Present the Evidence - 2 Thessalonians 1:1-5,11,12 - 17th Sunday after Pentecost - October 5, 2025

What makes a congregation more than just a group of people in the same place? In 2 Thessalonians 1, Paul shows us that a church is meant to be living evidence of God’s grace—growing in faith, increasing in love, and persevering in trials. This sermon explores what it means to “present the evidence” of who we are in Christ: not to prove ourselves, but to display the truth already declared at the cross.  

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Paul, Silas and Timothy,

To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

2 Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.3 We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. 4 Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.5 All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.11 With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. 12 We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.