No More Immorality

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text

“And this also is God’s will: that you never cheat in this matter by taking another man’s wife because the Lord will punish you terribly for this, as we have solemnly told you before. For God has not called us to be dirty-minded and full of lust but to be holy and clean. If anyone refuses to live by these rules, he is not disobeying the rules of men but of God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.” 1 Thessalonians 4v6-8 (TLB)

“Don’t run roughshod over the concerns of your brothers and sisters. Their concerns are God’s concerns, and He will take care of them. We’ve warned you about this before. God hasn’t invited us into a disorderly, unkempt life but into something holy and beautiful – as beautiful on the inside as the outside. If you disregard this advice, you’re not offending your neighbors; you’re rejecting God, who is making you a gift of His Holy Spirit.” 1 Thessalonians 4v6-8 (MSG)

Beloved, sexual purity is something that God is very clear about. He would have us live holy lives. It does not matter what the world says, what the television dictates, what people say is in vogue or is old-fashioned or not, God does not like immorality. In the verses above, we are told that He is the punisher of those who take other people’s wives. And we know that “It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Hebrews 10v31, NIV). God would not ask us to do things that are impossible, and He would not help us to justify what He has said not to do. Instead He has given us the grace to do what He would have us do.

Supplementary Text

“Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed [my suggestions], so now, not only [with the enthusiasm you would show] in my presence but much more because I am absent, work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ). [Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight.” Philippians 2v12-13 (AMP)

Prayer

Hebrews 4v15-16 tells us that we have a High Priest who understands our weaknesses because He had the same temptations that we had but did not sin, and so we should come boldly before God’s throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Why don’t you approach the throne of grace today and receive mercy for your shortcomings and grace to help for every need.