PURELATIONSHIPS:  Sexual Purity God's Way

Pure Relationships: Sexual Purity God's Way, Part II from Findlay Evangelical Free Church on Vimeo.

1 Thessalonians 4:1-8

God wants me to have sexual purity and empowers me to attain it.

 I. God _________ me to be sexually ___________.

A.  Paths to sexual purity:

1. _____________ God not myself, v. 1.

2. _____________ not promiscuity, vv. 3-5.

3. __________-control not out of control, v. 4.

See Galatians 5:23

4. ____________ others not dishonoring them, v. 6.

5. _________________ to the Holy Spirit, not resisting Him, v. 6b-8.

See Hebrews 13:4; 1 Peter 1:15-16

II. How to Attain and Maintain Purity: Abstain!

A. Pure __________, Job 31:1; Matthew 5:27-28.

B. Pure __________, Philippians 4:8.

C. Pure __________, Matthew 5:8; Mark 7:20-23.

D. Pure __________.

1. Abstaining from ‘private’ sexual sins:

A. Pornography

B. Masturbation

E. Pure Hope in the cross of Christ!