Quiet Time Notes
Notes from my daily Quiet Times with GodFollowup: Purity (part I)
September 12th, 2011Previous | Next
Our society exalts sexual immorality, and it’s raging out of control. Teenagers have hormones that are newly active and they can let them rage out of control. Singles are looking for love in all the wrong places. Marriages are ending in divorce more now than ever before even though more people claim to be Christians. God has made it clear that he wants us all to let the natural sexual desires remain dormant until they can be expressed within the marriage relationship.
In the Bible the term “purity” is most often referring to sexual purity, but it also is used to refer to being free from contamination by worldliness in general. Contaminated water is undrinkable, just as a contaminated heart is unacceptable to God.
Question: Have you ever had food poisoning? What happens?
- Since the food is contaminated and poisonous, the body does everything possible to flush the poison out. If the poison is not removed the person could die
- Being contaminated and poisoned by the world will damage your soul.
- Impurity is not just physically but it can also be emotionally.
- Often Satan tries to create an emotional connection in order to slowly pull you away from God’s standard.
- What does the Bible call for us to do in order to stay pure?
- When are you most tempted to be impure?
- Is there anyone that Satan is trying to use to lead you into impurity (physically or emotionally)?
Key Phrase: Purity is being free from contamination by worldliness
