Live Your Love Out Loud

Live Your Love Out Live Your Love Out LoudLoud

1 Thessalonians 4:9-1 Thessalonians 4:9-1212

Christian One-Christian One-linersliners

Don’t Don’t let your worries get thelet your worries get thebest of you; remember, best of you; remember, Moses started Moses started out as a basket case.out as a basket case.


Some people are kind, pSome people are kind, polite, and sweet olite, and sweet spirited until you try tospirited until you try tosit in their pews.sit in their pews.


The good Lord didn’t createThe good Lord didn’t createanything anything without a purpose, without a purpose, but mosquitoes come close.but mosquitoes come close.


People are funny; they wPeople are funny; they want the front of the bus,ant the front of the bus,the middle of the road, athe middle of the road, and nd the back of the church.the back of the church.


Quit griping about yourQuit griping about your church churchif it was perfect,if it was perfect,you couldn’t belong.you couldn’t belong.


Some minds are like concSome minds are like concrete:rete:thoroughly mixed up, anthoroughly mixed up, anddpermanently set.permanently set.


A lot of church membersA lot of church memberswho are singingwho are singing‘Standing on the Promises’‘Standing on the Promises’are just sitting on the preare just sitting on the premises.mises.


I don’t know why some peopleI don’t know why some peoplechange churches; change churches; what difference does it makewhat difference does it makewhich one you stay home frowhich one you stay home from? m?


Forbidden fruitsForbidden fruitscreate many jams.create many jams.


God loves everyone,God loves everyone,but probably prefersbut probably prefers‘fruit of the spirit’ over‘fruit of the spirit’ over a ‘religious nut!’ a ‘religious nut!’

1 Thessalonians 4:9-121 Thessalonians 4:9-129 Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. 10 And in fact, you do love all the brothers and sisters throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, dear friends, to do so more and more,

1 Thessalonians 4:9-121 Thessalonians 4:9-1211 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, 12 so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

Loving God and Loving Loving God and Loving OthersOthers

Serving God through Serving God through Serving OthersServing Others

Walk in Love (4:9–Walk in Love (4:9–10)10)

• There was no need to write to them about love; • he had taught them about this, • and God Himself taught them through the Spirit (Rom. 5:5).

Walk in Love (4:9–Walk in Love (4:9–10)10)

• It is not enough that we love only those in our own fellowship;–like these people in Thessalonica, we must love all of God’s people and also the lost (3:12) more every day.

Walk in Honesty Walk in Honesty (4:11–12)(4:11–12)

• Paul talks about the believer’s vocation and his contacts with the unsaved in the world. • People had misunderstood the

promise of Christ’s return, quit their jobs, and had become “parasites” who lived off the other Christians.


• Verse 11 literally means “Be ambitious to be quiet.” –That is, do not fret and worry and involve yourself in the world’s activities.


• The Christian who does an honest day’s work and who is careful to maintain a good testimony will influence the unsaved

So So what?what?

Now Now what?what?

In ClosingIn Closing• An example of Pastor Bill Hybels from the curriculum Just Walk Across The Room

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Live Your Love Out Loud