Purity
Here’s your chance to help write the messages at Central each week as we employ open source sermon prep. In a little over a week, we’ll be continuing in our series, Famous Lost Words, and we’ll be teaching on “purity.”
So if you can take a moment, please leave a comment with any ideas you come up with concerning movie clips, quotes, scriptures, illustrations, stories, etc. for the topic of purity. The sky is the limit, so think creatively and share some of your genius.
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This is the personal blog of Jeremy Jernigan. Husband, father, teaching pastor, and student of truth.
This is the personal blog of Jeremy Jernigan. Husband, father, teaching pastor, and student of truth.
Interesting concept Jeremy! Have you had much response yet?
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Well, there are a couple verses that I like.
First, Proverbs 20:9 “Who can say ‘I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin’?”
I like this a lot because no one is without sin or perfect connecting to the message of loyalty. Going off of last weeks message, it is a commitment we make to keep trying to be pure in our thoughts and actions. I feel like most people associate this word to sexuality when it is so much more than just that one area. It is bigger than not seeing rated R movies or sex before marriage. It should be a fire down deep and it should help you figure out what it means to be a “lover of God”.
Psalms 119:9 “How can a young man keep his ways pure? By living according to your word.”
It is possible to follow God in this way.
Connecting back to your message two weeks about cleaning the outside of a dish but not the inside is Matthew 23:24 “You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.”
Basically, they are more consumed with appearing pure and clean than actually being pure on the inside.
On a side note, I think it does need to be clarified what purity is and is not. I know you have been giving us these points and I hope that continues. I do not think it is being naive, which I feel like it is connected to quite a bit.
Hi Jeremy.
I was not born into a Christian Family and did not receive Jesus until later in life. My question relates to young men and their quest for a meaningful relationship with the opposite sex. I understand the need to be pure in our thoughts and actions, however, I think young men are very different than young women when it comes to interacting with the opposite sex. It has always been my thinking that a young lady wants to believe that her “suiter” would chase her to the ends of the earth and that he only has “eyes for her”. I see many young men interacting socially at Central but they appear, in my impression, that they are waiting for the young lady to “make the first move” or that they are indifferent to the idea of initiating a close relationship. In some cases a young couple will know from the onset that they are meant for each other. I think this is very rare. This now leads to my question for a topic of discussion. I ask this because I doubt that anyone really talks to young men about it. What is a young man to do when he is really interested in getting to know a young lady more intimately? I am asking this in terms of the courtship not sexually. I think being pure is essential for both, however, I think that being honest and open with someone you really care to be with is a very difficult part of any courtship. Your sermon on integrity is in point. How do you communicate your desire for someone special in your life in a genuine endearing manner? AND if rejected, what do you do?
I have tried to put my thoughts in writting and pray that it will be received in the manner intended.
God Bless.
Leonard