All things bear record · 1 Thessalonians

1 Thessalonians 1

3 witnesses of Christ here, and 2 further echoes from the reading.

Lord Jesus Christ

Jesus — 'Jehovah saves'; Christ — 'the Anointed One'

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 1:1

The Church lives in both God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, two distinct beings, and receives grace and peace from both.

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How we know: the verse itself names Him · a footnote points to Him

Hope in our Lord Jesus Christ

Jesus — 'Jehovah saves'; Christ — 'the Anointed One'

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; 1 Thessalonians 1:3

The Saints' patient endurance comes from hope in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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How we know: the verse itself names Him

The Lord

Lord — Master and rightful ruler; in Paul's letters the title of the risen Jesus, carrying the weight of the divine name

And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: 1 Thessalonians 1:6

The converts followed the apostles' example and, above all, the Lord Himself.

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The Lord

Lord — Master and rightful ruler; in Paul's letters the title of the risen Jesus, carrying the weight of the divine name

For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. 1 Thessalonians 1:8

The Thessalonians spread the word of the Lord far beyond their city.

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His Son from heaven

And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. 1 Thessalonians 1:10

The Saints wait for the Father's Son, Jesus, to come from heaven; the Father raised Him from the dead, and He rescues us from the coming judgment.

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How we know: the verse itself names Him · a Church study aid lists it

  • the same event in Acts 1:11 — 'this same Jesus ... shall so come in like manner'