The Value of your Purity

The Value Of Your Purity!



How can we develop Godly purity? Notice I didn't say just purity. I'm NOT talking about the World's form of purity. I'm talking about God's kind of purity. The world talks about safe physical relationships between a man and a woman, but God tells us there is only one way for that physical relationship to be Right before God and that's when the man and the woman are married to eachother. The world rates movies PG, PG-13, R and much worse, but God rates things as Right or Wrong, godly or ungodly, and Righteous or Unrighteous. This list of comparisons could go on and on.
The first thing Christain teens need to develop is godly purity from God's perspective! Titus 2:12 says "teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age." This verse is a good start to understanding HOW God wants us to live. Righteously means the right way, God1s way and godly means to be like God in characater. Wow! That's a high calling for Christian teens, to follow God's character.

Some may be thinking "does the Bible actually call Christians to that high of a standard?" Let's allow God's word to answer that question! Ephesians 5:1 "Therefore be imitators of God as dear children." 1Peter 1:15 "but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct." Notice Peter writes "all your conduct". An old preacher once said "all means all and that's all - all means." So born again teens need to honor the Lord with their whole life style. In order to do that teenagers should choose activities and friends that will encourage them to live HOLY.

Now let's get practical! How do we live this kind of PURE life that pleases a Holy God? 2Tim. 2:19, "Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity." What's so hard to understand about "Depart from"? Let me put it to you a few other ways:

1. you don't hang around sinfulness,

2. Get from sin!

3. Run from evil!

4. give sinful activities their rightful place, in Satan's bag of tricks and use the God given power and diminion you possess and say:

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Life's too short...Kiss slowly...Love deeply...Forgive quickly

You are priceless in God's eyes!

You are PRICELESS in God's eyes!



If you want to live godly, you must give up the most Crucial part of your body. Most teen guys might think "this means my muscles." Teenage girls may think "it's my looks." None of these things are the most important thing on your body that you need to give over to God. It's your mind! Your thoughts MUST be surrendered fully to God. All your sins begin in or enter the mind First. So the battle for purity begins in the teens mind. Romans 12:1-2 says "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." Does this passage mean that Christian young adults need to present themselves to God for God's service and design? Yes!

When it comes to living Right before God you need to say, "here I am Lord, at your service!" We need to understand that this giving of yourself does not just happen. It's a process that involves the mind. People can get addicted to all kinds of habitual habbits that are evil and not good for you. Some get addicted to drugs, others develop habitual sin problems in their life like fornication, cheating in school, and much more.

People in these sins have given themselves over or presented themselves to this things. Now to fulfill God's desire for Christian teens, you need to instead give yourself over to HIM. And you start with giving the Lord your mind, your thoughts. Not only does your mind belong to God, but all of you belongs to God. 1Corinthians 6:19 & 20 says "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's."

Think of it this way: You are the temple of God! God1s spirit is in you. Your mind is the Door to God's temple! Wow! Could that be true, that our mind is like the door to our temple? Yes!

With our bodily temples we are to worship and serve God. However, you cannot do that when you have junk, filth, evil in your mind. Do you remember when Jesus cleansed the Temple? Sure you do! What did Jesus do? He drove out of God's Temple all that was evil and unacceptable.

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Life's too short...Kiss slowly...Love deeply...Forgive quickly