Dynamic Life Baptist Ministries - Pastor Victor Clay

Sermon Title: The Model Follower
Sermon Text: 1 Thessalonians 2:13-20
Sermon Purpose: To call the hearer to model the mark of a follower of Christ in a wicked and perverse generation.
Sermon Proposition: Paul provided 4 marks of a model follower of Jesus Christ.

1. Model followers are motivated by their calling. v.12

   • The walk must reflect God's call. v.12a

   • The walk must reflect God's rulership. v.12b (Colossians 1:13)

   • The walk must reflect God's glory. v.12c (2 Thess. 3:6, 11; Ephesians 4:1; Colossians 1:10; Philippians 1:27)

   
   
   

2. Model followers are marked by their conformity. v.13

   • Thankful for their conformity to the word of God. v.13a

   • Thankful for their conformity to the practice of God. v.13b (Hebrews 4:12; 1 Corin 1:18; James 1:21; 1 Thess. 1:9-10)

   
   
   

3. Model followers are manifested by their commonality. v.14-16.

   • The Rejoicing.

   • The common character imitated. v.14a

   • The common crucifixion imitated. v.14b-15

   • The Sorrow.

   • The common crime imitated. v.16a

   • The common condemnation imitated. v.16b

   
   
   

4. Model followers are memorialized by their Christlikeness. v.17-20