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Please join with me in God's holy word to Proverbs chapter five. Proverbs five in connection with the seventh commandment, you shall not commit adultery, which is also explained to us in Lord's Day 41 of the Heidelberg Catechism, to which we'll turn in a moment. Proverbs chapter 5, in the word of the Lord, we hear God's word to us as people, giving our careful attention to the God-breathed scriptures. Proverbs 5, verse 1. My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Lend your ear to my understanding, that you may preserve discretion and your lips may keep knowledge. For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil. But in the end, she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death, her steps lay hold of hell. Lest you ponder her path of life, her ways are unstable, you do not know them. Therefore, hear me now, my children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. Remove your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, lest you give your honor to others and your years to the cruel one, lest aliens be filled with your wealth and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, and you mourn at last when your flesh and your body are consumed and say how I have hated instruction. My heart despised correction. I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me. I was on the verge of total ruin in the midst of the assembly and congregation. Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well. Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets? Let them be only your own and not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of your youth as a loving dear and a graceful doe. Let her breath satisfy you at all times. and always be enraptured with her love. For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, and be embraced in the arms of a seductress? For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, that he ponders all his paths. His own iniquities entrap the wicked man, and he is caught in the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. God's Word. We turn from the scriptures to our confession, the Heidelberg Catechism, turning in a smaller forms and prayers book to page 248. The smaller forms and prayers book in the chairs in front of you, page 248. Our confession here is summarizing what God's Word teaches about each of the Ten Commandments. It's doing it in the third section of the Catechism, which teaches us how now, having been redeemed, how to live a grateful life, how to live a thankful life to our God. And that includes sexual purity, marital faithfulness, Word today 41, question 108, what is God's will for you in the seventh commandment which says you shall not commit adultery? The answer is that God condemns all unchastity and that we should therefore detest it wholeheartedly and live decent and chaste lives within or outside, that means married or single, within or outside of the holy state of marriage. Question 109, does God in this commandment forbid only such scandalous sins as adultery? The answer is no. We are temples of the Holy Spirit, body and soul, and God wants both to be kept clean and holy. That is why God forbids all unchaste actions, looks, talk, thoughts, or desires and whatever may incite someone to them. Let's ask for God's blessing, shall we? Our Father in heaven, we come before you asking for your help as we come before a necessary word and a delicate subject and seek Lord for your mercies. in a culture more twisted and perverted than many have seen before, and yet a world that has known sexual temptation and sin since the fall. O God, we pray that you'd instruct us correctly by your word. You give us minds to understand and hearts to believe and receive the things that you speak. And may we be led nearer in the ways of our Lord Jesus Christ. Give to us all the blessing of the voice of our chief shepherd speaking to us, and visit, we pray, even those at home or gym, in the hospital. Remember these, Lord, and grant them the blessing of your word and spirit today. For Jesus' sake, amen. Well, people of God, some sermons need introductions. Maybe a sermon on the seventh commandment hardly does. Its relevance is immediately obvious, the sexual temptation, the failures, the perversity of our age is everywhere present. It's the issues of the Seventh Commandment that we are all faced with day after day, all the time. And we're aware of that. But what kind of sermon should a preacher preach on the Seventh Commandment? That's what a preacher struggles with. What kind of a sermon? Should he speak to the tempted and urge them to stand strong and flee temptation? Should he speak a word to the wayward, to those who may be living in sin, living in deceit, and need to be warned that if they don't repent, they will not see the kingdom of God? Should it be a word to the brokenhearted? To those who hate what they've done, are filled with regret and need that word of hope that in Christ there's a cleansing and there's a new beginning. We all need in different ways all of that, don't we? And our comfort this morning is what Proverbs 5 says in verse 21, that the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord. No preacher gets the Sermon on the Seventh Commandment all right. covers everything perfectly by any means, but there is one who knows us, each one of us, he knows our past, he knows our failures, he knows our hopes and our heart, he knows where we're deceived, he knows where we need rescue. Our ways are before the eyes of the Lord so that every single person seated