Survey of the book of 2 Thessalonians

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The Church’s Growth and Paul’s Encouragement in 2 Thessalonians

Second Thessalonians is a letter that Paul writes again to the same church, but in this time he was encouraged. He got reports back about this church and had good reports.

They were growing.

They were maturing. That gave him great encouragement. However, there was also some problems. It seems that some people had come into the church and were teaching that the Lord's return already happened.

Confusion About the Lord’s Return and Idleness in the Church

There's much confusion here on the expectation of the Lord's coming or did it already happen. The issue that we end up seeing is that there were people that were actually not working because they were anticipating the Lord's return and so they were basically mooching off of others in the church.

Others were working and they weren't because they were being spiritual and waiting for the Lord's return. This confusion caused some problems that Paul had to address. He had to address the issue that if a man doesn't work, he should not eat.

End Times Teaching and Daily Readiness

Not only does he have to address the issues of the Lord's return and some doctrinal things.

Here.

We're going to see some of the end times explained in this book, but he also is going to teach us that we should be living every day as if the Lord is going to return and therefore we should be having a mindset of doing everything we can, but not just sitting back and waiting because we don't know when that would be.

Thanksgiving, Exhortation, and Obedience

Now he gives some thanksgivings for a church, but also some exhortations for them because they needed to be obedient every day.

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