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Valentine’s Weekend - Valentine’s Message

SPEAKER: Pastors Charlie & Michelle Riley
February 13, 2021

Pastor Charlie & Michelle Riley
February 13, 2021

Will we know our spouse in heaven?

Luke 16:19-31

Is 65:17
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.

My spouse and I come from two very different backgrounds and parenting styles, what advice can you give us to help us get on the same page?

Educate Yourself
Communicate
Compromise

Amos 3:3 NIV
Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so?

Mark 3:25
25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

What is your belief from the Bible about having relationship, dating, and marrying after divorce?

1 Corinthians 7:8-9
8 Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.9 But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

I just came out of a relationship and was wanting to date or get married. How soon is to soon?

It is rare that marriages last a long time these days. How do you have a marriage that goes the distance?

There Are Seasons
Everyone Changes
Put God and Local Church In The Center
Know The Grass Is Not Always Greener

I want to be married, but I’m not currently in a relationship. What can I do now to prepare myself to be in a Godly relationship?

Invest in yourself
Invest in your Spiritual growth
Learn from others

Does God put us on earth to have a spouse? Or is it okay if we are single? Are we to be alone?

1 Corinthians 7:1-9 Message Bible
Now, getting down to the questions you asked in your letter to me. First, Is it a good thing to have sexual relations? Certainly—but only within a certain context. It’s good for a man to have a wife, and for a woman to have a husband. Sexual drives are strong, but marriage is strong enough to contain them and provide for a balanced and fulfilling sexual life in a world of sexual disorder. The marriage bed must be a place of mutuality—the husband seeking to satisfy his wife, the wife seeking to satisfy her husband. Marriage is not a place to “stand up for your rights.” Marriage is a decision to serve the other, whether in bed or out. Abstaining from sex is permissible for a period of time if you both agree to it, and if it’s for the purposes of prayer and fasting—but only for such times. Then come back together again. Satan has an ingenious way of tempting us when we least expect it. I’m not, understand, commanding these periods of abstinence—only providing my best counsel if you should choose them.
7 Sometimes I wish everyone were single like me—a simpler life in many ways! But celibacy is not for everyone any more than marriage is. God gives the gift of the single life to some, the gift of the married life to others.
8-9 I do, though, tell the unmarried and widows that singleness might well be the best thing for them, as it has been for me. But if they can’t manage their desires and emotions, they should by all means go ahead and get married. The difficulties of marriage are preferable by far to a sexually tortured life as a single.

Hebrews 13:5b-6
“I will never leave you nor forsake you.” 6 So we may boldly say: “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

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Dating
Married
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I want to be married, but I’m not currently in a relationship. What can I do to prepare myself to be in a Godly relationship?

Invest in yourself
Invest in your Spiritual growth
Learn from others