Living with PURITY Consciousness

1 Timothy  4:12  Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in PURITY.

-A Christian life of purity is the best way to live my friend. You never know the beauty of a peaceful life on earth, until you understand what it means to live pure.
Life is in phases; and every phase of life we step into requires one very cardinal sacrifice from us - PURITY!
Purity is highly relegated in this generation, and that's the reason for the so much challenges we suffer today. If you think purity is difficult, then try immorality and see what it's like.
Nothing wrecks the life of an individual like immorality, as a matter of fact, immorality kills faster than cancer!
Purity is the GOLDEN standard for living, without which you're sure to live a life in destitute. I've seen people again and again, most of whom are Christians, who've abused purity and are paying dearly for it.

The Bible says in Matthew 5:8;

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

The way of the Lord is a way of purity!

If you've chosen God's way, then you must love PURITY.
As such, we must consciously develope and live a life of purity.

What is Purity?
Purity is living a life free from immorality, especially sexual immorality.

DANGERS OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY
1.) It is God's WILL for us to live PURE

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

- God directly commands that we stay away from sexual sin
- This is because, nothing pollutes the life of a man or woman like sex outside marriage or before marriage
- Sexual immorality is a major limiting factor
- The setbacks you've suffered hitherto might just be that careless sex you had sometimes back
- If sexual purity is God's WILL for US, imagine what our lives will be like if we live in immorality (which will of course be outside His Will)

2.) Sexual immorality pollutes the conscience
- Do you ever wonder why an adult should rape a 14year old?
- The answer is very simple, his conscience is dead
- Sexual sin kills the conscience
- You become like the devil; without sympathy and humanity
- Tell me, how can a person like that ever succeed legitimately?

Acts  24:16  And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Acts  24:16  And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. 
1 Timothy  1:19  Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
Acts  24:16  And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.  
1 Timothy  3:9  Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

- Sexual immorality makes it almost impossible for you to maintain a PURE conscience
- And without a pure conscience, you cannot have a right standing before God
- Now, what kind of life can a person ever live without God?

3.) Sexual immorality transmits evil spirits
- I'm a spirit, I was born by a woman, who got pregnant because she had sex with a man
- What does this say to you?
- If sex can impregnate a woman with another spirit being, then sex isn't just ordinary
- Till today, medicine have been unable to prove the connection between sex and the reproduction of spirits
- I've heard people repeatedly said, "is it not just sex?"
- That's why their lives are a mess
- Sex is is big thing!!!
- And doing it outside marriage is a death trap.

1 Corinthians  6:
16. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 
17. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 
18. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

- Sex is not shaking hands!!!

4.) Sexual immorality will reduce you to nothing
Proverbs  6:26
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

- You see kings and very great men reduced to nothing because of promiscuity
- Small small children everywhere already know what sex is; why will there ever be able to excel in life?
- Sex before marriage or outside marriage is an agreement to fail already

5.) Sexual immorality increases vulnerability
- When we have careless sex, we open ourselves to all kinds of sicknesses and diseases; HIV, Gonorrhea, syphilis, etc. All from the pit of hell.
- All the STD/STI you know today can only be effectively transmitted through sex
- In other words, the only way the devil will ever gain access into your life is through sex
- This is because, your genitals is the only automatic access into your life

6.) Sexual immorality makes it difficult for you to have Faith
- And Faith is an essential for existence as a Christian

Habakkuk  2:4 .....but the just shall live by his faith.

- So, if Faith is what we live by, then anything that attacks our faith threatens our very existence

NB;
- Sexual immorality opens the door to grave dangers and misfortunes
- You cannot afford to live in immorality
- Purity is your easiest way to a better life
- I've seen very young people suffering from all kinds of sicknesses and diseases
- Sex before marriage or outside marriage isn't worth it precious people
- Sexual PURITY is possible
- Being a virgin is not an old fashion phenomenon
- As a matter of fact, so many of US have consciously vowed to remain virgins till marriage, and it's working
- Purity works, and you must enlist amongst this end time army of men and women who'll vow to keep PURE
- Even after marriage, you must maintain sexual purity by staying faithful to your partner

How to LIVE with Purity Consciousness
1. Depend on the Holy Spirit
- Nobody is strong in his/herself
- Self strength will always fail, no matter how strong
- Power and Might mentality will always fail
- Stop doing that rubbish today!
- Keep yourself till marriage my friend!
Jude  1:24
Now unto Him (Holy Spirit) that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
- But only the Holy Spirit will help you keep yourself
Isaiah  40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
2. Develop purity standards
- If you have standards, there are so many things you will not do
- Living without principles and standards will make you nothing different from an animal
Acts  10:34  Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:*
- God does not respect people, He respects principles
- Have a standard!
- Is not every body in skirt or trouser that you should follow

Understanding Integrity

Integrity is probably the most abused Christian virtue in this generation. This is so bad that in every 10 people, you hardly even find just one person of integrity.

It's now so difficult to find someone you can trust and unreservedly depend on. Everybody's selfishly looking out for his or her own interest only.

So you find all forms of compromising fake people everywhere.
The most devastating of all is the fact that you find more of this kind of people amongst Christians.

What is integrity?
It is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.

What does it mean to have integrity?
Having integrity means that you live in accordance to your deepest values, you're honest with everyone, and you always keep your word.

Integrity is a highly valued trait, especially in leaders.
When you live with integrity, you're more likely to be considered for important promotions and leadership positions.
I've come across uncountable numbers of people, who are without integrity - People you cannot even hold by their WORDS.
God seeks to raise an army of men and women with reputable integrity in this generation.

