Don't Single Me Out
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If You’ve Been with us for the past few weeks I’ve really been harping on Marriage
I have really started something in the local church.
Jesus and Paul were Single
Dr.R.A. Vernon's 10 Rules of Dating
Single and Satisfied : These are people who for whatever reason, are content being single.
They honestly and sincerely don’t want to be with anyone right now. In some cases, these are individuals that have been through a lot with the opposite sex and just feel like they can do bad all all by themselves. Some have been divorced and others have been in one or more rough relationships that damages them emotionally, financially and sometimes even physically in such a way
Some are Single and Soiled
Satisfied for a Season : If your busy doing ministry, making money pursing education and just feel right now God has you working on you.
Single and Seeking = You want to give and receive love from someone, hopefully of the opposite sex. Seeking does not mean desperate.
Single and Sinning : Most singles are Sexually active in some form. The reality is that very few singles are celibate.
Corinth was a cesspool of immorality, one of the most immoral cities in the world of its day. All forms of sexual deviations ran rampant and were openly displayed. Loose living was the practice of spouse and neighbor, friend and stranger.
The Gift of Singleness
The Gift of Singleness
1 Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to abstain from sexual relations.
The word good (kalon) means advisable, advantageous, expedient, profitable, wholesome.
2 But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
1 Cor
7 Sometimes I wish everyone were single like me—a simpler life in many ways! But celibacy is not for everyone any more than marriage is. God gives the gift of the single life to some, the gift of the married life to others.
So How do you Know if You have the Gift
If you are called to being Single
Satisfied Defined- Content without the company of the opposite sex, and not overwhelmed with lust or any kind of sexual deviance
Some are Single and Soiled
They honestly and sincerely don’t want to be with anyone right now. In some cases, these are individuals that have been through a lot with the opposite sex and just feel like they can do bad all all by themselves. Some have been divorced and others have been in one or more rough relationships that damages them emotionally, financially and sometimes even physically in such a way
36 Anna, a prophet, was also there in the Temple. She was the daughter of Phanuel from the tribe of Asher, and she was very old. Her husband died when they had been married only seven years.
37 Then she lived as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the Temple but stayed there day and night, worshiping God with fasting and prayer.
Luke
38 She came along just as Simeon was talking with Mary and Joseph, and she began praising God. She talked about the child to everyone who had been waiting expectantly for God to rescue Jerusalem.
Satisfied Defined- Content without the company of the opposite sex, and not overwhelmed with lust or any kind of sexual deviance
Some are Single and Soiled
Satisfied for a Season : If your busy doing ministry, making money pursing education and just feel right now God has you working on you.
Single and Seeking = You want to give and receive love from someone, hopefully of the opposite sex. Seeking does not mean desperate.
Single and Sinning : Most singles are Sexually active in some form. The reality is that very few singles are celibate.
3 Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people.
3 God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin.
36 But if a man thinks that he’s treating his fiancée improperly and will inevitably give in to his passion, let him marry her as he wishes. It is not a sin.
1 Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to abstain from sexual relations.
2 But because of the temptation to impurity and to avoid immorality, let each [man] have his own wife and let each [woman] have her own husband.
So the Single Life is a Gift
1 cor
and The Married Life is a Gift
Both have its advantages as well as Disadvantages.
Marriage has a Purpose
Singleness has a Purpose
To Honor God
To Procreate the Earth
While doing so Raising up Disciples for the Lord Jesus
To be a Picture in the Earth of the Church and Christ
But Marriage does not make me Complete
34 And Peter said unto him, Æneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.
Make 9 34
Marriage isn't better, Singleness isn't better both have their advantages and disadvantages
It’s not deficient, just different!
There are Benefits And Blessings Of Being Single
20 And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’
Uninterrupted Intimacy With God.
Corinth was a cesspool of immorality, one of the most immoral cities in the world of its day. All forms of sexual deviations ran rampant and were openly displayed. Loose living was the practice of spouse and neighbor, friend and stranger.
The Gift of Singleness
The Gift of Singleness
1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
Leadership Ministries Worldwide. (1996). The First & Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians (p. 102). Chattanooga, TN: Leadership Ministries Worldwide.
8 To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am.
7 Sometimes I wish everyone were single like me—a simpler life in many ways! But celibacy is not for everyone any more than marriage is. God gives the gift of the single life to some, the gift of the married life to others.
It’s not deficient, just different!
