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True Love Waits
Contributed by Doug Sanders on Jan 23, 2001 (message contributor)
Summary: God called us to live a life of holiness, even in our relationships.
To Live a life of Holiness you must live:
I. To Please God (v.1)
1.We to often get caught up in pleasing ourselves
We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
2. Pleasing others
For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.
3.Pleasing God
By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
How do we know what pleases God?
Same as we would our earthly father, by listening to His words.
To live a life of Holiness you must live:
II. To obey God (v.2-3)
Obey His commandments
God’s commandment for personal purity
Spoken through the Lord Jesus
Be sanctified
SANCTIFICATION The process of being made holy resulting in a changed life-style for the believer. The English word sanctification comes from a Latin word, meaning the act/process of making holy.
His commandment, "that you should abstain from sexual immorality;" To live a life of Holiness you must live: III. To Glorify God (v.4-6) 1. Posses his own vessel
2. Avoid passion of the world
"Gentiles" means the nations.
3. Not defraud someone else
Defraud means to take property or rights from someone. Promiscuity before marriage represents the robbing of the other of that virginity which ought to be brought to a marriage.
Three reasons to Wait 1. God will take action against these sins
He is the Avenger (that what makes Him Justified)
You have been forewarned
2. God did not call us to uncleanness but to Holiness.
Our life after salvation is to be a witness for Him. You ask why the world is dieing and going to Hell. Hello
3. To reject this is to sin against God.
He has giving us the Holy Spirit whom is with us always. Yes always.
This sermon was preached feburary, 2001 at Frist Baptist Church of Cross City.
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