Hi, and welcome
to HIS WORDS ARE LIFE
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, as I was
getting ready this morning I was
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thinking about the title of
the program - HIS WORDS ARE LIFE
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If you leave out the word
"life" there's a lot of clichés
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attached to that word, there's
"where there's life, there's
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hope" and there's a - "oh, she's
full of life," and I thought
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about the meaning of those,
you know "His Words are Hope",
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"His Words are
energy, and enthusiasm,"
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and so for any of you
that are joining today,
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and things are going on in
your life right now that seem
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hopeless, or seem draining,
you can come to the Word of God,
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and find not only
wisdom, but you can find hope,
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find energy, and enthusiasm
to continue on in His grace.
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Let's pray before we start.
Dear Jesus, thank you so much
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for coming to give us
life, life more abundantly.
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Please take your words, that
you have prepared for us to read
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today, and plant them in
our heart. We love you. Amen.
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I'm reading today from
the King James Version.
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I Corinthians, chapter 3,
and we're starting with verse 10
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According to the grace of
God which is given unto me as a
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wise master builder, I have
laid the foundation, and another
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man buildeth thereon.
But let every man take heed
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how he buildeth thereupon.
For other foundation can no man
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lay than that is
laid, which is Jesus Christ.
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Now if any man build upon
this foundation gold, silver,
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precious stones, wood,
hay, stubble; Every man's work
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shall be made manifest:
for the day shall declare it,
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because it shall be revealed
by fire; and the fire shall try
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every man's work of what sort
it is. If any man's work abide
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which he hath built thereupon,
he shall receive a reward.
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If any man's work shall be
burned he shall suffer loss:
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but he himself shall be
saved; yet so as by fire.
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Know ye not that ye are
the temple of God, and that the
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Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
If any man defile the temple
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of God, him shall God destroy;
for the temple of God is holy,
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which temple ye are.
Let no man deceive himself.
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if any man among you seemeth
to be wise in this world,
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let him become a fool, that he
may be wise, for the wisdom of
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this world is foolishness
with God. For it is written,
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He taketh the wise in their own
craftiness. And again, The Lord
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knoweth the thought of the wise,
that they are vain. Therefore
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let no man glory in men.
For all things are yours;
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Whether Paul, or Apollos, or
Cephas, or the world, or life,
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or death, or things present, or
things to come; all are yours;
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And ye are
Christ's; and Christ is God's
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We're reading from 1 Corinthians
chapter 4, beginning in verse 1
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and this is the
King James Version.
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Let a man so account of us, as
of the ministers of Christ, and
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stewards of the mysteries
of God. Moreover it is required
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in stewards, that a man be
found faithful. But with me
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it is a very small thing
that I should be judged of you,
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or of man's judgment:
yea, I judge not mine own self.
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For I know nothing by myself;
yet am I not hereby justified:
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but he that judgeth me is the
Lord. Therefore judge nothing
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before the time, until the
Lord come, who both will bring
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to light the hidden things of
darkness, and will make manifest
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the councils of the hearts: and
then shall every man have praise
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of God. And these things,
brethren, I have in a figure
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transferred to myself and
to Apollos for your sakes;
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that ye might learn in us not
to think of men above that which
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is written, that no one of
you be puffed up for one against
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another. For who maketh
thee to differ from another?
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and what hast thou
that thou didst not receive?
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now if thou didst
receive it, why dost thou glory,
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as if thou hadst not
received it? Now ye are full,
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now ye are rich, ye have reigned
as kings without us: and I would
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to God ye did reign, that
we also might reign with you.
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For I think that God hath
set forth us the apostles last,
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as it were appointed to death:
for we are made a spectacle
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unto the world, and to
angels, and to men. We are fools
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for Christ's sake,
but ye are wise in Christ;
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we are weak, but you are
strong; ye are honourable,
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but we are despised. Even unto
this present hour we both hunger
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and thirst, and are
naked, and are buffeted,
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and have no
certain dwellingplace;
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and labour, working with
our own hands being reviled,
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we bless; being persecuted,
we suffer it: being defamed,
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we entreat: we are made
as the filth of the world,
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and are the offscouring
of all things unto this day.
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I write not these
things to shame you,
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but as my beloved sons I
warn you. For though ye have ten
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thousand instructors in Christ,
yet have ye not many fathers:
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for in Christ Jesus I have
begotten you through the gospel.
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Wherefore I beseech
you, be ye followers of me.
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For this cause have I
sent unto you Timotheus,
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but as my beloved son,
and faithful in the Lord,
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who shall bring you
into remembrance of my ways
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which be in Christ, as I teach
every where in every church.
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Now some are puffed up, as
though I would not come to you.
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But I will come to you shortly,
if the Lord will, and will know,
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not the speech of them which
are puffed up, but the power.
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For the kingdom of God is
not in word, but in power.
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What will ye? shall I come
unto you with a rod, or in love,
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and in the spirit of
meekness? We're reading from 1
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Corinthians, chapter
5. It is reported commonly
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that there is fornication
among you, and such fornication
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as is not so much as
named among the Gentiles,
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that one should
have his father's wife.
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and ye are puffed up, and have
not rather mourned, that he that
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hath done this deed might
be taken away from among you.
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For I verily, as absent in
body but present in spirit,
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have judged already, as though
I were present, concerning him
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that hath so done this deed,
in the name of our Lord Jesus
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Christ, when ye are gathered
together, and my spirit,
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with the power of our Lord
Jesus Christ, to deliver such
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an one unto Satan for
the destruction of the flesh,
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that the spirit may be saved
in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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Your glorying is not good.
