Closing the door on Satan: Lesson 6 Moral Compass.

Closing the door on Satan: Lesson 6

Moral Compass

Jeremiah 8:12

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; In the time of their punishment They shall be cast down," says the Lord.

Morality & the Bible

Called to be Holy

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

Ephesians 1:4


Called to be Holy

"For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 7:6


Called to be Holy

but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,

1 Peter 1:15

The Bible defines what is Moral

What a person likes is the standard of some

O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.

Jeremiah 10:23


“I think” is the standard for many

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the Lord. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Isaiah 55:8-9


“Well, everyone else is doing it.”

You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.

Exodus 23:2


“It just seems right”

There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

Proverbs 14:12


Others say “it doesn’t matter because no one will see me”

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, Keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Proverbs 15:3


Some use the justification of “others do worse”

Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Matthew 7:5


“Well, it isn’t against the law”

But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: "We ought to obey God rather than men.

Acts 5:29

Spiritual Consequences of Immorality.

Division is a consequence of Immorality.

But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.

Isaiah 59:2


Division is a consequence of Immorality.

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

James 4:4


Destruction is a consequence of Immorality.

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, Loving favor rather than silver and gold.

Proverbs 22:1



A good name is better than precious ointment, And the day of death than the day of one's birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:1



Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit. When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long.



For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah

Psalm 32:1-4



If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear.

Psalm 66:18



Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

1 Peter 3:7

What about You?

1. If you have immorality in your life, it must be dealt with.

2. Are you ready to turn from immorality?

Closing the door on Satan: Lesson 6 Moral Compass.

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