Sexual Purity Part 1

Pastor Stan

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?

·      Waiting to marriage to have sex

·      Courting- a set structure that leads to marriage instead of pointless dating

·      Refraining from any lustful act or thought that corrupts the body, heart, and mind,

·      Refraining from anything that exploits the body to want to have sex

·      Abstinence-abstaining from anything that leads you down the path of having sex

·      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

·      God’s intent is for us to have sex

·      Sexual purity is set us up for us to have sex

·      God never designed for women and men to not have sex

·      God wants us to abstain up into marriage

·      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?

·      TV (Love and Hip Hop) (Bachelor)

·      Friends (what advice do they give) (peer pressure)

·      Church (what does/does not the church about sex? Does it match what the bible says)

·      Music (What are the lyrics saying about sex? How much do you listen to it?)

·      School (school atmosphere)

·      Books (fifty shades of grey, be careful with what you read)

·      Internet (porn, music videos)

·      Social Media (who do you lurk; follow)

·      The opposite sex (what kind of people influence you)

·      Parents (what do your parents say about sex)

·      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)

·      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.

·      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.