Upstream: Week 2

May 28th, 2023

Notes

Sexuality: Benefitting from the Boundaries
1 Corinthians 7

• Upstream Life: Determination to make choices that are uncommon in culture but build my character.

• Why is it so difficult to live counter to culture?

  • Culture is pervasive

  • Culture is persuasive

  • Culture is punitive 

• Three Principles from the designer of our sex life

  • Struggle is Real

    • Before Marriage

      • 1 Corinthians 7:1-2

    • After Marriage

      • 1 Corinthians 7:3-5

  • Consider an Alternate Lifestyle

    • 1 Corinthians 7:6-9

    • 1 Corinthians 7:32-35

  • The grass isn’t always greener.

    • 1 Corinthians 7:26-28

• Here is the biblical alternative in summary:

  • Single if you can

  • Better to marry than to burn

  • Invest in your current situation

  • If you are single live for the Lord

  • If you are married, live for the Lord & your partner

  • Think carefully before making a change in status