Relationship Status: Sanctified Singles

``Here's the thing. It's that idea that if you're single, you're not complete without somebody else that you're in a relationship with. And nothing could be further from the truth biblically speaking. You are to be complete in Christ whether you're married or single. You see, when two people get married, they should bring two complete people into that marriage, Not people that are incomplete into that marriage looking to be made complete by the marriage. [00:44:44] (37 seconds)  #CompleteInChrist

Alright? Let's be clear. He's talking about sexual relations being in God's plan reserved for what relationship? Marriage. Not just marriage, but marriage between a man and a woman. That's the clear teaching consistently throughout scripture. Now, we don't teach that in a hateful way. We just want you to know what God's word says about this. Right? This is God's plan. We're trying to learn what God teaches us about relationships in this series. [00:34:46] (28 seconds)  #MarriageIsGodsDesign

And the goal of our lives shouldn't be to get married or to stay single. The goal of our lives shouldn't be to to be dating the person we wanna date. The goal of our lives shouldn't be that that one day we're gonna have kids and a and a house with a white picket fence. The goal of our lives should be become more and more like Jesus. No matter what circumstance we're in along the way. See, that should be the driving force. That should be the directing of our lives is into this decision that we want to be like Jesus. We want to imitate the lord. [00:50:09] (36 seconds)  #BecomeLikeJesus

You can express it outside of that covenant, but god designed it to be expressed within the covenant of marriage. So right away, you see that a single person has a choice to make about sexual immorality. Am I going to honor god's plan for my sexuality or I'm am I going to follow the world's plan or the the example of my friends? We all have to make that choice for ourselves. Whether you're married or single, you still have to make that choice for yourself. Are you going to honor god's plan for your sexuality? [00:35:45] (31 seconds)  #HonorGodsPlan

Right? I'm the Christian and I'm gonna date a non Christian but my goal is to bring them to Christ and I'm gonna do that through dating. K? Now my suspect that when I hear that, my suspicion is that person's hot and you wanna be with them. And so you're willing to try this because they're so cute and they're so funny and they're so, you know, amazing. And you think you're gonna bring them to Jesus. [01:02:32] (40 seconds)  #NotEvangelisticDating

In fact, the number one psychological problem according to non Christian sources in our culture today is loneliness. Think about that. We've got more social stuff going on. We've got more access to immorality than we've ever had before. What the bible calls immorality. We've got more people living any way they want doing their own thing, and loneliness is the number one psychological problem that people are dealing with in our culture. Why? Because that lifestyle is full of empty words, empty promises that will never fulfill you the way god designed you to be fulfilled in your life. [01:00:16] (37 seconds)  #LonelinessCrisis

Follow god's example. That sounds a little odd, doesn't it? The way it's worded? I mean, god's in heaven. God's off somewhere else. Right? How how in the world are we gonna follow god's example? But god was made flesh. Remember? And dwelt among us. We beheld his glory. We got to see what god's like. How did we see it? In Jesus. So if we're going to follow god's example, then that means we need to look to the life of Jesus. [00:49:38] (31 seconds)  #FollowJesusExample

We always talk about worship like it's the Sunday morning service, don't we? That's the terminology we use. We're going to worship. And then after it's over, we're leaving worship. But scripturally, worship is in view of god's mercy offering your body as a living sacrifice day in and day out for god. That's your true and proper worship. You can attend worship services at your church and never truly worship god and be there every Sunday. If you're choosing to use your body in immorality as a practice of life, You're gonna choose to live that way. Then you're not worshiping even when you show up on Sunday for the service. [00:56:58] (47 seconds)  #WorshipEveryday