1 Thessalonians 3:5-8 (KJV)

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

  

Paul’s concern for the believers in Thessalonica was for their faith. He wondered if the enemy had tempted them so that his labor among them had been fruitless. His concern was spiritual to the core but the litmus test was their relationship towards him. 

• Did they remember him fondly?
• Did they desire to see him again?

Paul would know that their faith remained sound by their thoughts toward him. 

Apostle John said that a person who quits never was one of the body. It matters not what they say about God or about their previous actions. If they can leave without repenting and returning they were always wolves in sheep’s clothing. 

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1 Thessalonians 3:5-8 (KJV)  The Litmus Test of Their Faith

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