{"id":532,"date":"2017-06-25T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=532"},"modified":"2017-07-07T15:35:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T15:35:54","slug":"23-i-thessalonians-waiting-for-his-son","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/sermons\/23-i-thessalonians-waiting-for-his-son\/","title":{"rendered":"23 I Thessalonians &#8211; Waiting for His Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>I Thessalonians &#8211; Waiting for His Son<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>I Thessalonians 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul is in Corinth when he wrote to the church at Thessalonica.<\/p>\n<p>He was Thessalonica preaching for only 3 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>As he moved on to the next couple of places, Paul sent Timothy to check on that church and report back because Paul was hindered from going back \u2013 I Thessalonians 3:2<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Purpose of Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He wanted to encourage the believers as they stood firm against intense persecution<\/p>\n<p>The death of some of the church members brought questions in how they would participate in the coming of Christ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Theme of the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The theme of the book is the Coming of Christ. Every chapter ends with the reminder that Christ is coming back<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Summery of the Church<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The summery of church: vs. 3; 9-10<\/p>\n<p>Work of Faith \u2013 Turned to God from idols<\/p>\n<p>Labour of Love \u2013 Serve the Living and True God<\/p>\n<p>Patience of Home \u2013 Waiting for His Son<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Rapture of the Church<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I Thessalonians 4:13-18<\/p>\n<p>Rapture means to be caught up<\/p>\n<p>The Rapture is the first phase of the coming of Christ<\/p>\n<p>He is not touching the ground, but coming in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Thessalonians &#8211; Waiting for His Son I Thessalonians 1 Paul is in Corinth when he wrote to the church at Thessalonica. He was Thessalonica preaching for only 3 weeks. As he moved on to the next couple of places, Paul sent Timothy to check on that church and report back because Paul was hindered from going back \u2013 I Thessalonians 3:2 &nbsp; The Purpose of Writing He wanted to encourage the believers as they stood firm against intense persecution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[52,41],"ctc_sermon_book":[91],"ctc_sermon_series":[89],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[12],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-532","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_topic-rapture","ctc_sermon_topic-second-coming-of-christ","ctc_sermon_book-1-thessalonians","ctc_sermon_series-life-of-apostle-paul","ctc_sermon_speaker-scotty-backhaus","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/532\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}