Keeping the Lock in Wedlock

1st Corinthians for Beginners

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The Base Model

22 The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

Gen. 2:22

23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.”

Genesis 2:23

The Base Model

24For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. 25And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Genesis 2:24-25

The Base Model

5 Elements in the Base Model1. Similar Nature

1. Similar Nature2. One Man + One Woman

5 Elements in the Base Model

1. Similar Nature2. One Man + One Woman3. 1st Priority

5 Elements in the Base Model

1. Similar Nature2. One Man + One Woman3. 1st Priority4. Exclusivity

5 Elements in the Base Model

1. Similar Nature2. One Man + One Woman3. 1st Priority4. Exclusivity5. No Shame

5 Elements in the Base Model

The Mosaic Model

Man’s sin weakens the base

model

1 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his

eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce

and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, 2 and she leaves his house and goes

and becomes another man’s wife,

Deuteronomy 24:1-2

The Mosaic Model

3 and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the

latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,

Deuteronomy 24:3

The Mosaic Model

 4 then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 24:4

The Mosaic Model

 Sexual sin is established as a valid reason for divorce.

The Mosaic Model

The Gospel Model9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

Matthew 19:9

Jesus added nothing new to the teaching of the Law, He

merely clarified it.

The Apostolic ModelThe Apostles added teachings not found in the gospels:

I.E. - Indwelling of the Holy Spirit - Acts 2:38

- Various gifts - I Cor.- Church organization - I Tim.

The Apostolic Model12 “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

John 16:12-13

14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.

John 16:14-15

Paul’s Teaching - Marriage

1. Celibacy & Marriage are both blessed

1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

I Cor. 7:1-2

Paul’s Teaching - Marriage

3 The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

I Cor. 7:3-4

Paul’s Teaching - Marriage

5 Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 But this I say by way of concession, not of command.

I Cor. 7:5-6

Paul’s Teaching - Marriage

7 Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that.

I Cor. 7:7

Paul’s Teaching - Marriage

8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I. 9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

I Cor. 7:8-9

Paul’s Teaching - Marriage

1. Celibacy & Marriage are both blessed2. Keep the Lock in Wedlock

Paul’s Teaching - Marriage

1. Christians Married to Christians10 But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband 11 (but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife.

I Cor. 7:10-11

Paul’s Teaching - Marriage

Paul’s Teaching - Marriage1. Christians Married to Christians

- Stay married- Separate for a time- Return to spouse

1. Christians Married to Christians2. Christians Married to Non-Believers

Paul’s Teaching - Marriage

12 But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her.

I Cor. 7:12

Paul’s Teaching - Marriage

13 And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not send her husband away. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

I Cor. 7:13-14

Paul’s Teaching - Marriage

15 Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace. 16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

I Cor. 7:15-16

Paul’s Teaching - Marriage

Paul’s Teaching - Marriage

2. Christians Married to Non-Believers

- Stay married in peace- Let the unbeliever go

“… It seems to me that in all cases of voluntary desertion on the side of the

unbelieving party, the marriage covenant is made void and the

believing party is to the deserter as though they had never been married.”

Alexander CampbellMillennial Harbinger

Vol. 5 P. 72

1. Celibacy & Marriage are both blessed2. Keep the Lock in WEDLOCK3. Marriage is normal but being single & devoted to the Lord has many advantages.

Paul’s Teaching - Marriage

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