Malcolm Cox

No complacency, room for growth Focus on purity and love 1. Purity     - Immorality was as part of the culture then as now. Expected, allowed. “Continence was regarded as an unreasonable demand on a man. Leon Morris, NICOTNT     - "Pagan temples regularly doubled as brothels, and sexual practices of all sorts were at least tolerated if not actively encouraged within the society as a whole." Wright, Everyone     - “Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your bodies.” (1 Corinthians 6:18–20 NIV11)     - Self-control - about habits, not instances     - ‘a holy life’ - it is possible. Reassuring! We breath ‘holy air’. 2. Love     - God-taught: ““This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declar