Recently a dear sweet lady who is a faithful member of my church came to me and asked me a very good biblical question. I love it when church members come to me with biblical questions because it reveals to me they are digging into the Word. Her question was regarding the verse in David’s great Psalm of confession, Psalm 51:12, "Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me." She said, “I have read this verse many times. I don’t know if I have ever really thought about it or if I have always just focused on the first part of the verse, but what do you think it means, ‘grant me a willing spirit?’”
In the last post I talked about the problem of keeping a pure heart in today’s visually driven world that bombards us with lewd and graphic images. With the internet, pornography has never been more easily accessible and seducing. Pornography is a moral plague upon our land that is ruining lives, marriages, and public morals.
On Sunday mornings at Ellendale Baptist Church I have been preaching through the Gospel of Matthew. In the last eight weeks I have preached on the Beatitudes. When we posted online the sermon, “Purity in A Pornographic World,” based on Matthew 5:8: “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God,” the downloads shot up almost overnight. Obviously the sermon hit upon an area where help is desperately needed. How does one maintain a pure heart in such a corrupt and evil world?
