Holiness and Habits The Return Kile Baker May 11th, 2025 Theme Verse: “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.” — 1 Thessalonians 4:16 Justification: You’re made right with God. Sanctification: You’re made holy through God. Glorification: You’ll be made perfect to be with God. 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 Additionally then, brothers and sisters, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received instruction from us on how you should live and please God — ​as you are doing ​— ​do this even more. 2 For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality, 4 that each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not with lustful passions, like the Gentiles, who don’t know God. When we are no longer ignorant about God, we should not be indifferent to His ways. Sin in the life of a Christian is worse than in the life of a non-Christian. 6 This means one must not transgress against and take advantage of a brother or sister in this manner, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you. 7 For God has not called us to impurity but to live in holiness. 8 Consequently, anyone who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit. The ABC’s of Holiness You are Holy You’re you’re becoming Holy Someday you’ll be completely holy. 9 About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. 10 In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers and sisters in the entire region of Macedonia. But we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to do this even more, 11 to seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, 12 so that you may behave properly in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone. Next Steps Replace a bad habit with a Godly one. Take communion at home to recommit to holiness. Ask someone to help hold you accountable to holiness. Next Week: Caught up in the air