1 Thessalonians 5 Know Jesus, Know Hope - No Jesus, No Hope - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: September 26, 2021

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Life Lessons Referenced
Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

The Bible is like no other book. There are 735 predictions of the future in the Bible. Of the 735 predictions in the Bible, 596 have already come true and been fulfilled.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

The Bible predicts the future like no other book. Out of all the predictions written in the Bible, hundreds and even thousands of years before they happened, an astonishing 81% have already been fulfilled. Do you think the remaining 19% will be accurate? Absolutely.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

The odds of Jesus fulfilling 48 prophecies with the first coming was 10 to the 17th power or covering NC 11 feet deep or Texas 2 feet deep in silver dollars and picking the first one on the first try, blindfolded.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

It was a mathematical impossibility for Jesus to fulfill 48 prophecies unless He was who He said He was. Jesus fulfilled over 300 prophecies with his first coming.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

While we have been turning from idols to God, others have been busy turning from God to idols.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

We can choose God and life or choose sin and death. While we are choosing God and life, many in our government and nation are now choosing death and sin over God and life.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

When we pull God out of government, out of law, out of schools, out of healthcare, we are only left with death.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

When we set dates or put the rapture with the second coming; at the end of the 7 year tribulation; we rob believers of looking for Jesus to come at any moment.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

A pre-trib rapture, we are looking for Jesus to appear next. A post-trib rapture we are looking for the antichrist to appear next. Who are you looking for? The anti-christ or the Messiah?

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

Either fall on the Rock of Christ or the Rock of Christ will fall on you. Either you will fall on the law, or the law will fall on you.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

Without God, each one of us is without hope, broken, lost, a sinner, selfish, not listening to God, a mess, dead in our sins.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

With God we have hope, a future, peace, love, Joy, eternal life.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

Read your Bible everyday. Do your Bible everyday.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

This earth is as close to hell as any believer will ever be. This earth is as close to heaven as an unbeliever will ever be.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

This is as bad as it gets for a believer. This is as good as it gets for an unbeliever.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

The early Christians were not killed because they believed in God, but they were killed because they believed on God alone.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

The Lord encourages, the devil accuses. Who are you the most like? Do you encourage or accuse more?

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

If we speak lies, accusations, and slander, we are tearing down what God is wanting to do in our own lives. You spoil your own spiritual fruit.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

When you speak and surround yourself with lies and accusations, you will destroy lives; your life and the one you accuse. With our mouths, every one of us have destroyed both fellowship and friendships.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

The American church and the American Christian’s love for God has grown cold especially a love for the lost, the unlovable, and the least of these.

Statement (1 Thessalonians 5:)

God loves. God calls.
We love. Do we call?

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

Building the rock is not about hearing the Word, it is about doing the Word.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

We live in a blood-stained land and can no longer ask for God to bless America. We should be telling America to bless God by following Him.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

So being sober in 1 Thessalonians 5 is more than what we think, much, much more.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

Being sober means not intoxicated by sin, greed, and selfishness, having love for all, faith in God, offering to all the hope of salvation.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

Our government is picking a fight with God not with Christians.

Statement (1 Thessalonians 5:)

Body- Tabernacle
Spirit-Inner Court
Soul-Holy of Holies

Statement (1 Thessalonians 5:)

Soul-Salvation-I am saved.
Spirit-sanctification-I am being saved.
Body-glorification-I will be saved.

Life Lesson (1 Thessalonians 5:)

