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Text  1Thessalonians 2:17-20, 3:13
Title  Are you friends or enemies?

Chapter2    17As for us, brothers and sisters, when, for a short time, we were made orphans by being separated from you--in person, not in heart--we longed with great eagerness to see you face to face. 18For we wanted to come to you--certainly I, Paul, wanted to again and again--but Satan blocked our way. 19For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? 20Yes, you are our glory and joy!...3:13And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.


Whenever I travel out of town, I miss my family and members. Whenever I am treated with good quality of food, I feel very sorry that I eat such food without sharing with you. Oneday I visited a seminar held at Dallas and was treated with good food. I confessed to the other pastor my guilty feeling whenever I eat good food without sharing with my family and members. He replied, "You are a pastor of love. Blessed are your family and congregation!" I don't know I am such a person. As I reminisce of my childhood, if I happened to eat good food, I waited until all family gathered together around the table. We were so poor at that time! For this reason Jiha Kim, the poet of 1970s, seemed to call Christian Church as the community of meal table.

In our text Paul expresses how much he is missing Thessalonian Christians:
"17As for us, brothers and sisters, when, for a short time, we were made orphans by being separated from you--in person, not in heart--we longed with great eagerness to see you face to face. 18For we wanted to come to you--certainly I, Paul, wanted to again and again--but Satan blocked our way. 19For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? 20Yes, you are our glory and joy!"
Why was he so missing them? It was not because he had long friendship with them, nor because he was given so much from them. What made him miss them so much? It was sharing of the spiritual meal. In 2:13, as we read last Sunday, Paul writes, "We also constantly give thanks to God for this, that when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word but as what it really is, God's word." Thessalonians' sharing the word of God made Paul feel so glorious and joyful because he knew they would eat such spiritual food and grow up healthy and mature. For this reason Jesus seems to regard as better Mary who listened to his saying than Martha who was busy making food for him.

In this letter the idea of immanent eschatology is so pervasive. In 2:19 Paul asks, "For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming?" In 3:13 he also mentions, "And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints." Paul believed the coming of Christ would be soon in his lifetime. He taught like that, and his people believed so.

The idea of immanent eschatology began from Jesus. When Nazarus died, Martha, his sister, complained about Jesus' late coming. Jesus said, "25I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, will live, 26and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die" (Jn 11:25-26). Certainly Jesus believed immanent eschaton, the end of the world and the beginning of the new world.

In the first chapter of Acts Luke describes the ascension of Christ, "10While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. 11They said, 'Man of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you in heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven'" (Acts 1:10-11). The first century Christians believed this passages be true.
The problem was that Jesus who was promised to come did not come. "Was Jesus not led by an illusion? Were we not told correctly?" Even though Jesus clearly said, "everyone who lives and believes in me will never die," apostles were getting murdered by persecution, and old Christians were dying one by one, Jesus promised to come would not come.

When will, on earth, Jesus come? To this question nobody has, so far, made a crystal-clear answer. The best theological resolution ever made to date is: first, the day of his coming will be when the "good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the world, as a testimony to all the nations" (Mt 24:14); second, that day will come like thief's coming (Mt 24:43-44); and third, "36...about the day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father...42Keep awake therefore" (Mt 24:36, 42).

The early Christians were confronted with a big crisis. Ironically speaking, however, that crisis precipitated the Christian Church to grow up in spite of cruel persecutions and to become the present feature. The first century Christians, if unable to explicate the issue of immanent eschaton, consider it not as false teaching but as the word of God. That teaching brought about three major changes in their attitude.

First, they began to think, "Don't fight if a conflict is not a matter of life or death." In face of conflicts, the early Christians asked, "Are they the stumbling block of eternal life?" If not, they would not fight.
Second, they began to think, "Judgment belongs to the Lord." The biggest problem of the Jews was judging others. Whoever concerns duties tends to judge and condemn others. It happens anywhere.

When I watch TV talk shows, I often witness some audiences shout against the guests and blames them. Of course the guest may have many problems in their life. But no one is righteous enough to judge and blame. It is more true to religious arena. Nobody can claim one's own righteousness before God. In Romans 3:9 Paul asserts, "There is no one who is righteous, not even one." Virtually it is not his own version. It is a quotation from the Old Testament, Ps 14. In Matthew chapter 7 Jesus said, "Do not judge but realize your problems and remove them first." And when the self-righteous crowd tried to stone an adulter woman, he said, "One who has not committed sin, stone first."

Third, they began to think, "Let's live responsibly therefore." Since nobody knows when the Lord will come, then they determined to live worthy of being called as the children of God.

The idea of immanent eschaton had changed the attitude of the early Christians in the way, "Don't fight if a conflict is not a matter of life or death", "Judgment belongs to the Lord", and "Let's live responsibly therefore." Such attitudes transformed Christian lifestyle and the Roman rulers who threatened their lives were moved by their Christian living.
Faith is to surrender yourselves to God. It is to have the realistic vision of the coming of the Lord like thief's and not to fight if the problem is not a matter of eternal life or eternal punishment, not to judge others, and to live responsibly. When you surrender yourselves to God, the world which tries to make you surrender will be surrendered by your Christian living. Whoever surrenders to God in everyday life will be revealed as his friend, while whoever persists one's own way in everyday life as his enemy. What would you like to be, his friend or his enemy?