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Discipline of Purity
Study on Chapter 2 of Disciplines of a Godly Man (R. Kent Hughes)
- It is impossible for you to maintain a pure mind if you are a television-watching. In one week you will watch more murders, adulteries, and perversions than our grandfathers read about in their entire lives. (page 29)
- Do not bare your heart to another woman. Intimacy is a great need in most people's lives - and talking about personal matters, especially one's problems, can fill another's need for intimacy, awakening a desire for more. Many affairs begin in just this way. (page 30)
Food for Thought
Corinthian
(Q) “The contemporary evangelical Church, broadly considered, is ‘Corinthian’ to the core. Is it being stewed (너무 진한) in the molten (녹은) juices of its own sensuality.” Do you agree or disagree? Concerning your own church? Concerning your own personal life?
(A) Agree. My thoughts and temptations were/are very dangerous. I thought/think too casually. At work, in dream.
Moral Lapses
(Q) “At this moment [of lust] God … loses all reality … Satan does not fill use with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer). Have you found this true in your own battles with temptation? What is the most effective way to prevent moral lapses (쇠퇴)?
(A) I had those - even I knew I was doing wrong I still did follow my flesh. I should flee … eventually, I think, discipline is needed with God’s help
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8
(Q) Is 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 too narrow to consider as binding on Christian men today? Why or why not? If not, how can we put this passage to work so we will be victorious in our fight for purity?
No. Because God wants us, His children, pure/holy and we ought to love Him with all our things. So it’s not too narrow to consider. Think very seriously. Discipline our body; every day; cry out; God help me.
Holiness
(Q) What does God’s holiness have to do with our holiness (see Leviticus 19:2)? Considering the prevalent immorality of our culture, how can we possibly hope to keep our thoughts and behavior pure?
(A) We are children of God so we are to be holy. And Holy Spirit, who is living in us, is convicting us we have hope in the world. Also as God allowed me to have studying on this.
(Leviticus 19:2) “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
Maintain Hedges
(Q) It the admonition (경고) to maintain “hedges” in our relationships with the women in our lives really necessary? Isn’t this a putdown (무시하는) of women? Of ourselves?
(A) I think, very necessary. If I am pursuing righteousness, especially, in the eyes of God, that will do. I can’t trust on my thought which might come from flesh to rationalize my desire.
Applications
Application/Response
What did God speak to you about most specifically, most powerfully in this chapter? Talk to Him about it right now!
(1) “Mind” (page 29): it is impossible for you to maintain a pure mind if you are a television-watching. In one week you will watch more murders, adulteries, and perversions than our grandfathers read about in their entire lives.
(2) “Hedges” (page 30): refrain from verbal intimacy; do not touch; make it a threesome; never flirt
God, help me. I tried to ignore Sprit’s conviction; thanks for keep reminding me. Help me to response to your holiness!!
Think About It!
List at least half a dozen specific, practical applications concerning sexual morality from David’s experience in 2 Samuel 11.
- Don’t talk about personal things with women co-worker
- Don’t touch or be too close to them
- Don’t watch too much movies
- Memorize 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8
- Prayer partner
Questions
- Do not touch: how about church greetings?
- How much can I ask to my wife?
Words
(1 Thessalonians 4:3-8) For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. 7 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.8 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
(데살로니가전서 4:3-8) 하나님의 뜻은 이것이니 너희의 거룩함이라 곧 음란을 버리고 각각 거룩함과 존귀함으로 자기의 아내 대할 줄을 알고 하나님을 모르는 이방인과 같이 색욕을 따르지 말고 이 일에 분수를 넘어서 형제를 해하지 말라 이는 우리가 너희에게 미리 말하고 증언한 것과 같이 이 모든 일에 주께서 신원하여 주심이라 하나님이 우리를 부르심은 부정하게 하심이 아니요 거룩하게 하심이니 그러므로 저버리는 자는 사람을 저버림이 아니요 너희에게 그의 성령을 주신 하나님을 저버림이니라
