TRUTH: Our measure of faith today speaks to our ability to face the future

1. Faith has it’s source in God
1 Thessalonians 1:2 :: We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers

2. Faith finds it’s increase in action
1 Thessalonians 1:3 :: remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

3. Faith is made known through trial
1 Thessalonians 1:6 :: And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit

4. Faith is contagious
1 Thessalonians 1:8 :: For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything.

5. Faith is life-changing
1 Thessalonians 1:9 :: For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

6. Faith is focused on the future
1 Thessalonians 1:10 :: and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.