God's design for marriage and singleness is often twisted by the world and

sometimes even misunderstood by the church. Welcome to the Radical with David

Platt podcast. The latest sermons from teacher, author and pastor David Platt

delivered weekly. As always you can find thousands of more gospel-centered

nations-minded resources at our website Radical.net. On today's message,

Pastor David Platt brings us to 1 Corinthians chapter 7 verses 1 through 9 to show us that

God's desire is that we would glorify Him in both of these colleagues, marriage and singleness.

Regardless of our station and life, we are to display the gospel by fleeing sexual

immorality and embracing God's good design. Here's Pastor David with a sermon titled

Beauty in both singleness and marriage from 1 Corinthians chapter 7

verses 1 through 9. If you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you

does, you can look on with whether in this room at one of our other locations or

wherever you might be online, invite you to open me to 1 Corinthians chapter 7.

Feel free to use table of contents if you need to. 1 Corinthians chapter 7.

I love God's words so much. Like I just don't think it was a coincidence that last

Sunday in the middle of this series on sexuality that our Bible reading together

would be in a text that tells the story of a woman caught in sexual immorality

who is being ostracized by the religious elite but who Jesus forgave and saved and turned her

brokenness into beauty. God make us a church where many sinful people find forgiveness and grace

and mercy in Jesus knowing that we are all sinful people in need of forgiveness and grace and mercy

in Jesus. And now this week to come back to 1 Corinthians 6 and 7 to hear God's good word to us

amidst the sea of cultural confusion that surrounds us when it comes to sexuality,

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