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Sep 23, 2013 · It is linked to the welfare of your whole person. Having sex outside of marriage is self-destructive in every sense. Sexual purity is always for the best—not only for God and others, but for you. 13. God would not tell you to abstain from impurity if it was impossible to obey him.
- Pursuing Sexual Purity in Your Marriage
Anticipate, and then act to prevent, avoid and resist sexual...
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12. Be accountable to someone about your physical...
- Pursuing Sexual Purity in Your Marriage
Jun 21, 2010 · Anticipate, and then act to prevent, avoid and resist sexual temptation. 13. Be quick to confess and repent when you have engaged in mental impurity. Beware of cloudy thinking and rationalization! 14. When your sex drive is activated, mentally transfer it to your spouse. 15. Take time to cultivate your inner life.
Sep 6, 2024 · Purity isn’t the same as virginity. You can reclaim purity and live with sexual integrity, no matter your past. The goal is to have a heart that is pure before God, and that’s something we should all strive for, whether we’re single or married. So, young men of God, take this seriously.
- Part One: What You Need to Know
- Part Two: What You Need to Do
- Final Thoughts
1. Sex is good. God created it, God called it “good,” and it existed before there was any sin in the world.
Sex was not created by Satan, Playboy, Hollywood, HBO, rock musicians or the Internet. Sex was created by the holy God of heaven, where purity reigns. God made sex physically desirable by creating us with sex drives, without which sex wouldn’t exist and neither would people. God’s Word speaks openly of the pleasure of sex within the marriage relationship (Proverbs 5:18,19; Song of Solomon 4:5; 7:1, 6-9). We shouldn’t be ashamed to talk about what God wasn’t ashamed to create. However, God req...
2. Like all good gifts from God, sex can be misused and perverted.
Water is a gift of God, without which we couldn’t survive. But floods and tidal waves are water out of control, and the effects are devastating. Fire is an energy-producing gift of God that gives warmth and allows us to cook. But a forest fire or a house burning to the ground or a person engulfed in flames is fire out of control-it is horrible and frightening. Water and fire are good things which, when they occur outside their God-intended boundaries, become bad. Likewise, God designed sex to...
3. The boundaries of sex are the boundaries of marriage.
Sex and marriage go together. Sexual union is intended as an expression of a lifelong commitment, a symbol of the spiritual union that exists only within the unconditional commitment of marriage. Apart from marriage, the lasting commitment is absent and the sex act becomes a false expression, a lie. Every act of sex outside of marriage cheapens both sex and marriage. Sex is a privilege inseparable from the responsibilities of the sacred marriage covenant. To exercise the privilege apart from...
1. Realize you don’t have to date.
Much sexual temptation today is created by our social practice of coupling and isolating young people instead of doing what the Hebrew culture and many others have done—requiring that single people spend time together only in a context supervised by parents and other adults. This structure of direct parental involvement and carefully overseen courtship has been the normal social structure; it is ours that is abnormal. In our culture, the unprecedented combination of young people’s leisure tim...
2. If you’re a Christian, only date Christians.
Dating is the path to marriage. You will not marry every person you date. But the person you marry will be someone you dated. Therefore every date is a potential mate. There is no such thing as “just dating”—you don’t “just” bungee jump from a helicopter, or “just” fight on the front lines of a battle and you don’t “just” date. It’s too important to say “just.” Too much is at stake. God says “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers . . . what fellowship can light have with darkness?” (2 Cor...
3. If you’re a committed disciple, only date committed disciples.
It is necessary to date only Christians, but it is not sufficient. Many Christians lack moral fiber, convictions, maturity, and discipline. Just because a person is a Christian doesn’t make him or her morally safe or a worthy partner. Let’s face it—some Christians are still jerks, and a Christian jerk is still a jerk. Don’t expect perfection in the person you date. But do expect character and godliness. Don’t date someone with spiritual problems or character deficiencies that would cause you...
Are you ready to commit or recommit yourself to a life of sexual purity? Now is the time. Nothing is more fleeting than the moment of conviction. Respond now, or you may never respond. Don’t deny reality. God made a universe in which righteousness is always rewarded in the long run, and unrighteousness is always punished in the long run. What’s rig...
Sep 24, 2016 · Sexual purity is ordained of God; learning the doctrine can help us understand why. With the world’s changing views of marriage and sex, it can be easy to lose sight of why chastity is so important—and why keeping sexual intimacy within marriage between a man and a woman is part of God’s eternal plan. In his talk “Personal Purity ...
Sexual purity brings greater joy and intimacy in marriage and helps men and women to become as God. Richard O. Cowan was already an institution when I joined the faculty of Religious Education at BYU. Because we were in different departments, we did not work on a lot of the college’s projects together. There were, however, times I needed ...
Dec 3, 2020 · The Sexual Purity Movement. Sean McDowell, Scott Rae — December 03, 2020. What should a biblical sexual purity message look like for today? In this episode, Scott interviews Sean about his latest book: Chasing Love: Sex, Love, and Relationships In A Confused World.
