Love Stinks #6: A Life Pleasing to God

Published: Feb. 21, 2013, 7:58 p.m.

b'4 Finally, then, brothers,[a] we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you\\xa0received from us\\xa0how you ought to walk and\\xa0to please God, just as you are doing, that you\\xa0do so more and more. 2 For\\xa0you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God,\\xa0your sanctification:[b] that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own\\xa0body[c] in holiness and\\xa0honor, 5 not in\\xa0the passion of lust\\xa0like the Gentileswho do not know God; 6 that no one transgress and\\xa0wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is\\xa0an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. 7 For\\xa0God has not called us for\\xa0impurity, but in holiness. 8 Therefore\\xa0whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God,\\xa0who gives his Holy Spirit to you.\\n\\n9 Now concerning\\xa0brotherly love\\xa0you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been\\xa0taught by God\\xa0to love one another, 10 for that indeed is what\\xa0you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to\\xa0do this more and more, 11 and to aspire\\xa0to live quietly, and\\xa0to mind your own affairs, and\\xa0to work with your hands, as we instructed you, 12 so that you may\\xa0walk properly before\\xa0outsiders and be dependent on no one.\\n\\nOutline\\n\\nI. Sanctification: The Answer nobody gives to the question "what is the purpose of dating?"\\n\\nII. Sanctifi-what? Sanctification is the will of God for you (even in dating), what is it?\\n\\nIII. Sanctification applied practically to dating.'