1 Thessalonians 4:3-8

3/26/2017

The Church in Elk Rapia
From Doctrine to Duty
Purity in an Impure World

3) For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
4) That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
5) Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
6) That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
7) For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
8) He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

Outline

We are Living in a world that believes that sexual relations is that "be all end all" in making a marriage work. Our nations began to really manifest this thought in the 60's with the sexual revolution. The church was strangely silent about sexuality except for condemnation, and the world took that which god created and perverted it. but is this anything new?

1) Initiation of Sexuality

2) Degradation of Sexuality

3) Rationalization of Immorality

4) Implications of Immorality

5) Restoration from Immorality

6) Admonitions concerning Immorality

A) Self Control vs. 4
B) Spirit Controlled vs. 5
C) Spiritual Control vs. 6a
D) God's Punishment vs 6b
E) God's Purpose vs 7
F) God's Person vs. 8

Big Idea:
Sexual Purity - Not
talked About but lived out.