1. Purity for Service
2 Timothy 2:20-26

7. Purity for Service
2 Timothy 2:20-26

8. 1. The Definition of purity
Our Call
Our Picture
Our Conformity

9. Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”

10. 1. The Definition of purity
Our Call
Our Picture
Our Conformity

11. 2. The Drive of Purity Our Purity Determines Our Nobility
Our Character > Our Skills or Talents

12. 3. The Development of purity
… Not by Passivity

13. 2 Peter 1:5-8
Applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excell-ence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perse-verance, and in your perseverance, godli-ness, and in your godliness, brotherly …

14. 2 Peter 1:5-8
… kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

15. 3. The Development of purity
… Not by Passivity
“Sins of commission are often the results of sins of omission.”

16. 3. The Development of purity
… Not by Passivity
“Our greatest battles don’t usually come when we’re working hard; they come when we have some leisure, when we’ve got time on our hands, when we’re bored.”

17. 3. The Development of purity
… Not by Passivity
… Not without Community

18. 1 Peter 5:9
But resist Him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world.

19. 3. The Development of purity
… Not by Passivity
… Not without Community
… Not without Humility

20. Purity for Service
2 Timothy 2:20-26