Response-Able
(Morning Service)
Text: 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16
What words have changed the course of your life? This morning as we pick up the story of the Thessalonian church, we get glimpse of how God spoke in a real way to alter their lives forever. Their experience is a case study for us of how God works using human words to speak to us. The question this morning is, can we hear?
“And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!
(1 Thessalonians 2:13–16 ESV)”