But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
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… Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband. So if you can't exercise self-control, you need to get married. and they answered him not a word. Elijah was preaching one time. He said, choose you today who you're going to serve. If God be God, follow him. If Baal be God, follow him. Elijah was preaching, and the scripture says they answered him not a word. That means they were halted between two opinions. Just like y'all didn't say amen, didn't say nothing, y'all must be halted between two opinions. I am. I'm doing the best that I can. so I I want to I'm challenging you I'm starting this series because I want you to know I want I want particularly the young people especially the young adults I want you to understand even though the world practices and operates in a certain way you are a child of the most high God and you're not called to live like the rest of the world and the problem is the world here's the problem the problem is the world operates by its own mentality, by its own thoughts, what it thinks is best. And you know what it ends up? It ends up with trouble and problem and issues and challenges and frustration and depression because you're operating based on what you think as opposed to what God says. And God establishes what he wants you to do. Somebody look at your neighbor. He's …
This word is used numerous times where it has to refer to that rather than to say a broader unfaithfulness as a married spouse. For example, in first Corinthians chapter seven, verse two, Paul says, because of temptation to immorality, that is for Naya, each man should have his own wife and each woman should have her own husband. So clearly the meaning of porniah is premarital sexual relations. Because of temptations to premarital fornication, each man should have his wife and each woman should have her husband. There the meaning is crystal clear. It's premarital sexual promiscuity. Second, Matthew 15, 19. Jesus says, out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication. There's the word fornication. It's so clearly a reference to premarital sex because it's used alongside adultery that the RSV goes against its usual translation and calls it fornication instead of immorality. It has to be because it's not adultery. That's here in this word. Moikia pornia. Two different things. So pornia has a focus on premarital sexual promiscuity. …
Oh God, there's a lot we just read in your word that brings about all kinds of different thoughts and questions. And so we express our total dependence on your spirit to teach us this morning. Pray that over the next few moments in each of our lives, as many who are single, many who are married, that you would help us to understand specifically what you show us in your word about singleness and that you would, by your spirit, apply that to our hearts and our lives today for the spread of the gospel in the next generation and in all nations. We trust you by your spirit to bring clarity to our minds and hearts and specifically to each situation represented around this room. Help us, we pray. In Jesus' name, amen. Okay, four foundations for biblical singleness. And this is where we're going to camp out most of our time. We're going to let that springboard into just flying through reasons to delight in singleness. But these foundations are, well, they're just that. …
… matters about which he wrote, it's good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman, but because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. In other words, if you want to indulge in sexual activity, thinking, desiring, acting, then get married and do so with your wife or your husband. But as long as you're single, don't flee, which requires God's grace, God's help that God promises to give by his Holy Spirit who dwells in you. And this world desperately needs single followers of Christ who will counter the cultural lie that sexual expression is okay or even necessary for ultimate fulfillment in life. So singles, don't settle for compromise in your life, in this culture, whether it's with someone else or on a screen. Don't do it. By the grace of God in you, flee sexual immorality. Let God's grace and God's spirit in you guards you from all unholy sexual desires. And I should add at this point, some of you might be thinking through all this, well, there's single people and there's married people, but what about dating people? And the answer to that biblically is there's no third category. You're either married or you're single. And it's not that dating is wrong, but if you're dating, you're still in the single category. So don't act like you're married. We don't have time to do a whole section on dating here, but particularly under this umbrella of guarding …