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Warren Wiersbe - Walking in Purity - 11 of 20 | Back to the Bible | YouTubeToText
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This sermon emphasizes the importance of personal purity, particularly sexual purity, for Christians, arguing that God, oneself, the world, and fellow believers all care about maintaining a clean life.
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welcome to back to the Bible Radio
featuring best-selling author and
internationally known Bible teacher Warren
Warren
weby ask me if I care have you ever
heard that statement sometimes young
people use it children use it ask me if
I care well it's a statement that can
hurt they want us to know how really
unconcerned they are just ask me if I care
care
well this is a good question for us as
Christians today who really cares
whether or not we live a clean life you
see the philosophy today is in the world
that you can live your own life it's
your body you can do what you want to
with your own body and after all if
other people are doing these things why
shouldn't we in first Thessalonians
chapter 4 Paul starts his admonition
Paul begins his application of the word
of God and he has been telling the the
people in thessalonica how he had helped
found the church and how he had nurtured
the church and established the church in
the faith now he tells the church how to
walk you see in chapter one the church
was born in Chapter 2 the church was
nurtured in chapter three the church was
taught how to stand and then the next
step for the baby is you learn how to
walk it's always interesting when your
children phone you and say hey the baby
started to walk today well Christians
have to learn how to walk chapter 4 of 1
Thessalonians finally then brethren we
urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that
you should abound more and more just as
you received from us how you ought to
walk and to please God now what kind of
a walk is he talking about well in
verses 1-8 he says walk in
Purity he he's talking about sexual
Purity verse three for this is the will
of God your sanctification that you
should obstain from sexual immorality so
verses 1-8 walk in Purity then verses 9
through 12 Walk In Love Now concerning
Brotherly Love walk in love and then
verses uh 13 413 down through 511 walk
in hope it's a big section in which he
talks about the coming of our Lord he
said I don't want you weeping and
carrying on like the unsaved we live in
hope I want you to walk in Hope then
chapter 5:2 through the end of the
letter the end of the chapter Walk In
Harmony he's talking about how
Christians can get along with each other
in their personal Ministry in the public
services and of course he always
emphasizes the coming of the Lord now
today and tomorrow I want us to look at
chapter 4: 1-8 and deal with this matter
of personal
Purity ask me if I care well you can't
talk that way if you're a Christian who
does care about personal Purity in our
lives well Paul gives four answers to
that question number one he says God
cares notice verse one walk so as to
please God verse two you know what Comm
Commandments we gave you through the
Lord Jesus so God the Father cares and
God the son cares and then in verses 7
and 8 for God did not call us to
uncleanness but in Holiness therefore he
who rejects this does not reject men but
God who has also given us his holy
spirit God the Father cares God the son
cares and God the Holy Spirit cares that
we live a clean Pure Life but somebody
else cares in verses 3 and 4 he says we
ought to
care verse four that each of you should
know how to possess his own vessel his
own body in sanctification and honor you
only have one body you only get one body
immorality destroys now he says if you
have any sense at all you should care
about what you do with your
body in verse 5 he tells us the world
cares cares not in passion of lust like
the Gentiles that is The Outsiders the
unsaved people who do not know God and
verse six tells us other Christians care
I care whether or not people live lives
that are pure or lives that are immoral
it affects me it affects my children it
affects Society it affects the church
verse six that no one should take
advantage of and defraud his brother in
this matter why because the Lord is the
Avenger of all such Paul said I warned
you about that now here are four good
reasons why you and I should live lives
of personal Purity reason number one God
cares let's talk about God the Father
verse one finally then brethren we urge
and exhort in the Lord now that word
urge means we encourage you we want you
to listen to this word of encouragement
and exhortation that you should abound
more and more just as you receive from
us how you ought to walk and to please
God now he's talking here about pleasing
God the Father there are three levels on
which people can live uh Romans chapter
15 talks about this Romans chap 15 veres
1 2 and
3 we then who are strong ought to bear
with the Scruples of the weak and not to
please ourselves now the lowest level on
which to live is to please yourself I
don't care what anybody else says or
does or what they think I'm going to do
what I want to do I'm going to do it my
way that's the lowest level we can live
on verse two of Romans 15 Let each of us
please his neighbor for his good leading
to edification that is being built up
now the second level is living to please
others now we should as Christians seek
to help others but that isn't the
highest level we do that because we want
to please God verse three for even
Christ did not please himself but as it
is written the reproaches of those who
reproach you fell on me the Lord Jesus
said I do always those things that
please him and uh that's the way we
ought to live that was John 8: 29 I do
always those things that please him now
God cares what you do with your body God
has called called us to Holiness his
will is for our good verse three this is
the will of God your
sanctification that you should abstain
from sexual
immorality now I read some of these
modern liberal writers and they tell me
