STAND Ep. 5 | Stand in Hope

We spend most of our lives waiting. We countdown the years, the months, the days (and sometimes even the hours) until our wedding day, our big vacation, our retirement party, or the birth of a child. We like to imagine that our life is going to somehow be better once we reach that milestone, finish that project, or make that purchase. At the end of the day, all of these longings come down to one short word: HOPE. We hope our lives aren’t always going to be the way they are right now.

The church in Thessalonica had seen their reservoirs of hope dry up. Their lives – both physically and spiritually – were filled with adversity and suffering. They watched as their brothers and sisters in Christ were dragged into prison for their faith. Their suffering wasn’t just in spite of their faith; it was explicitly because of it! Paul needed to remind them that the faith that had brought them so much trouble was, in fact, the source of their ultimate triumph.

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