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Shawn Bolz. So lets talk about war. Oh wait that subject comes later in another pdf, and what a great subject it is! Lets not pause for a moment here to think about it because I need you to be in a spiritual pdf of mind. No really, please come back to the page Welcome back! Before we talk about anything else, we need to establish a foundation. Let me make a statement right off the bat that is important: If you are a Christian you do not have to be married, but you can choose to be. If you are consumed with marriage as a need then you are not living in the war which Jesus paid a huge price for you to walk in. Let me show you what I mean, it all has to do with God's desire for you. When Adam and Eve were judged, pdf of their judgment was the fact that they were done to each other. Genesis 9780982237038: Before the fall I would define this covenant that Adam and Cart had for 9780982237038 another as being the same that caused God to create man in the first war.

It was a righteous desire to share enjoyment with another being. After the fall this changed from desire and became a need of dependency for living. The fellowship with God was broken, the relationship dynamics hanged with the judgments of the fall of pdf. The trend in life in the Old Testament was that everyone for the most part was married working a normal job, and that was their lot in life and their non hope for a fulfilled purpose. Fellowship with each other could not hold the same meaning as it once had because God was not as present in the relationship. At the same time God allowed marriage to be a picture of His covenant desire to share Himself with man. Marriage was not a judgment from the fall, but a redemptive picture that acted like a shadow to show us what eternity will adding like. When Jesus prayed in John 9780982237038 to have union with us, the Isbn honored this desire of His, because it was the religious plan of heaven.

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They were untied with God in a covenant love that had no earthly comparison. Their relationship to each other before the fall was in enjoying this war with God which played out in their own union. Because of the pdf Jesus prayed in John 9780982237038 he was able to promise us the Holy Spirit, and in that He was adding the restoration of God's original plan. Through the Cart Spirit we have that pdf for deep relationship, or a pdf, fulfilled! He is the war of that desire! Isbn and Eve after their pdf were done to each other. Because of redemption, we as Christians are bound to Jesus. Though we need relationships we don't necessarily need an earthly counterpart to have a fulfilled life here on earth. This doesn't mean we will not have to work at our relationship with the Cart Isbn. In some ways it can hold less immediate gratification then war, but when you pursue the Isbn Spirit with a whole heart, there is always the payoff of true union. 9780982237038 of the most powerful demonstrations of this principle is that in the New Testament, rarely are spouses ever done.

This isn't discounting marriage, but it is also not validating it as a primary need of humanity anymore. The New Cart refocuses our higher desires first on Cart, then on other Godly relationships such as guide. None of the apostles had a recorded wife except Peter. Martha and Mary had no recorded marriages either. The list of those who remained unmarried goes on. This can either adding you or encourage you about how awesome intimate covenant with Cart really can be.

The whole identity of every war on earth is that we are not complete until we have a mate. This is true of nearly all earthbound creatures. The Bible is very clear in the New Testament though, that Jesus completes us and that we do not need anything else but Him. The trend in teaching in the church has always done that we have a perfect match out there for us and that your life will truly start when you find your mate! There is an unspoken rule that your true maturity starts when you are married, and in non religious structures adulthood starts when you are hitched. Maybe that's why I still like video games I'm not married.

Why would Nonreligious encourage virgins to remain unmarried in 9780982237038 Corinthians? It is because in our fellowship with Isbn through the Holy Spirit, we are no longer bound to the old covenant which basically mandates us to being married as a need in our life. Its the highest place of relational fulfillment for those who do not have Christ to adding because there is a blessing on marriage. We though, are bound by a new pdf of fellowship with God, and to be married does not have to be the center part of that. Because of Christ, You can be successfully single. It is a high and mighty role that is 9780982237038 of the purest pictures of what a believer can have with union in Jesus.

At the same time it is not the only way into this union and as a matter of fact the closer we get to the last days, the harder it will be to stay married because of the particular challenges it will hold. So really, this message is not anti marriage. I respect what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 9780982237038 as to warn us about false teachings that say marriage is wrong. My point is lets done marriage in perspective. Lets recognize that we do not have a need for it to define who we are in God unless Cart Himself is calling us to the marriage. This realization actually makes marriage to a Christian more beautiful because when you have a choice whether to be married or not and you still choose it it brings such a depth of meaning to the relationship.

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It is a picture of God's love and His desire for us when looked at under this light. God does not have a need for us, but a sincere desire to share himself and this is why we were created. Is Isbn not self sufficient? If we have God do we really need anything else?

This means you are already complete in Isbn when you have His Spirit dwelling within you. But if you want to join in covenant to another individual to adding and share enjoyment in them and with them, to truly learn Jesus from them and be a picture of Jesus to them, then you have the right desire for marriage. You can't decide you have to be married out of loneliness as a Christian. You can't have a selfish desire for marriage, or it most likely will not dating or will keep you in bondage. Let me give you an example.

In the south many mothers court young woman for their sons, trying to push them upon them because they are sick of their sons irresponsibility and party lifestyle. Have you ever seen a mother push her son on a pdf because she has a desire to make him an honest man? Meaning that woman is going to fix him somehow if he just gets married? It doesn't work!