{"id":14451,"date":"2016-08-18T01:02:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T06:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/purity\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T01:02:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T06:02:55","slug":"purity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/purity\/","title":{"rendered":"PURITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>THE IVORY soap commercial says that the product is 99.7 percent pure. It has no additives, impurities, fragrances, or colors. Other soaps may look better or smell better, but Ivory distinguishes itself by its purity.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>In the same way, God wants His singles to boast about and distinguish themselves by their purity.738<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>[God\u2019s Standard; Sex]<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>1 Cor. 6:18; Eph. 5:3; Heb. 13:4<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>MANY people are only interested in organic food now. They don\u2019t eat other stuff because it\u2019s been sprayed with pesticides. Nowadays, doctors and the media alike are telling us that the traditional way our food is grown, in an attempt to grow it quickly and protect it from damage, is resulting in an accumulation of pesticides and contaminates to consumers.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>There are markets now like Whole Foods where it is possible to buy food that has not been so contaminated by man\u2014that has been not touched and contaminated by man.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Man has been spraying pesticides on vegetables and fruits for years in an attempt to fix a problem. But he has only created a new problem. The pesticides are full of chemicals that when introduced to the human body are very damaging. If man would just leave it alone and let God do His thing, all of a sudden things are healthy because man\u2019s not messing it up.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>When we\u2019ve allowed man to spray the pesticide of this world on our souls, then we wonder why the hearts don\u2019t work right. But if we\u2019ll go back to God and stop being double minded, we\u2019ll find out that God knows what He\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>How did people eat before we started spraying all of this stuff? God knew what He was doing before and He knows what He\u2019s doing now. All we have to do is allow Him to do His thing and stop trying to contaminate what He\u2019s in the business of perfecting.739<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>[Double-mindedness; Nature; Sin, Contamination by]<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Rom. 12:2; Col. 3:2; James 4:4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE IVORY soap commercial says that the product is 99.7 percent pure. It has no additives, impurities, fragrances, or colors. Other soaps may look better or smell better, but Ivory distinguishes itself by its purity. In the same way, God wants His singles to boast about and distinguish themselves by their purity.738 [God\u2019s Standard; Sex] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/purity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PURITY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}