1 Thessalonians 4

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1. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

   The Second Stage cites 1 Thess. 4:16

   …tance between him and them, as between the judge and the prisoners at the bar. 1 Cor. 15; 1 Thess. 4:16; Jude 15; John 5: 28,29; 2 Thess. 1:8-10; Rev. 20:11-14; Isa. 26:21; Micah 7:16,17; Psa. …

2. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

   [I.e., the Last Judgment — GL] cites 1 Thess. 4:16

   …, “and the trumpet of God,” sounding an alarm to all that sleep in the dust of the earth (1 Thess. 4:16). In consequence of this, all the graves shall open, and the bodies of men arise. The sea…

3. Absolute Surrender · Andrew Murray

   Having Begun in the Spirit cites 1 Thes. 4:1

   …“I pray God that you may abound more and more; I write to you to increase more and more” (1 Thes. 4:1,10). But there are other epistles where he takes a very different tone, especially the ep…

4. Holy in Christ · Andrew Murray

   Holiness and the Will of God cites 1 Thess. iv. 3

   ‘This is the will of God, even your sanctification.’—1 Thess. iv. 3. ‘Lo, I am come to do Thy will. By which will we have been sanctified, through the offeri…

5. A Brand Plucked from the Fire · Julia A. J. Foote

   Disobedience, but Happy Results cites 1 Thess. iv. 3

   …interrupted. She read and explained many passages of Scripture to me, such as, John xvii; 1 Thess. iv. 3; v. 23; 1 Cor. vi. 9-12; Heb. ii. 11 ; and many others — carefully mark ing them in my Bi…

6. A Brand Plucked from the Fire · Julia A. J. Foote

   Love not the World cites 1 Thess. iv. 3

   …hus we will continue to search and find what the will of God is con cerning his children. 1 Thess. iv. 3, 4. Bless God ! we may all have that inward, instantaneous sanctification, whereby the ro…

7. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

   4.6 Prayer cites 1 Thess 4: 3

   …e may pray absolutely for grace; ‘For this is the will of God, even your sanctification.’ 1 Thess 4: 3. There must be no strange incense offered. Exod 30: 9. When we pray for things which are …

8. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

   The Unity of the Divine Being cites 1 Thess. 4:5

   …ho is able to follow the caution which St. Paul gives to the Christians at Thessalonica? (1 Thess. 4:5.) 14. I wish that weighty passage (so strangely disguised in our translation) were duly c…

9. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

   2.8 The Eighth Commandment cites 1 Thess 4: 6

   …’ Lev 25: 14. It is against the gospel. ‘That no man go beyond, and defraud his brother.’ 1 Thess 4: 6. (6) The usurer, who takes by extortion from others. He seems to help another by letting …

10. Holy in Christ · Andrew Murray

    God’s Call to Holiness cites 1 Thess. iv. 7

    … 7; 1 Cor. i. 2). ‘God called us’, he says, ‘not for uncleanness, but in sanctification’ (1 Thess. iv. 7). When he writes, ‘The God of peace sanctify you wholly,’ he adds, ‘Faithful is He which …

11. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    Effectual calling cites 1 Thess. iv. 7

    …. It is a holy calling; “For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness” (1 Thess. iv. 7). Let not any man say he is called of God, that lives in sin. Has God called you to be a …

12. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd · David Brainerd

    From his appointment as a Missionary, to his commencing his Mission among the Indians at Kaunaumeek, in New-York cites 1 Thess. 4:8

    …cceed his attempts to qualify himself for so great a work. In the evening I preached from 1 Thess. 4:8, and endeavored, though with tenderness, to undermine false religion. The Lord gave me so…

13. The Life of Trust · George Müller

    Stewardship cites 1 Thess. iv. 11

    …k because it is the Lord’s will concerning us. This is plain from the following passages: 1 Thess. iv. 11, 12; 2 Thess. iii. 10-12; Eph. iv. 28. It is quite true that, in general, the Lord provid…

14. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    On Mourning for the Dead cites 1 Thess. 4:13

    …ep in Jesus will God bring with him: — Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.” (1 Thess. 4:13, 14, 18.) And these, indeed, are the only words which can give lasting comfort to a spiri…

15. Watchman Nee · Watchman Nee

    Twenty Years in Chains cites 1 Thessalonians 4:13

    … He would do next. Paul says Christians “sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope” (1 Thessalonians 4:13, ASV). He does not say they do not sorrow. Hope changes sorrow's horizon, not its reality…

16. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    June cites 1 Thessalonians 4:14

    … lean on Jesus' name.” June 29 “Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” (1 Thessalonians 4:14) Let us not imagine that the soul sleeps in insensibility. “Today shalt thou be with me i…

17. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The First Stage cites 1 Thess. 4:16

    …all we have there? Christian: There we shall be with seraphims and cherubims, Isaiah 6:2; 1 Thess. 4:16,17; Rev. 5:11; creatures that will dazzle your eyes to look on them. There also you shall…

18. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · John Bunyan

    Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; Or, a Brief Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bunyan cites 1 Thess. 4.17

    …ings by these scriptures following, Acts 1.9, 10; 7.56; 10.42; Heb. 7.24; 8.3; Rev. 1.18; 1 Thess. 4.17, 18. 122. Once I was much troubled to know whether the Lord Jesus was both man as well as…

19. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Work of the Holy Spirit in Prophets and Apostles cites 1 Thessalonians 4:17

    … Paul never taught anywhere that the Lord would return in his lifetime. He indeed says in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, “ Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the cloud…

20. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The worst things work for good to the godly cites 1 Thess. iv. 17

    … it more delightful and ravishing, when we shall have a constant aspect of love from God (1 Thess. iv. 17). Thus we see desertions work for good. The Lord brings us into the deep of desertion, th…

21. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    December cites 1 Thessalonians 4:17

    …ntinue instant in earnest supplication. December 10 “So shall we ever be with the Lord.” (1 Thessalonians 4:17) Even the sweetest visits from Christ, how short they are--and how transitory! One moment…

22. Watchman Nee · Watchman Nee

    Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14

    …s to revisit Philippians 1:21; 2 Timothy 2:9; Hebrews 10:36; Romans 8:38-39; Psalm 31:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14. Reflection 1. Who are you if your present vocation is removed? 2. What long delay is tes…

23. He Holds My Tomorrows · Gareth Evans

    Joseph cites 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

    …h them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). Surely the glory and tinsel of this world fades as we look forward to that glad day, so…

24. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Tenth Stage cites 1 Thess. 4:14-17

    …l again return to the city, you shall go too with sound of trumpet, and be ever with him. 1 Thess. 4:14-17; Jude 14,15; Dan. 7:9,10; 1 Cor. 6:2,3. Now, while they were thus drawing towards the gat…

25. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd · David Brainerd

    Being part 1st of his public journal of the Rise and Progress of a remarkable work of grace among the Indians in New-Jersey and Pennsylvania, kept by order of the Society in Scotland for propagating Christian knowledge.—Commencement of his labors at Crossweeksung.—Renewal of labor at the Forks of De cites 1 Thess. 4:13-17

    …hed with the hopes of enjoying the blessed Redeemer. Afterward I discoursed publicly from 1 Thess. 4:13-17. There was a solemn attention, and some visible concern and affection in the time of publ…

26. Mighty Power in Prayer · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Pray Without Ceasing cites 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

    … praying in the Holy Ghost, in the name of Jesus. PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON'1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and 5.