THE ACTIVITY OF GOD IN THE BIBLE - I & II THESSALONIANS

 The Activity of God

Going through the Bible, book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse, phrase by phrase and word by word to give attention to the following:
--the Names of God;
--the word & deeds of God;
--the sayings of God;
--the attributes of God;

Too often the churches weakness and the Christians weakness is found in this one sin, 'we do not know God'.  We have not studied the Bible, nor Him to learn more of Him.  Seeking that this might be a help for myself and others in this pursuit that each of us 'may grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord.

I THESSALONIANS
Chapter 1

1:1      Paul, and Silas and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ:  Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.      God's church;  God the Father (2);  God the Lord Jesus Christ(2);  God's church in the Father and Christ;   God's grace, peace upon His church;   God's gives grace and peace form Himself to His servants;

1:2       We give thanks to God always for you all making mention of you in our prayers;      God thanked;   God prayed to;  God's church made mention of by them before Him;

1:3      Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;      God's servants work of faith, love and hope in Christ;  Christ Name - Lord Jesus Christ gives these things to His servants;  God the Father;  God's and the Father's sight of knowing what they are doing;

1:4     Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.    God elects;  God's election of saints;

1:5       For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.     God's gospel;  God's gospel came in word and power, in Holy Ghost, in much assurance;  God the Holy Spirit enables word with power and assurance;  And God said/spoke;  God's word;

1:6      And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:     Christ followers;  And God said/spoke;  God's word received in affliction and joy of Holy Ghost;  Holy Ghost gives joy through received word;  

1:7      So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.    God's church examples to others;

1:8      For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.     And God said/spoke;  God's word sounded out to others;  God's servants have faith;  God's word spreads abroad;

1:9      For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God:     God turned to by these men;  God served;  God is living and true God;

1:10      And to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised form the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.     Christ from heaven;  God's Son, Jesus Christ;  God waits for His Son;  God raised Christ from the dead;  Christ delivered us from wrath to come;

Chapter 2

2:2      But even after that we had suffered before and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.     God's children shamefully suffered and entreated for His Name sake;  God's servants bold to speak of Him His gospel;  God's gospel spoken;  And God said/spoke;  God's gospel spoken with much contention;

2:3      For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:    God's gospel exhorts;  God's church exhort one another;  

2:4      But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak:  not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.     God allows them to speak His gospel;  God's gospel spoken and entrusted to them;  And God said/spoke;    God to be pleased;  God tries the hearts;

2:5      God is witness;     God is witness of their words and deeds; Omniscient/Omnipresent;  God knows what they did and bears witness of truth;

2:6      Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.     Christ apostles;  Christ servants not burdensome to others;

2:8      So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.     God's gospel imparted ot them;  And God said/spoke;  God's servants preaching the gospel;

2:9      we preached unto you the gospel of God.     God's gospel;  God's gospel preached to them;  And God said/spoke;

2:10     Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:      God is witness;  God's servants to live holy, justly and unblameable;  God's children that believe on Him;

2:11      As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children.     God's church exhorted, comforted and charged;  God's truths taught to His church;

2:12       That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto His kingdom and glory.     God's children to walk worthy;  God called us;  God's kingdom and glory;

2:13       For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.     God thanked without ceasing;  God's word received;  God's word heard;  God's word truth;  And God said/spoke;  God's word effectually worketh in them that believe;

2:14       For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus:  for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:      God's church brethren;  God's followers in the churches;  God's churches;  Christ Jesus makes followers part of churches of God;  God's children have suffered;  

2:15       Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:      Christ killed by them;  God's prophets killed;  God's people persecuted;  Please God;  God not pleased by them;  

2:16      Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway:  for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.    God's gospel forbidden by Jews;  God's salvation for Gentiles forbidden;  God's servants to speak His word;  God's wrath come upon them;

2:18      but Satan hindered us.    God's servants and work hindered by Satan;

2:19      For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing?  are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?     God's joy, hope and rejoicing;  Christ Jesus Presence;  Christ coming;

2:20      For ye are our glory and joy.     God's believers and church is glory and joy;

