SundaySermon - Prince - The Pure Virgin

 The Pure Virgin

God likens the church and our individual lives to that of the Bride. And the Bridegroom and the Bride are devoted to each other in complete  and undivided purity.

Verse: 2 Corinthians 11:1‭-‬3

1 I hope you will put up with a little more of my foolishness. Please bear with me. 

2 For I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God himself. I promised you as a pure bride to one husband—Christ. 

3 But I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted, just as Eve was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent.

Are we devoted to God? The Corinthians were sidetracked and Paul was worried that they were asking the wrong questions. The disciples asked the wrong question as well.

Verse: Matthew 18:1‭-‬2

1 About that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” 

2 Jesus called a little child to him and put the child among them.

And Jesus urged them to look to the child.... a symbol of purity. Are we purely devoted to God? Or are we looking for self devotion and self interest?

Three pointers on devotion

  1. Joined to Christ
  2. Stands against impurity
  3. Seeking God

Joined to Christ

The Word of God explains this connection with Christ in many pictures.... One of the pictures is Betrothal... Bride.

Verse: Jeremiah 2:2

2 “Go and shout this message to Jerusalem. This is what the Lord says: “I remember how eager you were to please me as a young bride long ago, how you loved me and followed me even through the barren wilderness.

The devotion of this bride caused her to follow even through the wilderness.... there was a setting aside of one self

Verse: Galatians 2:20

20 My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Stands against Impurity

This devotion excludes evil and there is a a sense of aggression. Stop compromising!!!

The people in the Jabesh Gilead decided to compromise and the cost of the compromise was very clear and it was very great.

Verse: 1 Samuel 11:1‭-‬2

1 About a month later, King Nahash of Ammon led his army against the Israelite town of Jabesh-gilead. But all the citizens of Jabesh asked for peace. “Make a treaty with us, and we will be your servants,” they pleaded. 

2 “All right,” Nahash said, “but only on one condition. I will gouge out the right eye of every one of you as a disgrace to all Israel!”

Saul decided not to compromise and communicated this to the rest of the people in Israel with equal aggression - He cut up the oxen and decided that would be the fate of anyone who compromised.

The compromise we need to look out for is primarily for our lives. Beca 

Seeking God

In the garden of Eden, Eve was drawn to knowledge rather than Life and God. Our lives can be drawn by fame, fortune and sin.... But we need to seek God.

We can also drawn away from God by suffering as well. And he said.... Blessed the the Lord who gives and takes away.

Where is our Devotion?

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