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“Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.” —2 Corinthians 6:12-20 We’re living in a sexed-crazed society.  We’re living in a society in which now operates sexually like an open sewer and it’s been called a sexual revolution and even called by some, including some ministers, the new morality.  But the fact is, it’s not a new morality at all.  It’s just the same old immorality that’s been around for thousands and thousands of years. David is the perfect example.  King David, a man after God’s own heart, loved God more than most of us.  He fell to sexual sin because he did not watch and guard himself.  And as a result even though he was forgiven, even though he was cleansed, even though he’s in heaven today at the throne in the presence of God, he paid in his life some consequences as he reaped the bitter fruit of his sin all of his days. Today, many want to know, “How can I be morally pure?” The best way to deal with this sin is not to debate it, not hang around to try to discuss it, but get your Nikes on and run, run, run! Every Christian ought to run just a little bit scared today. Everywhere you go, there are these temptations…in our music, in the media, our television, our movies. The scripture says, “Flee sexual immorality.”  Jesus saved us that He might deliver us from our sin. He saved us that we wouldn’t have to be destroyed and defeated by this sin or any other sin. YOU CAN BE SET FREE FROM ALL SIN THROUGH JESUS

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Recognize the Danger

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”

Ephesians 5:11–14

When Hurricane Katrina flooded much of New Orleans, Coast Guard helicopter pilot, Lt. Iain McConnell, was sent from his base in Florida to help rescue those who had been stranded in their homes by the rising water. He and his crew were able to save dozens of people, but the thing he remembers most is not the people they rescued, but those who refused help. McConnell later wrote about one mission he will never forget.

“On the fourth mission, to our great frustration, we saved no one—but not for lack of trying. The dozens we attempted to rescue refused pickup! Some people told us to simply bring them food and water. ‘You are trying to live in unhealthy conditions and the [flood]water will stay high for a long time,’ we warned them. Still, they refused. I felt frustrated and angry, since we had used up precious time and fuel, and put ourselves at risk during each rescue attempt. I felt like they were ungrateful. But, in truth, they did not know how desperate their situation was.”

The world around us is filled with dangers, although most of them are not as visible as quickly rising floodwaters. Yet too many people, including Christians, are living carelessly, without an appreciation for the peril they face. We have an enemy trying to destroy our lives every day. “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” (1 Peter 5:8).

Today’s Growth Principle: 

The church and our world need more Christians who are aware of the urgency of what we face.