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BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY
One Book to obey.
One God to serve.
One Life to live.
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord
unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every
good work, and increasing in the
knowledge of God.
Colossians 1:10
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John 12:48
48 He that rejecteth me, and
receiveth not my words,
hath one that judgeth him:
the word that I have spoken,
the same shall judge him in
the last day.
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Who is my Master?
What is my mission?
Who is my mate?
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WHO AM I AS A CHRISTIAN?
Member of the family and household of
God:
Galatians 6:10; Ephesians 2:19
Complete in Christ:
Colossians 2:10
Possessor of every spiritual blessing:
Ephesians 1:3
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John 3:6
1 Cor. 12:13
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An heir of God:
Rom. 8:17; 1 Pet. 1:4
Joint heir of Christ:
Rom. 8:17; Heb. 9:15
Have access to God:
Rom. 5:2; Eph 2:18;
Heb. 4:16, 10:19
A living stone:
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Ephesians 2:8,9
Rom. 5:2; 1Pet. 1:5
Titus 2:12
PROVERBS 31:12
In speaking of the relationship of
the wife to her husband, Proverbs
says:
GENESIS 2:24, 25
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they
shall be one flesh. And they were both naked,
the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
naked = transparent, open, honest, laid bare,
unselfish.
Gods original plan for marriage: husband and
wife unselfishly loving their Lord and each
other. NO SELFISHNESS!!!
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A COVENANT:
1. Mutual Trust: based
1. Based on distrust:
no knowledge of
others character.
2. Limited liability:
(terms of the
contract).
3. Can be altered (if
conditions change).
on a personal
relationship.
2. Unlimited Responsibility: (never ends).
3. Unchangeable: It
cant be changed
even if conditions
change.
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EPHESIANS 5:31, 32
For this cause shall a man leave his
father and mother, and shall be joined
unto his wife, and they two shall be one
flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak
concerning Christ and the church.
A biblical marriage is to be an audio-visual
picture to the world of Christs relationship
to His bride, the church. (unbreakable!)
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MARRIAGE PICTURES
SALVATION AND ETERNAL LIFE
GENESIS 2:23:
Adam said about Eve: This is now bone of my
bones, and flesh of my flesh.
Adam and Eve became one flesh. Gen. 2:24
Eve was as much a part of Adam as were his
own bones and flesh.
The only way to separate Adam from his bones
and flesh was by death
Only death could separate Adam and Eve!
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THE IRREVOCABLE
BIBLICAL BLOOD COVENANT:
The Blood Covenant was established as the
two parties would walk hand in hand between
the separated halves of a sacrificed animal.
The wedding guests for bride and groom sit on
opposite sides of the church and the new
couple holds hands and passes down the aisle
between the separated guests, symbolizing the
covenant walk between the two pieces of the
sacrificial animal which establishes an
irrevocable covenant until death.
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COVENANT
HEBREW LANGUAGE DEFINITION:
BINDING BY PASSING
BETWEEN TWO PIECES
OF FLESH.
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JOHN 14:15
Jesus said:
If ye love me,
keep my
commandments.
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LUKE 6:46
Jesus said:
And why call ye me,
Lord, Lord, and do
not the things which
I say?
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RESPONSIBLE OR
IRRESPONSIBLE?
DATING
Little parent involve
The two alone together much time
Recreational entertainment for fun
Can breed
irresponsibility
COURTING
Much parent involve
Open accountability
with others presnt
Ministry with others
for fun
Nurtures
responsibility
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COURTING
Puts guards on you
to prevent slipping
into immorality
Withhold your
emotional
attachments until
you are ready to
marry
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COURTING
Distrusts emotions
and trusts Godly
counsel + planning
Tends toward the intellectual and
spiritual and waits
for the physical until
marriage
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1 JOHN 1:4-7
And these things write we unto you, that your
joy may be full. 5 This then is the message
which we have heard of him, and declare unto
you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness
at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with
him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not
the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in
the light, we have fellowship one with another,
and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth
us from all sin.
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HEBREWS 11:6
But without faith
it is impossible to please him:
for he that cometh to God must
believe that he is, and that he is
a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him.
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COLOSSIANS 3:2-3:
Set your affection [mind and heart]
on things above, not on things on
the earth. For ye are dead, and
your life is hid with Christ in God.
Is there anything that could take a
Christian Singles affection away
from a focused love of our Savior?
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KISSING
Some thoughts by a 1996
Summit Excellence Graduate
A Students Viewpoint
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STOP
EVERYTHING
PHYSICAL UNTIL
MARRIAGE!!!
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1 JOHN 2:15-17
15 Love not the world, neither the things
that are in the world. If any man love the
world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of
the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the
pride of life, is not of the Father , but is of
the world. 17 And the world passeth away,
and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the
will of God abideth for ever.
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JAMES 4:17
Therefore, to him that
knoweth to do good, and doeth
it not, to him it is sin.
NUMBERS 32:23b
. . . be sure your sin will find
you out.
