God's patience is endless but it is not purposeless. His patience for salvation will never fail but God's patience towards sin has limits.
We see in this passage that paul believes the thessalonians to have truely recieved salvation because of the resistance and suffering they have recieved at the hands of their own countrymen, the gentiles. Paul likens this suffering to the suffering that jewish christians recieved from the religious jews those who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and drove Paul and Silas out of Thessalonica. This Paul says displeases God and opposes mankind, why? Because salvation is from Jesus and those who hinder the gospel message hinder salvation for mankind.
To hinder the gospel is a grevious sin and let us not be fooled that this sin is restricted to the religious Jews or the Gentile countrymen. This sin we can also find within ourselves as Christians. We can hinder the gospel by our actions. Let us beware as God's patience towards hinderence of the gospel has a limit. As we persistantly hinder the gospel, our measure of sin in this regard fills up. What happens when that measure reaches its full? Well we have seen it time and time again in the Bible God removes that person. Either physically from the situation like what happened when Paul ans Silas were driven out from the influence of the religious jews. Or physically from this world through death like Ananias and Sapphira in the book of Acts.
Let us be constantly aware of how our action are working to advance or to hinder the gospel...
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