1 Corinthians 7:27-
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Product vs. Promise
Product vs. Promise
27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
Talking about divorce here
Talked about this a bit last time
And a commandment if you will to not seek a wife
He’s essentially saying don’t go seeking after a mate(I’ve never seen this before)
Seek the Lord and He will bring the perfect mate to you
22 He who finds a wife finds a good thing,
And obtains favor from the Lord.
So we see that it’s a good thing, but the way off going about it is most important
10 The young lions lack and suffer hunger;
But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.
Seek the Lord first:
If a mate is a good thing for you, the Lord will bring that person to you as you seek Him.
God brought Eve to Adam, Rebekah to Isaac, and Ruth to Boaz, and
He will bring things to you if you will seek Him and not a mate
The whole dating process as we know it in the western world today is not God’s way.
If you shop around and become emotionally and physically involved with a potential mate and then approach the Lord to ask, “Is this the one?” you are going to have a hard time hearing God’s voice.
You’re emotions often speak louder than anything else in your life if you’re aren’t careful
Once you’re invested emotionally it’s really hard to say no
Also not much good comes from window shopping
You end up spending money you couldn’t afford to spend
In your time of singleness you should be learning self discipline
Like it’s your job
Discipline to God and to yourself
The world teaches that this is the time of craziness
Do what you want before your married
Sowing bad seeds for your future
Develop as many bad habits as you can before marriage
But God has a different plan
This speaks in every area of our life:
What is your motive?
What are you doing this for?
What is your motive for your abundance?
What is your motive for you breakthrough?
Is it so that God can be glorified or you?
The world is completely product based:
This is the Joel-Pauline recipe for success:
1. Seek the producer first
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
2. Stand on His promises in expectation
4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
3. He provides
19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
28 But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you.
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none,
Time is short so keep focused on what’s important
Eternity
We should all live as a the last generation
A sense of urgency about us
Don’t let things distract your from your purpose
In a marriage relationship, you should be focusing on how you can help each full-fill their calling
Teamwork in ministry
30 those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, 31 and those who use this world as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away.
Possess the future:
Don’t dwell on the past
Focus on Him- he directs your paths
Kingdom business first- earthly business second
The message says “Deal as sparingly as possible with the things the world thrusts on you. This world as you see it is on its way out.”
We all have to eat, we all have to work, we all have to take care of our bodies
The world wants to overwhelm you with things you cant handle
If the enemy can’t get you preoccupied with sin, he will make sure to give you more than you can handle
God’s way provides the best solution for your situation
You notice when God shows up it’s best case scenario that you couldn’t have seen before?
Not too often with God am I like well I saw that coming
20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
20 For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
To the glory of God WHAT?
Seek the producer, stand on the promise, he creates the provision
It comes to you
You might have to step out in faith
You might have to provide an action
We stood on his promises
Writing a Check for our house sale
He through the help of an amazing real estate team brought a buyer
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
Having done all to stand, repeat the standing part
I don’t know how this got off into a faith message but somebody needs to hear it
Prayers:
Your future is blessed because the promises of God
You reap spiritual seeds you have sown
Pray for spirits of Faith
13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,
We speak to the mountain and be removed
You speak!
Take your hands off it enemy
A spirit of Faith
Pray for a spirit of Faith