CULTURAL IDENTITY CRISIS
2 Thessalonians 2.13-17
STILL Waiting On Jesus – Part 5
HOW DO CHRISTIANS DEFINE IDENTITY? BY …
v. 13 “… we ought always to give thanks to God for you … because God …” (esv)
WHAT GOD Has Done For US
vv. 13–14 “… we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you … he called you …” (esv)
1 John 4.19 “We love because he first loved us.” (esv)
Malachi 3.6 “For I the Lord do not change …” (esv)
WHAT GOD Is Doing In US
v. 13 “… God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.” (niv)
Philippians 1.6 “… being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” (niv)
WHAT DO WE DO WITH OUR IDENTITY?
WE EMBRACE God’s Plan For US
v. 15 “… stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us …” (esv)
Matthew 7.24–25 “… like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.” (esv)