Our American government is declaring war not just on Christians but are declaring war on God.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes
1 Thessalonians 4:13 NKJV
But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 NKJV
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 NKJV
9 For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, [even] Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians 2:19-20 NKJV
19 For what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? [Is it] not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? 20 For you are our glory and joy.
1 Thessalonians 3:11-13 NKJV
11 Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you. 12 And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we [do] to you, 13 so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.
1 Thessalonians 4:13 NKJV
But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 NKJV
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 NKJV
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:27-28 NKJV
27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the holy brethren. 28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. Amen.
1 Thessalonians 4:9 NKJV
But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;
1 Thessalonians 4:13 NKJV
But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.
Proverbs 21:2 NKJV
Every way of a man [is] right in his own eyes, But the LORD weighs the hearts.
Luke 19:41 KJV
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Revelation 5:4 KJV
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
Philippians 3:13-14 NKJV
13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing [I do,] forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Matthew 25:13-14 NKJV
13 “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. 14 “For [the kingdom of heaven is] like a man traveling to a far country, [who] called his own servants and delivered his goods to them.
1 Corinthians 15:51-58 NKJV
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed-- 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55 “O Death, where [is] your sting? O Hades, where [is] your victory?” 56 The sting of death [is] sin, and the strength of sin [is] the law. 57 But thanks [be] to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 NKJV
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Matthew 7:11-13 NKJV
11 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! 12 “Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. 13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide [is] the gate and broad [is] the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.
Matthew 7:15-17 NKJV
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 “You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 “Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
Matthew 7:20 NKJV
“Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
Matthew 7:21 NKJV
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven."
Matthew 7:22 NKJV
“Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’
Matthew 7:23-24 NKJV
23 “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ 24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:
Matthew 7:26 NKJV
“But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand:
Matthew 25:31-33 NKJV
31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 “All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides [his] sheep from the goats. 33 “And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.
Matthew 25:35-36 NKJV
35 ‘for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 ‘I [was] naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’
Matthew 25:40-42 NKJV
40 “And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did [it] to one of the least of these My brethren, you did [it] to Me.’ 41 “Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 ‘for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink;
Matthew 25:44-46 NKJV
44 “Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ 45 “Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do [it] to one of the least of these, you did not do [it] to Me.’ 46 “And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Numbers 35:31-34 NKJV
31 ‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who [is] guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death. 32 ‘And you shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the priest. 33 ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you [are;] for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it. 34 ‘Therefore do not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.’ ”
1 Thessalonians 5:8 NKJV
But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and [as] a helmet the hope of salvation.
Luke 2:41 NKJV
His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.
John 2:13 NKJV
Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 2:23 NKJV
Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did.
John 6:4 NKJV
Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near.
John 11:55 NKJV
And the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went from the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
John 12:1 NKJV
Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom He had raised from the dead.
John 13:1 NKJV
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
John 18:28 NKJV
Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium, and it was early morning. But they themselves did not go into the Praetorium, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.
John 18:39 NKJV
“But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Do you therefore want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
John 19:14 NKJV
Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”
John 19:15 NKJV
But they cried out, “Away with [Him,] away with [Him!] Crucify Him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
Luke 4:9 NKJV
Then he brought Him to Jerusalem, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here.
1 Corinthians 3:16 NKJV
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and [that] the Spirit of God dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 3:17 NKJV
If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which [temple] you are.
1 Corinthians 6:19 NKJV
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit [who is] in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
2 Corinthians 6:16 NKJV
And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among [them]. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.”
Colossians 2:15-17 NKJV
15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. 16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
John 7:2-8 NKJV
2 Now the Jews’ Feast of Tabernacles was at hand. 3 His brothers therefore said to Him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that Your disciples also may see the works that You are doing. 4 “For no one does anything in secret while he himself seeks to be known openly. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world.” 5 For even His brothers did not believe in Him. 6 Then Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. 7 “The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil. 8 “You go up to this feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, for My time has not yet fully come.”
John 7:14-15 NKJV
14 Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught. 15 And the Jews marveled, saying, “How does this Man know letters, having never studied?”
John 7:28-29 NKJV
28 Then Jesus cried out, as He taught in the temple, saying, “You both know Me, and you know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know. 29 “But I know Him, for I am from Him, and He sent Me.”
John 7:37-38 NKJV
37 On the last day, that great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
John 7:40-41 NKJV
40 Therefore many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is the Prophet.” 41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee?
 
John 7:46 NKJV
The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!”
John 7:48-53 NKJV
48 “Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? 49 “But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.” 50 Nicodemus (he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them) said to them, 51 “Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?” 52 They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.” 53 And everyone went to his [own] house.
John 8:1-3 NKJV
1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. 3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst,
John 20:1-8 NKJV
1 Now on the first [day] of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw [that] the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.” 3 Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb. 4 So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first. 5 And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying [there;] yet he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying [there,] 7 and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself. 8 Then the other disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed.
John 20:11-12 NKJV
11 But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down [and looked] into the tomb. 12 And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
The mystery of the upper room pointing north and not east to the Temple Mount or to the first holy of Holies, but to the new holy of Holies, Jesus.

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