Weekly Sermons

Cherishing the First Institution         Exodus 20:14

 

The seventh command is about the sanctity of _________________! 

 

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.         -Genesis 2:24

 

 

Genesis 24

 

4 beautiful things stick out in Isaac & Rebekah’s story (Genesis 24):

 

Godly living, prayer, and family members should be hugely ________ in the marriage selection process!

 

Instead of settling, we should hold out for the “appointed one!”

 

The greatest gift you can give your spouse on your wedding day is your ___________________!

 

Firm _______________________ precedes true love

 

 

Fornication (Premarital Sex) is a type of adultery

 

Set the standard __________            I Thess. 4:3-6

 

Dating is for learning how to understand and _______________ to the opposite sex

 

God’s plan is for the love between a man and his wife to grow sweeter as the years pass.                Proverbs 5:15-23

 

 

 

 

Lust is a type of Adultery

 

“You have heard that is was said to those of old, ‘you shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

-Matthew 5:28

 

Your sexual _______________________ is not to come from anyone but your spouse. 

 

 

D__________________ in God’s gift to you!                                  

 

 

F__________________ the flesh!                             

 

 

The problem with lust and adultery is that it is based on selfishness

 

Christians choose self-denial over self-indulgence for greater ____________________.

 

God is not out to get you- _______________ are out to get you!

 

The Designer of sex intended it to be within the ________________ of a beautiful marriage- the icing on the cake of the relationship.

 

Marriage is to be a picture of Jesus’ love for the church!

 

“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for her, that he might cleanse her with the washing of water by the word.”              Ephesians 5:25-26

 

Great men are always men who are _____________ enough to serve in word and deed!