1 Thessalonians 4:1–8 | Resources
Discussion/Reflection Questions
1. What does it mean to live a life that pleases God, and how can we continually grow in this area?
2. Why is sanctification essential for a believer’s walk with God, and how can we pursue holiness in today’s culture?
3. What practical steps can we take to exercise self-control in areas where we might struggle?
4. How does living a holy life involve not only personal purity but also protecting and honoring others?
5. How does understanding God’s call to holiness shape our decisions and relationships?
Memory Verse: 1 Thessalonians 4:3–5
“For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality, that each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not with lustful passions, like the Gentiles, who don’t know God.” (CSB)
Supplemental Scripture Reading: Romans 6:15–23
“What then? Should we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not! Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness? But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed over, and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness. So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death. But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification—and the outcome is eternal life! For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”