For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
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… abound more and more just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God. For you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification. Wow, what does that mean? That means that God is in you every day making you more like Jesus. That you should abstain from sexual immorality. We're learning about that on Sundays in Proverbs. the word is you know it guys you Sunday guys you're experts in this that you should abstain from pornea is that word that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel that's your body parts I don't need to talk about it sanctify your body parts and honor not in passion of lust like the Gentiles you do not know God that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother or sister in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such as we also forewarned you and testified. For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. Therefore, he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us his Holy Spirit, meaning the Spirit of God lives in you. He is the down payment, the guarantee of your redemption. …
… more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God. For you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. Okay, I know I'm poking my way through this and I'm going slow, but as I was reading this chapter this week, this verse jumped out to me. It indicates that Paul, when he was with them and he gave them commandments, he knew that he was speaking with the authority of heaven. It wasn't his opinion. He was speaking the principles, the word, the truth of God. Now remember, after Paul's conversion on the Damascus Road, how many years did he spend in Arabia? Anyone know? Three years. He went down to Arabia, down to the desert in seclusion, probably. Three years spent in Arabia. What on earth was he doing there? It's my belief that he was going through all the things he learned as a Jewish rabbi. The Old Testament, Messianic prophecy. He had come to believe in Jesus, that he's the Messiah. …
… it in our Bible reading yesterday as a church, this is the will of God. You want to know the will of God for your life, your sanctification, flee sexual immorality. That's 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 2. And we need God's grace to help us do that. And we need God's grace to guard against unholy, selfish desires. And again, we all need to guard against unholy, selfish desires, whether we're single or married. But I want to bring a quote in here from John Stott, stalwart preacher and author and leader in the church over the last century who was single for his 70 plus years of life. He said, apart from sexual temptation, the greatest danger, which I think we face as singles, is self-centeredness. We may live alone, may have total freedom to plan our own schedule with nobody else to modify it or even give us advice. And if we're not careful, we may find the whole world revolving around ourselves. And again, that's not saying that Married people don't also struggle with selfish desires. …