Points of agreement from last week:

1. Sexual purity is the church’s business.2. Sexual purity is a make or break issue

for all.3. Sexual purity is a very serious matter.

The Church’s Responsibility:

1.Instruction/Education2.Accountability

1 Corinthians 6:1818Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Genesis 2:24-25 (NKJV) 24Therefore a man shall leave his

father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not

ashamed.

Matthew 19:5 (NKJV) …, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his

wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

–Mark 10:7-8 (NKJV) –Ephesians 5:31 (NKJV)

Titus 1:6 (NKJV) if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused

of dissipation or insubordination.

•1 Timothy 3:2 (NKJV) •1 Timothy 3:12 (NKJV)

1 Corinthians 7:2 (NKJV)

Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his

own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Proverbs 5:19 (NKJV)

As a loving deer and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at

all times; And always be enraptured with her love.

Hebrews 13:4 (NKJV)

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but

fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

“The Bible recognizes marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. Beacon Baptist

church recognizes homosexual practice as clearly defined in scripture as sinful. Persons

struggling with homosexual temptation will be loved, respected, treated with dignity and even

granted membership. Those practicing homosexuality or any other open sin are subject

to church discipline and will be denied membership and service opportunities within

Beacon Baptist church.”

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (NKJV) Do you not know that the unrighteous will not

inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor £homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10nor thieves,

nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the

name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

Leviticus 18:22 (NKJV)

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.

Leviticus 20:13 (NKJV)

If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their

blood shall be upon them.

Romans 1:26-27 (NKJV) For this reason God gave them up to vile

passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.

27Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the

penalty of their error which was due.

Jude 1:7 (NKJV) as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities

around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to

sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an

example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

1 Kings 14:24 (KJV)

And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations

which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

Genesis 19:4-5 (NKJV) Now before they lay down, the men of the city… called to Lot and said to him, “Where

are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know

them carnally.” …13For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has

grown great before the face of the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”

Mark 7:22 (KJV)

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye,

blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

2 Corinthians 12:21 (KJV) And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the

uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have

committed.

Galatians 5:19 (KJV)

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,

fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Ephesians 4:19 (KJV)

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto

lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

2 Peter 2:7 (KJV) And delivered just Lot, vexed with the

filthy conversation of the wicked:

Conclusions:1. Marriage is between a man and a

woman, their bed is not defiled.

2. Sex outside of marriage is fornication.

3. Homosexuality is fornication.

4. Pornography is a serious sin that will likely lead to fornication.