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June 4, 1995
Pleasing God is a divine imperative; we exist to live for the praise of His glory. This is the foundation of all Christian behavior—including, as Paul pointed out, sexuality. God’s will is for us to be sanctified. As Alistair Begg explains, such holiness is the product of the Spirit’s work to conform us to Christ. We must therefore completely abstain from all sexual immorality, for where there is a new life, there must be a new lifestyle.
1Finally, then, brothers,1 we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you dreceived from us ehow you ought to walk and fto please God, just as you are doing, that you gdo so more and more. 2For hyou know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3For this is the will of God, iyour sanctification:2 jthat you abstain from sexual immorality; 4that each one of you know how to control his own kbody3 in holiness and lhonor, 5not in mthe passion of lust nlike the Gentiles owho do not know God; 6that no one transgress and pwrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is qan avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. 7For rGod has not called us for simpurity, but in holiness. 8Therefore twhoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, uwho gives his Holy Spirit to you.
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