
THE BREAKUP
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY
TIMOTHY JOINS TEAM
ACTS 17-18
THESSALONICA
BEREA
ATHENS
CORINTH
1 THESS
A.B.O.U.T.
1 THES
CHAPTERS 1 & 2
FAITH, MINISTRY, LONGING
1 THESS
CHAPTERS 3 &4
TIMOTHY’S REPORT
PLEASING THE LORD
Reading Log Due
THIS WEEK IN NEW TESTAMENT LIT
ACTS CHAPTER 17
Paul & Silas won over some Jews & Greeks in Thessalonica.-Philippian church financially supported him (Phil 4:15-16)-Jason gave him a place to stay.
Angry mob comes for missionaries at Jason’s house but they are not home. They take Jason and his family instead!
They lie about, imprison, and make Jason post bond.
Missionaries head to Berea. Special group of believers here. EXAMINE EVERYTHING WITH SCRIPTURE TO SEE IF IT’S TRUE.
ACTS CHAPTER 17
Mob from Thessalonica travelled to Berea to turn the people against Paul personally.
Paul is sent to Athens. Silas & Timothy stay in Berea.
Athens- Known worldwide for its intellectualism.
Paul engages with two schools of philosophy.-Epicureans-Stoics
Do they still exist?
ACTS CHAPTER 17
Philosophers bring Paul to Mars Hill (Hill of Ares) the meeting place of the council of Areopagus (religion & education).
They ask Paul to present his “new philosophy”
Paul introduces the unknown god = YahwehHe is unlike other gods.
He needs nothing, gives everything.V.27- God’s Sovereignty.V.28- Greek poets quotedFoolish to worship idolsResurrection of Jesus gives PROOF!
ACTS CHAPTER 17
3 Athenian responses…-Mock-Curious-Believe
No church started in Athens.
ACTS CHAPTER 18
Paul heads to Corinth. Meets Aquilla & Priscilla (tentmakers).
ACTS CHAPTER 18
Silas and Timothy catch up with Paul in Corinth.
Jewish response to the Gospel was negative. Paul switches focus on only Gentiles there.
Synagogue ruler Crispus and his whole family trust in Jesus and are saved along with a large population of Greeks. This is the new church.
The Lord assured Paul he would keep him safe in Corinth so he remains there for a year and a half.
Upperclassmen
Wednesday start-up
With what you know about Thessalonica what do you
think Thessalonians will be about?
5 FINGER WEDNESDAY
5 FINGER PRAYER IN PARTNERS
Paul’s Origin Story…
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
ACTS 15-16
THE JERUSALEM
COUNCIL
THE BREAKUP
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY
TIMOTHY JOINS TEAM
ACTS 17-18
THESSALONICA
BEREA
ATHENS
CORINTH
1 THESS
A.B.O.U.T.
1 THES
CHAPTERS 1 & 2
FAITH, MINISTRY, LONGING
1 THESS
CHAPTERS 3 &4
TIMOTHY’S REPORT
PLEASING THE LORD
Reading Log Due
THIS WEEK IN NEW TESTAMENT LIT
NEW TESTAMENT NEW TESTAMENT LITERATURE LITERATURE
1,21,2
THESSALONIANSTHESSALONIANS
WHAT ARE 1,2 THESSALONIANS ALL
ABOUT?A UTHOR
B ACKGROUND
O UTLINES
U NIQUENESS
T HEMES
Paul, 2nd missionary journey
WHAT ARE 1,2 THESSALONIANS ALL
ABOUT?A UTHOR
B ACKGROUND
O UTLINES
U NIQUENESS
T HEMES
Paul,2nd missionary journey
City of Thessalonica
CITY OF THESSALONICACITY OF THESSALONICA
100 miles SW of Philippi, capital of MacedoniaMajor trade route, like Ephesus and ColossePaul received great opposition from Jews in Thessalonica (Acts 17)
WHAT ARE 1,2 THESSALONIANS ALL
ABOUT?A UTHOR
B ACKGROUND
O UTLINES
U NIQUENESS
T HEMES
Paul,2nd missionary journey
City of Thessalonica
1 THESSALONIANS1 THESSALONIANSIn light of Christ’s return…In light of Christ’s return…
PersonalInstructions
1-3
PracticalInstructions
4-5
2 THESSALONIANS2 THESSALONIANSConcerning the Day of the Concerning the Day of the
Lord…Lord…
Comfort1
Correction2
Charge3
WHAT ARE 1,2 THESSALONIANS ALL
ABOUT?A UTHOR
B ACKGROUND
O UTLINES
U NIQUENESS
T HEMES
Paul,2nd missionary journey
City of Thessalonica
(see front pages)
Paul’s letters on “end times”
THEMESTHEMES
1 ThessaloniansThe Resurrection and 2nd Coming of
Christ
2 ThessaloniansCorrections about the Coming of Christ
1 THESSALONIANS1 THESSALONIANS
Eschatology:the study of future events (last
things)
Upperclassmen
Thursday start-up
Is Jesus coming back?
