Ryan Heathco 1 Corinthians 7
Big Idea:
Stand strong in The Truth.
Be Courageous with love.
1 Corinthians 7:1
1Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to abstain from sexual relations. 2But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband. 3The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband’s needs. 4The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his wife. 5Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Sex is
The Biblical Sexual Ethic:
A man and a woman in marriage.
Sex is for
Sex is for
Sex is for
1 Corinthians 7:7
7But I wish everyone were single, just as I am. Yet each person has a special gift from God, of one kind or another.
Revelation 14:4
4They have kept themselves as pure as virgins, following the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been purchased from among the people on the earth as a special offering to God and to the Lamb.
1 Corinthians 7:29
29But let me say this, dear brothers and sisters: The time that remains is very short. So from now on, those with wives should not focus only on their marriage. 30Those who weep or who rejoice or who buy things should not be absorbed by their weeping or their joy or their possessions. 31Those who use the things of the world should not become attached to them. For this world as we know it will soon pass away.