Life in His StoryPart 8

1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 (NIV)

1 Finally, brothers, 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 4:1-8 (NIV)

3 It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; 4

that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and

honorable,

1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 (NIV)

5 not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God;

6 and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The

Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you.

1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 (NIV)

7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.

8 Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you

his Holy Spirit.

1. Live a Holy Life.

Mark 2:16-17 (NIV)

16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and tax collectors, they asked his disciples:

"Why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"

Mark 2:16-17 (NIV)

17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I

have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

a. We are all broken.

b. The sin scale.

c. Self-righteousness always has a hint of hate.

2. True Righteousness.

Matthew 22:36-40 (NIV)

36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart

and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

Matthew 22:36-40 (NIV)

38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor

as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

a. Sees the beauty of people’s potential.

b. It is grace-filled.

c. Is displayed in love.

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