Build Your Strategy For Ongoing Purity, Part 12

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Title: Build Your Strategy For Ongoing Purity, Part 12 ------------------- Date: 5/31/2003
Keywords: “forgiveness” “purity” “strategy”
Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation.

This is the last of a twelve-part series designed to help you build a strategy for ongoing sexual purity. The first six parts were posted in late April. Click here to see the first study.

Passage: Ephesians 1:7*

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace.

Questions

1. What blessings belong to all who are in Christ?

 

2. What is our forgiveness based upon?

 

3. What does this mean for the person that struggles with porn?

 

Practical help

Sexual immorality is not the unforgivable sin. Forgiveness and healing are available through the blood of Christ. If you have been or are now caught up in sexual sin you can experience God’s forgiveness and cleansing through confession and repentance. Your hope is in the Lord Jesus.

Addiction to sexual sin may be the most excruciatingly destructive experience that can happen in anyone’s life and ministry. Begin today to build your personal strategy for a lifetime of sexual purity, knowing that you will battle great temptations along the way.

Action Points:

  1. Accept your personal vulnerability to immorality and continue to grow in understanding your own personal responses to sexual temptation.
  2. If married, make your relationship with your spouse your highest priority. If single, seek to build deep, godly relationships with trusted friends.
  3. Recognize what sinful practices you are or have been involved in, and as a new creation in Christ, consider yourself to be dead to those things.
  4. Commit to walking in Christ and to live a holy life in Him free from sexual sin.
  5. Make a lifelong project of studying, memorizing, meditating on and applying Scriptures which speak to this area of life.
  6. When tempted, be quick to lay aside the old self and then put on the new self according to Ephesians 4:22-24.
  7. Continually work on being renewed in your mind through the truth of God’s word.
  8. Develop a relationship of mutual accountability.
  9. Develop your own “early warning system” to detect the first signs of temptation.
  10. Know and avoid your danger zones.
  11. Become a student of your culture and its attitude toward purity.
  12. Your hope for forgiveness and moving forward are in Jesus!
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*"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."