Lot of people you know want to know what my dating rules are
Well
We don't really have much to go by
But I do know that the Bible says that they're not you're not supposed to touch
Right man should not be touching a woman unless they're married, okay
So all this junk about hey, it's okay to give hugs. It's okay to hold hands
What's the Bible say though does this say that this sale? It's okay to give hugs
It's okay to to touch a woman before you're married to them does this say that
No, it doesn't it says the opposite of that, but in our sick and twisted society
We got this idea that it's just okay. It's not okay
Not according to God's words not and how do you avoid that just get married?
How do you if you're so burnt up in your lust that you can't control yourself then you need to get married, okay?
That's what the Bible says
Genesis 2 verse 18
The Bible says this and the Lord God said it is not good that the man should be alone
I will make him and help me for him
Now again last week. I covered this when I said meat doesn't mean the steak okay meat and EET
means
Fitting for them okay. I'll make it help meet for him of someone that's fitting for that man
Someone that's going to help mount and out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every foul of the
Air and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them
Whatsoever Adam called every living creature
That was the name thereof and Adam gave names to all the cattle and the foul of the air and every beast of the field
But for Adam there was not found and helped meet
For him and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam
and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof and
The rib and the Lord God
Had that had taken from the man he made woman and brought her unto the man
And Adam 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, so the first man
Married his rib basically. I mean God made woman out of his out of man's rib
That's what the Bible says right they they are one flesh really
So but it says in verse 24 therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave
Unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh
So what is that therefore because of this reason right because of this reason shall a man leave his father and mother
And shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh, so when do you leave your father and mother?
What's the Bible say?
When do you leave your father and mother when you cleave unto your wife right now what it says?
So there's the leave and cleave
Okay, you leave and then you cleave okay, so but the thing is is that?
Cleave has two different meanings, right?
Cleave could be your chopping something up. You know the meat cleaver you cleave that meat
But it also can mean that you're cleaving you're holding fast to somebody
So what's which one is it talking about here?
Well obviously you divide from your parents at that point right, but it also has the meaning where you cleave you hold fast
To your spouse you know a young man leaves his father and mother he gets married and they
to become one flesh
So it's pretty simple look you know people just like freak out about this kind of preaching. That's what the Bible says get over it
So the word cleave well look it says they shall
Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother so we can see that
It's the Bible's clearly telling you leave your parents, and then you cleave to your wife
So I think the meaning of cleave in this verse is that you're clinging or cleaving to your spouse at that point
So it's the opposite of leave in this part in this in this text
So when you get married you hold fast your wife you stick to them like glue right?
That's what holding fast means you know you're you're tight together, but you're not tight together
until that point comes
Okay, that's you know kids listen up
Look the world is going to brainwash you into thinking that holding hands and kissing and doing all this stuff before you're married is good
It's not good the Bible's against it
You need to learn it now because all it's going to do is lead you into fornication
That's all it's going to do and look the Bible is very clear. God will condemn fornicators
He will condemn
adulterers
you