{"id":1944,"date":"2021-10-17T10:53:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T15:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2021-10-18T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:24:14","slug":"living-a-life-thats-pleasing-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1944","title":{"rendered":"1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 (The One About Living a Life That Pleases God)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-17-21.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Thessalonians 4:1-12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>mallon (mal&#8217;-lon): more, rather.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Question: How big of a priority is it for you to become more and more like Jesus?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Paul wants them to put their best face forward, so that when they&#8217;re refusing to join in on the idol-worshipping festivities, people won&#8217;t think they&#8217;re godless misanthropes (people who dislike mankind and avoid society).&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A life that pleases God can only be accomplished when we live by faith.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hebrews 11:6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Questions: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God has called us to sexual purity, where you are honoring God\u2019s design and plan for sex in your life. <strong>In your sex life, are you living by faith? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus call us to love one other as He loved us, and scripture says to think of others more than ourselves. <strong>In your church life, are you living by faith? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are also called to live a quiet life, mind our own affairs and &#8220;work with our hands&#8221;.   We should be respectful, humble, sincere, and non-combative. That includes not being contentious or picking fights with those who don\u2019t share your same beliefs and values. <strong>In your work life, are you living by faith?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In each of these areas, what are you are NOT living by faith where you need to get things set right?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-17-21.mp3\">Living a Life That&#8217;s Pleasing to God<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10-17-21.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 mallon (mal&#8217;-lon): more, rather. Question: How big of a priority is it for you to become more and more like Jesus? &#8220;Paul wants them to put their best face forward, so that when they&#8217;re refusing to join in on the idol-worshipping festivities, people won&#8217;t think they&#8217;re godless misanthropes (people who dislike mankind &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1944\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 (The One About Living a Life That Pleases God)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1-thessalonians","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}