The Results Of Sexual Impurity – Sexual Purity Sermon Series

Hello and welcome to Social Media Ministries. My name is Spencer Coffman. Thank you so much for being with us today. This is part three of a three-part sermon series on purity, more specifically “Sexual Purity”.

So if you’ve been with us for the past couple of weeks, that’s excellent. I hope that you are enjoying this series, that you are sharing these sermons on your social media. Because guess what?

The world, society, Google crawlers, search engine crawlers, SEO, the metrics, algorithms, they don’t want to promote this. Number one, because it has keywords related to sex and sexual, and it’s positive. So number two, because it’s the Bible. And so they don’t want any of that out there.

They would rather promote sex trafficking or pornography than the biblical sexual stance. All right, so the only way we can have more people see this is if you share it. So if you’ve enjoyed this and you think it’s worth watching, please consider sharing it with other people as well. We thank you for that.

In addition, a little bit of a disclaimer: we are talking about purity, more specifically relating to sexual purity, in this sermon series. So, if you are new and this is your first time watching, please consider checking out the other two sermons. They’ll be in a playlist up here in a card for this series, or go to our website. You can watch them.

But also, a little bit of a disclaimer is, if you have children watching with you, you may want to censor that. Now that’s up to you. I think that everything that we talk about here is fine for children because it’s something that is of the Bible, and they can learn about that.

That being said, children who are in kindergarten, they don’t need to know about what goes on in marriage and marriage relationships. But children of grade school ages, a little higher, maybe 10, 12ish, they’re probably learning this and a lot worse in school already.

So as they’re starting to be filled with the bad stuff in school, it’s essential that we come alongside them and correct that with what the Word of God says. They’re learning the lie — we need to show them the truth so that they don’t start to believe the lies of the enemy.

And that being said, parental discretion. If you want to get your kids set up somewhere else, go for it. But continue, please. You need to watch this because this is important in our society, especially today, and really of all time.

This is something that’s been going on from way back when. Wrote a lot about sexual purity. The Old Testament had whole cities destroyed because of their sexual impurity. Cities like Sodom and Gomorrah were horrible.

You read Genesis or the Book of Jasher, and you learn about what happened in Sodom and Gomorrah and all of the horrible things that citizens did to each other, that they did to travelers as they came in, that they did to people in hotel rooms.

Nowadays, it would be like if people stayed in hotel rooms in your city. The traveler didn’t know it, but those hotel rooms were actually places for forced sex trafficking or something like that, where things would just take place, and then they’d boot the traveler out to go on their way. And it’s terrible stuff that went on.

Now, of course, is it happening today? Well, human sex trafficking is a multi-billion-dollar industry, so yes, it probably is happening today. We just don’t seem to know about it. Every once in a while, a story will come out on the news, like Epstein Island or something, and then we say, “Oh, isn’t that terrible?” and then we get on with our lives.

Guess what? Let’s put a stop to this. Fight against it. It’s not okay. And so we need to make sure that people know and understand it’s not okay. And guess what? If Christians believe this to be a certain way, then they better stand up for it.

They better back up the Word of God, and they better not be ashamed. Too many Christians today, “Oh, well, okay, like the Pope will accept gay marriages.” Why? Well, because they’ll come and pay our churches lots of money to get married there. No, unacceptable.

Or churches nowadays, “We welcome all with diversity. Come as you are, be who you are, be who you want to be.” No. Yes, come as you are, fine, but you’re not going to be who you want to be. You’re going to be who Christ wants you to be.

All right, you’re not going to believe what you want to believe. You’re going to believe what the Bible tells you to believe. Now, does that sound forceful or harsh? Maybe, but guess what? That’s the truth.

And for those of you who are chewing on lies, the truth is going to be like biting into a rock because that’s how firm it is. All right, so get with the program. The truth is here, and it is real, and it is the Word of God, and that’s what we preach.

And that’s what you need to know and understand, specifically when it comes to marriage, sex, gender identity, sexual immorality, purity, lust, sexual impurity, fornication, all of this kind of stuff. You must know what the Word of God says.

Because these topics are so dicey, they’re so sensitive, they’re, “Ooh, hush-hush.” But if you know what the Word of God says, how easy is it going to be for you to talk to your teenager about this stuff? Because you said, “Look, this is what the Bible says.”

