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Thank you everyone for coming out to our Thursday evening service.
Please take your seats
and open your green hymnals to page
224.
Page
224.
Green
hymnals
there shall be showers of blessing page
224.
.
Sing it out with me on the first.
There shall be showers
of blessing
this is the promise
of love
there shall be seasons
refreshing
set from the savior above
showers
of blessing
showers of blessing
we need
mercy drops round us
are falling
but for the showers we
need
there shall be showers
of blessing
precious
reviving again
over the hills
and the valleys
sound of abundance
of rain
showers
of blessing
showers of blessing
we need
mercy drops round us
showers we plead page
224 on the third
there shall be showers
of blessing
send them upon us
oh lord
grant to us now a refreshing
come in now
honor thy word
showers
of blessing
showers of blessing
we need
mercy drops round us
are falling
but for the showers
we plead on the last
there shall be showers
of blessing
oh that today they might fall
now as to god
we're confessing
now as on
jesus we come
showers
of blessing
showers of blessing
we need
are falling
but for the showers we plead
man thanks for coming out
tonight and good singing brother robert
can you open us with a word of prayer
man our second song is page
246
redeemed page
246
redeemed page 246
sing that with me on the first
redeemed how i love to
proclaim it
redeemed by the blood of the
lamb
redeemed through his infinite
mercy
his child and forever i am
redeemed
redeemed by the blood of the
lamb
redeem
his child and forever
i am
redeemed and so happy in
jesus no language
my rapture can tell
i know that the
light of his presence
with me doth continually
dwell
redeem
redeem by the blood of the
lamb
redeem
his child and forever i am
redeemed on the third
sing it out with me
i think of my blessed
redeemer
all the day long
i sing for i cannot
be silent
his love is the theme of my
song
redeem
redeem by the blood of the
lamb
redeem
his child and forever
i am
i'll see in his beauty
the king in whose
law i delight
who lovingly guarded
my footsteps
and giveth me songs in the
night
redeem
redeem by the blood of the
lamb
redeem
So look what it says in verse 26.
It says
I suppose therefore that this is good
for the present distress I say
that it is good for a man
so to be.
Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not
to be loosed.
Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.
See and there's people
that basically
they're in this situation
where he's saying hey
if you've already, if someone already divorced
divorced you or
you're loosed from
because people get divorced
like there's nothing you can do to stop it in some situations
people just get divorced
and hey what he's saying is hey if you can be
if you can be faithful
like I am then that's
going to be the best thing for you. Don't seek to be
married again.
So it says but
and if thou marry thou hast not
sinned
and if a virgin marry she
shall not sin. Nevertheless
such shall have trouble in the flesh
but I spare you. So he's basically
saying you know
if a virgin they say
I want to be a virgin but then
they're like you know what I want to experience
marriage and they decide
to get married then it's
not wrong.
Now obviously if you vow to vow to the Lord
to stay a virgin or something that's a little
that's different but like if you're just
like one of those people are just like I'm just never going to get married
you know I'm just going to serve the Lord
you know but then like later on you get
you know this itch like I want to know what
it's like to be married or whatever. He's just
saying it's not a sin to do that. Look at verse
29 it says but this I say brother
the time is short
it remaineth that both
they that have wives be
as though they had none
and they that weep as though they
wept not and they that rejoice
as though they rejoice not and they that
buy as though they possess not.
What's Paul trying to say well
you know the time is short as Christians
we our time is like a vapor
you know and so we don't
have a lot of time so even if you are married
hey you know we need to
we need to get busy regardless of whether
we're married or not and
you know they that possess as
though they possess not hey you got a lot of
possessions it takes a lot of time to take care
of possessions doesn't it? Maintenance
and all these different things if you have a lot of
possessions you know maybe you should just
pretend like you don't have those possessions
and just get busy. The time is short
and people just
get they lose track of the fact
that time is short on this earth
and we need to get busy regardless
of what calling your life is in
regardless of where you're at right now
hey act like the
time is short and get busy
doing the things for the Lord
because the time goes fast
20 years me and my wife married
whew where'd that go?
