Keeping Pure
Building Strong Families – Part 7
Life Church – March 27, 2011
Pastor Dan Walker
Exodus 20:14 (NIV) You shall not commit adultery.
1 Corinthians 10:12 (NIV) So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!
1. ________________ your covenant
A. Reaffirm your covenant to ________
Hebrews 13:4 (NIV) Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
Galatians 6:7 (NIV) Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
B. Reaffirm your covenant to your _____________
Proverbs 5:15 (NLT) Drink water from your own well— share your love only with your wife.
Proverbs 6:32-33 (NIV) But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself. Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away;
2. _____________ yourself
Malachi 2:16 (NLT) “For I hate divorce!” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “To divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. “So guard your heart; do not be unfaithful to your wife.”
A. Guard your __________
Matthew 5:28 (NIV) But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
B. Guard your ________________
2 Timothy 2:22a (NLT) Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace.
C. Guard your _______________
2 Timothy 2:22b (NLT) Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.
3. _____________ your marriage
A. Build the ______________ aspect of your marriage
1 Cor. 7:5 (NIV) Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
B. Build the ______________ aspect of your marriage
Ephesians 5:33 (NIV) However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
C. Build the ______________ aspect of your marriage
1 Peter 3:7 (NIV) Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.