GOD HATH CALLED US UNTO HOLINESS

GOD HATH CALLED US UNTO HOLINESS

1 Thessalonians 4:1-9 

Furthermore Then We Beseech You, Brethren, And Exhort You By The Lord Jesus, That As Ye Have Received Of Us How Ye Ought To Walk And To Please God, So Ye Would Abound More And More. For Ye Know What Commandments We Gave You By The Lord Jesus. For This Is The Will Of God, Even Your Sanctification, That Ye Should Abstain From Fornication: That Every One Of You Should Know How To Possess His Vessel In Sanctification And Honour; Not In The Lust Of Concupiscence, Even As The Gentiles Which Know Not God: That No Man Go Beyond And Defraud His Brother In Any Matter: Because That The Lord Is The Avenger Of All Such, As We Also Have Forewarned You And Testified. For God Hath Not Called Us Unto Uncleanness, But Unto Holiness. He Therefore That Despiseth, Despiseth Not Man, But God, Who Hath Also Given Unto Us His Holy Spirit. But As Touching Brotherly Love Ye Need Not That I Write Unto You: For Ye Yourselves Are Taught Of God To Love One Another.

FORNICATION

voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other

CONCUPISCENCE

strong sexual desire; lust.

DESPISE

1. To regard with utter contempt and disdain:

contemn, disdain, scorn, scout.

Idioms: have no use for, look down on.

2. To regard with extreme dislike and hostility:

abhor, abominate, detest, execrate, hate, loathe.

Some Christians think that other people who are not Saved are below them, and are a waste of space. We have to remember John 3:17,

For God Sent Not His Son Into The World To Condemn The World; But That The World Through Him Might Be Saved.

We are to share The Gospel Of Jesus Christ; it is not our job to Save Souls but to share Jesus. If we do not share Jesus Christ, how will they ever come to repentance for their sins as we did?

1 Peter 2:24-25 

Who His Own Self Bare Our Sins In His Own Body On The Tree, That We, Being Dead To Sins, Should Live Unto Righteousness: By Whose Stripes Ye Were Healed. For YE Were As Sheep Going Astray; But Are Now Returned Unto The Shepherd And Bishop Of Your Souls.

Romans 10:13-14 

For Whosoever Shall Call Upon The Name Of The Lord Shall Be Saved. How Then Shall They Call On Him In Whom They Have Not Believed? And How Shall They Believe In Him Of Whom They Have Not Heard? And How Shall They Hear Without A Preacher?

It Is True,  There Is A Time As Matthew 7:6 Says

Give Not That Which Is Holy Unto The Dogs, Neither Cast Ye Your Pearls Before Swine, Lest They Trample Them Under Their Feet, And Turn Again And Rend You. 

I believe that The Holy Spirit will lead you to the person, in His Time and will give you The Word to speak. We try to help God out in our zeal, but it can defeat the purpose and be detrimental to the cause. Always Pray before you go to anyone about Jesus Christ, and make sure God sent you to them. We are to love everyone and Pray for them, we would never want anyone to go to the Lake Of Fire. God Will Judge In His Time, But Right Now Is The Time Of Grace, The Time For Repentance.

 

Donna K Purifoy

6/17/2023