here this morning or watching at home, God knows you through and through. And it's he who loves you and would speak a word to save and to rescue and to build up and to forgive and to lead you closer to Christ Jesus. Let's look this morning at the seventh commandment, which is a tall fence that God has erected around a great gift. You've seen these electrical substations, these transfer stations, gravel pad, you know, with all the equipment and the high voltage lines coming into there. What do they always have around them? Big chain link fence with barbed wire on the top because that's high voltage. It needs to be protected. Sexuality is high voltage and God says around this marital bliss, this sexual expression, this intimacy, I erect a tall fence with big signs that say no trespassing, no intrusions, this must be shielded. This morning we look at that. We look at sexuality in marriage, noticing first of all God's beautiful design. That's our first point this morning. God's beautiful design. But then secondly, we see in Proverbs 5, Satan's powerful deception. Satan's powerful deception. And then thirdly, Proverbs 5 tells us, about our God-given delight. Our God-given delight. Those three points this morning. God's beautiful design, Satan's powerful deception, and our God-given delight. Well, Proverbs 5 opens with a father saying, in effect, to his son, hey, come over here, we need to have a little talk. Sit down. My son, I want you to pay attention to what I'm about to say, the wisdom I'm about to give you. I want you to open your ears and take hold of the understanding I'm going to impart to you. It's really a beautiful picture, isn't it? Father who loves his son, he wants to spare his son of all the sorrows and miseries. He wants his son to enjoy a sweet, God-glorifying marriage. And so he wants to instruct his son. And we immediately learn three things here. Number one, that sex education belongs, first of all, to parents. It's not the role of the government, first of all, or the schools. This is the business of parents who are living in a God-glorifying marriage before the eyes of their children now to instruct their children about temptation and about the beauty of Christian marriage. Shouldn't be embarrassed or negligent in this, but we should consider it a God-given calling. Number two, we learn that this voice of the father is really an echo of the voice of our father. When we hear this father speaking to his son, we should see our father. It's he who has inscribed these words by his spirit and gives them to us. He's sitting us down this morning saying, hey, I want to have a talk with you. He loves us. It says, my dear children, I want to rescue you from the way of death and guard you in the way of life. Number three, we see that when it comes to sexual purity, it is a matter of the lips. It is a matter of the lips. The father wants to speak wisdom to his son that, verse two, that his son's lips may keep knowledge. But, verse 3, the lips of an immoral woman drip honey. It's always a matter of the lips. It's always a matter of the words. We live in a world where there's all kinds of lies about sexuality, and then we have the Word of God. And we have to settle this in our hearts, that no matter what the world says, no matter what the Supreme Court says, no matter what every passion in my body says, These are not ultimately trustworthy, but God's word is. So no matter how much I'm bombarded, no matter how much I feel this is right for me, the words that matter are the words of my Savior, Jesus Christ. And whether I can see why it's good for me or not, I will trust his word. It's a matter of the lips. Now, the fact that there is a wisdom the father wants to impart to his son must mean that there's a creator and a designer. If we just evolved and grew in our sexual instinct and mating capabilities and relationship institutions, then we're free to reinvent it. Reinvent how people come together and how many and what sexes and all this. But if there's a designer, a creator, And there's a manual that comes with this. And there is. God is the creator. He's the designer. And if we misuse what he's created, if we don't use it in the intended way, then we break it. If you take your smartphone tomorrow to hammer in nails, it's going to be broken to pieces. And that's what we do with our sexuality. We take what God has designed to be used one way, and we beat it to smithereens somewhere else, and then we say, I don't know what happened. But may we say, if that's the case, why does it happen so often? Why is there brokenness and sorrow all over the place? Read one commentary on the Heidelberg this week, or a book on the Ten Commandments, I guess it was, where the pastor, experienced pastor, says that 90% of the major issues, the difficult-to-deal-with issues that come into the consistory room in the church he serves are about marriage and sexuality. And he says that when he did his doctoral studies, he went over to Europe and he read all these minutes of meetings from years past and studied about the Reformation and even Geneva where Calvin was and so much that was dealt with in the church and by the elders was about issues of fornication and adultery and marriage. And somebody might say, well, look, it can't be so good if it's always falling apart. It's always being broken. Maybe it's not worth the trouble. Maybe these aren't such great gifts. But it's really the opposite, isn't it? The reason there's so much trouble and confusion and difficulty is because these are tremendous gifts and Satan is always out to destroy them. Think of