Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, April 21st.

Today's message marks the beginning of a series designed to encourage Christian growth

by exploring key aspects of godly living.

This series, helps to holiness, starts by emphasizing the vital role of quietness in our spiritual journey.

Would you turn, please, the First Thessalonians, Chapter 4, and I want us to read the first

12 verses of that chapter.

First Thessalonians, Chapter 4, verses 1 through 12.

Now, this morning, I'm going to begin a little series on helps to holiness. And I think

one of the first ones is our inability for or our lack of quietness in our life. So let's begin

in chapter 4, verse 1. Furthermore, then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

For we know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain

from fornication, that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification

and honor, not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God,

that no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter,

because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified,

for God hath not called us unto uncleanness but unto holiness. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man,

but God who hath also given unto us His holy spirit.

But as touching brotherly love, you need not that I write unto you, for you yourselves are taught

of God to love one another, and indeed you do it toward all the brethren,

which are in all Macedonia, but we beseech you, brethren, that you increase more and more.

Now, verses 11 and 12 are the two primary ones I want to deal with this morning.

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