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*IN SEARCH OF SEXUAL PURITY*
Matthew 5:27-30
INTRODUCTION
America has become a sex crazed Nation
We sell everything with sex.
Popular music is filled with sexual references.
TV is saturated with sexual themes
Our homes and children are under attack!
We are in a crisis of morals and purity!
Ezra 9:6 and prayed: "O my God, I am too ashamed and disgraced to lift up my face to you, my God, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.
Satan is trying to destroy our homes - the very fiber of our society!
God’s plan is still one man for one woman for life!
Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Satan’s Plan
Ø Deny God
Ø Debase Man ( just an animal)
Ø Deny morals
Ø Destroy the home
Ø Dominate society
1A.
A SOLIDLY ESTABLISHED PRECEPT (5:27)
Exodus 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Proverbs 6:32‑33 But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
{33} Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away;
Ø Why does God say adultery is stupid?
Proverbs 5:1
1B.
Dissipation (Proverbs 5:9-10)
Sin is costly!
In fact it will cost you everything!
2B.
Disease (Proverbs 5:11)
AIDS is the consequence of sin.
The answer to the AIDS epidemic - live by this book!!!!!!
3B.
Disappointment (Proverbs 5:12-13)
Proverbs 5:12-13* *And you say, “Oh, if I had listened!
If only I had not demanded my own way! (13) Oh, why wouldn’t I take advice!
Why was I so stupid?”
The Living Bible
Ø “Why did I not listen to the pastor?”
Satan offers high wages but pays in counterfeit money
4B.
Disgrace (Proverbs 5:14)
You can only hid sin so long
Luke 12:2 There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.
5B.
Dominion (Proverbs 5:22)
Immorality enslaves!
1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality.
All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
Many are chained by this sin and they bind them!
6B.
Death (Proverbs 5:23)
Ø Moral death
Ø Spiritual death - heal
1 Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
Ø If you are living this way you are on your way to hell!!
2A.
A SURPRISINGLY INCLUSIVE PRINCIPLE (5:28)
1B.
Includes a Lustful Look
“look” = (blepo) present participle; Refers to a the continuous process of looking.
Ø Might call it staring - gazing!
“lustfully” = indicates a goal or an action that follows in time the action of looking!
Ø Intentional looking with the purpose of lusting!
2B.
Indicates an Adulterous Heart
“It is not lustful looking that causes the sin in the heart, but the sin in the heart that causes lustful looking.”
MacArthur
David and Bathsheba (2 Sam 11:1-4)
“Sow a thought and reap an act.
Sow an act and reap a habit.
Sow a habit and rap a character.
Sow a character and reap a destiny.”
3A.
A SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE PRESCRIPTION (29-30)
How To Develop A Clean Thought Life
Psalm 119:9-16
1B.
Confess your sin seek God’s cleansing (Psalm 119:9)
“way” = A muddy rut, a dirty rut in your mind
You can be clean!
Ø By God’s Word!!
John 15:3* *Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Ø Jesus will make you clean by His Word!
1 John 1:9
2B.
Affirm Your Purpose to Stay Clean (Psalm 119:10)
Half-hearted religion does no good!
Ø It must be with all your heart
James 1:8 he is a double‑minded man, unstable in all he does.
Deuteronomy 4:29* *But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Job 31:1* *"I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.
3B.
Apply Your Protection to Keep Clean (119:9a)
Memorize the Word of God (Psalm 119:11)
Personalize the Word of God (Psalm 119:12)
Verbalize the Word of God (Psalm 119:13)
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