you know it went fast
you know and now I'm
uglier and older and she's still
with me I can't believe it but
you know
but it's been great we had a great
time yesterday we just we really had a
good time it was really nice
it was one to remember so
but that time is
short your life
here is short
so look at verse 31 it
says and they that use this
world as not abusing it for the fashion
of this world passeth
away
look don't get worldly
it's gonna pass away
it's gonna you're gonna get to if you
just think it's so cool to be worldly
the world is gonna pass
away it's gonna burn up
all this possessions that you
ever have owned all the pictures that you've
ever owned all the collectible
dolls that you have all
the canning jars
I'm trying to get on the women here
I always bring up men's stuff so
the thimble
the tea the tea animals that you get
out of the rose tea all that stuff
it's all gonna burn up
everything that we have
all of our achievements any
trophies that you have you know
I was the best ping pong player and we got the
trophy we got the trophy for football but guess
what that trophy is gonna burn up
it'll be symboled in heaven no I'm just kidding
there will be a diamond
in heaven for our football
no there won't be it's all gonna
burn up it doesn't mean anything
the fashion of this world
passeth away
so like I said regardless of where you're
at what's going on in your life just remember
the time is short
and act accordingly look at verse
32 but I would have you
without carefulness he that is
unmarried careth for the things that
belongeth to the Lord how he
may please the Lord so a Christian
man that's unmarried he
he can put all his focus
that's what Paul is saying you can put all your
focus how you can please the Lord
right and you can do a lot of
thanks for the Lord if you don't have any mouse to
feed you don't have to do all this other stuff
you don't have to please your wife cause look what it says in verse 33
but he that is married
careth for the things that are of
the world how he may
please his wife you still
have to if you're married you gotta take care
of your wife you gotta please
your wife you gotta take care of your
children and things like that and so
those things cut your time away
from the Lord now look I'm not saying
don't get married I'm not in here I'm not trying to
preach you know we should nobody should
get married this is talking about to people
that can do this okay
and again this is a very rare
bird that can do this right
verse 34 there is
difference also between a wife and a virgin
the unmarried woman careth for the
things of the Lord so it's the same
thing a woman can work
hard for the Lord and if you
if you just wanna remain unmarried
you can do a lot of great things for God
says that she may be holy both
in body and in spirit
but she that is married cares for the things of the world
how she may please her husband
and rightly so you get married
you get committed
and those are the things
that you're supposed to do you have to care
for the things of the world because the things of the world
are going to please
the husband or wife or
and take care of your children so
verse 38
and this I speak for your
own profit not that I may
cast a snare upon you
but for that which is comely
and that you may attend upon the
Lord what does it say?
without distraction
because wives can be distracting
you know
husbands can be distracting honey make
me something to eat
I'm trying to read my Bible
you know
I'm trying to read my Bible right now
it's just you know
that's what I'm saying is that like you can't
fully focus everything on the Lord because
you have somebody else that you're supposed to be pleasing
also and you can't just marry someone
and just it's like okay well I'm gonna
serve the Lord you know have fun you just work it out okay
that's not gonna be a very good marriage
it's gonna be ending in divorce very soon
so
verse 36
so apparently
you know
this virgin or whatever
you know people can have this like
this commitment that they're gonna be a virgin
but like
you know when it says
that they're not sending by marrying
that's what the Bible is teaching
like you know it's not wrong for someone
that has lived their life and said hey I'm
gonna be a virgin it's not wrong
to just say hey I'm gonna get married as long as like you didn't
vow that vow to the Lord
because if you vow a vow to the Lord you need to keep
the vow that you say that you're gonna do
that's why we shouldn't vow things
and say stupid things out of our
mouths that
God if you get me out of this situation
I promise I'm gonna serve you with my whole life and then
like you don't do that God's gonna hold
you accountable for that
alright so look at verse 37
nevertheless he that standeth
steadfast in his heart
having no necessity
but hath power over his own
will and has so
decreed in his heart that he'll keep
his virgin doeth
well so
you know if you
are a man and
you're a virgin or you have this virgin that
you're like dedicated to or whatever
see this is the part that I'm just like
I'm not really sure
you know I'm not gonna sit here and
