Michael Koelling: Purity Passion Week 1 Seven

These seven words can relate to your life in whatever spiritual season you find yourself in. They are the core calues of my life and our student ministry.

• Purity-Before God and Men
• Passion-Worship/Service
• Perseverance-Living Christianity Out
• Prayer-Demonstration
• Presence-Discipleship
• Pursuit-God’s Word/Fasting/Giving
• People-Evangelism/Opportunity

I believe this series will encourage, grow, and inspire us to move forward into God's perfect plan for our lives, for His global church, and for those that need to know Christ.

Psalm 86:9-13 (NLT)
"All the nations you made will come and bow before you, Lord; they will praise your holy name. [10] For you are great and perform wonderful deeds. You alone are God. [11] Teach me your ways, O Lord, that I may live according to your truth! Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you. [12] With all my heart I will praise you, O Lord my God. I will give glory to your name forever, [13] for your love for me is very great. You have rescued me from the depths of death."

1. Love for God motivates purity.

When you have a right relationship with God purity begins a work in you.

When purity begins that work you know it, you feel it, you hear it, you see it, and it changes you as you respond to it.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NLT)

"This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!"

2. Love is motivated by belief, love is motivated by gratitude, love is motivated by biblical truth.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NLT)

"Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud [5] or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. [6] It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. [7] Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance."

1. Purity requires that you remove all the things that dilute and taint you.

Proverbs 17:3 (NLT)

"Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but the Lord tests the heart."

Purity in God is kept, created and obtained through worship, prayer, bible reading, serving, discipleship, Godly relationships, hearing and applying the word of God.

To be used of God mightily, passionately, purposefully, purity is a requirement, prerequisite.

Your purity before God and men is directly linked to your passionate assignment for Him.

You purify yourself and your assignment will overtake you.

Purity is private.

God has chosen you, called you, ordained (ordered and issued) you to become pure before Him.

2. Passion

Passion is external.
Passion is contagious like a disease.

Working for God will never take the place of worshipping God.

Over 2,000 ago a group of people with no smart phones, no internet access, no social networking, and no bus routes were commanded by Jesus to reach the world.

And instead of making excuses they simply got passionate went “All In”…and our world has NEVER been the same!

It has happened before…what if it happened again?
This year?

At Solid Rock? At Youthrock?

I can promise you this...

It would impact your life in ways you could never imagine as you simply did not “attend” but rather learned how to ENGAGE!
It would impact this church in that we would take giant leaps in our quest to reach 2,500 people for Christ.
It would impact family members and friends whom we deeply care about.

1 Chronicles 13 David trying to move the purity, passion and presence of God in a new way.

1 Chronicles 15:12-15 (NLT)
"He said to them, "You are the leaders of the Levite families. You must purify yourselves and all your fellow Levites, so you can bring the Ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it. [13] Because you Levites did not carry the Ark the first time, the anger of the Lord our God burst out against us. We failed to ask God how to move it properly." [14] So the priests and the Levites purified themselves in order to bring the Ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to Jerusalem.

[15] Then the Levites carried the Ark of God on their shoulders with its carrying poles, just as the Lord had instructed Moses."

The presence of God must be individually carried upon the man/woman of God's shoulders.

Responsibility, accountability, purity, and passion.

Individually.

We have to properly carry the presence of God, He will not be carried without purity, and will not be carried without passion.
He has policies, procedures, a code of conduct if you will that must be intricately followed.

Then Israel rejoiced because when properly handled into God's procedures He will help you carry the weight, the burdens, the pressure, but only as we follow His will.

1 Chronicles 15:26 (NLT)
"And because God was clearly helping the Levites as they carried the Ark of the Lord's Covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams."

God does His part when(denotes a specific moment in time) we do our part.

Purity is our part.
Passion is our part.

His presence, His power, His healing, His restoration, His will, His timing, His blessing, His forgiveness, is His part.

1 Chronicles 13:14 (NLT)
"The Ark of God remained there in Obed-edom's house for three months, and the Lord blessed the household of Obed-edom and everything he owned."