Relationships: Dating Test

16/04/2021 45 min

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Episode Synopsis

First thing that God said was not good:
Genesis 2:18
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9 (NLT)
Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed.
We are going to take a test to see if our dating is healthy:
1- The Progression Test
Proverbs 25:17
Don’t spend too much time in your neighbor’s house. Otherwise, they’ll get fed up with you and hate you.
2- The Physical Test.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
3- The Priority Test.
Matthew 19:5-6
…a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Matthew 22:37-39
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Jesus is the ONE.
Your spouse is the TWO.

Exodus 34:14
Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Exodus 20:1-5 (Ten Commandments)
1 And God spoke all these words:2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.3 “You shall have no other gods before me.4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God,

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