pretend like I understand this situation because it's
just not a norm in our society
but it's talking
about this
this man and
it seems like it's a virgin
and somebody that they're bound
to each other in some way shape or form
but
that they're not married so
I guess I really just don't
understand that but I'm just being honest with you
so verse 38 says
so then he that giveth her in
marriage doeth well but he that giveth her
not in marriage doeth better
the wife is bound
by the law as long as her husband liveth
but if her husband be dead
she is at liberty to be married to whom
she will
only in the Lord
so
basically
you know the Bible is saying that you know
and obviously the context
here is talking about virgins
okay so again
our society is not
a virgin society is it
you know the United States is not
known for the virgins
that it produces right
so it's actually a
pretty wicked country and it's
filled with fornication
and so fornication is the norm that we
grow up in in our society it's not
these virgins that are committed to
each other and then deciding to get married later on
the road so again not a norm
in our society but it is something
that the apostle Paul he's basically
I mean if you want to get something out of this
it's the people that can contain
themselves in this way
and that have committed themselves to serving the
Lord you know what it's saying is
that it's you know if they get to the
to the end of their life or they get to their
midlife crisis and they say you know what
I want to get married it's not wrong
so that's kind of what I get out of it
but down in
verse 39 where
it says the wife is bound by the law as long as her
husband liveth so if
someone gets divorced then
that woman is bound
to that person as long as they
live that's what the Bible says right
but if her husband is dead
be dead she is at liberty
to be married to whom
she will
only in the Lord so
there's a lot of situations like this in society
now there's people that have
gotten married and divorced and maybe the
other person is just like still alive
you know the Bible is very clear you're not supposed
to get remarried
but once that person dies
then that person is free to marry
whoever they want okay
um so you know
and there's a lot of unfortunate I talked about this before
but there's a lot of unfortunate situations
where people marry these people
they turn out to be reprobates or whatever
you know and the only thing I can say if you want
to hurry up and get remarried again
you know pray for that reprobate to die and go to hell
I mean I know that sounds mean
but they're not doing society
if they're a true
reprobate that's what I'm talking about like if someone
marries some homo you know
and they didn't know if they were a homo
because you know homos like to hide and play in sight
they like to pretend they're psychopaths
they like to pretend
that they're this family man
or whatever and then they find out later
that he's a closet queer or whatever so
you know I would say in that
situation you know it's fine
to pray for that person to die and go to hell
because they're not again if they're a reprobate
they're not doing anything good for society
and so
you know but you're still
bound to that reprobate as long
as you live unfortunately
so like Manly Perry
I know is giving advice
marriage advice and saying it's okay to divorce
a reprobate
chapter and verse on that
it's not in the bible
so you're just you know
it sounds good
but I actually had a church member of mine call me
and say well pastor my
husband is a reprobate
and I heard pastor Perry's
sermon about how it's
okay for you to divorce a
reprobate and I was like well
you know and this was before
it was Manly Perry exposed but
I just said I don't agree with him
I mean
I feel bad for you that that's the case
but that's not what the
bible says so
I preached about this last week it's just you know
this is divorce and marriage
are the hardest things that I deal with as a pastor
and all these weird
situations that happen because divorce
can just be done by either side
you know in the bible
it doesn't teach that women even can divorce
their husbands like
I mean maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure
that the bible teaches that men are the ones that divorce
their wives
and that's not the other way around
men who are not supposed to
multiply wives
do it anyway
but you never see women
you know multiplying husbands
right?
so there is like it is different
you know the
I mean show me a verse
where it says
a woman had multiple husbands it just doesn't happen
but you see a man having
multiple wives
there is some different rules
for men and women in the bible
but
so now we live in a day and age
where women can just
divorce men for whatever reason
right? no cause
no fault divorces
I just thought he was ugly when I woke up the next day
and I just decided to divorce him
I mean you can literally divorce people for those reasons
that's really stupid
and so like basically the judges
of America become like the Pharisees
can we divorce for any reason?
