Purity

1 Timothy 4:12New International Version (NIV)

12 Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.

1.      Be an example, role, model, mentor, influence on those around you.

a.     Speech, what you speak, how you speak, what you say and how you say it.  The choices of your words and how they are presented. 

b.     Words can heal or hurt.  They can saved or kill.  Talk about what James says about them.  Quick to listen, slow to speak & slow to anger. 

2.     Conduct:  How you live, your deeds, actions, attitudes, reactions, motives, priorities and what you treasure.  Conduct reflects what is in the heart.  It is important how you live.  You are your brother`s keeper.  Talk about what happen to me when I got drunk as a teenager.

3.     Love – Love show we are his disciples.  Love shows our true heart.  That we have a good vertical relationship which translate in how we deal with others.  We loves for opportunities to serve and be unselfish.  The book of Mark tells us that Jesus healed all who came to Him because of his compassion.  Have Loera read 1 Cor 13:4-8,  James Kilpatick used to share his coffee and cakes with an old French woman who later because wealthy enough to give him $50,000 when she passed away.

4.     Faith:  Faith is active belief and trust in God.  Faith is a lifestyle of God`s will being done every day in our lives.  It affects everything we think, say, and live.  It is our compass, guide and GPS.  Faith moves us to trust and go like Abraham.  It is what gives us righteousness.  Faith is trusting without understanding why.  Believing without seeing.  Knowing without evidence.

Talk about Abraham

5.     Purity:  This is being righteous, holy, blameless, without reproach.  No stain or pollution by the world.  It is choice and decision to stay clean and pure.  This happens by prayer, the word, going to church and hanging out with the right kind of people.  Talk about twin brothers one who went into crime and the other who became a police officer and the day he had to arrest his brother.