warfare. You don't waste your missiles taking out the port-a-potty abandoned in the back 40. You look for high-value targets. This is what Satan's doing, isn't he? He knows the potency of sexuality. He knows the tremendous usefulness of Christian marriage. I mean, the whole storyline of redemption is tied up with it, right? The coming of Jesus Christ and the world came by way of conception in the midst of marriage. Satan knows the growth of the church today. It's partly calling those outside the covenant in, but it's also major church growth from within the bearing of children and discipling them to make them warriors for Christ's kingdom. Read Malachi, God says, why did he make the two one? Why did he bring husband and wife together in this covenant bond? Because he seeks holy offspring. Marriage and sex are not inventions by men but designed by God, glorious gifts from above, and therefore to be used according to God's pattern within God's boundaries. Sexuality is often compared to fire. In the fireplace it is warming the room and making it beautiful, but you take that fire out of the fireplace and dump it on your family room floor and it rages and destroys. God, at the beginning of time, created. Creator of sexuality, so God created man in his own image and the image of God who created him, male and female, he created them. What a messed up culture. to have forgotten that, that God planned and executed his will perfectly, male and female. Not generic man and choose for yourself a sexual identity. No, no. It's no accident you're a man or a woman, a boy or a girl. God made you so. But the other thing God did was that he made marriage. It's interesting, isn't it, that God makes man out of the dust, then he makes a woman out of the side of man, then he brings the woman he made for the man to the man in marriage, and so there's not just a union in marriage, there's actually a reunion. God brings back together what he took apart. God made the woman for the man. God, the first matchmaker, performs the first wedding. He brings the woman to the man and the man's delirious with delight and sings the first wedding song or composes the first poem. Wow! At last, bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, here she is at last, one like me, one for me. In that context, they were naked and under shame, there was sexual desire and satisfaction, and it was not polluted by sin. It was not dirty or beastly or animal-like. It was God-glorifying. And that's why Proverbs 5 can speak so frankly about sexual delight, and the Song of Solomon can glory in the joys of marital bliss. This is a dimension of humanity that God gave to be exercised in the bonds of marriage. Marriage is that exclusive bond between one woman and one man that God created. A blessed bond of friendship, which requires complete commitment on the part of the partners entering into this covenant in which they say, I am yours and you are mine. I like to reflect on the fact that when you have a wedding, I haven't had the privilege to do one here yet, but I'm sure you've had a lot of them right here on this platform. And you know, when bride and groom make vows to each other, they say yes to the one they're looking at. And in saying yes to each other, they say no to a billion other people. Yes to you means no to everyone else. Getting married is the construction of a fence in which we pledge ourselves that we're going to keep this fence built up, keep the gate locked, and we're going to say to everyone else, no intrusion, so that we to the glory of God might enjoy the intimacy according to God's plan. If we reject the laws of the creator, the designer, then we dishonor him and we destroy our neighbor and we hurt ourselves. Love, as I said, is not blind. Love has eyes. It's called the law of God. It tells you how to love your neighbor and certainly how to love your closest neighbor if you're married, your spouse. And these great gifts of God, sexuality, marriage, are restored to us in Jesus Christ. What we obliterated, what Adam and Eve ruined and wrecked, Christ has picked up and put back together and cleansed off and given back to us. And that's good news. It's to the redeemed of the Lord. It's not The Ten Commandments are not given in Exodus 20 to perfect people, but to broken people who trash God's gifts and are now redeemed, brought out of Egypt, brought into covenant with God, and he gives them the Seventh Commandment in that context. And that's important, you see, because we have to believe that the Seventh Commandment is not given to stifle life. The devil wants you to think, that Hollywood and Supreme Court decisions and all this is about your rights and your freedoms and your pursuit of happiness and meanwhile the church with all these narrow laws about sexuality is about stifling your life and making you miserable and keeping you from having fun. The Bible says just the opposite. It's to a people God pulled out of slavery that God gives the seventh commandment, to keep you free. Ask the man addicted to pornography if he's living in freedom or a slave. The pornography industry is a merciless tyrant, merciless. The Lord God is the defender of purity and marriage. Jesus in Matthew 19 defends marriage from divorce. He quotes Genesis when he says, have you not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female and said for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. Once Christ reestablishes that pattern, then he says, so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate. Our glorious Savior wraps his arms around the marriages of his people, and he