4 Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. 7 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. 8 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. (I Thessalonians 4)
We know where we are going in this chapter: these guys are going to give one of the best known talks about the coming again of Christ. But more importantly, they want to talk first about how we live now - how we walk. God wants us to live differently than before we came to Christ, differently than the world around us, differently than we often naturally react when under pressure. That means a number of things: sexual purity, self-control, and an obvious presence of the Holy Spirit guiding our lives. It's our calling, what' we're made for, and we don't want to mess with that. Our main aim is to please God.
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