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How Does a Believing Spouse Sanctify the Other Spouse and Their Children?
First Corinthians 7.14
Don Ruhl • Savage Street, Grants Pass, Oregon • November 20, In the year of our Lord, 2013
- What does First Corinthians 7.14 mean?
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy (1Co 7.14).
- Questions to Consider:
- How is that the unbeliever is sanctified by the believer?
- Can it refer to salvation?
- If not, to what then does it refer?
- Does this passage imply that the children of unbelieving parents are unclean, not sanctified, and unholy?
- What does it mean that the children are holy?
- Can it refer to salvation?
- If not, to what then does it refer?
- How is that the unbeliever is sanctified by the believer?
- How does the text begin?
- It begins with the word, “For.”
- What does that tell you?
- It reveals that what Paul was about to say,
- explained something that he had already declared.
- What had he declared?
- If you back up in the text,
- you can tell that he begins a new topic at verse 10.
- It begins with the word, “For.”
- What did Paul teach in verses 10–13?
- How would you summarize that section?
- What did Paul say about the marriage between a believe and an unbeliever?
- Should such a marriage continue or be dissolved?
- Paul taught that if the unbeliever is content, the marriage should continue.
- There is no need to divorce an unbeliever for being an unbeliever.
- Why is that, because
- the unbeliever is sanctified by the believer.
- The marriage is holy.
- There is no reason to break it apart
- simply because one is an unbeliever.
- If the marriage was not holy or sanctified,
- that would mean the children are not holy, or
- not legitimate.
- They would be the same as a child born out of wedlock.
- However, that is not the case with children born to a mixed marriage.
- This probably became a concern to the Corinthian Church because
- Christians should not have anything to do with that which is unholy.
- They wondered whether this would include unbelieving spouses.
- If so, they would have to separate from the unbelievers.
- However, Paul explained why that was not the case.
- Becoming a Christian does not change our marital status.
- It does not change many things.
- Paul went on to make that point in verses 17–24.
- Does God favor the children of believers?
- Psa 37.25
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