yep
as a matter of fact women can divorce the men
but like you don't see that happening
in the bible
but now we see it
and so you know
we got to fight against this kind of culture
and it's
Manly Perry just saying
you know all
it's not just Manly Perry it's just all kinds of pastors
teach us crap
that you can just divorce for whatever reason
they feel like is necessary in their
own eyes and I'll tell you what there's a lot of
pastors who are going to get smoked on judgment
day for teaching this garbage
I'm talking about pastors who are not
saved by the way
but you know there's probably pastors
in this life that are saved that are
teaching this crap and God's probably judging
them for it and it
is a wicked thing God hates
divorce you know he
hates the putting away
the bible is very clear about that
what God has put together
let no man
part asunder right so we're not supposed
to divorce
now if you if one of the
spouses dies then it's okay
you're free to go and get remarried
but only in the
Lord see a lot of people
just get remarried and they'll just make the same stupid
mistake that they made before
it's like well he's a Catholic so I think he's
Christian no
they're not Christians
you know these different
you know you want to marry
someone that matches up
with what you believe
so and even then it can be difficult
because sometimes
people just you know they love each other
at the beginning but like I
said you know you start leaving the toilet
toilet seat up or whatever
throwing your dirty undies on the floor
like I told you to clean
them under put those underwear
is it really that hard to put it in the basket
people fight about the dumbest things
and get divorced over the stupidest things
but you know if people just
read this book
they would have a lot better marriages
pastor what should I do read
Ephesians 5
pastor what should I do read 1 Corinthians chapter 7
pastor what's your advice on this
read the Bible
that's what I want to say
because it seems like any other advice
I give just gets ignored anyway so I might
as well just point them to the Bible
I like pastor Anderson's
counseling you know I used to think
well you know maybe we should just try
it's like
I mean obviously I still want to help
people with counseling but I'm just saying
to do this and say hey you know the verses
are in the Bible about
marriage why don't you just read those
let not man part asunder
hey in the beginning they made them male and female
so
what God has put together
don't put asunder that means either side
you know and women should just not
take advantage of these loopholes that they
have in society
where you can just get divorced
for whatever reason you know
and don't listen to your family
that are unsaved on marriage advice
you know who you shouldn't
listen to on a marriage advice
the world
you know what was
that lady's name that married all those people
and she was a movie star Elizabeth Taylor
don't take advice for people like
Elizabeth Taylor don't take
advice from people that have been
divorced remarried on how to
I mean obviously people that have been divorced
remarried can still have a good marriage
but I'm just saying that you probably shouldn't take your
advice from them you should probably go to someone that's
maybe been married for 20 years
or 30 years or 50 years
or how long have your parents
been married brother Sean
a lot of years
yeah so you know
go to people that have made it
stick and stayed and made it pay
don't go to someone that's just like not even married
I mean that'd be dumb right
hey what do you think I should do
but people will try to give
their advice won't they
and your twice divorced parents
sure want to give you
advice don't they
and people that have just failed
miserably in life or they're just not even
saved but we got to stop
getting our advice from worldly
people in the world
stop looking at stupid sitcoms
and things where you know
we just should be the opposite of all
that how we rear our
children how we treat our
wives how we
just interact with everything that we do
the bible says be holy for I am holy
so we're supposed to take
and separate ourselves from
that we're supposed to be in the world
but not of the world
so that's what God expects from us
and the better we learn that the better
off our marriages are going to be the better off
our families are going to be the better off
our children are going to be raised
you know we got to take everything that we
get from this book
and stop going to the world
stop going to unsaved people
stop going to your friends that you've known for 30
years I don't care if you've known them for 30 years good
I'm glad you went to high school with them
and you've been friends for that long
but you should never
ever get your
advice from someone that's
unsaved or someone
that's been divorced or someone that's never been married
when it comes to marriage topics
if someone's failed miserably
with their children
don't go to them for child
rearing advice you know
you don't want to go to people that have failed
you don't want to go what's that guy's name that's the coach
for the Kansas City Chiefs
what's his name
I know you know you worldly man
huh Andy Reid yeah
I'm sorry I'm just kidding
Andy Reid his kids
I think were like
gangsters basically
so he's leading the
Eagles at this time
and his kids are just like total