says, what God's put together, let no one try to pull apart, no one. He's the defender of marriages. It hurts terribly to be betrayed in marriage. The grief and sorrow that comes with it. And it's Christ alone who can heal and soothe the one who has been betrayed. Christ alone who can give repentance to the one who does betray. It's Christ who came as a redeemer and a rescuer who can put back together what we've pulled apart. Christ is jealous for our purity, for our holiness. He proclaims to us in Hebrews 13 that marriage is honorable among all and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. God is saying he's the guardian of the marriage. The fence that he's put up in the seventh commandment is not a fence designed to keep you from fun and pleasure. It's a fence designed to preserve for you the pleasures and joys that God would give you. Psalm 119 says, I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life. Psalm 19, moreover, by them your servant is worn, and in keeping them there is great delight, great reward. Isn't this good to know? It's just marvelous to know that the way of our design or the way of our God is not the hard way, the cruel way, the stifled way, but it is the way of enjoying what God and his love gives to us in Christ Jesus. But once we see this, once we see this design, the beautiful design of our God, then notice secondly this morning the powerful deception of Satan, Satan's powerful deception. We should be clear that we are in a spiritual battle. And the enemy wants to ruin God's glorious creation. He wants to drag us to hell. And Satan's methods are methods of deceit. The Bible tells us that he's a liar and a murderer. The way he murders is by his lies. He, the Bible says, masquerades as an angel of light. He puts on a costume. He presents himself to you in something that he is not. And he does the same with sin. He covers it over. He puts on a facade. He puts on a mask. And that's why the father here is speaking to his son. He says, look it, I know that her lips drip honey. I'm not telling you that the immoral woman, that the seducer, that sexual sin is not in some ways pleasurable. I'm not telling you that. Sexual sin is attractive. It's alluring. It's enticing. It's intriguing. But there's a hidden reality. There's a bite. Beneath the disguise is a murder. Beneath the sin is a bitterness that would make you throw up. Looks sweet, bitter. Feels smooth, double-edged sword to slice you and dice you. Point of Proverbs 5 is not that men are good and women are bad by any means. Hope you don't get that impression. Speaking to a son, so he speaks of a seductress. There's plenty of men who are seducers. But the point speaking to a son here is to portray immorality here in terms of an immoral woman. And though she comes out with a smile, she has a dagger behind her back and she would gut you. Gut you of a clean conscience, of a happy home, of joy of Sunday worship, of the assurance that God loves you. See, immorality never advertises these things. But these are the realities. Proverbs 7, the father warns the son right about the woman who comes out to seduce. She's so beautiful, she's painted her face, she covers the smell of death with her perfumes and all this stuff. She leads astray and it's Proverbs 7.21, with her flattering lips she seduced him. Immediately he went after her as an ox goes to the slaughter. It's the way of death. So God says to us this morning, beware the lies of the evil one, the lie that no one will know, that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. It's an advertising campaign right out of the pit of hell. The lie that with one look you'll be able to stop, that you can control this? You don't know that. The lie that this won't hurt anyone? The lie that this won't have any effect on my wife or on my children? Or if I'm unmarried, no effect on my future spouse or marriage? The lie that this won't affect my relationship to God, I can just get right later? You don't know that. Your heart might be hard forever. Beware the lies. The devil is a master of deception. Think of what happened on the plains of Moab with Israel when they couldn't defeat God's people. By might and power they just had a little get-together, had a youth convention, had a little religious ceremony in which they seduced God's people to sexual immorality and idol worship. When troops are trained for battle today, they aren't trained to look for their enemy as he sits at home or in the barracks wearing his uniform and easily spotted. They're trained to perceive the enemy in camouflage, to discover him when he's engaged in deception. Blending in. And so Jesus Christ, our captain, he's saying to us, don't think sin's going to come to you and say, here I am, I want to kill you. Sin's going to come to you calling under words that are sweet and soft and cheerful and smiling and look so innocent. For how many years has adultery been portrayed as beautiful in soap operas and novels? It's so noble. It's so true to oneself. It's so wonderful. There's no consequences. Homosexuality now. Homosexuality is portrayed as a right. It's about your right to happiness. Premarital sex is portrayed as a thing everybody's doing. And whatever consequences there are, we can easily overcome them. The government's on board here. Public schools are on board here. We can do this. No consequences. But Christ is speaking in Proverbs 5, and he's saying it's deadly. Flee from it. Flee from it. Remove your way far from her. Do not go near the door of her house, Jesus says. Don't play by the edge of the cliff. Don't keep sliding your