It’s not, “Hey, um, so your body’s changing. I know you might have some feelings.” No, look, the Word of God says this. It’s all over in the Bible. Let’s read it together, and let’s talk about it. You feel these things? Let me tell you, that’s completely natural.

But guess what? God says it’s not good to be acting on those feelings until you’re married. So stay in the Word, feed your spirit, and He will help you through that until the time is right for you to get married and act on those feelings. Very simple.

All right, so what are we talking about today? All of this. It’s very, very important. We’ve had in this sermon series, we talked about sexual immorality and we talked about sexual lust. In addition, about a year or so ago, we had a sermon on “No Impure Sexual Thoughts.”

You need to check that one out as well. That sermon was a standalone, but it kind of kicked off the series. So what I’ll probably do is put that in the playlist for this sermon series playlist. You’ll see it’s a three-part sermon series, but there are going to be four in the playlist.

Because I’m going to start it off with that one, which really kind of inspired this. Because so many people were like, “Hey, this is a great topic. No church talks about this kind of stuff. No one preaches about this kind of stuff.”

They’re all scared of it. They’re shy. They don’t want to upset the congregation. They want the offering money coming in. They want the people coming in. I don’t know what the reason is, but people decide that they don’t want to talk about this kind of stuff in churches.

Guess what? Church is the place to talk about this kind of stuff. Do you know why? Because we need to know what God says about it, and we need, as Christians, to do what God says about it. All right, so what is the result of sexual impurity?

If you choose to live in this way, what, first of all, what is sexual impurity? Sexual impurity is anything sexual that is not pure. You say, “Yes, of course, I understand that.” You can go look up the dictionary definition, Webster’s. You can go to the Strong’s Concordance, look that up.

But the point is, be careful if you’re typing that into Google, ‘cause you know who knows what you’re going to get. Sexual impurity is really any sexual activity outside of marriage. Marriage is between a man and a woman.

So, any type of sexual activity outside of the confines of marriage is sexual impurity. Anything that is not a man and a woman, a male and a female, as God created them, together to become one, is sexual impurity. Let’s get into Leviticus.

Leviticus 20:13, “If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”

Put to death, their blood will be on their own heads. All right, so if two men or if two women have sexual relations, they are to be put to death. That’s according to the Bible. Does that still apply today? That’s Old Testament, Old Covenant. We have a New Covenant now.

So we’re going to get into that. That means if you see two gay people kissing on the street, you don’t go up and kill them and say to the police, “No, sorry, it says I can put them to death.”

No, that’s not what it’s saying. All right, the point is, if there are any homosexual relationships going on, they have done what is detestable in God’s sight.

And God does not tolerate disobedience. We have a sermon about that. It’s called “Zero Tolerance.” Watch it. It’ll be in a card up here. Go to our website, type in “Zero” or “Tolerance,” and you can find it there.

So in the same way, if a woman has sex with a woman, or if a man or a woman has sexual relations with two members of the same family, that is also detestable in God’s sight. Let’s go to Leviticus 20:14, so the very next verse.

Leviticus 20:14, “If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.” Wow, what is that? Also, it could be defined as some type of incest, perhaps. Let’s go to Leviticus 18:6.

Leviticus 18:6, the whole Chapter 18 is an entire chapter, verse by verse, of unlawful sexual relations. So let’s go to Leviticus 18:6. It says, “No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am Yahweh.”

So, no sexual relations with any close relative. And then it goes on to define all of it throughout the chapter as to what is a close relative. Brothers, sisters, this, that, this, this, this, this. You can go through and read these. Basically, these you must follow. You still need to follow these.

So no incest. That’s what we call it today, incest. You can’t have that. Now, what is a result of that? Well, death. Death. The result of sin is death. Romans 6:23, “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life.”

So if the wages of sin is death, now let’s take a look at some incest that we know happened in the Bible. Lot and his daughters. Remember, Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed. Lot and his family are led out by the angels who have destroyed. Lot’s wife looks back, pillar of salt.

The two daughters — they’re up in a cave with their father. They say, “Man, we don’t know. We might be the last people on Earth. We better preserve our family line.” So let’s get the father drunk — sin — and let’s have sexual relations with him so that we can be impregnated by him.

