Power of Purity

As Believers, God requires and desires for us to be all 1 in his Kingdom before we could ever become all 1 in marriage. I thank the Lord that he has protected and kept me for 19 strong years for the mate that he has prepared for me in the future. But as for now, we must do our part and seek his Kingdom first, and everything else will come to us later anyway. (Matthew 6:33) Being pure, sin and guilt free before God is a beautiful thing, and I therefore continue to encourage those who are walking that straight line of virginity through holiness and purity because I enjoy it when someone encourages me as well. Recently, I attended a Singles Ministry Fellowship at Church and when the speaker asked if anyone in the room has never been involved in sexual intercourse, by the grace of God I was one of, if not the only one who boldly stood up to show that there is nothing wrong with being sexually pure and I believe that God honors that. I would also like to further address those who have been involved in sexual intercourse outside of marriage. The Blood of Jesus is strong and powerful that there is nothing too dirty that it cannot cleanse. For it is written that if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7) It is also written, that if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9) The very first step is to confess. The Lord wants us to come and reason with him, though our sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; and even though they may be red like crimson he says that he will also make them like wool. (Isaiah 1:18) God wants you and I to be free and not go back to that which has held us bound and made things so difficult for us in the first place. Plain and simple, if God has delivered you from something such as fornication, foul music, etc. DO NOT GO BACK!!!! RUN!!!!! For example, in the story of the 38-year old man healed at the pool of Bethesda, (John 5) after Jesus told him to Rise, take up his bed and walk. (v. 8) Later on when that same man goes into the temple, Jesus sees him again and says to him "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." (v. 14) In essence, Jesus was saying "Now that I have made you whole do not go back to what it was that kept you bound." I believe that this same principle applies today, even with sex before marriage. If Jesus has delivered you from an infirmity of fornication, lust, porn, etc., just like that man who could not walk, he is saying do not go back to these habits that have had you enslaved. God is a healer of all wounds and his Sword (His Word) can break all shackles of relationship bondage such as Soul Ties, Emotional Ties, etc. Another point that I have learned is that God will never be able to give us what it is that we need if we keep doing what it is that we want to do. Unfortunately, so many people including Christians get sexually involved because of a number of reasons. (false sense of security, false perception of love, it feels good, feels like you have been good long enough, impatient, that someone looks too good to pass up) Another sad part about this is that our desire to please this filthy, stinky, flesh is greater than our desire to please God. All of these false perceptions and dillusions come from the enemy who is the father of lies himself. I come to boldly proclaim that the devil, is was and will always be a liar, from now through the end of time. The truth is that God has created us special and wants to keep us preserved and have happy healthy years being single for when the time comes to marry, that baggage from those previous relationships will not weigh us down. So I speak to those who are virgins such as myself and others who the Lord has graciously kept as well as to those who may have fallen into sexual sin who may still have wounds: God rewards purity with pure marriages and cleans up the stains of sin left from bad relationships so that you can recover and washed from the inside out. Remember, the only safe sex is sex within the walls of marriage because God ordains marriages and not the boyfriend/girlfriend thing.

- In the pure name of Jesus,
Vaughn Resper, Jr.

Genesis 2:25 - And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed

Proverbs 18:22- Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Isaiah 1:18- Come and let us reason, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Matthew 15:19- For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Acts 15:29- That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Acts 21:25- As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

Romans 13:13- Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkennes, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

1 Corinthians 6:18- Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

1 Corinthians 6:19- What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

1 Corinthians 7:1- Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

1 Corinthians 7:2- Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

2 Corinthians 6:12- Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.