Keep Yourself Pure
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Introduction:
1 Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.
2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.
7 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.
8 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Pray.
1. God Calls Us to Live Holy Lives (vv.1-3)
1. God Calls Us to Live Holy Lives (vv.1-3)
2. God Commands Us to Be Sexually Pure (vv.3-7)
2. God Commands Us to Be Sexually Pure (vv.3-7)
-In order to be sanctified we must be self- controlled. Sexual purity is probably one of the areas where man struggles the most in obeying God. We get animalistic about our passions and lusts and tend to disregard what we know in our head and follow what the body desires instead.
Paul said Romans 7:21-25
21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
We are called to bring our body under control and use it for holiness and honor
We are called to love our brother by not violating the sanctity of marriage
If you fornicate (sex before or outside of marriage) you are harming someone by violating their future or current spouse
God takes sexual sin so seriously that the Bible says that He is an avenger against those who violate God’s law in this area
We can throw into this category sexual sins of the mind as well as the body because of what Jesus said in Matthew,
27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’
28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
Notice the extremity that Jesus says we are to go to in order to prevent sexual sin. Now, this is hyperbolic, meaning that it is an extreme exaggeration to get the point across, but it still is important to understand the seriousness of these commads.
3. God Gives Us His Spirit to Obey (v.8)
3. God Gives Us His Spirit to Obey (v.8)
How is it possible for us to keep the commands with such a carnal spirit at work in our flesh?
We must rely upon the Word and the Spirit.
Paul challenged the believers that would consider this to be an opinion and said that they were disregarding God himself and not just Paul
Paul also reminds them that God has given them the Holy Spirit.
Most of us relegate the Holy Spirit to a force and not a Person of the Godhead. We don’t pray to Him for help. We don’t think about how our sin grieves Him. We don’t rely upon Him, and it is to our shame.