“Are You Living Single”
Sunday Morning, February 3, 2013
scriptures: Romans 7, Ephesians 2, 2 Peter 3, 1 Peter 4
keywords: marriage, communicate, wedding, sin, temptation, spirit, disobedience, sex, concupiscence,
worldly
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Romans 7:4-9 If you are gong to mature in Christ you need to look at what you need to take care
of in your life. You are married unto God now. Some people spend more time and effort on a
wedding instead of on a marriage because they like the glitz and glamor. Marriage is about the
work and the commitment. People treat church the same when it comes to glitz and glamor
instead of work. People are still living like they are single instead of married to God.
When you are married, you have this overwhelming responsibility to communicate with
the other spouse. When you are in Christ you have the overwhelming desire to talk to God
and to communicate with him what you are doing and if it is o.k. One of these days you are
going to be begging God to take care of you but God is going to say that you didn’t want me.
Verse 8- Once you start to do sinful stuff then this leads you to doing other stuff- this is the
motions of sin. Sin is like a virus on your computer- once it gets started it begins to tear down
stuff. Yield not to temptation for yielding is sin. When sin starts, people don’t know why they do things
because it is sin working in their lives. Once you open the door, sin starts to work. The bible says
that the soul that sins will die. It says wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. Concupiscence
is the lusts that takes place and starts when you sin.
Ephesians 2:1-3 People have a spirit of disobedience which causes them to not do right. Just
because you want to do something does not mean it is right. Things like sexual sins are so
pervasive that people can’t get that out them by themselves- people need God. Verse 2-
“course of this world”-things that are anti-God or not of God are worldly. The lusts, profanity,
sexual sins are all things that the world gets caught in. When you are married to Christ it changes
things and when you are not you are subject to a lot of things.
2 Peter 3:1-12- This world is going to be destroyed. It is time to make a change.
1 Peter 4:17 – Some of you need to make a decision of what you want to do and where you want
to be. God is going deal with the ungodly and the sinner. People are so worldly now- they are
living single. Nothing but the righteous will be saved- you have got to repent and make a change.