We’ll do that one night, and then the next time we’ll get him drunk again, and the other sister did the same thing. Like I said, if the Bible in this part were a movie, it’d be rated R for sure. So here’s the deal. What happened then?

Well, drunkenness twice for Lot, slept with his own daughters, also a sin. But he was drunk, so arguably, did he know what was going on? That’s not a debate for us to go through. The daughters willfully and knowingly engaged in that type of behavior even though they knew the law.

They knew the Covenant, so they knew it shouldn’t have been good. All right, they shouldn’t have done that. But the point is, what happened? Well, those two family lines, each daughter had a son, and those family lines were cursed.

Cursed by God. They had all kinds of problems going through. They were always at odds with each other. They were always wandering. They were troubled. They were cursed. We have a sermon about that called “Cursed Generations.” Check that out, in a card up here or on our website.

One point about a curse is, the Bible also says, “Cursed is anyone who is hung on a tree.” Christ was hung on a cross for us, so He became the curse. Meaning that, yes, even though in the Old Testament there were those generational curses, for you, when you become a new creation in Christ, all that’s gone.

So if you say, “I traced my family lineage all the way back to Lot’s daughter. I’m cursed forever.” Become a Christian, boom, you’re no longer cursed. Why? Christ became the curse for you. Now your father is no longer all the way back to Lot. It’s right to God.

Christ is your brother. God is your father. End. Continue on. God wants all this wickedness to be eliminated. He doesn’t want to tolerate this. He doesn’t want this in the world. He doesn’t want it in life.

1 Corinthians 6:9 to 11, “Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who have sex with men, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”

Listen, do not be deceived. All of these sexual sins, all of these other sins, if you participate in those, you will not inherit the kingdom of God. Christ and the Father — they do not tolerate wickedness. You must live around righteous people.

Look at Lot. He lived in the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Abraham, remember, was pleading about the whole city. And he said, “God, what if there are 100 righteous people? What if there are 50 righteous people? What if there are only 10 righteous people? Fine, I won’t destroy the city.”

Here’s what I’m going to do. I’ll get Lot and his family out. How many people were that? Out of the whole city, Lot, his wife, his two daughters, four. Maybe a miscellaneous servant we don’t know about, or something like that. But the point is, Lot’s household was the only one rescued.

Lot was living around unrighteous people. In one instance, before the city was destroyed, this is — think about Lot, a righteous person, and what does he do in this story? The angels are banging on the door. Okay, what happens is the people in the square — Sodom and Gomorrah was messed up, man.

You read some of the old historical accounts about what went on in those cities. Any travelers that came into the city, they had beds in the public squares that they would tie up travelers on for all of this sexual impurity to go on. They had hotels that were — these travelers would find lodgings, and then it would be in trouble. It was bad.

God said, “I’m destroying this.” Lot lived there. What in the world? Do not live around anything unrighteous. Get out. Do not associate with people like that. Turn from it. As Proverbs says, “Go on your way. Avoid it. Do not travel on it. Turn from it and go on your way.” As if it couldn’t be more specific.

So what happened? These angels come to the door. The men in the town square want to have sexual relations with them, homosexual relations. Lot pulls the angels into his house, not knowing they’re angels. The men are beating down the door, saying, “Throw these men outside. We want to have sex with them.”

Lot says, “Hey, no, don’t do this terrible, wicked thing. I have two virgin daughters. Let me give them to you, and you can have sex with them.” How is that any better? Well, because it wasn’t homosexual? No, Lot was so confused in this. Why? Because he was living around such unrighteousness.

Yet still, God knew him to be a righteous person and saved him. So the point is, you cannot live around unrighteous people. You cannot associate with unrighteous people. Why? Lest you be like them. Let’s go to a few verses.

Proverbs, which proverb, you say? Proverbs 13:20. Proverbs 13:20, “Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.” Lot suffered harm living with those fools there. There’s no exceptions to this. You must live around righteous people.

Let’s go to 1 Corinthians 15:33, “Do not be misled: Bad company corrupts good character.” Don’t be misled. Bad company will corrupt good character. If you live around unrighteous people, it will weigh heavily on your soul, and soon you will become like them. Do not be misled.

