Short Take #5: Closing Thoughts

Here is another sort taken from a Christian worldview with David. We don't feed your flesh and don't put yourself in front of screens, phones, movie theaters, rooms, situations with the opposite sex, or even the same sex. If you have that particular sinful desire. Don't put yourself in environments or situations that are ripe for sexual immorality. Next bullet point is to do like Joseph flee fornication utterances is the only sin were not to face. I won't belabor that one. But that's an important one get away get out of there don't need to try to reason with anyone. Just remove yourself from the situation. Next point is have an accountability partner or partners they're gonna hold you accountable. I think these can be important and very helpful, but we also realize that accountability partners can be fooled as well. We can deceive them, so that's not a failsafe plan more than accountability partner, a fellow human being realize that God is watching and weighing what you're doing. Look vertically realize you're accountable to God and the final point, I'm going to make is get married in first Corinthians 7 Paul writes to the Corinthians in that town was like our society today. It was full of sexual temptation and all kinds of sexual immorality. And so what is Paul right to the Corinthian believers he says now concerning the things about what you wrote. It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Other words don't be involved sexually with someone who's not your wife or husband first tuba because of immorality, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. Another words to avoid immorality, you should strive to be married. If you don't have the gift of singleness which will talk about in a second verse three. The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife and likewise also the wife to her husband saying you must when your husband or wife you should and must be involved in a sexually intimate way, skipping down to verse six, but this I say by way of concession, not of command. What is he mean by that will verse seven. Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself in he single. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another, and that another word some have most have will have a desire to be to be married. Some of my note minority will have a gift of singleness and both are okay verse eight but I say to the unmarried into widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I single verse nine.

Here's the last verse, but if they do not have self-control.

Let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion, so that's why this final point is get married. If you have a desire, a strong desire for sexual into intimacy.

Don't try to write 15 years to get married and don't try to wait till you're a certain age find a fellow believer key point there. Find a fellow believer with whom you can be compatible with in marriage. That's a whole other topic itself, but get married because, again.

This pastor said sexual morality is a sin to avoid marriage is God's design for the sexual relationship. It's good to remain single and celibate.

If you have self-control and sexual desire will vary according to the people in life. Some have more. Some have less. But if you don't have self-control if you don't think you can hold off on this and get married to another believer and this is another thing I think the church could could teach pastors to teach better today is preparing young people to get married early on when they're prepared and find a fellow believer to marry okay. Some just gonna repeat the game plan one more time to overcome sexual immorality. Never one you must be saved through placing your faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ on your behalf. When that occurs, God gives you his Holy Spirit, which is a supernatural power inside of you, giving you the ability the opportunity to be able to overcome your fallen nature, number two, you are being sanctified, becoming more holy. Through being in a close daily relationship with God through reading his word and prayer and being under sound biblical teaching number three you must be committed to sexual purity, knowing that you can with God's help can overcome it is not impossible to overcome. Number four. You must guard your eyes and your thoughts. Taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. Diverting your eyes from anything that would lead you to sin number five is don't feed your flesh. Don't make any provision for your flesh, don't put yourself in sensual situations where sexual immorality is a possibility. Number six is if you find yourself in a situation flee fornication get out of there or not to confront it would've flee from sexual immorality. Number seven is get an accountability partner that could be helpful. And finally, number eight get married, but in the Lord, unless of course you have the gift of singleness.

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