{"id":36608,"date":"2022-09-13T13:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-it-good-to-be-alone-or-to-marry\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:03:04","slug":"is-it-good-to-be-alone-or-to-marry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-it-good-to-be-alone-or-to-marry\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it good to be alone or to marry?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"<\/strong>I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am. But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, since it is better to marry than to burn with desire." 1 Corinthians 7:8,9 (CSB).<\/p>\n

The Scriptures give man free choice<\/strong> regarding the decision to marry. The Apostle Paul, who was unmarried, encouraged Christians to consider celibacy<\/strong>. "I wish that all people were as I am," 1 Corinthians 7:7. He reasoned that an unmarried person is able to devote his time and opportunities one hundred percent to serving the Lord<\/strong>. (See 1 Corinthians 7:32-35.)<\/p>\n

On the other hand, if someone were to suffer from loneliness and sexual desire<\/strong>, Paul advises that person to marry<\/strong>. "But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband," 1 Corinthians 7:2 (ESV).<\/p>\n

It is not easy to live your life alone. When problems arise, it's a blessing to have the help and the emotional support of a spouse. However, if someone feels strong enough and has good Christian friends as a support group, then he may choose to remain single. (Unless a person vows to God that he will live in an unmarried state, that single person may change his mind and subsequently decide to marry.)<\/p>\n

"Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion<\/strong>. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.…<\/em>A cord of three strands <\/em>(God and the married couple<\/em>) is not quickly torn apart," Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (NASB).<\/p>\n

A Christian's faithfulness is based on his heart and actions<\/strong>, not whether he is single or has a spouse. <\/em>"Give me your heart<\/strong>, my son, and let your eyes delight in my ways." Proverbs 23:26<\/p>\n

Anyone who teaches that God requires his most devout followers to remain celibate is teaching a doctrine of demons<\/strong>. 1 Timothy 4:1-3 (ESV), "Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons…They forbid marriage.<\/strong>" <\/p>\n

Remember: Marriage was established and blessed by God in the Garden of Eden. As Paul wrote, "If you do get married, you have not sinned,<\/strong>" 1 Corinthians 7:28.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

"I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am. But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, since it is better to marry than to burn with desire." 1 Corinthians 7:8,9 (CSB). The Scriptures give man free choice regarding the decision to marry. … Continue reading “Is it good to be alone or to marry?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}