How You Ought to Walk
Historic One Year Lectionary Epistles • Sermon • Submitted
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Kid’s Message
Kid’s Message
Dirty dog gets cleaned up and jumps back in the mud pit
Orphan boy who is mean and naughty gets adopted, loved, gets a new heart that isn’t mean but loves. Should he live like he did before? No. He should be thankful and more and more he should live like his Father and love and give.
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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.
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,
Introduction
1. Urged to Overflow
1. Urged to Overflow
“ask & urge” not “demand & threaten”
spoken to Christians not unbelievers
able to walk & to please God
able to walk & to please God
the Law acts, in part, as a guide to believers (but it can’t to unbelievers)
Why aren’t they threatened or commanded? More in a moment!
spoken with brotherly/familial love and concern
“in the Lord Jesus”
“as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God”
previous teaching when Paul had been with them
“just as you are doing”
able to walk & to please God
by faith
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
they are a new creation
“do so more and more”
abound or overflow
called to an increasingly godly or pure life
Costa Rica’s national slogan “Pura Vida”
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
2. Called to Holiness
2. Called to Holiness
“For this is the will of God, your sanctification:
“that you abstain from sexual immorality”
What is sexual immorality exactly? porneia
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Why so specific? Why not list other sins?
rampant sexual sin in their culture
common problem for all of us - look at our culture
“that each one of you know how to control his own body”
vessel - pot, body, wife
control - acquire
What is sexuality supposed to look like? Marriage
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
the Avenger -
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.’
Meaning of the 3rd Article
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.