How to Live in Purity in an Age of Sensuality - Matthew

[@rosslewchuk9286]

Amen Pastor! A much needed antidote for today's decadent society and its lack of Godly values! Many thanks! Keep up the good work! May God bless you!🙋🏼‍♂️📖⛪

[@DavidGuzikEnduringWord]

Ross, thanks for the encouraging words. Blessings to you in Jesus' name!

[@philobailey5627]

Excellent message and with power. Many thanks.

[@raphaelcavalcanti6688]

Greetings from Brazil.

[@jasonwilliams8321]

We've made "purity" as understood by generations past unfeasible by pushing off the average age people marry into their 30's. It was much easier for someone in our parents generation to "remain pure and chaste" when they were marrying shortly after graduating HS or in their early 20's. Look at the statistics of Christians alone who stay chaste while never being married well into their 30's and you can see why it's not a good idea to navigate the most hormonally charged period of your life with no outlet.

[@jasonwilliams8321]

Also while Jesus made these comments it was David , "A man after God's own heart" who had multiple wives and over 300 concubines.

[@DesGardius-me7gf]

"The modern use of Matthew 5:28 is to regard human beings as robots who are presumed to be able switch off certain aspects of their bodies and minds at will, and reactivate them at the moment they utter the words “I do.” Arguments that ‘lust’ objectifies women and treats them as sex objects abound in their condemnation of the most essential of all human instincts, leaving an endless trail of trauma, guilt and hadephobia in their wake. In reality, they are using a passage which endorses the worst forms of female objectification, misogyny and loveless slavery; their erroneous arguments enabled through religion’s ultimate foundations: the lust for power and control-and the blatant refusal to think." -Tanya Simmonds

[@jasonwilliams8321]

Its a moot point as women objectify other women on a daily basis as well as men it seems to be only wrong when men do it. We objectify everything because we place values on things based upon what they have to offer us in terms of appearance and utility/functionality. Church people can be the biggest hypocrites on this because they will tell you on the one hand "You shouldn't look upon a persons outward appearance......." and in the next breath say how lucky someone in the church was because they married someone who was very attractive AND a wonderful Christian.