Maximum Purity = Maximum Intimacy
What do you think of when I say, Intimate?
I’m talking about closeness. It is an absence of barriers or walls in a relationship. When you have impurity in your life, it breeds shame, we don’t want people to get too close when we have something that we don’t want them to know about.
The level of purity that you have in your life will determine the closeness that you will have with others.
As promised, tonight we will be talking about our thought lives…
We are mainly influenced by 3 things: Ourselves (Our own capacity to do wrong), The World (society, culture, etc.), and Satan.
Our focus is on establishing and maintaining godly moral boundaries, even in what we think about. So, how do we set limits to the things that we think about? Is that even possible? If so, then how? (Change – Environment, Heart, Mind, Life)
Maximum purity = Maximum Intimacy (How committed to purity are you?)
Scripture Guide:
Philippians 4:8
…Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let you mind dwell on these things.
Psalm 119:9-10
How shall a young man keep his way pure? By living according to Your word. I seek You with all of my heart do not let me stray from Your commands.
Matthew 15:17-20
Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is eliminated?
But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual impurity, thefts, lies, slanders.
These are the things that defile the man.
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