Purity

Why Purity

protecting your heart, mind, emotions

reason to stay pure

not because it’s wrong - its not about avoiding sin

because you are protecting a gift

“Remember the infamous question that most of us learned back in the days of youth group powwow sessions? That’s right. How far is too far? Which is really a code question asking, “How much can I get away with and not make God mad?” Let’s start asking a new question: “How far can I possibly go to bring joy to the heart of my heavenly Father in this area of my life?” 

― Eric Ludy

Oceans & the Beach

You can go to the beach and stare at the ocean, that in some places is 12 miles deep.

Standing at the beach vs swimming in the middle of the ocean.

“Setting good boundaries in dating will rest on recognizing and even appreciating God’s one massive boundary. Any woman who is not your wife is not your wife. Any man who is not your husband is not your husband. “Each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband” (). No almost-husbands, not kind-of-wives, no probably-one- day marriages.”

Sexual Purity

Problem with Pineapples

Christopher Columbus

So Exquisite

Rent a Pineapple

Built into the architecture

We went from exquisite to chunks

Motives Matter

What are your motives for being in that relationship?

ONE NIGHT STAND - The idea of apps that allow you to meet people and “hook up” with them that day has created and is creating a culture that devalues sex.

PERSONAL PLEASURE - your motives are selfish and the relationship wont last anyways

Devalued Club Membership

Sexual intimacy was meant to be an exclusive club - so exclusive that it was meant for only ONE MEMBER

Heart Purity

Water Bottles

Your bodies are temples

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV

19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

1 Cor

We are ambassadors for God - meaning we are representing Him, in EVERYTHING that we do

Bitterness

Ephesians 4:31 ESV

31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

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Colossians 3:2 ESV

2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV

23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Believe in Jesus

John 7:38 ESV

38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ”

Confess Your Sins

1 John 1:9 ESV

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.