Sermons

The Single Life (1 Cor. 7:25-40)

 

  1. Paul gives advice, rather than issues commandments – 7:25, 35, 40. Usually Paul writes with apostolic authority – 14:37.
  2. Meaning of ‘the present distress’ (7:26). Famine? Persecution?
  3. 7:36-38. To an engaged couple (ESV, Bruce Winter) or to parents and their virgin unmarried daughter (NASB, Calvin).
  1. God honours the single
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The Seventh Commandment (Exo. 20:14)

 

  1. Adultery is unfaithfulness
    • ‘if the Law be a perfect rule of holy living, it would be more than absurd to give license for fornication, adultery alone being excepted.’ – John Calvin
    • Adultery is the violation of a marriage
    • It is physical (Lev 18)
    • It is a matter of the
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The Issue Of Divorce (1 Cor. 7:10-16)

 

Seneca: ‘No woman need blush to break up her marriage since the most distinguished ladies have adopted the practice of reckoning the year not by the names of the consuls but by the names of their husbands. They divorce in order to remarry. They remarry in order to divorce.’ …

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Sexual Relations In Marriage (1 Cor. 7:1-9)

 

Athenaeus (A.D. 200) quoted Demosthenes (500 years beforehand): ‘We keep mistresses for pleasure, concubines for daily concubinage, but wives in order to produce children legitimately and to have a trustworthy guardian of our domestic property.’ 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 is outside marriage; 1 Corinthians 7:1-9 deals with sexual relations within …