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Sexual Purity (Part
1)
Tonight we receive a powerful word from the Lord from Pastor
Stan about sexual purity. We first in our grand discussion we must consider the
various definitions we receive from society about what sexual purity is and
what is our own personal opinions. Look at the definitions below and see which
one is closet to your definition or come up with one of your own.
Sexual purity
definition?
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Waiting to marriage to have sex
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Courting- a set structure that leads to marriage
instead of pointless dating
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Refraining from any lustful act or thought that
corrupts the body, heart, and mind,
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Refraining from anything that exploits the body
to want to have sex
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Abstinence-abstaining from anything that leads
you down the path of having sex
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Abstaining from sexual immorality not just in
act, but also in thought
Afterwards Pastor Stan gives us his definition of sexual
purity.
Sexual purity is having sexual intercourse with only your husband or
wife.
Do you realize the difference?
So
many times in life we learn about what sex is from our friends, and family, we
learn what we cannot do with sex and how fornication is a sin. However we never
discuss about what sexual purity is and how to learn and understand what
something is we cannot only examine what it is not.
Christianity is not all about
having rules. It is not about living our lives inside a box God intended for us
to have freedom and to not be bounded by the rules of the law. For the world
sees us as having these rules and regulations as a negative but God gives us
these rules as a positive, because it is for our protection. As members of the
body of Christ we must have a balance of rules and freedom.
God’s plan/purposes for sex
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God’s intent is for us to have sex
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Sexual purity is set us up for us to have sex
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God never designed for women and men to not have
sex
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God wants us to abstain up into marriage
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Abstinence is the first step moving us towards
sexual intercourse
This is the original plan for sex. The plan
where sex was to give us pleasure and the overall purpose was for God to get
the glory. Birthing children, multiplies the many mouths and hands giving God
glory. Sexual purity is not about being the holiest of saints, it is not about
being lame, its about using your body as an instrument for another form of
worship.
Sadly as sinned entered our world it
misconstrued the definition of sexual purity. Sexual death has become a disease
in our society. As Satan develops counterfeits or imitations of love that
hinders us from knowing the love of Christ. Additionally he has created devices
or barriers impacting our sexual purity, impacting our views about sex, and our
relationships with the opposite sex.
What hinders/impacts people’s sexual purity?
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TV (Love and Hip Hop) (Bachelor)
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Friends (what advice do they give) (peer
pressure)
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Church (what does/does not the church about sex?
Does it match what the bible says)
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Music (What are the lyrics saying about sex? How
much do you listen to it?)
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School (school atmosphere)
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Books (fifty shades of grey, be careful with
what you read)
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Internet (porn, music videos)
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Social Media (who do you lurk; follow)
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The opposite sex (what kind of people influence
you)
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Parents (what do your parents say about sex)
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Dressà
In pornography what gets people attention is the design or the fact that there
is no clothes or full frontal nudity. The way we dress sends a message.
Pornography is only popular out the world because they are open and bare in
society. The way we dress, our appearance sends a message about who we are as
an individual. The message always starts before we open our mouth.
Let's Read What the Bible Says About SEXual Purity
1 Corinthians 7:1-3
New King James Version (NKJV)
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Principles
of Marriage
7 Now
concerning the things of which you wrote to me:
It
is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless,
because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman
have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to his wife the
affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
In the church of Corinthian a
church where everything was wrong with them. Paul is now addressing the sexual
immorality in the church and how we as Christians must act. Paul knows human
nature and what causes our emotions to boil and arise. Being sexual and having
sexual feelings is normal and that is how God created us. But we must
understand what affects us is our perception: What we think depends upon what we see. Telling the people of
Corinthian to marry is for their safety because we are all guilty of a
wondering eye and God sees our sins taking root in our hearts.
Verse 1-2: The best definition of
sexual purity. Paul teaches us the foundations to have sex, let every woman have her own husband, because
in society we have individuals where same sex is allowed. The problem is that they
are always in relationship roles there will never be a relationship that is not
indoctrinated into gender roles, no matter what homosexual roles they make,
there will be a male and female role. Notice the key role here is “own” Paul
lays the foundation that sexual intercourse should only occur between a husband
and wife.
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Genesis
1:28
New King James
Version (NKJV)
28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful
and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the
sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the
earth.”
Now God is giving male and female
the ability to replenish the Earth through procreation.
Why are people not
wiling to procreate? Does this generation believe in procreation? No.
People are aiming for one thing
and one thing only: sexual gratification. Sex, sexual acts in deed or thought
is about personal gratification. God does not have a problem with us having
personal gratification. Sex was intentionally created to cause multiplication
and sex is not a me-thing it is a God-thing. You cannot do what we just read and
fulfill God if your aim is to simply please yourself. The value of sex in this
society has brought down the standard and gift God has created for us to enjoy.
People are not willing to procreate because it interferes with their sexual agenda.
College feeds into this sexual
mentality because there is a fear of having a child and not being able to have
a career. College in some ways pushes us to not want to multiply and into this
self-gratification mindset, since we want all this stuff to gratify ourselves.
God has set up a system for us to enjoy sex, so we can reap or produce the
glory or results he determined.
Matthew 15:19
New King James
Version (NKJV)
Christ says, 19 For out of
the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts,
false witness, blasphemies.
In order for us to
have sexual purity we must have our hearts right first. It starts in what we
allow our hearts to be growing in, and developed in.
Because everything starts with the heart.
Proverbs 4:23
New International
Version (NIV) 23
Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
