Your own words deceive you. Purify is an action....not a result. Obedience is an choice not a result. Frankly I dont even know what youre talking about anymore. Some teacher you are. Don't even understand your own lesson plan. Lol
I am disappointed in this obvious denial of basic faith and goals.
Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2 tim 2:22
We are called to have a pure heart.
To be told by you I should not found my theology on one verse speaks where
your heart is and compromise. Not even for a second are you considering the
purity of Christ and our calling.
Dear Lord Jesus,
May you bring a conviction to our hearts of your purity, of your holiness and
how you call us to purify ourselves in your blood and communion with the
Holy Spirit. Amen
Sin has its foundation in the lusts of the heart.
By purifying our hearts we take away the foundation for sin.
Now obviously if these lusts are something one is addicted to,
anything that threatens this indulgence will be opposed by every
and any means. It is the way of a sinful heart, from the beginning
and why judgement in coming.
Now if a believer lives like this they are no better than the pharisees and
teachers of the law, who were possessed by these things, devoid of truth
and love, just have the form of faith without its foundation.
When Paul was preaching, he was preaching to people who partook in orgies,
prostitutes, exploiting sexual immoral people.
Now a friend of mine who I no longer know, was happy to participate in a worship
time, fulfilling his desire for spirituality and then going to the whore house to have
his sexual desires met. He was extreme and in my experience unusual, but not alone.
So maybe sexual fantasy and pornography is no problem, or covetousness over some
life styles, or a sport fixation. Now I know the attraction of all these things but we
are called to flee them, to life a spotless life, literally.
Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2 tim 2:22