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1 Thessalonians 4:3 · BSB
4:3 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
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…coming to a place in this letter where he is going to encourage, where he's going to exhort, where he's going to issue warning for them. We turn to1 Thessalonians chapter 4, verses 1 through 8. Again, if you're a guest with us, it's on page 987. Let me read just the first three verses which form our point, this first point this morning.…
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…we're filled with his spirit, that we let his spirit control our thinking, our attitudes, our actions, everything that we do. Then we see this in1 Thessalonians chapter 4, verse 3, and then a little bit of the same idea in Romans 12 2, but I'll read 1 Thessalonians 4 3. It says, It's God's will that you should be sanctified.…
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…this. Yeah, why is that? Your hardness of heart. Right, you see how that's happening? It's like we don't even believe or don't even understand that1 Thessalonians 4 verse 3exists. Right? What does that verse say? One translation says, not even a hint of sexual immorality. Right, oh that's too convicting. I'm gonna…
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…1 Thessalonians chapter 4, verse 1. This is the New Testament. There's not a more direct teaching on sexual morality in the entire Bible than in1 Thessalonians chapter 4, verses 1 to 8. And he begins it by saying, Hey, I'm saying these things to you because this is the way I feel about you, verse 1. Finally, then, brothers, we ask…
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…willing in that reality to address all of this? To grow in your sanctification here, which let's not forget. Sanctification is God's will for us.1 Thessalonians 4:3. We often wonder what's God's will? Who am I gonna marry, right? You know, where am I gonna work? What's my career gonna be like? What house should…
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…of the truth. Okay? Then the second area that he wants his will fulfilled in our life, salvation, but then sanctification. Look at what he says in1 Thessalonians 4:3. For this is the will of God, even our sanctification, that we abstain from fornication. What that means is that we live a moral pure life, that we…
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…are moral cowards and go, well, God wants you to be happy. Not gonna happen. And so when I say it's a sin against the Trinity, here's what I mean.1 Thessalonians chapter 4, verse 2 to 8, for you know that, you know what instruction we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God. This is the will of God, your…
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…need to be more like Jesus in our submission to God's will. And for us today, I speak particularly of that part of God's will, which we are told in1 Thessalonians 4, verse 3, which states that His will is our sanctification. And so what I mean by submission to God's will as pertaining to us is that we must, as we are…
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…about the matter of moral purity. Moral purity is an ongoing battle in our culture today. Everywhere you turn you see the evidence of it.1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 3. For this is the will of God, your sanctification. Boy, that sounds pretty good in the abstract. God's interest is that I grow to be more godly,…
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…And you were created, and I was created to live for the glory of God. And when I violate what the Bible says about sexuality, the Bible says in1 Thessalonians chapter 4, verses 1 to 8, that if I reject this teaching, that we should possess our body in sanctification and honor, not in passionate lust, like the heathen who don't…
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