08.04.24 | How to Move Forward in your Faith | Drey Clark
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How to Move forward in your faith:
Step 1: Self Evaluation (1 Thess 4:1-2)
Evaluation of Faith
Evaluation of Motive
Step 2: Set Apart (1 Thess 4:3-8, Exodus 19:5-6, Leviticus 20:26)
Set apart in the world
QUOTE: “men, in order to satisfy your sexual desire, don’t do it with another man’s wife. Make use of a prostitute instead. “ - Cato, quoted by Horace, Satires 1.2.31-35
QUOTE: “Mistresses we keep for pleasure, concubines for our day-to-day physical well being, and wives to bear us legitimate children.”Demosthenes, Orations 59.122
QUOTE: “If anyone thinks that young men should be forbidden to have affairs even with prostitutes, he is very strict indeed.. - Cicero, pro Caelio 48
QUOTE: “To find that which is most sacred in this world, look to that which is most violently profaned.” Christopher West
Set apart by His Spirit
Step 3: Steadfast Love (1 Thess 4:9-10, cf Phil 2:4)
Don’t limit your love
Step 4: Socially Skilled (1 Thess 4:11-12)
How we work
Why we Work
Step 5: Future Focused (1 Thess 4:13-14)
You don’t have to know the future, just who holds it!
Sanctification in the Christian live progresses inward, outward, and upward!
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