2 Thessalonians 3:6-18 A Warning Against Idle Brethren
2 Thessalonians 3:1-5 The Faithfulness and Steadfastness of Jesus
There’s a new series out that I have enjoyed very much called The Chosen. You can see it on Pureflix or on youtube. It’s very well done and captures some of the historical picture during Jesus’ earthly ministry. Jesus indeed chooses his diciples. They did not seek to become disciples. They in fact had their lives turned upside down and started over in a sense. And that’s who we are as well. We are chosen. We move from death to life. He chooses us. He then calls us. Calls us to faith. And just as the disciples would learn, we must then stand for the faith. Stand for what we believe, as taught by Jesus. We don’t get to make stuff up. We follow the Master, the Rabbi, the Teacher. No student is above his teacher, and the same holds for us his disciples. but we must remain faithful, because we have been chosen and called to do so.
Sound the alarm! I think I’m losing my mind! Have things ever been so out of control in your life you just want to pull the covers over your head and throw in the towel? Have you ever panicked about missing an appointment only to find out that it was scheduled on a different day? And you wonder how you could be so silly to get so worked up about such a thing. Stressing over nothing. Sometimes when you don’t have sufficient information or the information you have is wrong, we can get worked up, stressed out, become anxious over nothing. And this is what the church in Thessalonica was facing. And as we will find today, Paul wrote to encourage them, and to warn them and remind them that God is sovereign and all powerful. I think it’s good for us to be reminded in the same way. It’s good for us to be reminded of key doctrines and most importantly, the gospel.