1 Corinthians 7

Live As You Are Called!

Intro: Live as you are called.

Tie: If you are single.Live as you are called. If you are dating live as you are called. If you are engaged. Live as you are called. If you are married. Live as you are called.

1 Corinthians 7

In Marriage

ILL: About how to look to the future, not just right infront of you.

1 Corinthians 7:1-7

English Standard Version Chapter 7

Principles for Marriage

7 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

6 Now as a concession, not a command, I say this. 7 I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.

TIE: Paul’s problem was that they were not living as they were married. They were letting their culture tell them what sex was supposed to be!

Context:They were listening to their culture and letting them tell them how to be married. In this culture it was that anything physical is bad. They were trying not to have sex with their husband or wife!

ILL:

APP: live as you are called.

2. In Dating

APP: live as you are called.

3. In Being Single

APP: Live as you are called.