ECYC 2013: Something Better

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Eastern Canada Youth Conference

Christian Purity

Krystal Williams

Experiencing Biblical Purity: Practical Tips Regarding Sexuality

Defining Biblical Purity: God’s Better Plan

Daniel Cho

Manhood and Womanhood

Alright, in our last session, for those of you that were there, we covered a few different aspects regarding sexual purity and what God's plan or standard is for us, and what His better plan is for us.

In Ephesians chapter 5, verse 3, we read a text that says, let not sexual immorality be named even once among you.

And of course, as Christians in this room, we find that incredibly easy, right?

While researching for this topic, I came across this quotation.

And it says, there is 1 area, sorry, there is 1 area in life where it feels like Satan is winning the battle, it's in the area of sex.

If there is 1 area where our bodies are screaming out for us to disobey God, it's in the area of sex.

So like we mentioned in the last seminar, we find ourselves in a sensual world where our bodies are wanting that which is contrary to what God has planned for us.

The natural human nature that we have been given by God.

We said that sexual desire is given by God, that it's heaven ordained, right?

It's not wrong, it's not evil, but patience and self-control needs to be exercised over those passions and over those desires.

We mentioned that sexual purity involves more than just abstinence from sexual intercourse.

Sexual purity is a lifestyle, transcending to every area of my life.

My emotions, my mental state of being, my social interactions, my spiritual growth.

Sexual purity involves all of those different areas of my life.

And once we came to the end of the presentation, we said, is there any hope?

And we recall the promises of God, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling.

We can have victory in our sexual temptations in our life through the power of God.

So we're going to go through some tips as to how to maintain sexual purity.

And before we actually even get into those, I'm going to set a certain foundation to start with.

We need God if we're ever going to have victory or sexual rights.

God's help is unquestionably needed, and we need to keep our focus on Christ.

Those of you that were there last night for walking on water, I appreciate what was shared, that we can start off great, but if we keep our eyes, or if we take our eyes off Christ, we're going to sink.

We can have victory in our lives, and maybe in our sexual purity for a time, but if we take our eyes off Christ, we're going to sink.

We have victory in our lives, maybe in our sexual purity for a time, but if we take our eyes off Christ, we're going to sink, we're going to fall.

And Satan well knows that sexuality is an area of weakness in humanity.

Satan well knows that we are not fighting, or we should well know that we're not fighting just against what Paul says, flesh and blood, but against supernatural powers that are seeking our destruction, seeking our downfall.

So a foundational starting point is that we cannot fight the battle of ourselves.

And maybe there are some of you who are struggling in this room with various types of sexual sin in your life, and you have come through cycles of seeing the sin repeated in your life more than once, over and over.

You find yourself falling back into the same habit, and you wonder if you're ever going to break the cycle.

Maybe there are people here that are struggling with pornography.

Maybe there are people struggling with any other type of sexual sin that we mentioned in our last seminar, or whatever the case may be.

We find ourselves falling into habits and hard to rise above them at times.

And for those of you who may not feel that you're struggling with that area, you need God to maintain sexual purity.

So whether it's obtaining it or maintaining it, We need God, period, that's the foundation.

We can look at areas of, or we can think ourselves okay in this area.

1 Corinthians 10 verse 12 reminds us, let him who thinks he stands, take he, lest he fall.

Because if we think of ourselves spiritually proud in some way that we can do this on our own, I think we'll find ourselves flat on our face soon enough.

This is something that David understood, that David adopted after his own fall and sexual sin.

Psalm 51 is his prayer of repentance after his sin with Bathsheba, as we know.

So Psalm chapter 51, here we read David's crying to God for a new heart.

And that's the point I'm gonna address here right now.

We need God to give us a heart transplant.

He says, Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your lovingkindness, according to the multitude of your tender mercies, the blood of my transgression, wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.

David acknowledged in verse 4 coming up against you and you only have I sinned and done this evil in your sight.

No, he killed someone, murdered, he arrived for the death because of his sin.

But he acknowledged that God was the primary 1 that he was sinning against.

And we mentioned this is exactly the same attitude that Joseph had, right?

How can I sin and do this great wickedness and sin against God?

David acknowledged that he needed a heart transplant, but ultimately he was sinning against God in whatever he was struggling with.

As he continues here, let's take a look at verse 6.

He says, you desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part, you will make no wisdom.

We talked as well in the last session that sexual purity is not just an issue of externals, but an issue of internals.

If I have a mind and a heart that is pure before God, then my behavior will naturally follow suit, right?

And David acknowledges here before God, You desire truth on the inward parts.

You desire purity in my heart and my mind, and therefore I will act in a pure way.

In 2 Christ's Speech 23, Ellen White says these words, repentance includes sorrow for sin and a turning away from it.

But she says, we will not renounce sin unless we see its sinfulness.

Unless we see that sin is actually bad, We're going to keep doing it.

Unless we see that it has an effect on our lives, it has an effect on our relationships, it has an effect on our future, we're going to keep doing it.

Then she says, until we turn away from it in heart, there will be no real change in the life.

Unless I have a heart transplant, I'm going to keep doing the same cycle.

I'm going to fall into the same habits unless I have new desires coming to me from above.

David continues in verse 7, he says, purge me with this off and I will be clean.

Wash me and I will be white as a snow, white as a snow.

Continuing on, he says in verse 10, create in me a clean heart of God.

Create in me a clean heart of God and renew a bright spirit within me.

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Christian Purity

Experiencing Biblical Purity: Practical Tips Regarding Sexuality

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