Purging the Evil - Putting Sexual Sin in Perspective

Deuteronomy 22:13-30
Purging the Evil - Putting Sexual Sin in Perspective
The Seventh Word, Part Four
Sermon Notes for January 30, 2011 by Pastor Dennis Tuuri

Intro - Law and Identity; Ps. 119:129-136
I. Purging the Evil - Context in Moses' Seventh Word Sermon Section
A. Some Sexual Sins are Evil
B. Master Your Stories - Don't Purge Non-evil
C. White and Black Swans - Sex Isn't Evil
D. A Peaceful Home and Community - Requires the Purging of Evil
II. Purging the Evil - Varieties of Evil

A. Dt 13:5 But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

B. Dt. 17:7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

C. Dt. 17:12 The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

D. Dt. 19:19 then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

E. Dt. 21:21 Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.