Pastor Leon’s SOAP: Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer

November 10: Job 35, 36; 1Corinthians 7, 8

Scripture: 1Corinthians 7: 4 The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband’s body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.
5 Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Observation: Deprive (NIV), defraud (KJV), do not cheat (Phillips), refusing what is due (Williams), heavy words and phrases describing withholding sexual relations from a spouse. Yes, God made sex and protected it by restricting it to the committed relationship of marriage. Yes, God knows how important sex is and designed it to be shared by a man and woman in marriage and not withheld or used as a weapon.

Application: If I value the wonderful gift of sex given by the Lord, I will enjoy it within His set boundaries of marriage and see it as an important ministry to my spouse.

Prayer: Lord, thank you for the many wonderful gifts you have given people, among which is the beauty of sexual intimacy. Amen.

Pastor Leon

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