帖撒羅尼迦前書2:13-16

2:13 為此，我們也不住地感謝上帝，因你們聽見我們所傳上帝的道就領受了；不以為是人的道，乃以為是上帝的道。這道實在是上帝的，並且運行在你們信主的人心中。
2:14 弟兄們，你們曾傚法猶太中在基督耶穌裡上帝的各教會；因為你們也受了本地人的苦害，像他們受了猶太人的苦害一樣。
2:15 這猶太人殺了主耶穌和先知，又把我們趕出去。他們不得上帝的喜悅，且與眾人為敵，
2:16 不許我們傳道給外邦人使外邦人得救，常常充滿自己的罪惡。上帝的忿怒臨在他們身上已經到了極處。

¹³ And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe. ¹⁴ For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews ¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone ¹⁶ in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last.

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    保羅在這裡特別提到猶太人的惡行，讓帖撒羅尼迦教會的人不受猶太人的影響，因為這些猶太人一方面逼迫猶太地區的教會，又影響外邦的教會，在這些外邦教會散佈要守律法才會得救的訊息，想徹底瓦解保羅所建立的各個教會。

    所以保羅一直說明自己所傳的才是上帝的道，正是他們之前所領受所聽見的，而且這樣的道一直在信徒的心中運行。而保羅所傳的道就是：唯獨聖經、唯獨基督、唯獨恩典、唯獨信心、唯獨榮耀上帝。也因此，獨獨因信稱義，不需要加上行律法才可以得救。

     

今日強調因信稱義的教會，更是要防止信徒，被一些要行律法才算得救的邪說影響。他們振振有詞到處散布他們才是正統，才是合乎聖經，罵我們這些堅持因信稱義的傳道人是法利賽人。有時候想一想真是時代變了，他們是賊還說我們是賊呢！