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Some things you may not know about me.
I have been single longer than I have been married.
This November Amy and I will celebrate 14 years of marriage.
The only relationship I tried before the age of 14 was in the 3rd grade and I would raise my eye brows at the girl.
yeah that didn’t go well for me and I never got to date that girl.
My mom bought my clothes up until the 9th grade.
Most of my stylish clothes to that point came from van heusen.
I was the youngest old looking dude in the junior high.
In 9th grade, my older sister started helping my mom pick out my clothes.
I looked so much better and even started dating at that point.
I had a total of 4 girlfriends and that includes Amy.
1 Corinthians 7
Prayer
1 Corinthians 7:17-
v.17
The word called here reminds us of the divine call in Salvation.
We do not choose God in salvation; God chooses us!
When God gives us certain gifts and calls us in a certain life situation, we should live the life God sets before us and using the gifts that God has given us.
This is for all churches
v.18
To the Jews, circumcision was everything.
If you were not circumcised, then you were considered to be outside of the blessings of God that God established for his own.
Paul says this does not matter.
Both circumcision and uncircumcision are nothing; they do not matter at all.
What does matter is keeping God’s commands.
Jesus said the all the of the law can be summed up in two things.
Matthew 22:
v.20
Speaks again of the divine call of God and the word remain is a thought of continuance.
Cell phone numbers change less frequently then they once did.
Phone numbers would change all the time.
Every week people were getting a new number.
Paul says to remain or continuance in where God has called you.
Stay consistent, be constant and don’t change like people would change cell numbers.
v.21
Don’t let it trouble you that when you were called you are a slave.
If God called you while a slave, then he will give you the grace to live as a slave.
If you are a slave do not worry.
If you can be made free, then make use of your new status.
It is your relationship to the Lord that matters most.
v.22
It does not matter what state you are called in.
When you are called you are the Lord’s, the outward condition you are in does not matter.
The important thing for the free man is his relationship to Christ; his whole life is to be lived in lowly service to his Master.
Nothing matters alongside this.
v.23,24
Believers have been bought by Christ’s blood.
They belong to the Lord.
Because believers are bought with the blood of Jesus then they should not become slaves of men.
We are free in Jesus.
This should be our mentality and how we live.
This freedom is a special mindset and spirit.
We must constantly be reminded that we are free.
It is easy to let the enemy tell us that we are slaves.
We become slaves as jealousy sets in, lack of peace, ungratefulness and we forget that we are called and purchased through the bloodshed of Jesus.
In Jesus, you are free!
Live as free men and women.
Remain and bloom where God has planted you when he called you.
The unmarried and widows
1 Corinthians 7:25-
v.25,26
Paul is writing under the conviction of the Holy Spirit so this is still inspired by God.
It is fine for a man to remain as he is and Paul gives reason for this.
He says because of the present distress.
This distress likely relates to to a pressing constraint that the Corinthians were facing at the time.
Under these difficult circumstances Paul felt it best for them to stay as they were.
When high seas are raging it is no time for changing ships.
1 Corinthians 7:27-
v.27
Married or loosed both verbs are in perfect tense and indicate settled states.
This is contentment in where you are.
If you are married remain there if you are single remain there.
Be content in the state that God has called you in.
v.28
Paul has said it is good for some not to marry, here he says that marriage is a normal state.
There is nothing wrong or sinful about marriage.
Those who are married will have more responsibility.
A husband with a wife and kids has more responsibility as does a married wife.
When those who are married face persecution, it will be harder if they are married and have kids.
If you are married and you have children you have responsibilities and it is important as a follower of Jesus that you do not be passive in these responsibilities but that you continue to live in them.
1 corinthians 7:29-
v.29-31
Do not focus on the temporal things of this world.
the world in its current form is passing away.
The trouble that is going to be faced is limited.
The goal of the Christian husband to to focus on the eternal and prepare the wife for the eternal and not the temporal.
Same for the wife that she should live preparing the husband for the eternal and not the temporal.
The purchaser is focused on his purchase.
This world is passing away focus on the eternal.
It is folly for believers to act as though its values were permanent.
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v.32
Paul wants people to be given to the service of God without distraction.
As I described earlier, a married man or married woman have more responsibility to care for the family.
Especially in times of distress or trouble they care for the family.
v.34
an unmarried woman or virgin in concerned about the things of the Lord.
That is if you are thinking about the Lord.
If you are single and all your thoughts revolve only about the pity of your current state or dreaming of being married then likewise you are not thinking about how to please the Lord.
Being in a state of singleness the opportunity is there to think solely about how to please the Lord.
I am not saying this to “put a lasso over you” but this is what is good and right.
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