Attributes of integrity
1. Gracious - kind and warmly courteous
2. Respectful
3. Honest - Integrity requires honesty
4. Trustworthy - dependable and a person of your word
5. Hardworking
6. Responsible
7. Helpful
8. Patient
9. Sincere

Biblical example of integrity
#Job

1. God publicly boasted about Job because of his integrity

Job  2:3  "And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his *integrity*, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause."

- No matter how advance the vocabulary of your Spiritual tongues, or anointing, if you're without integrity, you are NOTHING to God.
- Do you wonder how that Job, who wasn't a pastor or prophet (Just a businessman), was the ONLY person in the whole Bible that God boasted to the devil about??
- Integrity means so much to God folks!!!

2. Job didn't mind being alone, so long his integrity was intact

Job  2:
9. Thensaid his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

10. But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

- Job called his wife a foolish woman, and didn't care if she left or stayed with him
- How many people can place integrity above family relationships today?
- Some people even compromise to impress their parents or spouses
- My Spiritual Father; David Ibiyeomie once said something very inspiring - "Do u know that in the whole Bible, only JOB married ONE wife?"
- No wonder he was the ONLY one God boasted to the devil about.

3. Job preferred death than compromise his integrity

Job 27:5 .....till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

- Integrity is a very serious matter!
- You cannot afford to sleep and wake up everyday in a fake and dishonest lifestyle
- Some of us, very little disappointments makes us become reckless and without integrity
- I've seen fake people who speak in tongues more than anything else
- Come on, that's not Christianity!
- Let people know you for exactly who you're!
- And who should you be?? A Person of integrity!!!

Traits of integrity
1. Authentic: Authentic people are humble, approachable and genuine, but the opposite is the case for fake people
- Once you've got any form of a fake life, you don't have integrity, simple!

2. People of integrity know that other people's Time Has Value.
- In other words, value for time is a very important trait of integrity.

3. People of integrity know how to appreciate and acknowledge others

- Knowing when to say something nice in acknowledgement of someone's good deeds says a lot

4. Humility
- Proud people are not people of integrity
- Pride has a way of making you display traits of someone without integrity

5. Quick to apologize and accept one's wrong

- People who don't have integrity always have an excuse to make for their actions and inactions, even when there are wrong

6. Integrity will make one unable to side with lies and wrong deeds

- If you are comfortable around deception and wrong associations, you most definitely do not have integrity

NB;
- You need Integrity to succeed as a Christian
- Your limitation hitherto might just be that compromising attitude you have
- Anything acquired by fraudulent and deceptive ways will never add value to you, neither will it last
- The lack of integrity will always embarrass you at some point
- But integrity will naturally open doors of blessings and favours to you
- Because once people discover that you are honest, dependable, trustworthy and sincere, nothing will be to big for them to give you

The benefits of Obedience

This may sound simple, but trust me, it isn't. Obedience is probably the greatest Christian virtue every Christian should have. As a matter of fact, knowing what the Lord requires of us, and doing exactly that is secret to a blissful earthly existence.
Any loss or great failure you ever suffered was because you disobeyed as instruction - check it closely and you'll see how true.
Remember what Mary the mother of our Lord told His disciples?

John  2:5 "His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it."

Until you come to a point where you can do WHATSOEVER He tells you, a successful life will be difficult!
He has been telling you so much all these while, but you haven't done anyone, that's why you're still struggling.
Every Sunday you go to church, you here HIM speak to you, yet you don't listen, talk more of obeying - that's the problem.

Disobedience places a limitation on your life. Absolute obedience and submission to God's WORD and WILL respectively, is where your victorious Christian life will begin.

God called me into Ministry on the 26th of March, 2013, shortly after I was 18years old.

But before then, I always wanted to be a paediatric Doctor.

This made me an addicted follower of renowned Neurosurgeon Ben Carson - I read all of Ben Carson's books and watched every documentary I could find about Him.

So after the call, it took me years to come to terms with it, simply because I didn't understand how to synchronise the two conflicting passions.

But I can tell you this, one of the best decisions I've made in my entire life, was accepting my call into Ministry and beginning our currently ongoing preparatory services this 2020.

There's nothing more fulfilling than obeying God's WILL for your life.
It may appear foolish, but if God said it, then simply OBEY.

God's marriage strategy for your life, won't be exactly what you had imagined, trust me!
But when it all plays out, you'll be grateful it did.
It's also important for us to understand that; "God won't give you a NEW instruction, until you obey the previous".

You must make a commitment to follow God foolishly, that's the secret.
Many may mock you initially, but believe me, there will all look for you shortly.

Think of it, when God called Father Abraham, people mocked him, how about Noah, Moses and every one of them??
Even Jesus Christ Himself was mocked initially, but OBEDIENCE distinguished HIM, and today He's our SAVIOUR.

You must start obeying God after TODAY!!!
Look at what the Bible says;

Philippians  2:
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became OBEDIENT unto death, even the death of the cross. 
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The MIND of Christ is an OBEDIENT one.
Disobedience will ruin your destiny I assure you!
Obedience is so important, especially in seemingly Minor things.....

What then are the BENEFITS of Obedience?
1. Security
Psalms  91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
- God will only secure those who obediently dwell in HIS secret place

2. Supernatural supplies
Philippians  4:19  But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

3. Supernatural open doors
Psalms  119:105  Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Proverbs  4:18  But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
- Obedience will make our life a progressive one, till our days on earth are over; no stagnation

4. Our Faith is built
Proverbs  14:26  In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
- This means, when we fear (or OBEY the Lord) our Faith (or confidence) in Him is boosted!

NB:
- God requires prompt Obedience from US
- Delayed Obedience is disobedience
- No matter how difficult, we must continually confess our insufficiencies and confess to HIM that "Lord, not my will, but your WILL"
- Never outrightly disobey God and His Word, it's risky
- And when you realise any trace of disobedience, be quick to repentance.