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Waiting on Jesus: Saints

1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

Pastor Bob Hiller
11/2/2014

Series: waiting-on-jesus

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YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/eEVlrCGWyCc

1 Thessalonians 4:11 Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you,

1. Too often sainthood is defined in terms of a Christian's ____________ ____________.

2. Becoming a saint is not a status we ____________, but a ____________ that is given graciously by God.

3. Because saints don't need to earn a place in God's kingdom, they are ____________ to live in a beautifully ____________ way.


Scripture Readings
Micah 3:5-12
1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
Matthew 23:1-12


Take It With You!

Here we will offer thoughts and meditations on the message to help us as we contemplate and discuss and wrestle with what we are hearing.

For the Word of God is the sanctuary above all sanctuaries, yea, the only one which we Christians know and have. For though we had the bones of all the saints or all holy and consecrated garments upon a heap, still that would help us nothing; for all that is a dead thing which can sanctify nobody. But God's Word is the treasure which sanctifies everything, and by which even all the saints themselves were sanctified. At whatever hour, then, God's Word is taught, preached, heard, read or meditated upon, there the person, day, and work are sanctified thereby, not because of the external work, but because of the Word, which makes saints of us all. Therefore I constantly say that all our life and work must be ordered according to God's Word, if it is to be God-pleasing or holy. Where this is done, this commandment is in force and being fulfilled. On the contrary, any observance or work that is practised without God's Word is unholy before God, no matter how brilliantly it may shine, even though it be covered with relics, such as the fictitious spiritual orders, which know nothing of God's Word and seek holiness in their own works.

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