Every Young Man's Battle: Stategies for Victory in the Real World of Sexual Temptation: The Every Man Series Read Online Free PDF Page A

swindler. With such a man
    do not even eat. (1 Corinthians 5:11)
    The body is not meant for
sexual immorality,
but for the Lord. (1 Corinthians 6:13)
    Flee from
sexual immorality.
(1 Corinthians 6:18)
    I am afraid that when I come again…I will be grieved over many
    who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the
impurity, sexual
    sin
and
debauchery
in which they have indulged. (2 Corinthians
    12:21)
    So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the
    desires of the sinful nature.… The acts of the sinful nature are
    obvious:
sexual immorality, impurity
and
debauchery.
(Galatians 5:16,19)
    But among you there must not be even a hint
    of
sexual immorality,
or of any kind of
impurity,
or of
    greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Nor should there
    be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place. (Ephesians
    5:3-4)
    Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly
    nature:
sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires
and greed,
    which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. (Colossians
    3:5-6)
    It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that
    you should avoid
sexual immorality;
that each of you should learn to
    control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in
passionate
    lust
like the heathen, who do not know God.… For God did not call
    us to be
impure,
but to live a holy life. (1 Thessalonians 4:3-5,
    7)
    See that no one is
sexually immoral.
(Hebrews
    12:16)
    Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed
    kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the
sexually
    immoral.
(Hebrews 13:4)
    For you have spent enough time in
    the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in
debauchery, lust,
drunkenness,
orgies,
carousing and detestable idolatry. (1 Peter
    4:3)
    In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding
    towns gave themselves up to
sexual immorality
and perversion. They
    serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire. (Jude
    7)
    Nevertheless, I [Jesus] have a few things against you: You
    have people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to
    entice the Israelites to sin…by committing
sexual immorality.
(Revelation 2:14)
    Nevertheless, I [Jesus] have this against you:
    You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her
    teaching she misleads my servants into
sexual immorality.
(Revelation
    2:20)
    But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers,
    the
sexually immoral,
those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and
    all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This
    is the second death. (Revelation 21:8)
    Isn’t that something?
    Drawing from these passages, let’s summarize God’s standard for
    sexual purity:
    • Sexual immorality begins with the lustful
    attitudes of our sinful nature. It’s rooted in the darkness within us.
    Therefore, sexual immorality, like other sins that enslave unbelievers, will
    incur God’s wrath.
    • Our bodies weren’t meant for
    sexual immorality, but for the Lord, who has both created us and called us to
    live in sexual purity. His will is that every Christian be sexually
    pure—in thoughts and words as well as in actions.
    •
    Therefore it’s holy and honorable to completely avoid sexual
    immorality—to repent of it and flee from it, as we live by the
    Spirit.
    • We shouldn’t be in close association with other
    Christians who persist in sexual immorality.
    • If we entice
    others to sexual immorality (maybe in the car’s backseat or in her
    bedroom when her parents aren’t home), Jesus Himself has something
    against you!
    Clearly, God expects us to live according to His
    standard.
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nobody escapes
from adventure island
    Not too many decades ago, guys were married off at about the same age
    you were when you took your driver’s test.
    Taking a wife at
    age sixteen had to help the ol’ hormones! But that was a different