Saturday Morning Session 2 — Integrity in the Inner Life: Fighting Sin, Building Holiness
Title: Integrity in the Inner Life: Fighting Sin, Building Holiness
Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:3–8; Galatians 5:22–23
God’s will for you: your sanctification.
1. Personal holiness with our bodies: Glorifying God with your body
Application: Do you understand that your sexual urges and desires are a gift given to you by God to steward? How have you been stewarding this gift? What sin is in your life that you need to confess to someone today?
2. Masculinity Without Holiness is Destructive
Application: Where are you flirting with compromise? Is there a thought or hidden sin that you need to confess today and seek help from another Christian brother so that you can put this sin to death? Is there an area where sin promises comfort or success but you know it will ultimately destroy your witness?
3. We can only live this way through the Spirit’s Empowerment
Application: And so, our last moment to write something down is this: What secret sin do I have ring now the I’m giving myself to that I need to confess and repent of to God, privately? And then, the second question is: at what point today are you going to confess that sin to a brother around you?
Conclusion
Brothers, Integrity starts in our inner lives - in our hearts and heads - and it makes its way out into our hands and through our words. Let us not be men who stand courageously against the sins of our culture while harbouring the same kinds of sins in our hearts and minds. No, let us go to battle, together, fighting against sin so that we might grow in sanctification, for this is His will, that we:
Brothers, courage in the culture must be matched with holiness in the heart. If we will not stand here, we cannot stand out there.
Call to Action:
This week you may not face a fiery furnace like David, but you will face the subtle fire of temptation — on your screen, in your workplace, in your private life. Decide now: Will you bow, or will you fight? Will you compromise, or will you stand holy before the Lord?
Stand firm. Be strong. Let all you do — even in secret — be done in love, for the glory of Christ.