INTRO:
Talking about sexual purity or immorality is considered taboo by many cultures. Why do you believe this is the case? The Bible deals directly with the subject. How can this encourage us to speak more openly in our families and discipleship relationships about sexual purity?

Read 1 Corinthian 6:18-20. This week’s sermon outline offered three preparations that believers can make to protect their sexual purity at all times.

1. Be prepared to RUN (v. 18)
2. Be prepared to REMEMBER (v. 19).
3. Be prepared to REFLECT (v. 20).

APPLICATION QUESTIONS

Consider the examples of Joseph (Genesis 39:6-12) and David (2 Samuel 11:1-4). How can Joseph’s example of fleeing encourage you? Why should David’s example serve as a great warning?
Verse 19 reveals that a Christian’s body serves as a temple of the Holy Spirit. How can remembering this reality protect your sexual purity? How does forgetting it make you even more vulnerable?
Verse 20 shares that believers were bought at a price. What was the finite cost that Christ paid? What was the infinite price that He paid? “You were purchased by the Lord Jesus Christ.” Spend a few minutes meditating on this reality before answering the transparency questions.

TRANSPARENCY QUESTION(S)

Am I truly making every effort to protect my sexual purity? Where is my purity most vulnerable (i.e. home, work, school, Internet, gym, friendships, etc.)? What path of wisdom do you believe the Lord would have you take to protect it even more?

CARE GROUP MEMORY VERSES

18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.