Verse 10. _WHO DIED FOR US_] His death was an atoning sacrifice for the Gentiles as well as for the Jews. _WHETHER WE WAKE OR SLEEP_] Whether we _live_ or _die_, whether we are in this state or in t...
WHO DIED FOR US - That is, to redeem us. He designed by his death that we should ultimately live with him; and this effect of his death could be secured only as it was an atoning sacrifice. WHETHER WE...
V. THE DAY OF THE LORD AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The day of the Lord 1 Thessalonians 5:1)_ 2. Exhortations 1 Thessalonians 5:12) 3. Conclusions 1 Thes
PAUL'S WARNING TO THE CHRISTIANS TO BE PREPARED FOR THE PAROUSIA. 1 Thessalonians 5:2. as a thief in the night: _ cf._ the words of Jesus (Matthew 24:43). Throughout this paragraph the suddenness of...
You have no need, brothers, that anything should be written to you about the times and seasons; for you yourselves well know that, as a thief in the night, so the day of the Lord comes. When they are...
LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)...
WAKE. watch. together. Greek. _hama_, as in 1 Thessalonians 4:17....
(through our Lord Jesus Christ,) _who died for us_ It has been said that the gospel which Paul preached at Thessalonica was "not the gospel of the Cross of Christ, but of the Coming of Christ." But th...
Section VI. The Coming of the Lord Jesus Ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 to 1 Thessalonians 5:11 This solemn topic, as we have already seen (note on ch. 1 Thessalonians 1:10, and Intro
Section VI. (continued): 1 Thessalonians 5:1 The first part of this Chapter stands in close connection with the last six verses of ch. 4. Together they form the most distinctive and the weightiest se...
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§ 9. 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11. The Coming of the Day The second misgiving of the Thessalonians respecting the παρουσία (see _Introd._ to § 8, and general _Introd._ p. xxxvi.) was closely connected with...
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WHO DIED FOR US,— The Apostles lay a great stress upon this,—that Christ not onlywas incarnate, but died also to save the penitent, believing, and obedient; and therefore he has a just claim to our lo...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 5:9-10) 9 FOR GOD APPOINTED US NOT UNTO WRATH, BUT UNTO THE OBTAINING OF SALVATION THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, 10 WHO DIED FOR US, THAT, WHETHER WE WAKE OR SLEEP, WE SHOULD L...
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. DEAD FOR US, [ huper (G5228)] - 'in our behalf.' So that we need have no doubt of the certainty of our salvation,...
THE LORD'S PRESENCE THOSE DROWSING THOSE DROWSING 4 The day of the Lord with its terrors and destruction is not for us. The cry of "peace and security" should not lull us to sleep. We should be on t...
THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS. FINAL INJUNCTIONS 1. Times and seasons] St. Paul always lays stress on the uncertainty as to the TIME of the Advent (2 Thessalonians 2:2 cp. 2 Peter 3:3)....
WHETHER WE WAKE OR SLEEP] i.e. whether we are alive or dead at the Advent....
WHEN JESUS CHRIST COMES 1 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ A word list is at the end. It explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 5 WHEN THE *LORD WILL COME 5:1-11 V1 Now, brothers and s...
WHO DIED FOR US. — Not a mere pious recollection of a fact which has nothing to do with the context, but an account of the way by which Christ made it possible for us to set about earning salvation. W...
CHAPTER 12 THE DAY OF THE LORD 1 Thessalonians 5:1 (R.V.) THE last verses of the fourth chapter perfect that which is lacking, on one side, in the faith of the Thessalonians. The Apostle addresses h...
περὶ τῶν χρόνων καὶ τῶν καιρῶν....
Life or death makes no difference to the Christian's union and fellowship with Jesus Christ, whose death was in our eternal interests (_cf._ Romans 14:7-9). For this metaphorical use of γρηγ. εἴτε καθ...
READY FOR “THE DAY OF THE LORD” 1 Thessalonians 5:1 To the Apostle “the day of the Lord” was near. He expected it in his lifetime, and if we remember that the Lord's words with reference to it were...
Under the figure of a camp in which fully armed soldiers are waiting for the break of day, while those not expecting this are sleeping and drunken, the apostle shows that those waiting for the Son are...
CHRISTIANS SHOULD COMFORT AND EDIFY EACH OTHER Paul explained why the Christian should be sure to put on the breastplate of love and faith and the helmet of the hope of salvation. He said that God did...
(5) Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. (5) The death of Christ is a pledge of our victory, for he died so that we might be partakers of his life of pow...
_Whether we wake or sleep. That is, whether we be of the number of those whom Jesus Christ shall find still upon earth, when he shall come to judgment, or among those who have slept and returned to du...
(4) But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. (5) Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. (6...
There is a special interest in examining the epistles to the Thessalonians, more particularly the first, because, in point of fact, it was the earliest of the letters of the apostles; and as the first...
10_Who died_. From the design of Christ’s death he confirms what he has said, for if he died with this view — that he might make us partakers of his life, there is no reason why we should be in doubt...