Paul says that the Single life is Simpler
Man if you haven't been clocking out on Pastor these last few weeks you've been hearing me talking about
In A Godly Marriage there is a Death
In a Godly Marriage there will be Suffering
God gives some the grace to be single
The Deeds of a Godly Woman
The Actions of a Godly Woman Submission
The Demeanor of a Godly Woman
36 Anna, a prophet, was also there in the Temple. She was the daughter of Phanuel from the tribe of Asher, and she was very old. Her husband died when they had been married only seven years.
37 Then she lived as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the Temple but stayed there day and night, worshiping God with fasting and prayer.
38 She came along just as Simeon was talking with Mary and Joseph, and she began praising God. She talked about the child to everyone who had been waiting expectantly for God to rescue Jerusalem.
Uninterrupted Intimacy With God.
The Single life is ...
Good when you consider the present crisis in the world.
Good when you consider the present crisis in the world.
25 Now regarding your question about the young women who are not yet married. I do not have a command from the Lord for them. But the Lord in his mercy has given me wisdom that can be trusted, and I will share it with you.
26 Because of the present crisis, I think it is best to remain as you are.
27 If you have a wife, do not seek to end the marriage. If you do not have a wife, do not seek to get married.
28 But if you do get married, it is not a sin. And if a young woman gets married, it is not a sin. However, those who get married at this time will have troubles, and I am trying to spare you those problems.
Because of the turbulent days ahead family considerations it makes more difficult in times of persecutions
The Urgency of living in the last days
No Colliding Covenants
No Colliding Covenants
Single-minded Devotion to the Lord
No Dual Covenants
Selective Selfishness
32 I want you to be free from the concerns of this life. An unmarried man can spend his time doing the Lord’s work and thinking how to please him.
32 I want you to live as free of complications as possible. When you’re unmarried, you’re free to concentrate on simply pleasing the Master.
Complications of Marriage
Have the Pressures of Checking in
Pressures to provide
Pressure to perform
Marriage is Selflessness while Singleness is Selfishness!
Have the
36 Anna, a prophet, was also there in the Temple. She was the daughter of Phanuel from the tribe of Asher, and she was very old. Her husband died when they had been married only seven years.
37 Then she lived as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the Temple but stayed there day and night, worshiping God with fasting and prayer.
38 She came along just as Simeon was talking with Mary and Joseph, and she began praising God. She talked about the child to everyone who had been waiting expectantly for God to rescue Jerusalem.
5 For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.
33 But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife,
6 For the Lord has called you like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth when she is cast off, says your God.
You will Avoid the Sea of Delightful Distractions
You will Avoid the Sea of Delightful Distractions
20 Another said, ‘I just got married, so I can’t come.’
33 But a married man has to think about his earthly responsibilities and how to please his wife.
34 His interests are divided. In the same way, a woman who is no longer married or has never been married can be devoted to the Lord and holy in body and in spirit. But a married woman has to think about her earthly responsibilities and how to please her husband.
35 I am saying this for your benefit, not to place restrictions on you. I want you to do whatever will help you serve the Lord best, with as few distractions as possible.
20 Another said, ‘I just got married, so I can’t come.’
1 Cor
Spouses and children are what I call and the bible seems to imply to be
To me the biggest and most unappreciated benefit of being single is
Uninterrupted Intimacy With God.
One Energy Tank
Do You!
What time you going home! What time you going to be? When I get ready! What time is dinner, whenever I get hungry!
15 | P a g e
According to the U.S. Census, the proportion of married adults dropped from 57 percent in 2000 to 52 percent in 2009.
For the first time ever, single adult women outnumber married adult women in the U.S.
Rebecca Traister says the declining marriage rates among adult women are less about the institution of marriage and more about the choices available to women today. "The choice not to marry isn't necessarily a conscious rejection of marriage," Traister tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "It is [about] the ability to live singly if an appealing marriage option doesn't come along." In her new book, All the Single Ladies, Traister draws on historical research, interviews with about 100 women and her own experience to examine how delaying or abstaining from marriage affects women's lives. She notes that the shift allows women to build up "our economic and professional bases," which can result in greater autonomy and a more equitable distribution of domestic work in marriage.
Now don’t get it twisted I’m an apologist for marriage
38 So the person who marries his fiancée does well, and the person who doesn’t marry does even better.
11 But he said to them, “Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given.
12 Some are born as eunuchs, some have been made eunuchs by others, and some choose not to marry for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”