The 500 Year Plan: Family: Purity #2 Mark Hagen March 13, 2005 Mark Hagen March 13, 2005

Family: Purity #2 The 500 Year Plan Covetousness/lust: any desire that we seek to fulfill by thought or action toward someone who is not our spouse

Family: Purity #2 The 500 Year Plan Covetousness/lust: any desire [inappropriate intimacy] that we seek to fulfill by thought or action toward someone who is not our spouse

Family: Purity #2 The 500 Year Plan 1. Develop an accountability partner. Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up. - Ecclesiastes 4: Develop an accountability partner. Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up. - Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

Family: Purity #2 The 500 Year Plan 1. Develop an accountability partner. He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion. - Proverbs 28:13 1. Develop an accountability partner. He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion. - Proverbs 28:13

Family: Purity #2 The 500 Year Plan 2. Avoid Temptation Do not enter the path of the wicked, And do not proceed in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not pass by it; Turn away from it and pass on. - Proverbs 4: Avoid Temptation Do not enter the path of the wicked, And do not proceed in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not pass by it; Turn away from it and pass on. - Proverbs 4:14-15

Family: Purity #2 The 500 Year Plan 2. Avoid Temptation 40% of ________ regularly view pornography. The prudent sees the evil and hides himself, But the naive go on, and are punished for it. - Proverbs 22:3 2. Avoid Temptation 40% of ________ regularly view pornography. The prudent sees the evil and hides himself, But the naive go on, and are punished for it. - Proverbs 22:3

Family: Purity #2 The 500 Year Plan 3. Embrace your masculinity/femininity “The less a guy feels like a man in the presence of a real woman, the more vulnerable he is to porn.” - John Eldredge, Wild at Heart, p Embrace your masculinity/femininity “The less a guy feels like a man in the presence of a real woman, the more vulnerable he is to porn.” - John Eldredge, Wild at Heart, p.44

Family: Purity #2 The 500 Year Plan 3. Embrace your masculinity/femininity Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers, the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity. - 1 Timothy 5: Embrace your masculinity/femininity Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers, the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity. - 1 Timothy 5:1-2

Family: Purity #2 The 500 Year Plan