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“The Power of Purity”

Text: 1 Corinthians 6:18-19, 2 Corinthians 7: 1, Matthew 5:8

Introduction: Sinking of the Titanic: (Sank because of weak metal, admixture)

We have gone through a lot of cleansing and refining.

In this session you will discover a powerful principle of How to live and maintain victorious life in a world that has been so polluted by the enemy.

We live in a society that is obsessed and saturated in a sexualized culture, where porn and other practices have become an epidemic.  The enemy has opened and unleashed the sewage of Darkness into this world through social media, internet, our phones to contaminate and infect men and believers with the purpose to render them useless in the Kingdom.

But once you get a revelation of this session, I truly believe you will discover your position in Christ and practically live out a victorious life through the Power of living  a life of Purity.

What is pure?

  1. Pure (2513) (katharos)It means literally physically clean or pure and has the idea of unsoiled (free from dirt), unalloyed, without blemish, spotless, free from impure admixture or free from adulteration.
  2. In this context being “pure in heart” means to have no double allegiance.

What is heart?

  1. Kardia gives us medical terms such as cardiac, cardiovascular, etc. Just as the integrity of our physical heart is vital to our physical life, in a similar and even more important way the integrity of our spiritual heart is vital to our spiritual life
    1. The heart usually is more general referring to the inner person, the center of life, the volitional center of our being.
    2. The heart is the seat and “master control center” of human life. It is the center of your personality, the “real you” who makes the decisions of life. Thus, to be pure in heart is to be pure in the center of your life.
  2. Our is deceitfully wicked
  3. Jesus changes our hearts
    1. Takes out the stony Heart
    2. Puts in a heart of Flesh
    3. Purity Formula:
      1. Power point example:
    4. Melting Point:
      1. Defined: It is the temperature at which a substance melts or freezes
        1. Solid Ice melts at 32 F O’C
        2. Water freezes at O degrees C and boils at 100 C
        3. Lava, Magma 1600 C
        4. Diamonds around 3550 C
      2. The more impurities the lower the melting point.
        1. Impurities affects the melting point

Read I Corinthians 6:18–19

  1. Define Sexual Immorality
    1. Definition:
      1. (porneia [word study] from porneuo = to commit fornication, to play the harlot <> from pornos= a male prostitute) originally referred to any excessive behavior or lack of restraint, but eventually became associated with sexual excess and indulgence, of every kind of extramarital, unlawful, or unnatural sexual intercourse.
      2. Our English word pornography is derived from porneia + graph = a writing and thus pornography (or colloquially “porn”) is thus a writing (or picture) about sexual sin.
    2. One flesh:
      1. The term “one flesh” means that just as our bodies are one whole entity and cannot be divided into pieces and still be a whole, so God intended it to be with the marriage relationship.
      2. As far as emotional attachments are concerned
        1. the new unit takes precedence over all previous and future relationships (Genesis 2:24).
        2. Emotionally, spiritually, intellectually, financially, and in every other way, the couple is to become one
        3. Covenant:

We want to focus on three men: Samson, David and Joseph

  1. Samson was a Nazirite: (He Rebelled against God)
    1. is from the Hebrew term nazir, meaning “to consecrate” and is derived from the Hebrew root nazar, meaning “to separate”.
    2. Samson was chosen by God to be a “judge” in Israel.
      1. He also blessed Samson with superhuman strength, and enabled him to do things that no one could do apart from a special work of God.
      2. He gave Samson godly parents to train him for this important task
      3. He instructed Samson to take the Nazarite vow, where he would never:
        1. 1) cut his hair
        2. 2) drink wine
        3. 3) touch a dead carcass…
      4. God wanted him to be a man who was passionate about living for Him in a day when the hearts of God’s people had gone cold
    3. In Judges 16, Samson met a woman named Delilah
      1. Samson’s problem was he wasn’t a careful man / a thoughtful man / he certainly wasn’t a cautious man…
      2. He was a blind man….he was an oblivious to what was going on around him.
    4. Process of temptation was continual:
      1. In verse 16 — the Bible says — “she pressed him daily with her words.”
      2. Largest Sexual organ in your Body
        1. Brain and Eyes
    5. He Was (also) Blind To The Condition of His Own Heart
      1. Samson’s approach was — as long as I keep a few outwards standards, everything between me and God is OK.
      2. Samson never learned that his hair was not the point. – some other outward manifestation was not the primary issue
      3. His hair was simply a outward demonstration of what was supposed to be true in his heart… That was — that he was separated unto God in his heart.

Commit to a lifestyle of purity (David)

(David Resorted his Relationship with God)

  1. Go organic:
    1. No one wants to eat stuff that’s been sprayed with pesticides or pumped full of steroids and preservatives.
    2. Why?
      1. Because the extra stuff contaminates our bodies and makes us sick. When we eat food that man has messed with, we keep our bodies from functioning as God intended.
    3. The same principle applies to our hearts
      1. When we feed our hearts whatever the world dishes out, we are at risk of spiritual disease.
      2. But when we focus our hearts on God’s Word and worship God with our thoughts and actions, He will keep our hearts pure and healthy. Only then will our hearts be capable of doing what they were meant to do—help us see God.
  2. We need to Guard our Hearts
    1. Proverbs 4:23
      1. Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
      2. Guard means
        1. Military guard at the gate
      3. Gandalf
        1. Frodo offers the ring to him
    2. How does a man keep himself pure: Psalm 119:9-11
      1. How can a young man keep his way pure?
        By guarding it according to your word.
        10 With my whole heart I seek you;
        let me not wander from your commandments!
        11 I have stored up your word in my heart,
        that I might not sin against you.

Joseph keep his safe righteous

  1. Be aware of situations where you’re vulnerable.
    1. Satan hits you with temptation when you’re most vulnerable.
    2. Be aware of how temptation works.
      1. the stage is set: A needy woman and a vulnerable man who is also a servant of God.
        1. Satan won’t leave that situation alone
      2. there is flattery and surprise
        1. direct approach: “Lie with me”
      3. next stage was her persistence: “…
        1. …she spoke to Joseph day after day (39:10). She tried to get him to reconsider, to wear him down by sheer repetition 
      4. last step was her sudden ambush
        1. where Joseph had to give in or flee.
        2. She waited until he was alone in the house.
  2. Make a commitment to purity and develop a strategy before the temptation hits.
    1. MAKE A COMMITMENT TO INTEGRITY IN ALL OF LIFE.
    2. MAKE AN UP-FRONT COMMITMENT TO INNER PURITY.
    3. FOCUS ON YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES, NOT YOUR NEEDS.
    4. CONSCIOUSLY LIVE IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
    5. CALL SIN SIN.
    6. AVOID THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE TEMPTED.
    7. FLEE WHEN YOU NEED TO.
      1. Flee (escape) (5343) (pheugo) means to flee away in the sense of to take to flight in order to seek safety. To flee in the sense of to escape something, being made safe from danger by eluding or avoiding it (He 11:34–note, Mt 3:7, Acts 27:30).
        1. F — Fill yourself with Christ
        2. L — Lock out the lies
        3. E — Exchange lies for truth
        4. E — Expose yourself to the light

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