HONORING GOD WITH OUR BODIES

HONORING GOD WITH OUR BODIES

HONORING GOD WITH OUR BODIES
1 Thessalonians 4.1-8
Waiting for Jesus – Part 6

vv. 1-2 “… we ask and urge you …. you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God … you know what instructions we gave you …” (esv)

Psalm 19.14 “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.” (niv)

IT PLEASES GOD WHEN WE …

AFFIRM The Goodness Of Sex

v. 3 “For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality …” (csb)

RESIST Cultural Definitions Of Sex

vv. 4–5 “… 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 …”  (esv)

ACKNOWLEDGE The Designer Of Sex

v. 6 “… the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.” (esv)

v. 8 “Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.” (esv)