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Welcome!. Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones. Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 P M. Psalm 66:1-2 Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!

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  1. Welcome! Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM

  2. Psalm 66:1-2 Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth! Sing out the honor of His name; Make His praise glorious.

  3. The Morality of Cohabitation

  4. The World’s Take on Marriage Unimportant Burdensome Destined to fail You don’t have to do it!

  5. Cohabitation: The Modern Family Cohabitation: Living together “as” man and wife, but unmarried Implied sexual relationship

  6. Cohabitation: The Modern Family The number of unmarried couples living together went from 430,000 in 1960 to over 6 million in 2006

  7. Cohabitation: The Modern Family More than half (54 percent) of all first marriages between 1990 and 1994 began with unmarried cohabitation

  8. Cohabitation: The Modern Family The majority of young men and women of marriageable age today will spend some time in a cohabiting relationship

  9. Cohabitation: The Modern Family “You test drive any car before you buy it” “Everybody does it” “Better to find out early than to divorce”

  10. Cohabitation: The Modern Family You have wearied the LORD with your words …..in that you say, "Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and He delights in them“ Malachi 2:17

  11. How God Looks Upon This Cohabitation = Fornication Fornication = sexual relationship outside of marriage between unmarried people Fornication is a form of sexual immorality

  12. How God Looks Upon This Sexual Immorality: Adultery Divorce and remarriage (without cause) Homosexuality Lewdness Lasciviousness Immodesty

  13. How God Looks Upon This For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; 1 Thessalonians 4:3 25+ times in the New Testament!

  14. How God Looks Upon This Fornication destroys your body’s holiness 1 Corinthians 6:18-19 Romans 8:28

  15. How God Looks Upon This Fornication insults God’s beloved creation (Marriage is) Jehovah’s holy institution which He loves Malachi 2:11

  16. How God Looks Upon This Fornication robs marriage of its gifts Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. Hebrews 13:4

  17. How God Looks Upon This Fornication leads to greater rebellion Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, …. Romans 1:24-25

  18. God’s View of Sexuality Sexuality’s purpose is to bond husband & wife But did He not make them one, Having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, And let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth. Malachi 2:15

  19. God’s View of Sexuality Sexuality’s purpose is to bond husband & wife Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

  20. God’s View of Sexuality Sexuality is comparable to worship The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: "Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.” Jeremiah 3:6

  21. God’s View of Sexuality Sexuality is comparable to worship Sacred and unique within the proper confines Abominable outside of the appropriate place

  22. Cohabitation: Self Deception More than eight out of ten couples who live together will break up either before the wedding or afterwards in divorce

  23. Cohabitation: Self Deception Couples who marry after living together are 50% more likely to divorce than those who did not.

  24. Cohabitation: Self Deception Only 12 percent of couples who have begun their relationship with cohabitation end up with a marriage lasting 10 years or more.

  25. Cohabitation: Self Deception One study reports that even a month’s cohabitation quantifiably decreases the quality of the couple’s relationship

  26. Cohabitation: Self Deception Children of cohabiting parents are three times as likely to be expelled from school or to get pregnant as teenagers than children from an intact home with married parents.

  27. Cohabitation: Self Deception Children of cohabiting parents are five times more likely to live in poverty, and 22 times more likely to be incarcerated

  28. The Moral Wreck of Cohabitation It misses the values of marriage It destroys both marriage and the family It contaminates the body and kills the soul

  29. Directions to Eternal Life Hearing the Word of God Romans 10:17 Believing the Divinity of God Mark 16:16 Confession of Jesus Christ Romans 10:9 Repentance of Immorality Acts 2:38 Baptism to Change Morality Acts 22:16

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