Topic: Hindrances To Purity
Text: I Corinthians 6:1-11

I am sufficiently aware of the fact that many believers are struggling with hindrances to purity. A lot of people who partake in our programmes more often tend to go back to their vomits. Although his category of worshippers desires to serve God yet they discover that there is a force or a magnet which keeps on pulling them towards the direction of unrighteousness deeds and iniquity. What then is the way out? Being religious is not enough. Such people must get to a point where they receive the grace of purity, which enables them to go and sin no more. Today, we shall examine two important things that hinder believers from living a life of purity.

Covetousness - When a person being to lust after cars, clothes, houses, land, and jewelry and such things, the Bible says such a person becomes an enemy of God. In John 2:16, the Bible says; “And said unto them that sold doves, take those things hence; make not my father’s house a house of merchandise.” Do you belong to the father or to the world? If you do not belong to the world, you must steer clear from the things of the world. Instead, you must cling to the things of God.

Lying. Lying is a snare. In John 8:44, Jesus told the Pharisees: “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” The moment you begin to lie, you reveal who is your real father. Jesus called the devil the father of lies and liars. You cannot make a habit of lying without becoming a child of the devil. Lying is the trademark of the children of the devil.

If you are a child of God, you cannot lie because your father is not a liar. Lying, speaking evil of others, giving false witness and the like belong to Satan and his children. Impurity makes you an enemy of God. Do not allow any trace of impurity in your life. Be ye holy as your heavenly father is holy.

Memory Verse: John 2:16 - “And said unto them that sold doves, take these things hence make not my father’s house an house of merchandise.”