Overview
Join us at YX for week 2 of Clean, as we discuss how to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. One of the keys in the pursuit of being clean and clear is consistently staying close to God and casting off sin.
Big idea
Pursue being clean and clear by staying close to God and casting off sin.
Key Verses
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Proverbs 16:2
All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.
1 John 3:2-3
2 Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
1 Peter 1:14-16
14 So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then. 15 But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. 16 For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”
Jr. High Questions
Are you a day-dreamer? When do you find yourself zoning out?
In your own words, how would you describe purity?
Purity is a gift from God, through Jesus. What can you do in your thoughts and actions to maintain that gift?
How does the practice of taking your thoughts captive enable you to live according to what God says is pure and holy?
How can you stay closer to God this week to practice being clean and clear?
High School Questions
Are you a day-dreamer? When do you find yourself zoning out?
Matt talked briefly about how we often think of purity as something related to sex, but being pure means more than that. Where else can we apply the practice of purity?
Purity is a gift from God, through Jesus. What can you do to take on the responsibility that comes with that gift?
Read Proverbs 16:2 and 1 Peter 1:14-16. How can you submit what you feel might be pure to what God says is pure and holy?
How can you stay closer to God this week to practice being clean and clear?