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Deuteronomy 24:1-4
Situation: A man takes a wife and finds some
uncleanness in her (This must be something
different from Deut. 22). KJV says: Let him
write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her
hand, and send her out of his house. And when
she is departed out of his house, she may go
and be another mans wife.
Regulation: If she marries another man and he
dies or he divorces her, her first husband is not
permitted to take her back and remarry her.
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MATTHEW 5:17-18
Think not that I am come to destroy the
law, or the prophets: I am not come to
destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto
you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or
one tittle shall in no wise pass from the
law, till all be fulfilled.
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FORNICATION OR ADULTERY
Porneia is the Greek word for fornication.
Porneia is most commonly used for
immorality among unmarried singles.
Moichao is the Greek word for adultery.
Moichao is most commonly used to refer
to immorality between married people.
The Exception Clause uses Porneia.
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DIVORCE IS NEVER AN
OPTION for married people!!!
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1 CORINTHIANS 7:39
The wife is bound by the law as long
as her husband liveth; but if her
husband be dead, she is at liberty
to be married to whom she will;
only in the Lord.
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1 CORINTHIANS 7:15
not under bondage. Literal translation:
has not been enslaved.
If the unbeliever insists on leaving, the
believer is not enslavedyou can let them
go, but you are not free to divorce or
remarry.
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THE PRINCIPLE OF
PREDECIDING
Dr. Jobe Martin
Biblical Discipleship Ministries
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THEN WHAT?
Ask the Lord to use this
Scripture in your life the
next time (or first time)
you are confronted with
the problem, test or
temptation!
FOR EXAMPLE:
If you have an anger problem you
might memorize Ecclesiastes 7:9,
PRIDE OF LIFE
Pride goes before destruction, and a
haughty spirit before stumbling.
Proverbs 16:18
THEN WHAT?
Ask the Lord to use this
Scripture in your life the
next time (or first time)
you are confronted with
the problem, test or
temptation!
MARRIAGE
Genesis 1: God (Elohim) creates the
universe and climaxes that with the
creation of man.
Genesis 2: The Lord God ( Yahweh
Elohim). Yahweh is the covenantal name
of God. In Genesis 2 the covenant
keeping God takes man into his
covenant keeping relationship:
marriage.
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GENSIS 2:24-25
24)Therefore shall a man leave his father
and his mother and shall cleave unto his
wife: and they shall be one flesh. 25) And
they were both naked, the man and his
wife, and were not ashamed.
Vs. 24=masculine=men leave momma!!!
Vs. 25=naked=open, unguarded, laid
bare, fully transparent=no selfishness!!!
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GENESIS 2:18
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the
man should be alone; I will make a help meet
for him.
The serpent spoke to the woman, she ate and
the creative order was flip-flopped.
ORDER = God, in submission is man;then in
submission= woman; in submission=animals
DISORDER
The serpent deceives the woman and she
has submitted to the animal. Then Adam,
the man, submits to the woman, his wife.
Instead of man submitting to God and the
woman submitting to her husband and
the animal submitting to people the order
is flip-flopped. The woman submits to the
animal, Adam to Eve, God is out!!
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John 8:44
CONSEQUENCES
And unto Adam he said, Because thou
hast hearkened unto the voice of thy
wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of
which I commanded thee, saying, Thou
shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground
for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of
it all the days of thy life; thorns and
thistles shall it bring forth to thee.
Genesis 3:17-18
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CONSEQUENCES
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly
multiply thy sorrow (pain,NAS) and thy
conception; in sorrow (pain,NAS) thou
shalt bring forth children; and thy desire
shall be to thy husband, and he shall
rule over thee.
Genesis 3:16
Genesis 4:7=desire=to overrule,
overpower or overthrow=wifes desire
for husband is to overthrow, etc.!
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SOLUTION TO CONSEQUENCES OF
THE FALL
Husbands, love your wives, even as
Christ also loved the church, and gave
himself for it;
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, and be
not bitter against them. Colossians
3:19
Husbands, give honor unto your wife.
1Peter 3:7
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SOLUTION TO CONSEQUENCES OF
THE FALL
Wives, submit yourselves unto your
own husbands, as unto the
Lord.Therefore, as the church is
subject to Christ, so let the wives be to
their own husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5:22,24
Wives, submit yourselves unto your
own husbands, as is fit in the Lord.
Colossians 3:18
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Family Projects
Compose a definition of success for you
and/or your family made up entirely of
Scripture. Success for me/us is.
Compose a doctrinal statement of
Scriptures that you and your family will not
compromise.
Start memorizing a chapter of the Bible.
Think of ways to minister to other people.
Purpose to know and share the Gospel.
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OTHER RESOURCES:
Of Knights and Fair Maidens, Jeff and
Danielle Meyers
Best Friends for Life, Michael and Judy
Phillips
Her Hand in Marriage, Douglas Wilson
Passion and Purity, Elizabeth Elliot
His Chosen Bride, Jennifer Lampe
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