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LIVING TO PLEASE GOD

I Thessalonians 4:1-12

Living to please God should be the goal of every Christian. Who are you trying to please with your life? Are you living to please God?
In our text for this sermon, Christians are challenged to live lives that are pleasing to God. There is an exhortation to live to please God in verse 1. Then there is an explanation of what lifestyle pleases God in verses 2-12.

I. THE EXHORTATION TO PLEASE GOD (I THESS. 4:1)
A. Everybody lives to please someone–either self or someone else.
B. Christians should live to please God.
C. We owe it to God. He has done and given so much more to us.

II. THE EXPLANATION OF LIVING TO PLEASE GOD (I THESS. 4:2-12)
A. Live Holy Lives (4:2-8)
B. Abstain from imorality v.3
C. Heb. 13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
D. Be honest at all expense.

3. A caution against living impure lives is given in verses 6b and 8.
A. The reason for the caution is that the Lord is the avenger of all such (v.6b).
B. Live Harmonious Lives (4:9-10)
C. Live Honest Lives (4:11-12)
This exhortation to live honest lives is twofold in its application: mind your own business and manage your own behavior.
1. A need for calmness of spirit. And that ye study to be quiet dealt with the problem of mental agitation or excitement.
2. Dealt with meddlesomeness—and to do your own business.
3. To mind your own business has to do with idleness—and to work with your own hands.
1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

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