Here are the songs we sang this Sunday. This shows the song name, the artist who performed the song, and the cd that contains the song. Our God Chris Tomlin Passion: Awakening (Special Edition) There is Power Lincoln Brewster Oxygen Holy Spirit Francesca Battistelli If We re Hungry Holy, Holy, Holy (Savior & King) Gateway Worship Revival
A Life That Pleases God How the Message of Jesus Transforms the Lives of His People- (part 4) 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
1Thessalonians 1:1-10 1Thessalonians 2:1-12, 19-20 1Thessalonians 2:13-3:13 The gospel is powerfully transforming & boldly proclaimed When it comes to ministry, the depth of your character is more important than the delivery of your words Like the Survivor Tree, be steadfast amidst opposition and difficulties
An Ambition to Please God (vv.1-2) 1 Thessalonians 4:1-2 1 As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
An Ambition to Please God (vv.1-2) 1 Thessalonians 4:1-2 1 As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
An Ambition to Please God (vv.1-2) 1 Thessalonians 4:1-2 1 As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 (ESV) 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 (ESV) 6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. 7 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 (ESV) 8 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 (ESV) 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification.
3 Exhortations that you abstain from sexual immorality (v. 3b)
3 Exhortations that you abstain from sexual immorality (v. 3b) porn industry- $98 billion worldwide
3 Exhortations that you abstain from sexual immorality (v. 3b) porn industry- $98 billion worldwide U.S. ranks 4th in porn revenue
3 Exhortations that you abstain from sexual immorality (v. 3b) porn industry- $98 billion worldwide U.S. ranks 4th in porn revenue 64% of self-identified Christian men view pornography at least once a month 37% of self-identified Christian men view pornography at least several times a week
3 Exhortations that you abstain from sexual immorality (v. 3b) By age 20, 75% of teenagers had had premarital sex By age 44, 95% of respondents had had premarital sex. Even among those who abstained until at least age 20, 81% had had premarital sex by age 44
3 Exhortations that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God (vv. 4-5)
3 Exhortations that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God (vv. 4-5)
3 Exhortations that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God (vv. 4-5)
3 Exhortations Hebrews 13:4 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
3 Exhortations that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter (v. 6a)
3 Reasons because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. (v. 6b)
3 Reasons For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. (v. 7)
3 Reasons Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. (v. 8)
The Porn Industry that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter (v. 6a)
Power to Live Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you (v.8)
Application:
Application: Connect with others
Application: Connect with others Don t just cap the lid, address the fire Search for Significance by Robert McGee Roger Scott s small group
Application: Connect with others Don t just cap the lid, address the fire Equip your children Passport2Purity- Family Life Today
Please God Through Loving Others (vv.9-12) General Affirmation & Appeal (vv.9-10) 9 Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. 10 And in fact, you do love all of God s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more.
Please God Through Loving Others (vv.9-12) Specific Instructions (vv.11-12) 11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, 12 so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
Conclusion Live a life pleasing to God through sexual purity and others-centered love