Growing Your Family with Faithfulness

Growing Your Family with Faithfulness

Growing a Stronger Family – Part 7

Life Church St. Louis – March 25, 2012

Pastor Dan Walker

Hebrews 13:4 (NLT) Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

Malachi 2:16 (NLT) “For I hate divorce!” says the Lord, the God of Israel. “To divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “So guard your heart; do not be unfaithful to your wife.”

1. Make a commitment to God’s _______________

Proverbs 5:15 (NLT) Drink water from your own well— share your love only with your wife.

Ephesians 5:3 (NIV) But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people.

2. Magnify the ___________________

Proverbs 6:32 (NLT) But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys himself.

1 Corinthians 6:18 (NLT) Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.

3. Maintain your _________________

1 Corinthians 7:3 (TEV) A man should fulfill his duty as a husband, and a woman should fulfill her duty as a wife, and each should satisfy the other's needs.

1 Peter 3:7 (NLT) In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together.

4. Manage your _________________

James 1:14 (NLT) Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away.

5. Maintain proper _________________

Song of Songs 8:6 (TEV) Close your heart to every love but mine; hold no one in your arms but me.

6. Minimize the _________________

1 Corinthians 10:12 (NLT) If you think you are standing strong, be careful not to fall.

1 Corinthians 15:33 (NIV) Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character."