1. Margin

3. Leaving Margin in Your Morality Margin

4. Moral Margin Putting distance between you and temptation

5. 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 (NIV) Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple 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 honor God with your body.

6. James 1:13-14 (NIV) When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed.

8. Romans 7:15 (NIV) I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

9. James 1:14-15 (NIV) For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

10. Romans 8:6 (NCV) If people's thinking is controlled by the sinful self, there is death. But if their thinking is controlled by the Spirit, there is life and peace.

11. Building Margin in Morality Sexual Morality

12. Ephesians 5:3 (NIV) But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality…

13. Sexual Morality Margin Dress for spiritual success Keep four feet on the floor Avoid dangerous conversations Monitor internet activity Dress for spiritual success Keep four feet on the floor Avoid dangerous conversations Monitor internet activity

14. Building Margin in Morality Sexual Morality Financial Morality Sexual Morality Financial Morality

15. Luke 12:34 (NIV) For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

16. Financial Morality Margin Live before an audience of one Don’t believe that everyone is doing it Honesty really is the best policy If it’s too good to be true…it’s probably not true Live before an audience of one Don’t believe that everyone is doing it Honesty really is the best policy If it’s too good to be true…it’s probably not true

17. Building Margin in Morality Sexual Morality Financial Morality Character Morality Sexual Morality Financial Morality Character Morality

18. Matthew 23:12 (NIV) For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

19. Character Morality Margin Pride really does go before the fall Consider the source Original ideas are rare Enjoy others in their otherness Pride really does go before the fall Consider the source Original ideas are rare Enjoy others in their otherness

20. Romans 6:12-14 (NIV) Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life;

21. and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. Romans 6:12-14 (NIV)

22. Leaving Margin in Your Morality Margin