Pastor Nate Brosher
Aug 20, 2025
1Thessalonians 4:1-4 NLT - 1 Finally, dear brothers and sisters, we urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live in a way that pleases God, as we have taught you. You live this way already, and we encourage you to do so even more. 2 For you remember what we taught you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. 3 God's will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin. 4 Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor –
Sanctification/Holiness – hagiasmos – Consecration, purification. The effect of consecration.
“In Sanctification/Holiness”
This means living a life set apart for God, free from sexual immorality and characterized by purity and holiness.
“And Honor” This emphasizes the need to treat the body with dignity and respect, both internally and in one's relationships with others.
Holiness is about moral purity and righteousness.
Growing in Holiness
Becoming holy is often described as a process of growth and transformation, involving ongoing repentance, obedience, and reliance on God's grace.
Leviticus 19:2 ESV - 2 "Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.
Matthew 5:48 ESV - 48 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
• How do we become perfect?
Hebrews 10:14 ESV - 14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
“To those who are BEING sanctified.”
2Corinthians 5:20-21 ESV - 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in HIM we might become the righteousness of God.
1Thessalonians 4:5-8 NLT - 5 not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways. 6 Never harm or cheat a Christian brother in this matter by violating his wife, for the Lord avenges all such sins, as we have solemnly warned you before. 7 God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives. 8 Therefore, anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human teaching but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Are we rejecting God’s teachings?
We are Chosen!
1Peter 2:9-10 ESV - 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Romans 12:1-2 NKJV - 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what [is] that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.