Chapter 3

3:2      And sent Timothy, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:    God's servants are brothers in Christ;  God's ministers;  God's fellow laborers;  Christ gospel;  God's church established;  God's believers comforted concerning their faith;  Christ followers have faith in Him;

3:4      we should suffer tribulation, even as it came to pass and ye know.     God's church to face tribulations;

3:5      For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.      God's children faith in Him;  God's children face tempter;   God's church labors in vain;

3:6       But now when Timothy came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:     God's children's faith and charity;  God's church remembers one another;

3:7      Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:     God's children afflicted and distressed;  God's churches faith;

3:8      For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.     God's children stand fast in Him;

3:9      For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;     God thanked;   God's children joy for one another;  God receives joy of His church for one another;

3:10      Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?     God prayed to night and day;  God prayed to exceedingly;  God's children faith to be perfected;

3:11       Now God Himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.     God the Father;  God the Son, Jesus Christ;  Christ Name - Lord Jesus Christ;  God the Father and Christ direct way;  God directs ways;

3:12      And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:     God make increase and abound in love toward one another;  God make love increase and abound toward all men;  

3:13      To the end He may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.      God stablishes men's hearts unblameable in holiness;  God has His children before Him unblameable and holy;  God the Father;  God the Son, Jesus Christ;  Christ Name - Lord Jesus Christ;  Christ coming with all His saints;  God's saints;

Chapter 4

4:1       Furthermore, then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.     Christ servants exhorted;  Christ's servants to walk and please God;  Please God;  God servants to abound more and more;

4:2      For ye know, what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.     the Lord commanded;  Christ commands His children;

4:3      For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:     I will's of God;  God's will to be sanctified;  God's children to abstain from fornication;

4:4      That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;     God's children to possess themselves in sanctification and honour;  

4:5      Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:     God not known;

4:6      That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter:  because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.     God is avenger of all;  God's people warned and testified to;

4:7      For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.     God calls not to unclean;  God calls to holy;  God calls;

4:8      He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God,  who hath also given unto us His Holy Spirit.     God despised in not keeping His ways;  God gives;  God's Holy Spirit given;  God the Holy Ghost;

4:9       But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you:  for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.     God's church to have brotherly love;  God taught them to love on another;  God's church loves one another;

4:10       And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia:  but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;      God's brethren in the church toward each other;  God's brethren beseeched to increase more and more;  God increases;

4:14       For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.      Christ died;  Christ rose again;  Christ children believe in Him;  Christ servants asleep in Him;  God bring Christ's children with Him;  I will's of God to bring them;

4:15      For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.      And God said/spoke;   God's word declares;   Christ coming;  Christ's church alive and remain;

4:16       For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first:       Christ Himself;  Christ shall descend from heaven;  Christ in heaven;  Christ descends with shout;   God's trump;  God's angel;  Christ children dead shall rise first;

4:17       Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:  and so shall we ever be with the Lord.      Christ church alive and remain;  Christ church caught up with Him in clouds;  Christ in clouds;  Christ met in the air;  Christ to be with for ever;

4:18      Wherefore comfort one another with these words.     And God said/spoke;  God's people comforted with His words;

Chapter 5

5:2       For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord, so cometh as a thief in the night.    God's day;  the day of the Lord;  God's day comes as a thief in night;   God's church knows this day;

5:3       God's day a day of sudden destruction, travail and no escape;

5:4      But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.      God's church not in darkness;  God's children in light;  God's children not overtaken by that day;  God's day, the Lord's day;

5:5       Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day;  we are not of the night, nor of darkness.     God's children are children of light;  God's children children of day;  God's children not of night, nor darkness;

5:6       Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.     God's children not to sleep;  God's children to watch and be sober;

5:8       But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an elmet, the hope of salvation.     God's children are of the day, the Light;  God's children to be sober;  God's children put on breastplate of faith and love in Him;  God's children wear the helmet of salvation, hope in and of Christ Jesus;  Christ is faith, love, hope and salvation;

5:9       For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,      God does not appoint His children to wrath;  God appoints;  God appoints salvation by Christ to His children;  Christ Name - Lord Jesus Christ;   Christ gives to His children to obtain salvation in Him;

