NCFP believes in “partnering with God” for the cause of purity. What do I mean by “partnering with God?” We believe that purity requires a divine partnership with God. There is a work in becoming pure which only God can perform and there is a work which God requires us to perform; one which He will not perform. Let me explain. On God’s side of the equation, only God can purify the heart of a sinner. Only God can make the unclean clean, the impure pure. He alone can change a heart. By “heart” I am not talking about the physical organ which pumps blood through the body. Rather “heart,” as used in the Bible, means the core or essence of a person. Your heart is the core of your being. Your heart is where your values and beliefs are stored (Romans 10:9, 10). Your heart is the seat of your affections (1 Timothy 5:1). Purity starts in the heart (Psalm 24:3,4; 51:10; 73:1). Only God can change a heart. Our hearts are “deceitful and wicked;” we can’t even know them (Jeremiah 17:9). So, that’s God’s divine work, not ours. Purity starts with God performing a miraculous heart transplant. He replaces my sinful heart with its sinful values and desires with a holy heart that desires righteousness and purity.

On our side of the equation is the work of purifying our lives of all that is ungodly, impure, and unclean. We are required to carry out the box of porn magazines from the basement and burn it. We are required to install accountability software on our computers. We are required to make a covenant with our eyes “not to look lustfully upon a young woman” (Job 31:1). All of those and many more are required of us as we discipline ourselves and raise the standard of holiness in our lives. The Apostle Paul writes, “Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God” (2 Corinthians 7:1). God has chosen to place the responsibility for disciplining ourselves to become more holy on us. God commands us to be holy saying, “Be ye holy even as I am holy” (1 Peter 1:16). He could do all the practical work of holiness if He wanted to. He could make the box of porn magazines disappear. He could override our wills and make us desire to live pure lives. He could strike us blind every time we looked with lust upon a woman (Matthew 5:28). He could but He doesn’t. Rather He’s chosen to partner with us in this great calling of sanctification.

In a lot of ways, the divine partnership for purity is similar to the divine partnership for evangelism. Who can save someone? Only God. Only God can take a lost, hell-bound sinner and save him because only God can change a heart. Transformation of sinners into saints is God’s job. Who is commanded to preach the Good News of salvation in Jesus Christ alone? Who are to be His witnesses? We are. God has given us the sublime privilege and responsibility of proclaiming the life-transforming, destiny-changing gospel to the lost. He could do it but He’s chosen to use us as His ambassadors. That’s an amazing partnership!

The purpose of NCFP is to call men and women to purity so that God can transform their hearts. We then give them the tools they need to discipline their lives. Purity is a divine partnership. Both halves of the equation are essential for us to live holy lives.

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