The Foundation
Series: Home Improvement
AV First
Pastor Ed Carlson
4/7/24

Acts 17:24 (ESV)
24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 (ESV)
16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

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are made up of healthy individuals.
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are made up of healthy individuals.
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are made up of healthy individuals.
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are made up of healthy individuals.

We will all stand alone someday, face to face with our Creator and give an account as to how we took care of God’s House…His dwelling place…YOU and ME!

Sometimes we have to go back and repair or work on an area of the house that has been neglected and is falling apart and affecting other areas of the house.

Singles should pursue a life that leads to the greatest

to Christ.

1. If you can

single and still be devoted to the Lord in

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, then do it.

1 Corinthians 7:6-9 (ESV)
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. 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.

1) It allows you to have a singular

on Christ and His work.

1** Corinthians 7:26-31 (ESV)**
26 I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 28 But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. 29 This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, 30 and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, 31 and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.

2) It allows you to spend more

working on you and doing the Lord’s work.

1 Corinthians 7:32-35 (ESV)
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.

If you’re not gifted for celibacy, then pray and look for a Godly mate.

1st Thessalonians 4:3-8 (ESV)
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. 7 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. 8 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

3. Marriage is not the

to all your problems…God is!

If God is not at the center of your life and your spouse’s life, marriage creates more problems than it solves.

1. Focus on

and Personal

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1 Timothy 1:6-7 (ESV)
6 But godliness with contentment is great gain, 7 for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.

** A Healthy You Creates Healthy Relationships with God and Others.**

2. Learn How To Control Your

.

2 Corinthians 10:5-6 (ESV)
5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, 6 being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.

3. Learn How To Control Your

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Ephesians 4:29 (ESV)
29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Psalm 141:3 (ESV)
3 Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth;
keep watch over the door of my lips!

4. Learn How To Control Your

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Ephesians 4:25-27 (ESV)
25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,27 and give no opportunity to the devil.

5. Learn How To Own Your

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