finger over the mouse. Jump up and run away. Don't stare it down and say, I'm going to press in on this until I understand why it's so alluring. I want to discover its power and then I'll overcome it. No, don't think you can overcome it. Run from it. Plead with God in prayer. Because the fruit is bitter. Verses 9 through 11, the impact of sexual folly, the bitter fruit. You know, you hear new drugs being advertised on TV or radio and they have to read all the side effects, right? You get nausea and headaches and skin rash. Sexual sin has more, doesn't it? Sorrow, consequences. Give your honor to others and your ears to the cruel ones, aliens filled with your wealth, your labors go to the house of a foreigner and you mourn, your bodies consumed Side effects of immorality include heartaches, and wounded consciences, and loss of assurance, and broken marriage, and angry children, and job loss, and humiliation, and shame, and financial cover-ups, and alimony, and lawsuits, and bankruptcy, and sexual diseases, and loneliness, and regret, and jealousy, and finally, if not repented of, eternal death. And I find those words in verses 11 to 14 so heartbreaking. You mourn at last when your flesh and your body are consumed and you say how I hated instruction. I've not obeyed the voice of my teachers. Can't you see a person with their face and their hands weeping? I'm so stupid, why did I do it? I knew better. I'm so sorry, I wish I could do it all over again. It's sorrowing and sorrowing. God is saying to us when sin comes and presents this beautiful picture, you, by fate, need to penetrate to the future, to the consequences. You have to look and see beyond the facade. R.C. Sproul, in a moment of great vulnerability in his book, The Intimate Marriage, I think it's 1975 copyrights. This was written many, many years ago. But he talks about when he was first a college professor, 26 years old, and one of the college girls took a pass at her professor, made a pass at her professor with some seductive comment. And he says that when that happened, he was actually flattered. You know, his ego was titillated. But he says, as he writes the book, he says, not anymore. Now when something like that happens, a warning buzzer goes off in my head. And no longer is my ego flattered now by that kind of a thing happening, but now I am insulted because someone is trying to attack my cherished marriage. Do you see it that way? That the scantily clad, on the internet is not flattering you, but he or she is taking a direct aim at your relationship to Jesus and a direct aim at your marriage. The pleasure of sin is but for a moment, but the grief that follows lasts a long time. all the way to hell if we don't repent. And so Jesus says we have to get radical, doesn't he? Cut off a hand, pluck out an eye. Kevin DeYoung writes, we don't, as the Catechism says, we don't thoroughly detest sin. We make excuses. We don't get radical. And then he writes, there are too many whole-bodied people going to hell and not enough spiritual amputees going to heaven. Sexual sin is by no means the only sin that takes us to hell, right? Any unrepentant sin leads us to hell. But the problem is that in our culture we have thought that sexual sin now is the norm and there's nothing wrong with it. It's government sanctioned. It's public school taught. So many are led to the depths of destruction. But Christ has come to destroy the works of the devil and to set us free forever. Raymond Ortland writes, there is one true friend of sexual fools. His name is Jesus Christ, the crucified one. One true friend of sexual fools, isn't that great? There's one who came to eat with tax collectors and sinners who came to converse with prostitutes. who came to the Samaritan woman who had seven husbands, now living with a man. One Lord Jesus who didn't come and say, boy, that's too much of a mess for me to deal with, but one who came with grace and power to rescue. We need to be convinced of that at the church, both for the sake of our own sin and for the sake of our mission to the world. What will we say to a culture in crisis? What we say to visitors who come and they begin to unpack to us their sordid past, we say, whoa, we don't do that. No, we proclaim to them Jesus Christ, the friend of sinners, who came with power to destroy the works of the evil one and to rebuild what sin has broken, who came to give forgiveness and give a new heart and give a new beginning, to wash us clean. 1 Corinthians 1.30 says that Jesus Christ became for us wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. And do you remember how later in the epistle Paul says, as he lists all these sins and all manner of sexual sin, then he says, and such were some of you. That's what he says to the Corinthian congregation. Such were some of you, but you've been washed. You've been sanctified. You've been justified. No longer, no longer are you those things. We're all in need of grace this morning. Jesus says to lust after a woman is to commit adultery in the heart. There's no one here who stands in perfect purity before the searching commandment of God. We need grace. But maybe there's someone who is still living in sin, haven't returned yet, like the prodigal son far off. Maybe you're delaying to come home because the world tells you you're a wretch now. You belong in the gutter. But the father is saying, come home. There's a father for you, there's a home for you. There's a Father who will receive you with open arms and a Savior who will wash you clean. And a word that says, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come. Who