We are to Control Our Bodies in Holiness & Honor (TMF:525)

Friday, October 28, 2016
Peace to Live By: We are to Control Our Bodies in Holiness & Honor (TMF:525) - Daniel Litton
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       Now, I understand that it takes two people to commit these acts, but I'm looking at things from the man's side. Obviously, men aren't always the ones that start the act of fornication or adultery. Sometimes the woman leads the man astray. But regardless, we undercut others when we do these disobedient acts. Let’s look at a passage in 1 Thessalonians about sexual immorality. It says, “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; 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. For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you” (1 Thessalonians 4:3-8, ESV). Now, here, the Apostle Paul tells us that God avenges the wronged Christian, going against the man who has stolen what he had no right to steal. Now, I don’t know exactly what this all means for the offending brother, and really, I don’t want to know. Let’s just not find ourselves here.