God’s Call to Purity and Faithfulness
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 3/20/2016 AM |
Text: | I Corinthians 7; Lord's Day 41 |
Psalters: | 276, 67, 78, 125 |
- What God has done.
- God created man pure so that he was naked and not ashamed (Gen. 2:25).
- Man’s experience of the fall into sin was their being ashamed (Gen. 3:7) and wanting a covering (this was without grace).
- Satan constantly works to destroy the foundation of good order in the marriage and family with selfishness.
- In Christ, God provides for every one of His people to have the real marriage with Christ (Gen. 3:21; Eph. 5:25b-27,32).
- God is faithful and maintains the loving relationship by constantly giving and forgiving.
- As a result marriage (after sin) is honorable and the bed undefiled (Heb. 13:4) picturing the real marriage (Eph. 5:32).
- God’s command (never out-dated) makes every human responsible to reflect God’s holiness and purity.
- God created man pure so that he was naked and not ashamed (Gen. 2:25).
- God condemns adultery, all unfaithfulness and every uncleanness.
- Adultery is unfaithfulness on the part of a husband or wife, or it is sexual impurity before marriage.
- God condemns all selfishness: whether in desiring to satisfy lusts or in refusing to pay the debt.
- The command boldly brings out sinful thoughts and desires from their hiding places and proclaims them as evil.
- Adultery/fornication violates covenant, severely damaging relationships.
- God condemns every marriage where there is not a striving for a love relationship patterned after Christ and the church.
- Adultery is unfaithfulness on the part of a husband or wife, or it is sexual impurity before marriage.
- Gratitude for God’s faithfulness to us constrains and restrains.
- Look up and see yourself in the real marriage with Jesus, which is only mercy and always undeserved.
- God always has more grace than we have sins, both to forgive and to enable us to be pure.
- Everyone who is married to Jesus is called to reflect Jesus in grateful purity and faithfulness.