Hey everyone it's Leslie Lutie, host of the Set-A-Part-Grel Podcasts biblical

it's Leslie Lutie host of the Set-A-Part-Grel podcast biblical encouragement for women of all ages and today we're

going to dive into the topic of inner purity. I think in the church today we

tend to focus a lot on outward purity and there are a lot of abstinence commitments and

encouragement for young people on the importance of saving physical purity for marriage,

but often what's neglected is looking at the inner life and how

important it is to cultivate purity in your heart, mind, and soul. And really one of

the biggest problems with purity commitments today is that they

often do not start with a commitment to guarding inner purity. They're simply an

outward commitment. That was certainly my story as a young

Christian teen. I used to look at purity as simply a line that I wasn't supposed to cross.

And if you've heard me speak on this before you

probably heard my story I looked at purity as the edge of a cliff and I thought well as long as I don't

fall off the cliff I can inch my way closer and closer to that edge.

It was really interesting because as I lived that way on the outside,

I still could say, hey, I've got my abstinence commitment.

I haven't crossed that line. I can still wear this

promise ring. But inwardly, I knew that I truly wasn't living in purity with every step closer

I took to the edge of that cliff, I was losing

something sacred. I was giving something away that was meant to be saved. And my conscience really

began to bother me, even though when I went to church I

measured myself against the standards that were being presented and I thought well

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