A Blueprint For Purity

xiv. When you get into that position where you have that choice to sin or to not, tell yourself, “I can’t do this, I have made a covenant with my eyes.” Pray, ask for God’s strength.

xv. If you are a Christian, you don’t have right the right to decide to sin anyway. You gave that up when you were saved. Turn to 1st Corinthians chapter 6 with me, starting in verse 18:

xvi. 18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

xvii. Because we were bought at a price, we are to glorify God in our body and spirit, in other words, we are to seek Him and serve Him wholeheartedly. This brings us to our next point in God’s blueprint for purity, which is found in Psalm 119:10. Turn back there with me if you would.

e. Seeking God Wholeheartedly – 119:10

i. 119:10 With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!

ii. In verse 10, the wise man continues to expound truth to the young man concerning a pure walk with the Lord. What is so vital in this verse, is that it is necessary to seek God with our whole heart.

iii. Listen to the Words of Jesus found in Matthew 6:24: "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. That word mammon can mean riches, but it also can mean the worldly system.

iv. The question I am going to ask each one of you, and this is going to hit you right where you live is “Who are you serving?” If you are serving the Lord, you should be walking in purity. If you are walking in impurity, who are you serving?

v. 1st John, chapter 1, verse 5 and 6 tells us, 5 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

vi. God is calling each one of us in this room to serve Him with a whole heart, and not try and walk the tightrope between the world and His will. You, may ask, how can we know God’s will? The answer is simple - God’s will is revealed to us through His Word.

vii. But, how do we process God’s Word? How do we synthesize it into our lives, so that it can make a difference in our walk? Well, we do it primarily by getting His Word in us, which brings us to our final point concerning God’s blueprint for purity, found in Psalm 119, verse 11. Psalm 119:11 says

f. Hide God’s Word – 119:11

i. 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You!

ii. C. H. Spurgeon summed up verse 11 in one sentence. He said verse 11 tells us about The best thing, in the best place, for the best of purposes.