Mt. Airy church of Christ
  • Home
  • About Us
    • What to Expect
    • Web Links
    • Local Preacher
    • Privacy Policy
  • Directions
  • Words of the Week
    • Words of the Week 2023
    • Words of the Week 2022
    • Words of the Week 2021
    • Words of the Week 2020
    • Words of the Week 2018
    • Words of the Week 2017
    • Words of the Week 2016
    • Words of the Week 2015
    • Words of the Week 2014
    • Words of the Week 2013
    • Words of the Week 2012
    • Words of the Week 2011
    • Words of the Week 2010
    • Words of the Week 2009
    • Words of the Week 2019
    • Words of the Week 2007
    • Words of the Week 2008
    • Words of the Week 2006
    • Words of the Week 2005
    • Words of the Week 2004
    • Words of the Week 2003
    • Words of the Week 2002
    • Words of the Week 2001
  • Monthly Musings
    • Monthly Musings 2023
    • Monthly Musings 2022
    • Monthly Musings 2020-2021
    • Monthly Musings 2013-2019
    • Monthly Musings 2007-2012
  • Five Minutes
    • Five Minutes 2023
    • Five Minutes 2022
    • Five Minutes 2021
    • Five Minutes 2020
    • Five Minutes 2019
    • Five Minutes-2018
  • From a Woman to Women
    • From a Woman to Women 2023
    • From a Woman to Women 2020-2022
  • Sermons

Just Shacking Up;Wouldn't Think of Marrying

8/1/2011

 
I just finished reading a story in the Philadelphia Inquirer detailing the description of homes here in our nation. The article talked about the households that have thrown marriage under the bus and men and women living together and producing children in those unions. To many this kind of thing is a family, and the phrase “living in sin” doesn’t compute because no one cares. But, all who teach the Bible find this kind of living very troubling because it isn’t what the word of God teaches. Consider the word of God in 1 Corinthians 7:1-2:

“Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her husband.”

Man should be avoiding fornication (premarital) sex, not walking directly into it by living with a woman and having sex as if they were married. But that is what happens when couples live together. Now many say, “times have changed since the 1930s etc.” Well times sure have changed, and they have changed for the worse (2 Timothy 3:13). Children according to God are to be born into the union of marriage and not outside wedlock (1 Timothy 5:14; 1 Cor. 6:18. Just recently a person had a baby out of wedlock and had the boldness to parade the child around in church, and that man was rebuked for his behavior (1 Thessalonians 5:14).

Also throwing wedding showers for women who had children out of wedlock is also wrong. That conduct makes the sin respectable instead of shameful (1 Timothy 5:22).

And for anyone who might disagree, I pose a question to you. Would you celebrate someone that has committed fornication? (1 Cor. 10:8). If not, why not? After all that is what a wedding shower is—it is a celebration of a baby being born. God created male and female so they can be joined together in marriage; and if they desire, create children in that union. This is God’s plan for the birth of children that they be born into marriage not in a home where the man and woman are shacking up. Men and women must quit shacking up, and they must stop having sex because God put sex in marriage (Hebrews 13:4). Man has drifted too far away from what the word of God teaches, and man must return to what God told us to do (Nehemiah 1:4-11).

In closing, consider these facts the God has established.
  1. He is the creator of the home.
  2. No one can argue with or change what He has created.
  3. God placed a man and a woman in marriage.
  4. In marriage, which God established, children can be a part of that home.
  5. Anything not in harmony with what God established will be rooted up.
  6. Common law unions and homosexual unions aren’t what God established, therefore they will be rooted up.
​~James Baker

Comments are closed.

    Archives

    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010
    April 2010
    March 2010
    February 2010
    January 2010
    December 2009
    November 2009
    October 2009
    September 2009
    August 2009
    July 2009
    June 2009
    May 2009
    April 2009
    March 2009
    February 2009
    January 2009
    December 2008
    November 2008
    October 2008
    July 2008
    May 2008
    April 2008
    March 2008
    February 2008
    January 2008
    December 2007
    November 2007
    October 2007
    September 2007
    August 2007
    June 2007
    May 2007

    RSS Feed

Mt. Airy church of Christ
7222 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia PA 19119
Phone 215.248.2026

James Baker, Preacher
Website by Darin Kennedy
©2018 Mt. Airy church of Christ
Privacy Policy
  • Home
  • About Us
    • What to Expect
    • Web Links
    • Local Preacher
    • Privacy Policy
  • Directions
  • Words of the Week
    • Words of the Week 2023
    • Words of the Week 2022
    • Words of the Week 2021
    • Words of the Week 2020
    • Words of the Week 2018
    • Words of the Week 2017
    • Words of the Week 2016
    • Words of the Week 2015
    • Words of the Week 2014
    • Words of the Week 2013
    • Words of the Week 2012
    • Words of the Week 2011
    • Words of the Week 2010
    • Words of the Week 2009
    • Words of the Week 2019
    • Words of the Week 2007
    • Words of the Week 2008
    • Words of the Week 2006
    • Words of the Week 2005
    • Words of the Week 2004
    • Words of the Week 2003
    • Words of the Week 2002
    • Words of the Week 2001
  • Monthly Musings
    • Monthly Musings 2023
    • Monthly Musings 2022
    • Monthly Musings 2020-2021
    • Monthly Musings 2013-2019
    • Monthly Musings 2007-2012
  • Five Minutes
    • Five Minutes 2023
    • Five Minutes 2022
    • Five Minutes 2021
    • Five Minutes 2020
    • Five Minutes 2019
    • Five Minutes-2018
  • From a Woman to Women
    • From a Woman to Women 2023
    • From a Woman to Women 2020-2022
  • Sermons