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The War Within - Pursue Purity...

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"Make a pre-determined decision to stay pure, and that you won't date anyone who has not made the same commitment.   Abstain from every form of evil!"   1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 " We often feel like there is a war going on within us. One part of us (the inner person) wants to do what we know to be right, and another part (the outer person) wants to do what is wrong. The wrong thing can feel right, while the right thing feels wrong. Remember that we cannot judge the moral value of any action by how we feel. Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth. A Christian woman may become emotionally attached to a man other than her husband; she may feel that she could never be happy without him, yet deep inside she knows that leaving her family for the  other man would be the wrong thing to do. She doesn't want to hurt anyone. She doesn't want to disappoint family and friends, but her feelings and emotions and is in the midst of a t...