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Page 1: Mike Mazzalongo #4 –True Churches. Review Thessalonica Thessalonian church Thanks, Defends, Describes.

Mike Mazzalongo

#4 –True Churches

Page 2: Mike Mazzalongo #4 –True Churches. Review Thessalonica Thessalonian church Thanks, Defends, Describes.

Review

• Thessalonica• Thessalonian church• Thanks, Defends, Describes

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Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more. 2 For you know what commandments we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.- I Thessalonians 4:1-2

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No Purity No Power

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1. Sexual PurityFor this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

- I Thessalonians 4:3

Pure Conduct Includes:

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that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

- I Thessalonians 4:4-5

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Sexual purity/sanctification doesn’t mean no sex. It means sex under God’s control and for

His glory.

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2. Integrity in Businessand that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you- I Thessalonians 4:6

Pure Conduct Includes:

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For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification. 8 So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.- I Thessalonians 4:7-8

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1.They are new creatures

Why Continual Purification?

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1. They are new creatures

2.They will be judged

Why Continual Purification?

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There are both physical and spiritual consequences to the problems of impurity.

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Pure Conduct Includes:

• Sexual Purity• Integrity in Business• Purification of Public Witness

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Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another; 10 for indeed you do practice it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more,

- I Thessalonians 4:9-10

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and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you,- I Thessalonians 4:11

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New Goals

• Lead a quiet life

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New Goals

• Lead a quiet life

• Attend to your own business

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New Goals

• Lead a quiet life• Attend to your own business

• Work with your own hands

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so that you will behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need.

- I Thessalonians 4:12

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Why?

• Model a balanced life

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Why?

• Model a balanced life

• Remain independent

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This is how the “true” church provides a witness for Christ in

the world.