From the teaching
5/12/2012
Apostle
Paul's First Letter to The
Corinthians
part VII b
I
Corth 7:14:
For
the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the
unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your
children unclean; but now are they holy.
a.
For perhaps the husband who isn't a Christina may become a Christian
with
the help of his Christian wife.
b.
Otherwise if a family separates, the children might never come to
know
the Lord. But, for a family to stay together, may in God's plan,
result
in the children's salvation.
c.
It also refers to the Spiritual influence and Power the Christian
holds
over the unbelieving companion.
a. In such cases the Christian brother or sister is not tied to marriage
for God intended we live together in peace.
16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
a. You may be your spouses salvation through your influence
as a Christian.
17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
a. Were you a slave when you heard the call? Or a bond-servant?
b. If you gain your freedom, make the most of your present
condition instead.
22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
a. You have been bought and paid for.
b. Do not let yourselves become slaves of men.
24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
a. Now as far as young, unmarried women are concerned, I must
confess I have no direct command from God.
b. Nevertheless, I give you my considered opinion as one who is
I think, to be trusted after all my experience of God's mercy.
26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
a. I think then that in view of the time of suffering that has now
come upon us, it would be best for you to remain as you are.
27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
a. Yet I do believe that those who take this step are bound to find
the married state an extra burden in these crucial days, and I should
like you to be as unencumbered as possible.
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
a. And those that are busy with worldly affairs, must not be
overly absorbed in them.
32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
a. A married man has to think about his responsibilities, here on earth,
so his devotion is divided.
34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
a. I say this for your benefit, I am not trying to keep you from
marrying.
b. So that your service to God may be as far as possibly free from
worldly distractions.
36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
a. Talking about his Virgin Daughter, not his Virgin Sweetheart.
In the early times among both Jews and Christians, the
daughters were wholly in the power of their fathers, so that he
might give them in marriage or bind them to perpetual virginity.
If the father had dedicated his daughter to perpetual virginity,
and afterward found that she had her affections centered upon
a man, being strongly inclined to marry, he could change his
plans regarding virginity and give her in marriage at any time,
even after the flower of her age. He would not be committing
sin by changing his plans for her.
37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
a. If the Father finds it unnecessary to betroth his virgin daughter
because of her being inclined NOT to marry and wanting to
consecrate both body and spirit, then let him keep his daughter
from marriage.
38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
a. This proves that it is a father who gives or does not give his
virgin daughter in marriage.
39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
a. I think, I am here expressing not only my opinion, but, The Will
of The Spirit of God as well.
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