Marriage and Sexual Purity
December 13, 2009 · Filed Under Sermon Study Guides
1 Corinthians 7:1-9
- What are God’s purposes for marriage? Look up the following texts in addition to the one for this sermon: Ecclesiastes 4:7-12; Malachi 2:10-16; Ephesians 5:22-33
- How would you respond to someone who says, “Paul was a sexist”? How would you respond to someone who says, “Paul is down on marriage”?
- Read and discuss Proverbs 5:15-21. What is the message of the text? Why do you think that vs. 21 seems to have such little import into the lives of modern people?
- Talk about the role of sex in marriage. How would you characterize a biblical concept of sex in marriage? In what ways has our culture polluted the biblical view of marital sex? In what ways does marital sex take on a selfish dynamic? What does it mean for your spouse to have “authority” over your body?
- What is the gift of celibacy? How could it be misunderstood?
- Formulate your own question from this text to share with the group.
- Pray for the marriages in the group. Pray that God would make selfless spouses out of each individual. Pray for each to be given to self-control in the sexual arena of their lives.
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