Passion

Revelation 3:14,15 (NKJV)

14“And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write,‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: 15“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.

Passion – Strong and Barely Controlled Emotion

Passion Meter

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Passion for Purity

I Timothy 5:22 (NKJV)

22Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in other people’s sins; keep yourself pure.

Purity in a Polluted World

A Picture for Purity

I Corinthians 6:18 (NKJV)

18Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

I Corinthians 6:19,20 (NKJV)

19Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Flee Fornication

Prayer and Purity

Psalms 66:18 (NKJV)

18If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear.

Impurity clogs up our Spiritual Arteries

The Power of Purity

Hebrews 10:19-25 (NKJV)

19Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21and having a High Priest over the house of God, 22let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Purity Produces Confidence and Comfort

The Plea and Prayer for Purity

Philippians 2:15 (NKJV)

15that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Psalms 51:10 (NKJV)

10Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

The Return of the Holy Rollers

Holy Rollers – A member of one of the Protestant Groups whose worship meetings are characterized by spontaneous expressions of emotional excitement.