In Acts 15, the Jerusalem Council requested the Gentile believers to avoid four things.  We addressed three of them yesterday.  The fourth item they were to avoid was sexual immorality.  Why focus on this?  Probably because it was a big issue of the day.  Sexual immorality was part of the culture, indeed part of the pagan worship.  And the Gentile believers needed to understand that sexual immorality was not how Christians acted.  They may have lived that way before, but as Christians they couldn’t anymore.  They had a new life in Christ.  They needed to pursue purity in conduct.

Much has changed in 2000 years, but sexual immorality is one of the big sins in our culture today as it was back then.  Sexual immorality is in the air we breathe, but it must not be found in Christians.  We can’t hook up for a one night stand.  We can’t live together.  We can’t have an affair.  We can’t engage in homosexual activity.  We must flee all sexual immorality.  We must pursue purity in conduct.