THEME THURSDAYPRAY THROUGH THE SCHOOL THEME
AND HE SAID TO HIM, “Love the lord your god with all your heart AND with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first
commandment. AND a second is like it: you shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
MT. 22:37-39
Paul’s Origin Story…
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
ACTS 15-16
THE JERUSALEM
COUNCIL
THE BREAKUP
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY
TIMOTHY JOINS TEAM
ACTS 17-18
THESSALONICA
BEREA
ATHENS
CORINTH
1 THESS
A.B.O.U.T.
1 THES
CHAPTERS 1 & 2
FAITH, MINISTRY, LONGING
1 THESS
CHAPTERS 3 &4
TIMOTHY’S REPORT
PLEASING THE LORD
Reading Log Due
THIS WEEK IN NEW TESTAMENT LIT
the wait = anameno
anameno = eager wait
Like a servant waiting for wages.
Do we eagerly await Jesus?
v.13 …the Word of God, which is at work in you
believers.
“at His coming” = parousia
Parousia= presence (metaphoricaally
extended to coming)
Upperclassmen
Friday start-up
What do you eagerly wait for most in your life?
FUN FRIDAY PRAYERAce of death
Paul’s Origin Story…
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
ACTS 15-16
THE JERUSALEM
COUNCIL
THE BREAKUP
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY
TIMOTHY JOINS TEAM
ACTS 17-18
THESSALONICA
BEREA
ATHENS
CORINTH
1 THESS
A.B.O.U.T.
1 THES
CHAPTERS 1 & 2
FAITH, MINISTRY, LONGING
1 THESS
CHAPTERS 3 &4
TIMOTHY’S REPORT
PLEASING THE LORD
Reading Log Due
THIS WEEK IN NEW TESTAMENT LIT
v.10 as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see your
face and supply what is lacking in your faith?
Why the “?”
Upperclassmen
Monday start-up
Are you ready to discuss the alleged “rapture
passage”?
3 PRAY MONDAY3 REQUESTS
Paul’s Origin Story…MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
1 THESS
RAPTURE?
RESURRECTION OF THE
DEAD
#ROTD
1 & 2 THESS
DAY OF THE LORD
#DOTL
2 THESS
MAN OF LAWLESSN
ESS
2 THESS
RESTRAINER
2 THESS
CHAPTERS 3 &4
TIMOTHY’S REPORT
PLEASING THE LORD
Reading Log Due
THIS WEEK IN NEW TESTAMENT LIT
the rapture = division?
1 THESSALONIANS1 THESSALONIANS
RESURRECTION OF THE DEADRESURRECTION OF THE DEAD1. Reasons for addressing this topic:
- The Thessalonians wondered where deceased believers were
- Paul does not want them to be ignorant about the “dead in Christ”- Paul does not want them to grieve like the pagans who had no hope
1 THESSALONIANS1 THESSALONIANS
RESURRECTION OF THE DEADRESURRECTION OF THE DEAD2. “Rapture”: from the Latin “rapturio”
meaning “caught up, snatched, or seized”
3. The Lord will descend from heaven: - shout: authoritative command- voice of archangel: Michael- trumpet: warning! break camp!
1 THESSALONIANS1 THESSALONIANS
RESURRECTION OF THE DEADRESURRECTION OF THE DEAD4. The “dead in Christ” will rise first:
- for some this implies when a believer dies, his/her soul is immediately with God- at the resurrection of the dead, the body will reunite with the soul in the air
- for some this implies that the dead will reach the
LORD together at one time. - at the resurrection of the dead, the body & soul will arrive as a package.
1 THESSALONIANS1 THESSALONIANS
RESURRECTION OF THE DEADRESURRECTION OF THE DEAD5. Living believers are snatched from the
earth and united with Christ in the air
6. Paul’s purpose in teaching this: comfort
RAPTURERAPTURE vs.vs. 22NDND COMING COMING
RAPTURERAPTURE vs.vs. 22NDND COMING COMING
Christ comes for His believers
Christ comes with His believers
RAPTURERAPTURE vs.vs. 22NDND COMING COMING
Christ comes for His believers
Christ comes with His believers
Christ doesn’t come to earth- met in the air
Christ comes down to earth-at Mount of
Olives
RAPTURERAPTURE vs.vs. 22NDND COMING COMING
Christ comes for His believers
Christ comes with His believers
Christ doesn’t come to earth- met in the air
Christ comes down to earth-at Mount of
Olives
No judgment of the world
All living in the world judged
RAPTURERAPTURE vs.vs. 22NDND COMING COMING
Christ comes for His believers
Christ comes with His believers
Christ doesn’t come to earth- met in the air
Christ comes down to earth-at Mount of
Olives
No judgment of the world
All living in the world judged
No mention of Satan being involved
Satan bound for 1000 years
Upperclassmen
Tuesday start-up
Do you think 1 Thessalonians 3:12-18 is fairly labeled the rapture
passage?
2 PRAY TUESDAYSCHOOL & COUNTRY
Paul’s Origin Story…MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
1 THESS
RAPTURE?
