From This Day Forward | Stay Pure
Saturday, February 22nd 2020
Purity is both Behavioral and Emotional!
SEEK GOD
FIGHT FAIR
HAVE FUN
STAY PURE
NEVER GIVE UP
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
Purity is both Behavioral and Emotional!
Behavioral Purity: My Actions
Ephesians 5:3 NIV
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity…
Proverbs 5:8 NIV
Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house.
1 Corinthians 6:18 NIV
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
Emotional Purity: My Heart
Psalm 119:9-11 NIV
How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word. I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
Matthew 5:28
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Proverbs 4:23 NIV
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Three Potential Responses To Impurity:
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Defensive – A belief that your actions are on some level acceptable
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Regretful – A feeling of regret that you were caught and now have to deal with the fallout
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Repentant – A deep sorrow for your actions and the pain it causes others
2 Corinthians 7:10 NIV
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.