Live Different to Make a Difference – 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

13 May he make your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. Amen. … 1 Additionally then, brothers and sisters, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received instruction from us on how you should live and please God—as you are doing—do this even more. 2 For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus. —1 Thessalonians 3:13-4:2

Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. —Hebrews 12:14

is holiness important?

1 . Get to experience the

, rather than the dark (1 Peter 2:9)

2 . God favors the holy &

to their prayers (1 Peter 3:8-18)

3 . You will not experience the

of God (Eph. 4:17-5:7)

to live different (set apart):
1 ) Prioritize

Reveal Answer

Purity

3 For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality, 4 that each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not with lustful passions, like the Gentiles, who don’t know God. —1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. —Genesis 2:24

6 This means one must not transgress against and take advantage of a brother or sister in this manner, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you. 7 For God has not called us to impurity but to live in holiness. 8 Consequently, anyone who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit. —1 Thessalonians 4:6-8

He has removed our sins as far as the east is from the west. —Psalm 103:12

So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. —Romans 8:1

2) Love

9 About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. 10 In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers and sisters in the entire region of Macedonia. But we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to do this even more, 11 to seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, 12 so that you may behave properly in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone. —1 Thessalonians 4:9-12

34 Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. —John 13:34-35