“Purveyors of Paganism”

1 Thessalonians 4: 3-5: “For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you knows how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God.” The first century Greco-Roman culture was notable in its uninhibited gratification of lustful passions, and the city of Thessalonica was squarely in the midst of it. As this immoral standard is making an emphatic return in today’s society, we need to re-emphasize these warnings from Jesus and Paul more and more. If you claim to know God, sanctify yourself from these immoral practices!