How to find your soulmate, Biblical dating, and Godly marriage advice

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Welcome to This Week in the Word!

This is where I am sharing the work God is using to grow me. How I am preparing for his calling on my life, and being a witness to his glory. I am not a graduate of seminary, a theologian, or godly scholar. I am just a born again BIBLE believing disciple of Jesus.

My mission is to encourage people to seek God through reading his word.

This weeks study: How to find your soulmate, Biblical dating, and Godly marriage advice

For husbands and wives:
Read passage: Ephesians 5:22-31Wives, this passage calls you to a very specific task:
What to do: (verse 22A) Submit yourselves unto your own husbands,
How to do it: (verse 22B) as unto the LORD. Verse 22B
Example: (verse 23) even as Christ is the head of the church: and he (Christ) is the savior of the body. (Verse 24) we get a clear example here, in EVERYTHING.
Instructions for the husband:
What to do: (verse 25A) husbands, love your wives
How to do it: (verse 25B) as Christ loved the church
Example: (verse 25C) and gave himself for it
MEN! Listen up, because you are being told again:
What to do: (verse 28) men are to love their wives as their own bodies
How to do it: (verse 29A) no man ever hated his own flesh but he nourishes and cherishes it.
Example: (verse 29B-30) even as the LORD the church for we are members of his body, flesh and bone.
Notice that all examples the Bible gives here are a comparison of Christ and the church?
Now this is not the point of this message but in verse 31 its repeating genesis 2:24 when God gave Adam his wife.
Jesus also talked about this in his ministry on earth in Matthew 19:5-6, saying what God hath joined together let no man put asunder.
Now in verse 32 Paul gives us good insight to help us understand what he is talking about. (Rom 7:4, Rom 12:5, Eph 3:6, 1Cor 6:19-20)

For the Singles:
Marriage in the Bible is defined as having sexual intercourse. Its not a ceremony or a paper issued by a state.
Examples of marriage: if you want to study this out search the word “wife” in the Bible and it occurs 397 times. Gen 16:3-4; Gen 38:1-14; Exo 6:20, 23, 25; the best example is Matt 19:5-6, marriage is the joining of flesh. Two become one. The bible says not to sleep around for this reason 1 Co 6:15.
If you are having sex with “boyfriends/girlfriends”, STOP! The seriousness of this was never explain to me and I wish that it had been.
What are you looking for in a partner?
Paul says we should stay single and focus on our walk 1 Cor 7, but it is better for us to marry if we can keep ourselves from burning with passion.
Ladies: What does your “shopping list” look like?
Men: What does your list look like?
How does this differ from worldly singles “shopping list”:
Truth is there is very little difference, but we are called to be separate from this world. To be a peculiar people unto God. Remember we are not our own?
How to build a biblical “shopping list” for a partner:
Believer’s Step 1: Ask God.
Believer’s Step 2: Put in the work and get right with God.
Step 3: Listen to God.
Believer’s Step 4: Building your list for you and your partner.
Believer’s Step 5: Be patient.
Bonus Believer’s Step: It's not over.

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