Pure and Perfect
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Title:
Pure and Perfect-------------------------------------- Date: 11/30/1999
Keywords:
"body" "contamination" "holiness" "perfection"
"promises" "purity" "reverence" "spirit"
Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand
strong in the face of sexual temptation.
Passage: 2 Corinthians 7:1*
Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves
from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence
for God.
Questions
1. What are the promises?
2. What does it mean to purify one's self?
3. Why should you purify yourself?
Practical help
When you prepare food, you take pains to make sure nothing inedible
is included. You wash your chicken before you cook it. If your flour has weevils in it,
you throw it out. When you open a Tupperware container from the back of the fridge and the
contents look like a first-grader's painting with primary colors, you don't just dig in,
do you? Then why do you continue to go after impure things to feast on with your eyes?
It's more damaging to pollute your soul than food poisoning is to your body.
Try to remember why it is you live, and for whom. Our lives belong to God whether we admit
it or not. Remember who he is and what pleases him.
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