that the Christian approach to sexuality
is strict and stringent and difficult
and that it leads to unhappiness and
restrictions and repressions it creat
creates problems and this is not the
case at all God made our bodies God
Invented Sex God knows how to run it God
knows what it's all about and his will
is for our good God doesn't will
something for us that's wrong this is
the will of God your sanctification that
we should use what he's given to us the
way he wants
to now the Bible is God's instruction
book for life you buy a uh a new
Appliance for your house you read the
instruction book the people who made the
appliance know how to run it well God
gives us his Bible and the Bible is the
instruction book for life and this
includes this matter of
sexuality his will is for our good and
his calling in Grace is for our Holiness
verse 7 for God did not call us to
uncleanness but in Holiness in
sanctification that's why he tells us in
chapter 2: 12 to walk worthy of
God uh he tells us that we should walk
worthy of him to please him now God
didn't have to save me God saved me by
his grace and because he has saved me by
his grace I owe to him the allegiance
and The Obedience of my heart we should
walk worthy of God someone says what's a
very difficult thing to do well this is
why we have the word of God and the
Church of God and the Holy Spirit of God
Paul prays for that them in chapter 5 verse
verse
23 now may the God of Peace himself
sanctify you
completely and may your whole spirit and
soul and body notice that body be
preserved blameless at the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ now the answer to that
is verse 24 he who calls you is faithful
who also will do it The God Who commands
also is The God Who enables us to obey
the command now we ought to get a
mindset immediately that says I want to
please God I'm not going to please
myself I'm not going to use all the
excuses of the world and say you have
only one life to live if you have these
things in your life enjoy them God gave
them to you to enjoy that's right God
gave sexuality to be enjoyed but not
outside of his bounds in the word of God
it's my understanding that God has
ordained marriage as the proper place
for the enjoyment of these wonderful [Music]
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gifts God the Father cares whether or
not we are living clean lives and God
the son cares verse two of 1
Thessalonians 4 for you know what
Commandments we gave you through the
Lord Jesus it's not something new when
Paul was with them he told them you had
better keep your lives clean you see in
the pagan world as in our world today
there was the worshiping of sex in fact
uh sexual immorality was bound right in
with some of their religious practices
this has become almost a religion with
people today uh people have to get
literature that promotes it they have to
watch movies that promote it uh the TV
people want to invade our homes with
this kind of stuff because people want
it and if you protest against it folks
say oh well you're just a Puritan well I
thank God for what the Puritans did for
this country I'm glad that this country
was founded by some God-fearing people
it's too bad we don't have some
God-fearing people today who can do
something about some of these things God
the son commands us to keep our lives
pure the word commandment in verse two
is a military term it's means a an order
handed down from an executive officer
the general tells the sergeant who tells
the buck privates this is what you're
supposed to do now he commands us he has
every right to command us he died for us
the Lord Jesus Christ died for us and
because he died for us he owns us the
Lord Jesus Christ purchased us with his
blood be careful what you do with your
body he not only died for us he lives
for us today and one day he's going to
come for us and he wants to be able to
come and find us in Purity notice
chapter 3: 13 so that he may establish
your hearts blameless in Holiness before
our God and Father at the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ with all his Saints
when the Lord Jesus comes he wants to
find us with Sanctified holy bodies now
we're not going to have our old nature
gone until we see the Lord Jesus Christ
but there's no reason why we have to
live for our old nature 1 John 3:3 and
every man that has this hope in him
purifies himself even as he is pure we
have been given a military order to obey
keep your life clean and so God the
Father cares whether or not we live pure
lives and God the son cares and God the
Holy Spirit cares versus 7 and 8 for God
did not call us to uncleanness but in
Holiness therefore he who rejects this
that is this commandment about purity
does not reject man but God who has also
given us his holy spirit now who was it
who called you it was the Holy Spirit
you wouldn't be saved today were it not
for the Holy Spirit who was it that
wrote the word of God that gave you the
message and the Assurance of Salvation
the holy H
Spirit who is it who indwells you the
Holy Spirit who is it that has made our
bodies the temple of God the Holy Spirit
who is it that wants to sanctify us
completely that is have us totally and
completely set apart for God's use our
body our soul our spirit the holy spirit
of God who is it who has a job for us to
do in this world and wants to empower us
to do that job the holy spirit of God
now the holy spirit of God is greatly
concerned about our Purity I was
thinking of uh Ephesians
4:32 you know these verses so well
Ephesians 4:32 be ye kind one to another
tenderhearted forgiving one another even
as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven
you we should not have evil things in
our Hearts toward one another but how
about evil things in our lives toward
the Holy Spirit Ephesians 4 and: 30 do
not grieve the holy spirit of God by
whom you were sealed for the day of
redemption now how do we do this well he
talks about some of these sins back in
verse 19 of Ephesians 4 they've given
themselves over to
licentiousness to work all uncleanness with
with
greediness verse 22 put off concerning
your former conduct the old man which