5:10       Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.      Christ died for us;  Christ to be lived with by His children;  Christ together with His children;

5:11      Wherefore comofrt yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.    Christ church to comfort one another;   Christ church to edify one another;  

5:12      And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;      Christ's church has laborers;  Christ the Lord has those that rule over the body of Christ;  Christ leaders admonish the brethren;

5:13      And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.  And be at peace among yourselves.    Christ's church and leaders to love and esteem;  Christ's church and brethren do the work;  Christ church to be at peace;

5:14      Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.     Christ's brethren to exhort one another;  Christ's church warned to not be unruly, comfort feebleminded, support weak and be patient toward all;

5:15      See that none render evil for evil unto any man, but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.      God's children to not render evil for evil;  God's children to follow that which is good, among themselves and to all;

5:16     Rejoice evermore.     God's church to rejoice always;

5:17     Pray without ceasing.     God prayed to without ceasing by His people;

5:18       IN everything give thanks:  for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.     God to be given thanks for all things;  I will's of God concerning them to give thanks;   God in Christ Jesus for His will to be done;

5:19      Quench not the Spirit.     God's Holy Spirit to not be quenched;  

5:20      Despise not prophesying,     God's prophets that prophesy;  God's children to not despise prophecies;

5:21      Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.     God's church to prove all things;  God's church to hold fast to that which is good;

5:22      Abstain from all appearances of evil.   God's church to abstain from all appearance of evil; 

5:23       And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit, and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.      God's peace to sanctify church;  God prayed to for whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless unto Christ's coming;  Christ Name - Lord Jesus Christ;  Christ coming  for blameless bride;

5:24      Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it.     God is faithful;  God calls;  I will's of God to do it;

5:25      Brethren, pray for us.     God's brethren;  God's brethren to pray for one another;

5:26      Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.     God's brethren;  God's brethren to greet each other with holy kiss;  God is holy;

5:27      I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.    Christ church charged to read this epistle to all the holy brethren;  And God said/spoke;  God's holy brethren;

5:28       The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.  Amen.    God's grace with HIs church;  Christ Name - Lord Jesus Christ;   Christ grace with His church; 

II THESSALONIANS
Chapter 1

1:1       Paul, and Silas, and Timothy unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ;       God's church;  God the Father;  God the Son, Jesus Christ;  Christ Name - Lord Jesus Christ;  Christ's Father;  God's church in Him;

1:2       Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.      God the Father;  God the Son, Christ;  Christ Name - Lord Jesus Christ;   God's grace and peace;

1:3       We are bound to thank God always for you brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;     God thanked;  God's children's faith grows;  God's children's love for one another abounds;

1:4      So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:      God's churches glory in the brethren;  God's children's patience and faith;  God's church persecuted and enduring tribulations;

1:5       Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgement of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:     God is righteous;  God's judgement;  God's righteous judgement manifested;  God's kingdom;  God's church suffers;  God's children to be worthy of His kingdom;

1:6       Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;     God is righteous;   God recompenses tribulation to them that trouble His bride;  God's church troubled;

1:7      And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels,      God's church troubled;  God's church to rest in Him;  Christ shall be revealed from heaven;  Christ in heaven;  God's angels;  Christ with angels from heaven;

1:8      IN flaming fire taking vengeance ont hem that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:      God's angels take vengeance on wicked;  God not known;  God's gospel not obeyed;  Christ gospel;  Christ's Name - Lord Jesus Christ;   

1:9       Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power;      God's Presence;  God's destruction upon wicked;  God's power;  God's glory;  God's presence and glory taken away from wicked;

1:10      When He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.      Christ come again;  Christ glorified in His saints;  God's saints;  God's gospel testimony believed;  God's satins admired in their believing in Him;

1:11       Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness, and the work of faith with power;     God prayed to for them;  God to count them worthy of His;  God calls them;  God to fulfill;  Please God; God's goodness;  God's church has faith in Him with power through Him;  God's power, Omnipotent;  God works in them with power who have faith in Him;

1:12       That the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.      Christ Name (2) - Lord Jesus Christ (2);  Christ's Name glorified in them;  Christ's children in Him;  God's grace;

