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Our life as Christians as we pick up and look at 1 verse today which is first Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 8.

And we will read the word of God together, and we'll ask the Lord to give us insight.

As to what his word means and we'll see what he has for us together or alone in chapter 8.

A chapter 4, verse 8. consequently he who set this aside is not setting aside man but the God who gives his holy spirit to you this is what verse 8 says.

That is for a lord.

We are unable to see the truth unless your Spirit guides us.

We are unable to obey.

Your words, unless your spirit and Abel's us. the father we come knowing there are enough knowledge in our liability so that you may Where can I buy to illumine your word?

The meaning.

And also apply it to our lives so that we may be conformed to the image of your son.

Jesus Christ, whose name we pray.

Amen.

so, I know I just read from one verse two kind of gave us contacts for those of us, most of us in this room weren't here last week since we're doing a joint service, I want to go back and give you the larger context from 3 and read it to vs8 so that we can get the food just out of The.

The warning, so to speak in verse 8. What part rights from 3 to 8 for this is, the will of God your sanctification that you abstain from sexual immorality.

That each of, you know, how to possess his own vessels inside, navigation, and honor, not unless will passion like the Gentiles who do not know God and that, no, man, transgression defraud, his brother, in the end, the matter because the Lord is the venger and all these things.

Just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you for God did not call us to a dirty butt and sanctification, this is where he picks up and save as a result.

Consequently he who sets this aside is not setting aside man but the God who gives his holy spirit to you so, when you look down at your Bible and see,

Verse 8, verse 8 starts at says, therefore and some translations, some some translations have.

So and my translation of reeds, consequently you which all is introducing this idea by making this logical inference.

Pointing back to Wild, he has been reasoning with us in the last 3 weeks.

What is Ben reasoning with us?

Is that the will of God for your life is sanctification.

The will of God for your life if you've ever wondered is your sanctification.

It's clearly put the here and so he's going back and connecting this idea of sanctification more specifically in terms of how you are to abstain from sexual immorality.

And for those of you that were here last week, and I weren't here last week as a revision that word we hear sexual immorality in the Greek is cornea and you guys can hear the connection of that and there which was an industry and those things were explained dearly and thoroughly last week.

I hope I wish we had recorded that.

I made that available but it wasn't.

So, in terms of that God wants us to abstain from that to the control our bodies in terms of that and not go beyond what God desires for us and not aspect.

And this is what Paul has been arguing in the in the media contacts.

This is what we find is saying, light-up.

The will of God in light of his avenging, even and vs 6. Convert 7 and light of his calling to be holy.

We must now take heed.

We must now, listen and pay attention as something serious like warning.

This is what this is.

These are the words that he uses.

We have solemnly.

Warned you, we have told you before.

For God did not call us to a dirty butt, incentive acacian.

Therefore he was set this aside is not setting aside man but God who gives his holy spirit to you.

So he's making that connection I wanted to make sure that you were making that that you were, you see the connection?

This is not just written out of In a vacuum out of context.

so, appalled is in this verse when we see is tallest, giving this personal warning, By considering the contrast in an attribute.

So that they may be obedient not to reject God's will.

For them to be sanctified.

In the same way with a little fly to us and whenever I say them in the day you can apply you and yours.

So it what is giving us here?

Is this personal warning considering the contrast and asked so that you may be more obedient.

So you may not reject God's will for you to be Sanctified to be holy.

And to pursue a holy life in accordance to your calling.

So with that being said, I want to lay out before I give you the outline for it for today.

I want to lay out some a working definition of what it means to reject cuz that's what we see right here who says his side or he who rejects.

So it's not about this is this is about rejecting.

So the action hear that Paul is talking about, is what does it mean to set aside?

What does it mean to reject?

So here's a working definition that I want you to have about rejection.

This is considering something and valid.

Or ignore something or to rebelled against something or someone or to violate and noticed the bill.

By the way even though, in a way that I'm just finding it.

You don't just violate some law.

Unless you rebelling against it.

You don't just rebelling against it unless you ignore its Authority.

You don't even know or someone's Authority unless you.

I think that person in that, Word, that whatever it is that you are unless you think of it as something invalid.

And consider the motive Bike by, by the way, of the root word here.

By the way, for the Greek word is is to put in your mind or in your heart and intellectual presupposition.

To put in your heart and your mind based on an assumption that you bring forth from some some something else somewhere else.

I will talk about that the motives here in a little in the little bit, but rejection is to consider something invalid and therefore you ignore its Authority, then you rebelled against it and you violate its loss.

You Violet the parameters So I wanted to give you that working definition.

So anytime I say reject or set aside and we come back to it, this is what we mean by it.

So here's the outline of the warning where this warning, what is the first thing I want you to?

I want us to notice.

This one is personal.

And this morning, also shows a contrast.

Between man and God.

Ellis warning is dependent on God's Own attribute.

So these are the three things that the three points of observations that I want to show you that this Paul is giving this personal warning

which involves a contrast of the attributes.

So what is it mean to be person?

Why is why is it?

Why do I want to emphasize that this warning to not reject the verse 8 is personal Look down with me to verse 8. Consequently he says he who rejects he who sets this aside, you notice that he's saying he and you hear that and you're like oh it's not about me it's about the person next to me.

Or he's generally just speaking out there as a as something abstract, it's just something that's outside of me.

It doesn't apply to me this morning doesn't apply to me but it is put here so that the readers originally that's a selonian charge is almost opposed to see their individual names as this is being read to them.

Call is describing a person, is not describing an idea or a theoretical being as there's some something that you can just make up in your mind.

He is describing a person with one who hears in reject or considered a valid or or or ignores and rebelled is the person he is warning you.

There's a sense, where, where we should see each of our names written in this portion of scripture, what?

He saying, he who sets this aside?

And I want to emphasize this point because it is very easy to consider this generality and they consider and make it impersonal that just doesn't apply to me.

This is about them out there.

Because that's the condition of our hearts, especially for those of us that have grown up in the church.

Come to church every week.

Don't consider ourselves to be Christians, someone religious.

We know what the word of God Is.

So and it's so easy for us to fall in the Trap where the Pharisees fell in the Trap as well.

This is why the Lord Jesus himself and Luke 18:9 says he and he told them Luke tells us.

He also told this Parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and the view.

Others in contempt.

It's easier, just comes natural to us to say hello.

And I'm good just doesn't apply to me because they know I'm sexually.

You know, I've never really done any of this because this is a context, right?

Struggle with that send.