The Thessalonian Christians show us what it looks like to live out God’s grace under persecution.
New life in Christ includes submission to governmental authorities, love for the other, and putting on Christ for all to see him.
The rejection of Jesus by many Israelites is God‘s plan for the salvation of the nations, and even of Israel itself.
Because humans were dead in our sins, the only possible solution was for God to make us alive because of his grace.