The Lord's coming again into this world assumes therefore a very different character from that of a vague object of hope to a believer as a period of glory. In Chapter 5 the apostle speaks of it, but...
WHO DIED FOR US,.... The elect of God, who are not appointed to wrath, but to salvation by Christ, on which account he died for them; not merely as a martyr to confirm his doctrine, or only by way of...
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Ver. 10. _Whether we wake or sleep_] That is, live or die, our souls cannot miscarry; because God will have out the...
_For they that sleep, sleep in the night_, &c. Night is the time for sleep, and they that are guilty of drunkenness, gluttony, and other vices of intemperance, generally choose to hide them under the...
WAKE OR SLEEP; be found among the living or the dead....
WHO DIED FOR US, THAT, WHETHER WE WAKE OR SLEEP, WE SHOULD LIVE TOGETHER WITH HIM....
The alertness and vigilance of the Christians:...
In contrast to the new revelation Paul gives at the end of ch. 4, he now tells them in ch. 5 that "of the times and seasons" there was no need to write, for this was a matter of which they were well a...
D. The certainty of Christ's coming, 5:1-11 1 BUT OF THE TIMES AND THE SEASONS, BRETHREN, YE HAVE NO NEED THAT I WRITE UNTO YOU. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh a...
“WHO DIED FOR US, THAT, WHETHER WE WAKE OR SLEEP, WE SHOULD LIVE TOGETHER WITH HIM” “Who died for us”: That is why salvation is "through Him". There is not any reason why the Christian should be disc...
6-11 Most of mankind do not consider the things of another world at all, because they are asleep; or they do not consider them aright, because they sleep and dream. Our moderation as to all earthly t...
Some refer these words to the latter end of the foregoing chapter, where the apostle had spoken of the saints death and resurrection, which is their sleeping and waking, as they are here called. And t...
who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep [live or die before his coming]_, we should live together with him_. [This verse is suggested by the word "salvation" which precedes it. The hope of sal...
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‘Who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him.' Having stated the fact of salvation Paul now declares the basis. It is because our Lord Jesus Christ died for us that...
1 Thessalonians 5:10. WHO DIED FOR US. How salvation is obtained through Jesus Christ, Paul here explains. Christ died for our sake, and especially to secure for us this grand advantage, viz. THAT WHE...
_Exhortation to Sobriety and Watchfulness, founded in the Suddenness of the Lord's Coming, and on their Character as Children of Light._ Having spoken so definitely of the Lord's coming, Paul anticipa...
FOR US (περ ημων).AROUND US . So Westcott and Hort, but υπερ (over, in behalf of) as in many MSS. These prepositions often interchanged in N.T. MSS.WHETHER WE WAKE OR SLEEP (ειτε γρηγορωμεν ειτ...
1 Thessalonians 5:9 I. This passage, 1 Thessalonians 5:9, has its interest and value as showing us that the earliest and the latest of the Pauline Epistles are all at one in regard to the central doct...
1 Thessalonians 5:9 God's Appointment concerning Man. I. Note, first, the persons in whose favour God's appointment is made. They are believers in Jesus. Salvation is limited to faith in Christianit...
1 Thessalonians 5:1. _But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night._ It...
CONTENTS: The model walk for the believer. The day of Jehovah. Exhortations to believers. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: Let Christians live like men who are awake, living in cons...
1 Thessalonians 5:1. _Of the times and seaso_n _s, ye have no need that I write to you._ Paul as a prophet might have said much concerning the dispensations of providence which should attend the churc...
WHO DIED FOR US. This was Christ's deliberate act of free will to fulfill God's Plan (John 10:17-19). WHETHER WE ARE ALIVE OR DEAD. Death cannot rob us of our salvation! We shall all be changed (1 Cor...
_But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you--Perhaps because the apostle had told them, or because the sudden coming of Christ was a universal belief._ So in modern...
_For God hath not appointed us unto wrath _ GOD’S EVERLASTING PURPOSE I. God’s purpose is-- 1. That we should not be lost. We all deserve wrath. All have sinned, and every sin the Divine indignatio...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 5:1. TIMES AND SEASONS.—The one is the even, continuous flow of the river, the other is the cataract. Seasons we may represent as epochs. Our Lord in...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—With regard to the time of that glorious advent when believers, whether dead or living, will be gathered together to Christ, the Thessalonians had already been fully instructed. T...
But of the times and seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace...
1 Corinthians 15:3; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 Thessalonians 4:13;...
Who died. Frequently the resurrection is coupled with the death of Christ by Paul, as ch. 4 14; Philippians 3:10; Colossians 2:12; Colossians 3:1-4. Not so here; but the thought of resurrection is sup...
THE LORD'S COMING 1 Thessalonians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The question up for discussion is one of utmost importance. If it is true that the Lord's Coming is near, and that at any moment we may hear...
Whether we wake or sleep — Be alive or dead at his coming....