0101 Purity Matters (part II - Physical Purity)

Matthew 18:6 “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”

Song of Solomon 2:7 “...do not stir up nor awaken love until it pleases.”

What bait you put on the hook will determine what fish you will catch!

It’s okay to find somebody attractive, but it’s not okay to be attached to that person!

Satan doesn’t care if you “FLIRT with God.” But God cares desperately if you “flirt with the DEVIL!

PROVERBS 6:20-35; 7:1-27

Obey your father and your mother (verse 20-21)

You are excused from obeying them when what they say is not in line with what God says

We ought to honor our parents not just obey them (Matthew 15:4)

God’s commandments will lead, keep, speak to you when they captivate you (verse 21-22)

Your Word I have hid in my heart that I may not sin against You (Psalm 119:11)

Commandment of God is a light that reveals, it doesn’t creates dust

Commandment of God is for you safety not God’s pleasure

Reproofs of instructions are the way of life (verse 23)

Pride will condemn you when humility will rescue you from danger

We don’t like anyone to listen to anyone but sure want everyone to listen to us

Go to the army with the same attitude you are coming to God and see you will be victorious

Do not lust after beauty in your heart (verse 25)

She captures you with her eyes (verse 25)

Poverty is inescapable when you are hooked on her (verse 26)

She will snare you as with hook your own precious life (verse 26)

Can a man take fire in to his chest and not be burned? (verse 27)

Can a man walk on the hot coals and his feet not be seared? (verse 27)

You will be burned and seared when you go into your neighbors wife (verse 29)

Do you know that you are dating someone’s wife?

Do you know that you are abusing God’s property?

Whoever touches her shall not be innocent but guilty (verse 29)

You will be guilty before God

Taking advantage of the person of opposite gender is the act of thief (verse 30-35)

Thief is starving and takes what he doesn’t owns

Thieves cannot enter the Kingdom of God

Thieves cannot ever escape punishment of paying seventies fold

Thief destroys his own soul

Wounds, dishonor and unforgettable shame they will get (verse 33)

Man walked in a wrong place at the wrong time (verse 8-9)

She was loud and rebellious, crafty heart, shameless, cheap, unfaithful and never at her home (verse 11)

Illustration:

Ox to the slaughter (verse 22)

Lamb to the bonds, till an arrow struck the liver (verse 22-23)

Bird flying to the snare, not knowing that end is waiting for him there (verse 23)

Fish enjoying the present pleasure of a bait, but the price is of it death

Don’t let your desires get out of your hand; don’t let yourself think about her; don’t go near her; stay way from where she walks, lest he tempts you and seduce you (verse 25)

She has cast down many wounded (verse 26)

Many of her victims were strong man (verse 26)

If you want to find a road to hell, look for her house (verse 27)

Pitfalls of Dating

Dating is having a romantic interest in a person of the opposite gender and cultivating that interest through thoughts, looks, notes, talks, and events.

Dating a lot of people is healthy and prepares you for marriage

In order to date many people you ought to brake up with many people The more you brake up the easier it gets We are preparing ourselves for divorce not marriage by dating for create habit of braking up

Dating helps us to get to know the other person

Dating is the time when you will know nothing about the real person you dating By the time he/she gets real with you, you have already become attached

Dating relationships mostly built on nothing more than physical attraction and they mistake that for love

Love is value Physical attractions should not be our foundation for marriage, for it’s subject to change

Dating promotes “romance” not “genuine love”

Romance – extravagant stories, usually a tale of love or war, subjects interesting in sensibilities of the heart, or the passions of wonder and curiosity The word “romance” doesn’t appear in the Bible, when the word “love” does more than 500 times You know you love somebody, when meeting THEIR need is more important than meeting your won need

Dating distracts us from pursuing the Lord

The first commandment: Thou shall have no other “gods” before Me

Dating creates jealousy and division in the ministry

Dating creates intimacy without commitment

Affections should always follow the commitment, not commitment affections Teens want to enjoy the emotional and physical benefits of an intimate relationship without the responsibility of a life-long commitment If you love to ride BMW you ought to be ready to pay the bills for it as well

Dating often jumps over the foundations of friendship

Romance will come and go, but friendships are forever Relationships that are build upon physical attractions and intimate feelings will last only as long as the feelings last, but friendship grow stronger with time

Dating isolates couples from important relationships

Dating couples concentrate selfishly on each other at the expense of all other relationship Relationship with Church Relationship with Family Relationship with best Friends Relationship with God

Dating causes discontentment with God’s gift of singleness

Teenage years are given to you by God for a purpose, you will never ever have them again No filly on your arms will make you happy, happiness is your choice

Dating distracts from preparing properly for their future

Instead of developing gift, ability, character and education teens concentrate on present need of romantic intimacy Teenage years are “tithe” years

7 years you are teenager 70 years we live on this earth (Ps.90:10) The rest of your life is determined by decisions you are making now Teenage years are “seed” years

85% of people that ever get saved they do it by time they are 18 Marriage decision is made during our teenage years We chose our vocation in our teenage years How would you prepare for an exam that will determine your high school diploma?

African leader set rules and laws in his camp. His brother broke those rules and laws. The punishment is 100 lashes. God said that: 1. No other God before Him; 2. No craven images of God (create God that fits us); 3. Not to take His name in vain (instead of using filthy word we reduce the Name of the Most High to the level of the filthy word) 4. Keep Sabbath (having a day where the whole day is centered on God alone) 5. Honor your parents (not just obey them) 6. Do no kill (Jesus said who ever hates his brother without cause is guilty of hell) 7. Do not commit adultery (looking at opposite gender with lust). 8. Do not steal (even small thing; take what is not yours) 9. Do not witness falsely (one lie is enough to make you a liar) 10. Do not covet (to be materialistically greed driven).

We are His precious ones have broken all of them. The punishment awaits us in future. The very fact that Jesus was punished for our sins is the proof that God will punish our sin without any mercy. A victim was scourged and stripped and tied to a whipping post. Then he was beaten mercilessly with a whip consisting of several leather strings, each loaded with jagged pieces of metal or bone and weighted at the end with lead. Parts of the body would be torn from Jesus, most of the victims didn’t survive this ordeal. You can accent the paid fine paid by Jesus or pay it by self later in eternity.

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