Chapter 2    

2:1       Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him,      God's children, besought;  Christ coming;  Christ Name - Lord Jesus Christ;  God's church gathered unto Him;

2:2       That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.      God's church to not be shaken or troubled;  Christ days is at hand;

2:3      Let no man deceive you by any means:  for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;     God's church to not be deceived;  God's church to see a falling away;  Christ day shall not come till these things fulfilled;

2:4       Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.     God opposed and exalted against;  God's things that are called by Him/His;  God's temple;  God's false deceiver;

2:6      And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.    God's children to know when these things are revealed;  God's time He will reveal them all;

2:8       And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming;     God shall come the Wicked one;  God's mouth;  And God said/spoke;  God's Spirit in the Word;  Christ coming;  Christ shall destroy with His brightness;  Christ destroy;  Christ's brightness;

2:10       And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.     Christ not received;  Christ might save them;  God's truth to be loved;

2:11       And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie;    God shall cause them to believe a lie;  God send strong delusion;  

2:12       That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.     God damns unbelievers;  God's truth not believed;  

2:13      But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of hte Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:    God to be thanked;  God's beloved brethren;  God in the beginning;  God chose to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit;  God's Spirit sanctifies to salvation;   God's truth believed in;

2:14      Whereunto HE called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.    God called to His gospel;  God's gospel;  And God said/spoke;   Christ name - Lord Jesus Christ;  Christ glory obtained by His children;

2:15       Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.      God's brethren to stand fast and hold traditions given them;  God's church taught;  God's word;  And God said/spoke;  God's epistle;  

2:16      Now, our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,       God the Father;  Christ Name - Lord Jesus Christ;  God loved church;  God given everlasting consolation and good hope through grace;  God's grace;  

2:17      Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.    God's church to comfort each others hearts;  God's church to be established in every good word and word;  And God said/spoke;

Chapter 3

3:1      Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:    God's brethren;  God prayed to;  God's word to have free course and be glorified;  And God said/spoke;   God's children glorify God with His word;

3:2      And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men:  for all men have not faith.     God's children to be delivered from wicked men;  God's creation of men do not have faith in Him;  God we are to have faith in;

3:3      But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.    God is faithful;  God will establish His children;  God will keep us from evil;  God is able;

3:4      And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.     God to have confidence in by His children;  God touches His children;  God's children will do and do that which they have been commanded;  God's children commanded to do rightly;

3:5      And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.     God direct men's hearts into God's love;  God's love;  Christ patiently waited for;  

3:6       Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.     the Lord commanded;   God's brethren;  Christ Name - Lord Jesus Christ;  Christ Namesake they withdraw from wicked men;  

3:7     For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us:  for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;     God's children to follow right examples;  God's children rightly behave themselves;  God children's not disorderly;

3:9      Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.    God's faithful children set for ensamples;  God's faithful children to be followed;

3:10      For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.      God's command for HIs children to not eat, if they did not work;  God's children to work;

3:11      For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.     God church had those that walked disorderly, did not work and are busybodies;  God's church to not have these things named among them;

3:12      Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.     God's church commanded and exhorted;  Christ Name - Lord Jesus Christ;  God's children commanded with quietness they work and eat;

3:13      But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.     God's brethren the church;  God's church to not be weary in well doing;

3:14      And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.     God's church obeys not their word;  God's epistle;  God's word declares what to do and be;  And God said/spoke;   God's disobedient children not to be associated with;  God's disobedient children to be ashamed;

3:15      Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.     God's children not enemies;  God's church brothers in Christ;  God's children to be admonished;

3:16      Now the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always by all means.  The Lord be with you all.     God Himself is peace;  God give peace always by all means;  God is and be with His church;

3:17      The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle:  so I write.     And God said/spoke;    God's servants wrote epistles;  

3:18        The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.  Amen.     Christ Name - Lord Jesus Christ;   Christ grace;  God's grace with them all;

Started:   April 22, 2022

Continued:    4/23;4/24;4/25;4/26;4/27;4/28;4/29;4/30;

Finished:      April 30, 2022