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Series: God-Honoring Relationships: Encouragement from 1 Corinthians
Title: Not Your Own – Faithful Marriage
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Opening Thoughts:
- All about discipleship
- Ways of doing “Unity” Candles, butterflies, sand (in an hourglass)
- “As long as our love will last”
- Superficial ways to invigorate our marriage.
- Usually, everything we do to revitalize our marriage is based on making ME happy.
Text: 1 Corinthians 7:1-16
7 Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. 3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. 5 Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 I say this as a concession, not as a command. 7 I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.
8 Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. 9 But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. 11 But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.
12 To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. 13 And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. 14 For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
15 But if the unbeliever leaves, let it be so. The brother or the sister is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace. 16 How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or, how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
Summarize the main story: Describe the events of the story in your own words.
- Review and retell the story.
Reflections for applications:
- 1 Corinthians 7:1-7 (Submission)
- o They evidently thought that abstaining from sex – even in marriage– showed new depths of personal holiness.
- o Wives, you don’t have authority over your body.
- o Husbands, you don’t have authority over your body.
- o Ephesians 5:21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
- o Mutual submission is foundational to a faithful marriage.
- 1 Corinthians 7:10-16
- o Marriage is a life-long commitment.
- o Matthew 19:4-6 4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
- o Every husband and wife should relentlessly pursue oneness and permanence in marriage.
- o Everything Paul says about marriage is about giving, not receiving.
- Application points:
- o Happiness is the foundational part of marriage.
- Pour into your marriage.
- o What are you contributing to your marriage right now?
Digging Questions:
How are your relationships?
What do these biblical texts tell you about God and His nature?
What is God calling us to do?
Take Away Challenges
What has the Holy Spirit revealed to you in this passage? How will you apply it to your life this week?
Whom do you know who needs to hear this?
What is God bringing to your attention in this discussion? What beliefs, thoughts or actions need to be addressed or changed?
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Sunday sermon link https://youtu.be/iN7KpE1Va-I
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