Trespassing on another person’s property is criminal. Trespassing on another person’s purity is perhaps even more serious, and every one of us are responsible to keep our distance.
There are a lot of different people in our ministry, let alone others of you reading this. I don’t know really where each student is when it comes to their thinking about purity and relationships. I don’t know what your thoughts on dating are or if you kissed dating goodbye. Maybe some of you have even kissed dating hello. I don’t know what you believe is acceptable on Friday and Saturday nights. I don’t know what you’re posting on the internet or the things you don’t even share with your best friend. Some of you might still think boys have cooties. Some of you may already be struggling with impurity while others will receive this series more like preventative medicine to keep them from trespassing in the future.
But the temptations to trespass are no respecter of persons. So whatever you think and wherever you are in life, we can all agree that worldly values are pushed on us every day. We are bombarded with suggestive (if not blatantly immoral) advertising. We are shelled with immoral entertainment choices. Most television, music, movies, and magazines, even many of our conversations with friends or teammates or classmates, are intended to program us to treat purity as a matter of indifference. We are taught to believe that it doesn’t really matter. Our culture expects us to accept immorality in others and it is a short progression until we increasingly ignore the impurity in our own lives.
We are constantly blitzed with thoughts and images and suggestions from the world in its attempt to conform us, and specifically our ideas about relationships and about purity, to itself. How about you? What is your idea of the perfect relationship — and where did it come from? Where do you get your standard of purity? What do you think about the impurity that you watch — some of you watching it over and over and over again — is it alarming to you? Do you grieve over it enough to stop your intake? Or have you seen enough of it now that you’re “used” to it? Have you seen so much of it that now it’s even starting to look good to you and you’d like to try it out?
I don’t know. But the world systematically teaches us to ignore and pass over sin. We are indoctrinated to ignore and pass over impurity in our hearts and minds. We are daily tested to see if we will hold the line. But God’s position is clear that trespassers in the arena of relational purity will be prosecuted.
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