thugs I think they might
even be dead or a couple of them or one of them
I don't know but like
yeah he's a great coach
he's a great football coach but you know what he is
he's a terrible father
Michael Jordan terrible
person great basketball player
terrible person
you know he probably got his dad killed from some
gambling debt or whatever
but yeah he's super
prideful and super worldly
but people just emulate Michael Jordan don't they
the world
emulates the world but we as Christians
should not emulate what the world
has to offer
and so when it comes to
marriage and child rearing
and just living
Christian living you know the world can
show great things
and work ethic and
you know they can be the children of this world
can be wiser sometimes than Christians
you know
we'll blow ourselves up on stuff
when we shouldn't and
we can learn things from the world
but I'm not saying you should take your advice
from them if you see someone that has a
great work ethic and they're not saved there's nothing wrong with
emulating their great work ethic
just don't emulate their
the way they talk the way they smoke
the way they chew
and run with girls who do or whatever
you know we got to take everything
we got from the Bible you know it's so
important it's so important you know
when you see families that
are failing even churches
you know we should
get our we should get our
we should emulate our church more
after a good church is thriving
and not some
church that is failing
you know and they got like three
people in their church or something it's like
how do you do it man how do you do
it it's like
that's not the person you should go to
you know to try to help you with church thing
you know anyway so
like the Bible says look at verse 40
it says but she is happier
so if
if she so abide after my
judgment and I think also
that I
have the spirit of God
so basically ultimately Paul
is saying here you know
if someone abides
and doesn't get remarried after they get divorced
or all these different scenarios
that first Corinthians chapter 7
has laid out for us
it's gonna you're gonna be happier
if you go after what Paul's judgment
is to just serve the Lord
with everything you have
and don't try to entank
you know if you're already divorced don't try to get remarried
because you
know what do you want to do you want to serve God
as a person that's saved
and not you know you've already screwed it up
you know go to plan B
plan B for your God's plan
B for your life and his plan B is not to
get remarried that's sin
so we should go after what
you know and I think Paul's judgment is
right here and he says you know what he says
at the end he says I think also that I have
the spirit of God so do
you think Paul had good judgment
Paul was a great man so he
probably is right you know
and it's not saying that it's God's
commandment that he teaches this part
but he's probably right
you know and how do we know that he's probably right
cause nobody did more than he did
for God in the New Testament
period so anyway that's first
Corinthians chapter 7 let's pray Heavenly Father
we thank you Lord so much for
this great book and pray that you just
Lord take us home safely
we thank you for all the blessings
that you do for us and the answered
prayer Lord and let's pray that you'd help us
to Lord just
think about things the way you
want us to think about them and Lord that we would be
your freemen Lord
and not servants to sin
not servants to the world Lord you've called us
out of that you've freed us from that
you've redeemed us from that I pray you'd
help us to
see that our time is short on this earth
and that Lord we would seek regardless
of what our calling is
where we're at
that we would abide in the calling
that we were called and Lord pray these things
in Jesus name Amen
God leads us along
Singing out with me on the first
In shady
green pastures
so rich and so
sweet God
leads his dear
children along
Where the waters
cold flow bays
the weary ones
feeb God
leads his dear children
along
some through the water
some through
the flood
some through
the fire but
all through the blood
some
through great sorrow
but God gives
a song
in the night
season and
all the day
long
sometimes on the
mouth where the
sun shines so bright
God leads
his dear children
along
sometimes
in the valley
and darkest
of night
God leads his dear
children along
some through the
waters
some through the flood
some through
the fire
but all through
the blood
some through great sorrow
but God
gives a song
in the
night season
and all the day
long
though sorrows
befall us
and Satan
oppose God
leads his dear
children along
through grace
we can conquer
defeat all our foes
God
leads his dear children
along
some through the
waters
some through the flood
some through
the fire
but all through
the blood
some through great sorrow
but God
gives a song
in the
night season
and all the day
long
away from the
mire and away
from the clay
God leads
his dear children
along
away
up in glory
eternity
stays
God leads his dear
children along
some through the
waters
some through the flood
some through
the fire
but all through the
blood
some through great sorrow
but God
gives a song
in the night
season
and all the day
long
Thanks for coming out this evening. I'd like to see you back here
Sunday morning at 1030.
Brother Sean Collin, can you end us with a word of prayer?