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🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Christian singleness is often accompanied by extremes. One extreme is to insist that most everyone should be married young, while another extreme is to insist that most everyone wait until their 30s so they can enjoy their singleness. Littered in between these extremes are the imposing personal experiences that many push onto others because it's how the Lord wrote their story. Are you allowed to deeply desire to be married? Is it wrong to want to plan for the future before getting married? How should you leverage your singleness? If you're sad that you're not married, does that mean marriage is an "idol" for you? These are important questions! In this episode, Costi Hinn provides 5 principles that will help you view marriage as a gift, and approach singleness in a balanced way.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the For the Gospel podcast where we provide sound doctrine for everyday people. |
0:14.4 | I'm your host, Kosti Hinn, and on today's episode, I'm going to offer some practical |
0:18.2 | wisdom for Christian singles. |
0:19.9 | We're coming off Valentine's Day in the last episode. |
0:23.3 | I talked about four types of love, and I want to follow up with this episode on singleness |
0:28.5 | and then culminate next week with an episode on the attribute of God's love to cap off |
0:33.8 | a three-week focus on the theme of love. |
0:36.9 | First off, singleness gets treated with the extremes way more often than it should. |
0:44.8 | What are those extremes when we're talking about singleness, extreme number one, and some |
0:49.1 | of these are caricatures, but you know you've heard them. |
0:52.1 | Being single is what you are. |
0:54.5 | So don't even think about marriage, don't want marriage, if you do, it's just an idol. |
1:00.8 | You know, don't even be romantic or somber about marriage. |
1:04.2 | If you want so badly to be married and you dream about Prince Charming or loving a godly |
1:09.3 | girl until you're an old man, you know you're probably idolizing marriage. |
1:12.4 | There's sort of this bahumbug mentality about wanting marriage. |
1:17.4 | That's an extreme, extreme number two. |
1:20.8 | Being married is what you were created for. |
1:23.1 | So if you're not trying to get married, you're not hustling to get married, you know what's |
1:27.1 | wrong with you. |
1:28.1 | There's clearly something wrong with you. |
1:30.8 | Men were made to be warriors and they preside over their home and women, you're meant to |
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