We have a sermon called “Pull You Down.” Watch that. They will pull you down. You can’t have that in your life. Let’s go to another verse. Leviticus 18:28-29.

Leviticus 18:28-29, “And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you. Everyone who does any of these detestable things — such persons must be cut off from their people.”

You cannot engage in any of this sexual impurity. Why? What will happen? You will be cut off from your people. There is no place in the Kingdom of Heaven for you if you do these things, if you continually choose to live this way.

Now, fortunately, for anyone who is sexually impure or who engaged in any form of sexual impurity, Christ already died for you. He became the curse so that you would not have to be cursed. He went to hell for you so that you do not have to pay that penalty and go to hell.

But the wages of this sin is death. As we read in Corinthians, it is separation from God. Any of those people — the homosexuals, the sexually immoral, the impure, the idolaters, the adulterers — any of those sexual sins, and Christ says that if you look at someone lustfully, you’ve committed adultery with them in your heart.

Therefore, anyone who is lustful also has that sexual sin in there. If you do any of those things, what is the result? Death, hell, damnation, punishment.

We have a sermon series, “Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory.” I really encourage you to check that one out. It’ll be on our website or on a card on the YouTube channel.

But the point is, Jesus died for you. He paid that price. He went to hell for you. We have another sermon series, “Saved By Grace.” There are a lot of them, so check them out. That’s a playlist, “Saved By Grace.” Go to our website, type in “Grace,” or check it out on the YouTube channel.

Jesus died so you can have new life in Him. Yes, you were a slave to sin. The wages of sin is death. You are condemned. But if you believe in the Lord Jesus, you will be saved because He took that punishment for you. He died; therefore, you can live and be forgiven.

However, you must come to God and repent for those sins. We have a playlist on Forgiveness, four-part sermon series on Forgiveness. Check that out. Go to our website, type in “Forgiveness,” or on a card on the YouTube channel.

Anyone who is living in sexual sin, that is a choice. Remember, it is a sin against your own body. It is a lifestyle that people are choosing to live in. They are choosing that lifestyle over the ways of God. They are choosing to walk against what God says. They must repent.

Help them do that. Don’t go over there and condemn them. That’s God’s job. Your job is to show them the Bible, show them the Word, help them understand what’s going on. If they don’t want to listen to you, then your job is to pray for them.

Because by praying for them and by loving them, continuing to be their friend, helping them, now you say, “Wait a minute, don’t associate with them.” No, don’t throw in your lot with them. Don’t walk along with them on the way. If sinners entice you, do not go along with them. Remember, that’s what Proverbs says.

But you can be a light to them. You can teach them. And sometime after praying with them and for them, God may soften their heart. They may be ready to listen. Never give up. You must help them realize that.

Let’s go to Ephesians 4:17-19, “So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.”

Sounds like our society today. We are so desensitized in this. TV shows today have high schoolers in all kinds of sexual relationships with partners of partners, bi, gay, trans, all these alphabet soups, TV shows, and it’s normal. Guess what? It’s not normal.

They have lost all sensitivity. They have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity. They are full of greed. Do not be like that. As a follower of Christ, it is your job to be different.

You need to live as Christ wanted you to live. Many Christians today don’t believe what we’re talking about here. It’s your job to help them see and understand the Word of the Lord, the light of life, Jesus Christ.

Let’s pray.

Father, thank You so much for this sermon series on such a touchy and hush-hush, controversial topic. I ask that it would be very inspirational for those watching and listening, that they would be inspired and convicted to make covenants with their eyes, to take every thought captive.

To renew their mind and transform themselves, to purify their hearts and minds, to keep sex within marriage, to avoid and flee sexual immorality, sexual impurity, and sexual lust, that they would stay away and have no impure sexual thoughts.

Father, that they would live for You, and that they would be an inspiration to others so that they could help other people live for You as well. That they would talk about this with others, that they would share it with others, that they would refer other people to these Scriptures.

That they would learn these Scriptures and that they would know where they need to stand on this topic, because they need to stand on the Word of God, on Your Word. Father, help them do that.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

I really hope you’ve enjoyed this sermon series. I think it is a very timely message, and it needs to be heard among thousands of people. And we’re going to do our best to keep preaching the Word of God and make sure it is heard around the world.

Have a great week, and God bless.