RESURRECTION OF THE
DEAD
#ROTD
1 & 2 THESS
DAY OF THE LORD
#DOTL
2 THESS
MAN OF LAWLESSN
ESS
2 THESS
RESTRAINER
2 THESS
CHAPTERS 3 &4
TIMOTHY’S REPORT
PLEASING THE LORD
Reading Log Due
THIS WEEK IN NEW TESTAMENT LIT
Day of the LORD
-Christians saved from wrath
-DotL shouldn’t surprise Christians
1 Thess. 5:19-20 ESV1 Thess. 5:19-20 ESV
For God has not destined us for wrath, but to
obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are
awake of asleep we might live with him.
v.11 To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every good
work of faith by His power.
2 THESSALONIANS2 THESSALONIANS
Reasons for a 2nd letter (3 mo. later)- confused by a spirit: prophetic utterance from a false prophet- confused by a message: spoken
lesson from a false teacher- confused by a “letter as if from us”: false letter from “Paul”
2 THESSALONIANS2 THESSALONIANS
Has the Day of the Lord already come?
Did we miss it?
2 THESSALONIANS2 THESSALONIANS
The Day of the Lord has not arrived because 3 major events must occur
first:1. the apostasy2. the man of lawlessness3. the restrainer removed
2 THESSALONIANS2 THESSALONIANS
1. the apostasy (falling away/departure)an aggressive, calculated, voluntary revolt against God, or departure of something
Upperclassmen
Wednesday start-up
What do you think of when you hear “Anti-Christ”?
5 FINGER WEDNESDAY
5 finger prayer
Paul’s Origin Story…MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
1 THESS
RAPTURE?
RESURRECTION OF THE
DEAD
#ROTD
1 & 2 THESS
DAY OF THE LORD
#DOTL
APOSTASY
2 THESS
MAN OF LAWLESSN
ESS
2 THESS
RESTRAINER
2 THESS
CHAPTERS 3 &4
TIMOTHY’S REPORT
PLEASING THE LORD
Reading Log Due
THIS WEEK IN NEW TESTAMENT LIT
2 THESSALONIANS2 THESSALONIANS
2. the man of lawlessness(the beast, the lawless one)many today call him “Antichrist”
2 THESSALONIANS2 THESSALONIANS
the man of lawlessness:- opposes God or any other object of
worship- displays himself as “God” in the temple- receives his power from Satan- lies and deceives using signs and false
wonders
Mt 24:32 From the fig tree learn it’s lesson: as soon as
it’s branches become tender and puts out its
leaves, you know summer is near. So also, when you see all these things, you
know that He is near, at the very gates.
Be of 7 kings, himself being
the 8th, who was and is not.
(Rev 17:10-11)
Have 10 kings rule with him for one hour.(Rev 17:12)
Be a king of skilled intrigue
(Dan 8:23)
Come in his own name.
(John 5:43)
Have authority or the name of
666 or 616(Rev 13:17,18)
Come from the kingdom of iron
and clay. (Dan 9:26)
Be proud and confident.(Dan 8:25, 11:37)
Be a passive conqueror.(Rev 6:2)
Be different from other kings.
(Dan 7:24)
Not regard the god of his
forefathers. (Dan 11:37)
By peace he will destroy many(Dan 8:25)
Be a beast from the sea.
(Rev 13:1; Dan 7:3)
Make a covenant with many
including Israel (Dan 9:27)
1 John 2:18-19 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they are not of us.
1 John 2:21-22
I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of truth. Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 4:1-3
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
Upperclassmen
Thursday start-up
Who/what is the Restrainer holding off the Man of
Lawlessness?
THEME THURSDAYPRAY THROUGH THE SCHOOL THEME
AND HE SAID TO HIM, “Love the lord your god with all your heart AND with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first
commandment. AND a second is like it: you shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
MT. 22:37-39
Paul’s Origin Story…MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
1 THESS
RAPTURE?
RESURRECTION OF THE
DEAD
#ROTD
1 & 2 THESS
DAY OF THE LORD
#DOTL
APOSTASY
2 THESS
MAN OF LAWLESSN
ESS
2 THESS
RESTRAINER
2 THESS
CHAPTERS 3 &4
TIMOTHY’S REPORT
PLEASING THE LORD
Reading Log Due
THIS WEEK IN NEW TESTAMENT LIT
3. The Restrainer
What is it? Who is it?
Many possibilities. No conclusive evidence. Whatever it is it is holding Satan’s wrath back and the revealing of the Anti-Christ. So whatever it is it’s a good thing.
3. The Restrainer
What is it? Who is it?
The Holy Spirit?
The Roman State?
Human government?
The Church?
Michael?
2 THESSALONIANS2 THESSALONIANS
The Day of the Lord cannot arrive until the apostasy/departure has occurred and the man of lawlessness is revealedThe man of lawlessness cannot act until the restrainer is removedThe restrainer has not been removed (THEREFORE THE DAY OF THE LORD HAS NOT ARRIVED!)