To Fill Up the Measure

Whereas the Christians in Thessalonica were imitators of good, these persons that he is speaking of were imitators of evil and evil men. And so what I would have you to consider this morning is the sovereignty of God in relation to the sins of wicked men, men who oppose and persecute the messengers of the gospel. What is God’s attitude, and what is God’s righteous and holy response to this? We are told here that God’s response is to allow them to “fill up the measure of their sins”. And when God perceives that they have filled up the measure of their sins, then in His wrath, justly determines to punish them for all the wicked deeds that they have done. He begins by punishing them in this life, and then He continues and increases it in the next. So to open up this truth I want to speak to you now 1st – About the sins that provoke God’s measurement of them. And then 2nd – We will look at what the measurement of their sins means. And then 3rd – We will look at the measurement of God’s wrath in proportion to these sins.