Remain in the condition in which you were called.John Farley
Pastor-Teacher Sunday, July 7, 2019 The mission of Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) is sharing the love of Jesus Christ through aviation and technology… …so that isolated people may be physically and spiritually transformed. MAF flights support indigenous churches and local evangelists, create access to medical care, provide disaster relief, ... …and make community development projects possible ... in some of the most remote places on earth.
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Remain in the condition in which you were called1Co 7:10-24 Verses 10-11: married Christians divorcing Verse 17: Main point Guilt and legalism A legalistic person will be full of guilt. Why? Because we know more about our own sins than about any other person’s sins. What came before? The subject of celibacy. What comes after? Many people in the church at Corinth were about to bail out of the condition in which they were called! “We’re better, God doesn’t want us to change our situation in order to please Him. He’ll work with us just the way we are. Another thing that was causing these marital breakups had to do with wives who took their liberty in Christ too far. The subject of Christian couples splitting up gets two verses. Lawsuits – 8 verse Second, no warnings or punishments are given. This calls into question the practice of exercising church discipline on the divorced and remarried. Jesus calls it adultery in Mar 10:11-12. These verses (12 – 16) instruct Christians who are married to unbelievers. If a Christian is married to an unbeliever, and that unbeliever wishes to stay married, then stay married. Perhaps that unbelieving husband or wife will be brought to Christ by your loving, gracious, respectful behavior. 1Pe 3:1-2 1Co 7:17 Whatever your marital status was when you were saved, that is where the Lord has put you. Don’t try to change it. 1Co 7:18-20 Circumcision was required of male Jews under the Law. It was an outward sign of an inward faith. Gal 5:6 1Co 7:20 Just as Paul earlier told the church not to make baptism an issue, here he tells us not to make circumcision an issue. Finally, Paul addresses the issue of servitude. 1Co 7:21-24 The entrepreneurs thought little of the slaves. Gal 2:3-4 Gal 3:26-29
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