Purity:  a characteristic of the New Testament church

 

1)      How would we define purity?  _________________________________________________

2)      Problems of impurity? _______________________________________________________

3)      How do we purify things?  ____________________________________________________

4)      Purity covers many of the things we have already discussed:

5)      Authority, doctrine, church government, worship, Christian living.

6)      God is pure, and this implies a pure church – Eph. 5:25-27 – READ.

7)      What is the purifying agent (1 Jn. 1:7)?  ______________________________

8)      How do we contact the benefits of this agent (Rom 6:17-18)?  _____________________________

9)      Much of the world around us is impure; the Corinthians lived in a sin-laden environment.

10)  See what Paul told them in 2 Cor. 7:1 – READ __________________________________________

11)  Discuss purity in light of Rom. 12:1 - _________________________________________________

12)  What are the implications of Rom. 6:12-14?  __________________________________________

13)  Would we say that most have “some standard of purity”?  ______________________________

14)  Do the unsaved feel impure at times?  ____________  Why?  ____________________________

15)  How do people address feelings of impurity?  _________________________________________

16)  Lam. 3:40 and Heb. 10:22 - _______________________________________________________

17)  We can seek to be pure in our ____________ (Jas. 1:22).

18)  We can seek to be pure in our ____________ (1 Pet. 2:1).

19)  We can seek to be pure in our ____________ (1 Chron. 28:9).

20)  Even our appearance can be related to the subject of purity.

21)  In the Old Testament there was a great emphasis on outward purity.

22)  In the New Testament a strong emphasis is on inward purity—a purity often not visible.

23)  PURITY:  “P” – Put your name here:  ___________________________________

24)  “U” –  Unmask yourself before God”:  _________________ (the sin that troubles you the most).

25)  “R” – Replace the sin that troubles you with _________________________________.

26)  “I” – Identify Bible passages that help you.

27)  “T” – Trust a friend to help you – Gal. 6:1-2.

28)  “Y” – Yell for joy when everything comes together.

29)  Augustine: "Give me chastity & purity, but not yet."