grows corrupt according to deceitful
loss throughout the word of God we are
warned about what immorality does in the
Christian life but everybody is doing it
no everybody is not doing it there are
lots of people who want to keep their
lives pure and clean whose marriages are
intact and Paul is warning us here if
you reject this you are annulling the
doct ument namely the word of God and
who are you to anull the word of God you
see if you fight against the word of God
the word of God will fight against you
and you'll come to the place where you
wish you had not done that well we found
out that God cares that we live a holy
life in verses three and four we should
care let's be just selfish for just a
moment now we should care for this is
the will of God your sanctification that
you should abstain
from sexual immorality that each of you
should know how to possess his own
vessel in sanctification and honor do
you ever notice that sin leads to
dishonor oh how many how many of God's
people including God's servants have
Dishonored the Lord and Dishonored the
gospel because they've been playing
around with this the thing called
immorality and we live in a world that
is like a cesspool you you can't walk
into a drugstore you can't stand in line
at a checkout counter in a supermarket
without your mind being exposed to this
filth it has almost become a religion
it's certainly a big business there's no
question about that now we could go on
and on but I'll just stop at this point
and say that you and I need to care
because we only have one body and we
ought to possess this vessel in
sanctification I notice in verse 5 of
first ionians 4 that the world cares How
I Live not in passion of lust like the
Gentiles who do not know God the word
Gentiles there means
unbelievers the world cares the world
expects Christians to be different have
you ever noticed that when a a Christian
gets into immorality the Press gets a
hold of it and has a good time with it
now the world loves to see Christians
sin because it gives them an excuse to
sin you and are to be different from the
world we are to be lights shining in
this world I like what Moses said
actually he was speaking for God when he
spoke to the Jewish people and told them
what they really are in God in in the
book of Exodus when he tells them all
about they are a holy people they are a
a nation set apart by God Peter uses the
same illustration
in 1 Peter 2:9 you are a chosen
generation a royal priesthood a holy
nation his own special people for what
purpose that you may proclaim the
Praises of him who called you out of
Darkness Into His Marvelous Light now if
you say well the world's too hard on us
remember God expects us to be light
shining in a dark World let your light
so shine before men that they may see
your good works not bad Works glorify
your father which is in
heaven if you read the uh requirements
for a pastor an elder in Titus Chapter 1
and 1 Timothy chapter 3 you discover God
has some high standards there he says
blameless having a good report of those
on the outside not just a report on the
inside the church people the outside oh
that we might remember God cares that we
live a holy life and we should care and
the world cares and by the way other
Christians care verse six that no one
should take advantage of and defraud his
brother in this matter because the Lord
is the Avenger of all such as we also
forewarned you and testified that means
he solemnly declared you won't get away
with it see we have the idea we can go
out and sin and then then come and
confess our sin and then go out and sin
and come and confess our sin my Bible
doesn't permit that my Bible tells me
that a person who's really born of God
does not habitually practice sin and he
wants to live a holy life yes I know
David committed adultery my people use
David as an excuse for their sin but not
as an example for their repentance David
committed adultery and paid for it for
the rest of his life paid for it in his
own fath family paid for it in his own
body paid for it in his own leadership
oh how he paid for it there is no such
thing as cheap sin there are no free
lunches you take what you want from life
and you pay for it and David paid for it
yes God forgave him God put away his sin
other Christians care I care what kind
of a life other Christians live as we
were raising our four children we were
glad to be in churches where people set
the example the children were seeing
good marriages and they were seeing
people who were setting an example of
Holiness and godly living we belong to
each other we're members of the same
body and family we belong to the same
Army he said don't you take advantage of
your brother now he's suggesting here
that some of the Christians in the
church were playing around with each
other's mates he said don't you dare do
that don't you defraud your
brother sex outside of marriage is
robbery you know sex is something like a
bank there are two ways to get money out
of the bank you can rob the bank and
you'll get the money but you'll be in
trouble or you can go into the bank and
sit down with the banker and say what
are the rules that run this Bank I'd
like to be a member of this organization
you sign your name you agree to certain
conditions and then you put your deposit
into the bank now there are two ways to
get money out of the bank as a robber or
as a committed member now marriage is
God's Bank God says you come and you get
married and every husband has a wife
every wife has a husband and you do it
the way I tell you to do it in my word
because the word of God tells us it is
robbery it is
thievery for people to practice sex
outside of marriage other Christians
care don't take advantage of other
Christians and don't be a bad example to
others don't make it hard for people to
raise their children because of the bad
example that people are
setting well we've been rather hard on
each other today but I think we need
this who cares if we live a Godly life
God cares we should care the world cares
care be sure to come back again for more
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