Living to Please God: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
Theological meditation on living to please God
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As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living.
As for other matters. The letter transitioned. From past events to present living. From thanksgiving to instruction.
We instructed you. When Paul was there. How to live. The Christian life had shape, direction, content. In order to please God. The goal of ethics: God's pleasure.
As in fact you are living. They were already doing it. The instruction wasn't rebuke but reinforcement.
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