“Ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess. 1:9-10).
Paul preached Christ to the idolaters in Thessalonica, and we are not told that he preached against their idols. No, that would have been worse than useless. But once the Thessalonian hearts were brought by the Spirit into occupation with the Son of God, their idols were let go. When once anyone’s heart gets engaged with Christ, all else is displaced or distanced in proportion as Christ has His true place there. He is enough to fill the mind and heart.
Christian Truth, Vol. 20 (1967)