Know ye not that a little leaven
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leaveneth the whole lump? Purge
out therefore the old leaven,
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that ye may be a new lump, as ye
are unleavened. For even Christ
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our passover is
sacrificed for us:
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Therefore let us keep the feast,
not with old leaven, neither
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with the leaven of
malice and wickedness;
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but with the unleavened
bread of sincerity and truth.
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I wrote unto you in an epistle
not to company with fornicators:
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Yet not altogether with
the fornicators of this world,
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or with the
covetous, or extortioners,
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or with idolaters; for
then must ye needs go out of
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the world. But now I
have written unto you not to
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keep company, if any man that is
called a brother be a fornicator
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or covetous, or and idolater,
or a railer, or a drunkard,
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or an extortioner; with
such an one no not to eat.
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For what have I do to
judge them that are without?
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Do not ye judge them that
are within? But them that are
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without God judgeth. Therefore
put away from among yourselves
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that wicked person. We are
reading from 1 Corinthians,
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in the King James version,
and now moving to chapter 6.
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Dare any of you, having a matter
against another, go to law
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before the unjust,
and not before the saints?
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Do ye not know that the
saints shall judge the world?
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And if the world shall be judged
by you, are ye unworthy to judge
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the smallest matters? Know ye
not that we shall judge angels?
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How much more things
that pertain to this life?
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If then ye have judgments of
things pertaining to this life,
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set them to judge who are
least esteemed in the church.
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I speak to your shame. Is it
so, that there is not a wise man
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among you? no, not one that
shall be able to judge between
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his brethren? But brother
goeth to law with brother,
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and that before the unbelievers.
Now therefore there is utterly
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a fault among you, because
ye go to law one with another.
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Why do ye not rather take wrong?
Why do ye not rather suffer
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yourselves to be defrauded?
Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud,
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and that your brethren. Know ye
not that the unrighteous shall
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not inherit the kingdom
of God? Be not deceived:
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neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers,
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nor effeminate, nor abusers
of themselves with mankind,
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nor thieves, nor covetous,
nor drunkards, nor revilers,
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nor extortioners, shall
inherit the kingdom of God.
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And such were some of
you: but ye are washed,
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but ye are sanctified, but
ye are justified in the name
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of the Lord Jesus, and
by the Spirit of our God.
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All things are lawful unto me,
but all things are not expedient
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all things are lawful for
me, but I will not be brought
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under the power of
any. Meats for the belly,
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and the belly for
meats: But God shall destroy
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both it and them. Now the
body is not for fornication,
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but for the Lord, and
the Lord for the body.
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And God hath both raised up
the Lord, and will also raise
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up us by his own power.
Know ye not that your bodies
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are the members of Christ?
Shall I then take the members
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of Christ, and make
them the member of an harlot?
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God forbid. What? know ye
not that he which is joined
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to an harlot is one body? for
two saith he, shall be one flesh
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But he that is joined
unto the Lord is one spirit.
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Flee fornication. Every
sin that a man doeth is without
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the body; but he that
committeth fornication
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sinneth against his own body.
What? know ye not that your
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body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in you,
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which ye have of God,
and ye are not your own?
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For ye are bought with a
price: therefore glorify God
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in your body, and in
your spirit, which are God's.
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We're reading from 1
Corinthians chapter 7.
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Now concerning the
things whereof ye wrote unto me:
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It is good for a man
not to touch a woman.
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Nevertheless, to
avoid fornication,
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let every man have his own wife.
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and let every woman
have her own husband.
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Let the husband render
unto the wife due benevolence:
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and likewise also the
wife unto the husband.
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The wife hath not
power of her own body,
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but the husband: and
likewise also the husband
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hath not power of his
own body, but the wife.
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Defraud ye not one the
other, except it be with consent
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for a time, that ye may
give yourselves to fasting
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and prayer; and come together
again, that Satan tempt you not
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for your incontinency. But
I speak this by permission,
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and not of commandment.
For I would that all men
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were even as I myself. But every
man hath his proper gift of God
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one after this manner,
and another after that.
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I say therefore to
the unmarried and widows,
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It is good for them
if they abide even as I.
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But if they cannot
contain, let them marry:
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for it is better
to marry than to burn.
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And unto the married I command,
yet not I, but the Lord,
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Let not the wife depart from her
husband: But and if she depart,
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let her remain unmarried, or
be reconciled to her husband:
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and let not the
husband put away his wife.
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But to the rest
speak I, not the Lord:
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If any brother hath a
wife that believeth not,
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and she be
pleased to dwell with him,
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let him not put her away. And
the woman which hath an husband
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that believeth not, and if
he be please to dwell with her,
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let her not leave him.
For the unbelieving husband
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is sanctified by the
wife, and the unbelieving wife
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is sanctified by the husband:
else were your children unclean;
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but now are they holy.
But if the unbelieving depart,
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let him depart. A brother or
a sister is not under bondage
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in such cases: but God
hath called us to peace.
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For what knowest thou, O wife,
whether thou shalt save thy
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husband? or how knowest thou,
O man, whether thou shalt save
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thy wife? But as God
hath distributed to every man,
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as the Lord hath called
every one, so let him walk.
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And so ordain I in all churches.
Thank you for coming to read
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with me today the beautiful
words of God, and until
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we're together again, may the
God of hope, keep you with all
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joy and peace through your
faith in Jesus Christ our Lord,
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by the power of His
Holy Spirit. Goodbye.
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