The Great Deliverer
1 Thessalonians 1:7-10
So that you were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.…


I. OUR DANGER, "Wrath."

1. Deserved.

2. Destructive.

3. Dreadful.

4. Unavoidable.

5. "To come."

II. OUR DELIVERER, "Jesus." He stepped into the awful breach, took our place, was "bruised for our iniquities." His deliverance was therefore —

1. Honourable.

2. Costly.

3. Vicariously effected.

4. Great:

(1)  It saves from unutterable gloom.

(2)  It conducts to unutterable glory.

5. Complete in its nature.

6. Free in its bestowments.

7. Eternal in its duration.

8. Race-wide in its purposes.

(T. Kelly.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

WEB: so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.




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