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Apr 10, 2016

How to Remain Pure in a Sex-Crazed Culture

Passage: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Preacher: Pastor Tim W. Young

Series: God's Love Letter to an Unlovely Church

Category: 1 Corinthians

Summary:

Main Text - 1 Corinthians 6:12-20; OT Reading - Genesis 39:6-18; NT Reading - 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Detail:

"God’s Love Letter To an Unlovely Church”

“How To Remain Pure In a Sex-Crazed Culture” - 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

 

  1. But the Lehigh Valley Isn’t Corinth!

                

  1. Popular Culture Is Not Christian Culture

 

               Corinthuian mottos

                               

               American mottos

                               

               Motto Qualifications

                             

                              “All things are lawful for me,” but…

                              “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and…

 

  1. Unpopular Doctrine Trumps Popuular Culture Every Time

 

               The Doctrine of Creation -     “You are not your own… For, as it is written”

 

               Vs 15 – The Union with Christ and the Resurrection

 

               Vss 16-17 - The Doctrine of Human Sexuality  - Ephesians 5:31-33

              

               Vs 19 - The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit –

              

               Vss 19-20 - The Doctrine of the Atonement –

 

  1. How to Be Unpopular But Pure - 18 Flee from sexual immorality  

 

                Gen 39:11-12 -  

 

               Know what to Flee –  

 

               Have Zero Tolerance Policy Toward Sexual Immoratity

 

  1. Guard your…

 

  1. Don’t take the…

 

  1. Do not tolerate Immoral…

 

  1. Avoid Immoral…

 

  1. Avoid lust inducing…

 

  1. Don’t look for…

 

               Reality check from Proverbs 5:3-6