can restore virginity? Who can put white back on the bride? The Lord Jesus. to wash us. If you're far off this morning, will you hear that voice of your Savior calling? Delay no more. Confess your sin. Call upon him for mercy. and then go forward to live in the God-given delight. Notice that final this morning, not just the beautiful design, not just Satan the deceiver, but the delight that the Lord would give to us as his people for the glory of his name. God is not against pleasure. God is not against the goodness of what he's made, but God has made sexuality for purity, and sexual intercourse for marriage, to be enjoyed by one man and one woman in a covenant bond. Remember the old language of King James that says, leave cleave, become one flesh. For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother. That's the first step. You have to, in one sense, forsake all other relationships to give yourself peculiarly to this relationship, Leave, cleave, or be united. You're bound together. Think of a child leaving the sports stadium with his father in the crowds of people. He holds onto his father's hand. No one's going to come between us. Leave, cleave, become one flesh, a unity symbolized and climaxed by the sexual bond. how hard it is to lose a spouse. You can only imagine, right? Because the more years you spent coming to this reality that we're one, then to lose that one is to lose a part of you. But you see, it's in that context, leave cleave, become one flesh, that God said that the man and woman were naked and not ashamed. There was a sexual expression that was beautiful, that was right, that was God-pleasing, and that was mutually encouraging to husband and wife. And so the father says to his son, not just all these negative things, beware, my son, watch out, my son, don't go there, my son, but what does he say? He says, son, enjoy your wife. May God bless you in your marriage. Be enraptured with her love. Delight yourself for your whole lifetime in the spouse that God has given you. Now isn't it amazing that we're told in scripture here to rejoice with the wife of your youth. We hear people say all the time, you know, we just fell out of love. Wow, you're just not attractive to me anymore. You know, it's all, God says you choose love. And not just you choose love to be committed to them, but you can actually choose to be delighted in them. You can choose to rejoice in your wife all the days of your life. You can choose to count pornography disgusting and your wife glorious. You can choose, by God's grace, for that. Husband and wife are together to cultivate an enjoyment of each other, to make the other one the delight of your eyes. Say, I will give thanks to God for you. I will count the blessings God's given me through you. I will cherish you. I will treat you tenderly. I will praise you for all the good things God's put in your life and all that you are to me. I will lift you up in prayer. I will deal with you gently. I will serve you and ask how I can be of help to you. I will cultivate this bond. Not just this fence, but now inside the fence, a meaningful relationship of loving service, including an appropriate intimacy in the marriage bed. Because the best defense is a good offense. And as we say no to everything else, we are to say yes to what God has given as part of marriage. This is the summons. Rejoice with a wife of your youth, for why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman? Why should you, my son, go the way of death when God has given you all of this? As young people seek a marriage partner, this is the calling then, to keep oneself pure, to understand that sexuality belongs in this context and covenant bond. and to trust your heavenly father who gives by mercy. If there are those here unmarried or listening to this who long to be married, pray to your father in heaven who loves you. Know that he will uphold you and support you all the days of your life, whether he calls you to be single for a little time or for a lifetime. But know that he's also gracious and merciful. That He knows your desires and He hears your prayers. He will give you the grace also as a single person to be pure and chaste. And He will give you a heart for Him. Brothers and sisters, what a merciful God we have. Do you hear the voice of your Father? Do you hear the voice of your Shepherd? Who loves us, His people. Who washes us of all our sins. who clothes us in clean garments, who keeps us pure from the ways of the evil one, who sustains our marriages against all the assaults of the world, and who helps us on together till the day of that great, great marriage feast. When Jesus Christ, the bridegroom, comes, for the bride that he by the washing of his word has made pure and unspotted to present to himself forever. Amen. Let's pray. Our Father in heaven, we thank you for your word and how we need it in this messed up culture. Oh Lord, we acknowledge before you our sins and we pray for your saving grace and we pray also for the assurances That though we have failed you, that there is a new beginning in Jesus Christ. And we pray, Lord, for your protection upon the church's young people and young adults in particular. Your protection upon all of the marriages you've established. Your help, O Lord, as we seek to stand together in the way of Christ Jesus until we see our Bridegroom coming. Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. Amen.
A Tall Fence for a Great Gift
ស៊េរី The Heidelberg Catechism 2019
Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 41
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