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W E E K 7: A N S W E R S F O R U N H A P P Y M A R R IA G E S
CHAPTER SEVEN: WHAT ABOUT MARRIAGE? (ONLY THE LONELY)
Not Understanding the Sanctity of Sex Strategy for Social Revolution
Peculiarity of the Church The Only Plan for Marriage, 2
PROMISE: v 14,17 CHRIST SEEN: v 32 KEY WORD: Marry
Topic Seven: Marriage, Divorce & Singleness How to manage marriage
CHAPTER 7 OUTLINE
I. SACREDNESS OF SEX (PURITY), 1-9 III. SHARING AND SACRIFICE (POWER),
SEX AND THE SINGLE PERSON (THE 25-40
IDEAL LIFESTYLE) ALONE BUT NOT LONELY
A. He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, 1-3 A. Reasons to Stay an Old Maid, 25-35
1. How to Have Serenity, 1 1. Social Considerations, 25-27
2. How to Have Stability, 2 Encounter Satisfaction (General)
3. How to Have Integrity, 3 A Plan to Adopt in Pressure
B. Secrets of a Happy Marriage, 4-9 2. Special Considerations, 28
1. Sex Is a Gift, 4-5 Experience Sacrifice (Personal)
a. Mutuality, 4 A Purpose to Achieve in Problems
b. Spirituality, 5 3. Spiritual Considerations, 29-35
2. Celibacy Is a Gift, 6-9 a. Adjustments in marriage
II. MARRIAGE AND SEPARATION (secrets of success), 29-31
(PERMANENCY), 10-24 Expect Success (Spiritual)
HUSBANDS AND WIVES A Principle to Accept in Priorities
A. Mixed Marriages, 10-19 1) To partners, 29
1. Christian Marriage, 10-11 2) To Problems, 30
Permanency: Submit to Will of God 3) To Privileges, 31
a. The ideal, 10 b. Adjustments in ministry
b. The real, 11 (spiritual service), 32-35
2. Pagan Society, 12-15 Enjoy Service (Relational)
Permission: Depend on Grace of God A Place to Be Assigned in
3. Personal Reflections, 16-19 Preoccupation
Purpose: Giving Glory to God 1) Pleasing the Lord, 32-33
B. Christians for Social Revolution, 20-24 2) Attending to the Lord, 34-35
1. Call, 20 a) Dedication, 34
2. Culture, 21-22 b) Decisiveness, 35
a. Carelessness from call, 21 B. Happy though Unmarried, 36-40
b. Carefulness in circumstance, 22 1. Principles for Virgins, 36-38
3. Accommodation, 23-24 2. Principles for Widows, 39-40
a. Free to remarry, 39
b. Free to remain, 40
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APOSTLE PAUL: Q & A
Marital ProblemsCh 7
Unmarrieds ProblemsCh 7:25-28
Moral PrivilegesCh 8-10
Ministry PowerCh 12-14
Monetary PreparationCh 16
The Collection, 1-11
Mission ParticipationCh 16
The Community, 12-24
Thesis: Paul gives us, through the inspiration of God, the kind of divine advice that leads us
all the way to ____________ revolution.
1 CORINTHIANS 7
Advice for a Happy Home, v 1-9
Advice for Broken Home, v 10-19
Advice for a Dysfunctional Home, v 20-38
Advice to Singles, v 39-40
AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF PAULS DOMESTIC THEOLOGY
1. Christian marriage requires a break with current standards in surrounding ______________
2. It requires practical understanding about how to apply Old Testament principles to New
Testament ________________
Point 1. We teach singles they are incomplete if they are not married; when in actual fact you
are ________________ as long as you are single, and only incomplete once you get married,
because now you have another person to please.
RELATIONSHIPS IN OUR CITY
1. Contuberniumtent __________________________ (concubinage)
2. Usus________________-law marriage
3. Coemptio________________ marriage
4. Confarreatioelaborate religious ________________
________________ IN MARRIAGE
1. It allows relief from sexual pressures, 1-3
2. It teaches us something about ourselves, and fulfills a need in our spouse, 4-5
3. It manifests a special gift from God, 6-9
GODS FIVE ________________ FOR MARRIAGE
1. For procreation (Gen 1:28)
2. For pleasure (Prov 5:18-19)
3. For partnership (Gen 2:18)
4. For a picture (Eph 5:23-32)
5. For purity (1 Cor 7:2; Heb 13:4)
Point 2. Families will be destroyed and the church made powerless, unless we get back to
using God's ________________ to hold marriages together.
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________________ CONCEPTS
1. Each partner has the right to give his or her mate a gift in the fulfillment of sexual desires
2. One's responsibility is not to their mate, but to the Lord to do so
3. Sex is given to teach marriage partners how to relate to one another __________________
4. Sex is given to teach men and women how to relate to God spiritually
THE ________________ OF MARRIAGE
1. It allows relief from sexual pressure, 1-3
2. It cements the family relationship, 4-5
3. It manifests a special gift of God, like singleness does, 6-9
Point 3. Singleness with celibacy manifests a unique quality about God: he is complete in
himself, and so has dedication to a ________________ goal.
THE ESSENCE OF MARITAL __________________
1. Love to God
2. Discipline of self (self-control)
3. Mutual desire and respect
Point 4. Love to God, discipline of self, and mutual desire and respect are the __________
things, that balance ______ lives, so they can be ______ in the Lord.
THREE GROUPS GOVERNED
1. Christians married to other ____________________the idealpermanency in the will of
God, 10-11
2. Christians married to unbelieversthe realpermission in the grace of God, 12-15
3. Christians who want a ________________the dealpurpose giving glory to God, 16-19;
Jer 3:8
Point 5. The great mistake of fundamental churches is to win men and women in an urban
setting, but then say their life has to conform to the ideal before God can ______ them.
PERMISSION: DEPENDING ON THE GRACE OF GOD, GEN 4:17 LUKE 17:27 LUKE 20:34
Point 6. The Lord promises that the presence of just one Christian parent ________________
the children.
Defn.: Within the definition of marriage there are ________________ components:
ceremonial vows, consummation and commitment.
MISPERCEPTIONS ON MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE
1. The Catholic view says marriage is only ceremony, because it is a __________________
2. The Baptist Taboo view says marriage is only ________________________
Point 7. The key to your life is what you and Jesus Christ have going that nobody else
________________ about, and how it displays itself glorifying God in ministry through this church.
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Point 8. We change social structures primarily and most thoroughly through spiritual
________________________.
FOUR REASONS TO REMAIN AN OLD MAID
1. Singles encounter less _______________________ in a world hostile to Christ, Prov 18:22;
Matt 6:33
Point 9. Two cannot live as __________________________ as one.
2. Singles experience fewer _______________________ on the level of personal experience
3. Singles can expect fewer _______________________ on the level of spiritual relationships
4. Singles can enjoy greater _______________________ in their place of service
Point 10. Marriages do not stumble in great sorrows or trials, but in the __________ struggles
of everyday urban life.
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