Practical issues in the Christian life.

1. The Rapture and the Return of Jesus Christ
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
His Part-Our Part
Practical Issues in the Christian Life

2. The Rapture and the Return of Jesus Christ
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
His Part-Our Part
Practical Issues in the Christian Life
I. GOD LOVES US
"beloved of God..."
Vs 13.
A. God loved us while we were yet sinners
Romans 5:8
Deut 7:7-8
The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in
number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
But because the LORD loved you, (KJV)
B. God's love motivated Him to send Christ for our sins.
I John 4:10
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the
propitiation for our sins. (KJV)
C. It is God's love for us that causes us to love Him
I Jn 4:19
We love him, because he first loved us. (KJV)

3. The Rapture and the Return of Jesus Christ
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
His Part-Our Part
Practical Issues in the Christian Life
II. GOD CHOSE US.
"God hath from the beginning chosen you..."
Vs 13
A. Every saved soul faces the fact that God has chosen
them to be saved.
B. That plan was established before the foundation of the
world
Ephesians 1:4
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should
be holy and without blame before him in love : (KJV)

4. The Rapture and the Return of Jesus Christ
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
His Part-Our Part
Practical Issues in the Christian Life
III. GOD SET US APART.
"Through sanctification..."
Vs 13
A. He sets us apart through the work of the Holy Spirit.
Every soul who asks for salvation has invariably been drawn to ask for it
through circumstances where God prepares him.
B. Once we are saved, we are set apart from the world.
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A saved person is different than an unsaved person in God's eyes
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We are in a different world than the rest of the world. And
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Once we begin to live according to the Word of God, we are different
than the rest of the world in the eyes of the world too.

5. The Rapture and the Return of Jesus Christ
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
His Part-Our Part
Practical Issues in the Christian Life
IV. GOD CALLED US
"Whereunto He called you by our gospel..."
vs 14
God uses the preaching of His Word to save them that
believe
1 Corinthians 1:21
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God
by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. (KJV)
The Word call implies a voice .
The voice that God uses to call souls to salvation is the voice of a man crying out the
gospel.
We ought to give to missions to win souls
We ought to invite friends to church to win their souls
We ought to witness to neighbors to win souls

6. The Rapture and the Return of Jesus Christ
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
His Part-Our Part
Practical Issues in the Christian Life
V. HE GIVES US GLORY
"to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ..."
Vs 14
Matt 25:21
His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful
servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will
make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy
of thy lord. (KJV)

7. The Rapture and the Return of Jesus Christ
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
His Part-Our Part
Practical Issues in the Christian Life
V. HE GIVES US GLORY
"to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ..."
Vs 14
John 14:2
In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were
not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place
for you. (KJV)

8. The Rapture and the Return of Jesus Christ
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
His Part-Our Part
Practical Issues in the Christian Life
V. HE GIVES US GLORY
"to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ..."
Vs 14
Rom 8:17
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs
with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may
be also glorified together. (KJV)

9. The Rapture and the Return of Jesus Christ
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
His Part-Our Part
Practical Issues in the Christian Life
V. HE GIVES US GLORY
"to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ..."
Vs 14
Eph 1:18
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye
may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the
riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, (KJV)

10. The Rapture and the Return of Jesus Christ
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
His Part-Our Part
Practical Issues in the Christian Life
V. HE GIVES US GLORY
"to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ..."
Vs 14
2 Tim 2:12
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny
him, he also will deny us : (KJV)

11. The Rapture and the Return of Jesus Christ
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
His Part-Our Part
Practical Issues in the Christian Life
V. HE GIVES US GLORY
"to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ..."
Vs 14
1 Pet 1:4
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth
not away, reserved in heaven for you, (KJV)

12. The Rapture and the Return of Jesus Christ
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
His Part-Our Part
Practical Issues in the Christian Life
V. HE GIVES US GLORY
"to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ..."
Vs 14
Rev 21:23
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the
moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it,
and the Lamb is the light thereof. (KJV)

13. The Rapture and the Return of Jesus Christ
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
His Part-Our Part
Practical Issues in the Christian Life
V. HE GIVES US GLORY
"to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ..."
Vs 14
Rev 22:3
And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and
of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
(KJV)