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Pastor Steven
'Ships: A series on being with people • Sermon • Submitted
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Intro - Weird laws?
Love Ship: Sailboat
Sailboats are idyllic, serene, Platonic
a lot of work, skill, trust & time
Dating and relationships
What we really should be asking is not how far can we go, How old should I be, who should I hook up with.
What we really should be asking is How has God made us to love and pursue these kinds of relationships.
Definition: What is Love really?
Feeling or emotion? Puppies? Desire?
Choice with substance?
What is Google’s definition of love
The Bible’s Definition of Love
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Reality: Good Desire
Song of Solomon
Trajectory: Holy Sexuality & Sanctification
No adultery Matt 5:27-28 Ex 20:14
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Adultery: Any Sexual activity (Including Lust) with anyone other than your current wife or husband
Defining Husband or wife - God’s Clear plan from the beginning in establishing maleness and femaleness and genders is that sex would only happen between members of the opposite sex.
4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Means: Marriage or Singleness
8 To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am. 9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
32 I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. 33 But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, 34 and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. 35 I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.
Eph 5:22-33
Goal: God’s Glory & Our Good
Singleness and Marriage are God’s gifts to us for our Good
If Single use your freedom to the glory and purposes of God. Rely on God for the self control and holiness needed to enjoy this good gift.
If Married Use your relationship to the glory and purposes of God. Rely on God for the self control and holiness needed to enjoy this good gift.
Sex is a powerfully good gift to cement a marriage relationship emotionally, spiritually and physically for the good of the couple and future family that it may create.
It is not love for God, yourself or others to consume sex upon your own appetite.
Going outside of God’s good definitions and boundaries leads to hurt, regret, & sin in your emotional, physical and spiritual life.
Because sex (and all that surrounds it) is such a powerfully good gift from God… Enjoy it only as God intends
Craziest Rule you have ever heard?
What is the most difficult rule for you to abide by in your home?
Like it or spike it: Romantic Movies?
What is the scariest thing to you about dating or marriage?
What do you like about dating or marriage?
What happens when we don’t stick to God’s definitions for dating, marriage or sex?
What are some things that you want to know about dating relationships?
Why does the Bible say that singleness is a gift?
What are good reasons to be get married?
What are bad reasons to get married?
What is one thing you know you would need to be better at if you were married?
1. Parliaments famous Salmon Act of 1986 states that it’s illegal to hold salmon under suspicious circumstances
Section 32 of the Salmon Act 1986 stipulates that it is an offence to handle salmon under suspicious circumstances. This section creates an offence in England and Wales for any person who receives or disposes of any salmon in circumstances where they believe or could reasonably believe that the salmon has been illegally fished. The maximum penalty is two years imprisonment.
The context may well make the law less weird, but even so, suspiciously holding salmon is a pretty funny offence to be arrested for.
2. If you own any chickens in Quitman, Georgia, it is illegal to let them cross the road
Simply put, the law essentially wants owners to have their chickens under control at all times. This makes sense when you imagine the danger of letting farm animals run about, but the specificity of the law about not allowing chickens to cross the road rings true to the joke and makes for a funny read.
Georgia likes to ensure the safety and sacredness of their chicken as in Gainesville Georgia, you have to eat fried chicken with your bare hands. Keep your forks away from them. The law describes chicken as a “culinary delicacy sacred to its municipality.” Perhaps this is why chicken deserves a specific transport safety law.
3. Australia’s second most populated state says it illegal to change a light bulb unless you are a licensed electrician
Under Victorian law, changing a light bulb without a valid license to do so was against the law. Taking your light into your own hands brought a fine of 10 Australian dollars.
However, a revision to the 1998 Electricity Safety Act updated this law. A spokeswoman for Energy Safe Victoria said that, “While the Electricity Safety Act makes it illegal to do your own electrical work if you are not licensed, changing a light bulb and removing a plug from a socket were specifically exempted from this requirement under Order in Council G17.”
4. Milan in Italy states that it is a legal requirement to smile at all times except at funerals or hospitals
What’s with the long face? In Milan, the law compels you to smile. It is prescribed by a city regulation from Austro-Hungarian times that was never repealed.
Exemptions included funeral goers, hospital workers or those at the bedside of an ill family member. For everybody else there is no excuse for being glum, the alternative being a fine. This has got to be one of the weirdest laws of all.
5. In Florida, it is illegal to pass wind in a public place after 6pm on Thursdays
There is some debate over this one. It certainly is a forgotten law and has never really been enforced in Florida.
It was probably written in the 1800’s and forgotten since. It is not clear why this ever became a law, or a rumoured law in the first place.
What’s your favourite law-related film or TV show? Want to know how closely they resemble real life? Have a read of these:
6. It is against the law to have a sleeping donkey in your bathtub after 7 pm
In Arizona, this law was brought into effect due to a public menace case in 1924. A merchant used to allow his donkey to sleep in a bathtub. The town was flooded when a local dam broke and the donkey, was washed a mile down the valley. The donkey survived, but locals spent a lot of time and manpower to save the animal. This law was passed shortly after.
7. It is against the law not to walk your dog at least three times a day in Turin, Italy
Dog owners in Turin, Italy will be fined up to 500 euros if they don’t walk their pets at least three times a day, under a new law from the city’s council. Italy considers itself an animal-loving nation and in many cities stray cats and protected by law.
To enforce the law, Turin police would rely largely on the help of tipsters spotting cruel treatment by neighbours. Turin has the most stringent animal protection rules in the country. They even ban fairgrounds from giving away goldfish in bags.
8. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter
Yes, this means that by law if you need the toilet you can suggest it is illegal for them to deny you the use of their toilet.
However, this law is questionable as how can we suggest people should let just anyone into their home? This law has made many lists of the most absurd laws, but I could not find any context behind this peculiar law.
9. In Samoa, it is illegal to forget your wife’s birthday
You will get more than the silent treatment from your wife if you forget her birthday in Samoa. It is unclear how long your sentence would be, but maybe some time apart for you to think about how to make it up to her wouldn’t be too bad.
10. The French town of Sarpourenx makes it a legal requirement to have bought a burial plot before dying
Some issues were had in this French town with people wantonly dying and then expecting to be buried. The mayor issued an edict forbidding people from dying within the city limits unless they had previously purchased a plot in a local cemetery. People who die anyway will be severely punished. What kind of punishment you give the dead however is as of yet unclear.
