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Nature of Marriage
Marriage is not what we are striving for.
Marriage is what God has declared, and how God sees it.
Marriage has sexuality at its foundation.
God says one flesh
Not one spirit
Not one checkbook
One flesh
So, when we are tempted to go outside the marriage sexually, God’s Word has a warning for us...
FLEE
Early December, brother’’s wedding
Temptation
I had witnessed Christ to about four other people earlier that evening
Think Satan didn’t have a hand in the tempation
Know where I learned that trick?
Point One: Two cannot remain one flesh with more than two.
And if you try to introduce another person into your marriage, God has a Word for you...
Warning
Here’s what you lose, if you give yourself over the another person.
You lose the one flesh with your spouse
You lose the straight path to life in Christ
You lose your honor in the eyes of others
You may lose your money
You lose peace
You lose control of your life because it’s shared with someone else, when it should be shared with only one
You may very lose any possibility of improvement in the marriage you have…because your spouse may leave
Tell you a secret, there’s no such thing as divorce…Just regret that goes with the separation of two people...
Barbara and I have had one success in our divorce, and it is an extraordinarily rare one.
We have remained friends, and when the residue of anger and hurt subsides with time, we have an outside chance of becoming best friends again.
We meet each other for drinks or lunch occasionally, and I have become friends with her boyfriend, Tom Pearce.
When she was graduated from Emory Law School, I gave her a party to celebrate.
When I left the party, I looked back and saw Barbara and Tom holding hands.
They looked very happy together, and it was painful to recognize it.
I wanted to go back and say something to Tom, but I mostly wanted to say it to Barbara.
I wanted to say that I admired his taste in women.
So, here’s the thing…how can we protect against the temptation?
When we flee, what do we flee toward...
How
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Defraud in Greek = Aposteiretie-”Defraud, cheat, rob, steal
Singleness a gift
Singleness a gift
If you think you might like to have a relationship with someone else, singleness is not your gift.
It may be your cross
Marital duty…job…responsibility
DO NOT DEPRIVE EACH OTHER
DO NOT!!!
“But I Don’t FEEL Intimate”
Interesting to me how often people are tempted to do something because they don’t feel like it.
I promise you that if you don’t feel like it, your spouse won’t stop feeling like it, and then you’ve going to have a bigger problem!
Love is a decision!
So decide to love your spouse in the way the Bible declares, not in the way you feel about it!
Conclusion
Understand the stakes friends!!!
Flee temptation
Please believe me…listen to every word I have said today.
Know what you could lose
You need to know what your marriage is worth.
Whetehter you’re the person tempted to step out.
The person tempted to leave
Fulfill your marital duty to your spouse..
The person tempted to without.
Today
FLEE your sinful inclinations!
Tonight
Repent of the sins you have commited against your spouse
Wear each other out
And flee toward one another.
It isn’t hard, but it is work.
Take comfort in one another.
Don’t be more spiritual than God.
He gave you a spouse.
Go home and find comfort in one another.
That’s God’s design for marriage.
It’s Not Too Late
I plead with you in everything within me, do not replicate my mistakes.
I know every single facet of this sermon, and I ask you to turn away from the sin, and turn back to your spouse NOW!
If you have cheated, repent, and know that you are forgiven.
Go and sin no more
If you have defrauded your spouse, repent, and know that you are forgiven.
Go and sin no more.
Please believe me…With everything I have or am as a chaplain, pastor, and friend…there is forgiveness offered to us in Jesus.
Repent.
Go and sin no more.
And now go and enjoy the spouse that God has given you.
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