Theme: Because Christ the firstfruits has been raised, we are assured that we will be raised too.

Theme: Nehemiah 3 shows us how various groups of God's people can work together to do various portions of God's work until all is done.

Theme: In the face of the threats against God's work, God's people should remember the Lord ... and keep right on working.

Theme: We must reverence God in the ways that we treat one another; so that the work of Christ is not hindered by us.

Theme: The enemy of our soul seeks to dishearten us from God's work through the tactics of fear—and we must resist him.

Theme: The Antichrist's deceit comes as a judgment from God upon those who hate the truth.

Theme: Paul models a confident dependency upon the Lord—both for reaching the lost and for protecting the saints.

Theme: As followers together of the Lord Jesus, we must confront idleness and model industriousness.

Theme: Paul offers some closing words to the persecuted church in Thessalonica.