You are listening to David Platt Messages, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from

pastor, author, and teacher David Platt. Let's dive into God's Word, which by the way, we're also

glad to give you a copy of if you don't have a Bible. But we've looked over the last few months

at just the first two chapters of the Bible and seen so much of God's good design for our lives,

for creation, for humanity, for sexuality, for work, for rest, for marriage.

And today, we're going to look at God's good design for singleness.

And you might wonder, well, what does Genesis 2 have to say about singleness?

Because it seems like Adam and Eve got married pretty quickly once they saw each other.

And that question is going to lead us on a journey from the start of creation all throughout

Scripture, including some things we've seen before in places like 1st Corinthians chapter 7 so get ready to

take notes as we live in a day where an increasing number of people are single so about 75 years ago

you look at the data the percentage of married couples in the United States peaked with almost 80% of

households headed by a husband and a wife together.

Today, that 80% number is well under 50%.

Significantly less people are married, either through divorce,

or never getting married, or prolonging marriage until later in life.

So what do we think about this shift?

Is this a good thing? Is this a bad thing?

How does God's word address singleness?

And hopefully the answer is better than how we, as the church have addressed it.

You compare Christian books on marriage with Christian books on

singleness, and it's interesting. Very few marriage books argue that marriage is a good thing.

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