Let's turn in our Bibles to 1 Corinthians chapter 7.

We're going to continue in our Bible study through the book of 1 Corinthians.

We are in chapter 7 today.

First Corinthians chapter 7.

It's not going to get too spicy, but it's a little bit still PG today.

May not be PG 13, but it's still some things that, I don't know.

Use your discretion. You don't know what I'm going things that, I don't know, use your discretion.

You don't know what I'm going to say.

I don't sometimes know what I'm going to say, but I, but a little bit of a warning, not

quite as detailed as last week, but there's still stuff here in chapter 7 that we need to

discuss related to marriage and singleness and sex and divorce. There's a lot

here in chapter seven. The book of First Corinthians, as many of you know if you've been here

for our study so far, it really is a letter that is a corrective letter. Paul is correcting

many things about the Church of Corinth. He wrote this letter five years

after he planted this church. And so this letter is not like a hallmark card. It's more like a report

card from your teacher with a lot of Ds and Fs. And the reason why Paul is correcting the people here at the Church of

Corinth is because primarily this is made up of new believers. It is mostly Gentile converts.

There are some Jewish believers in Jesus, Yeshua, and so it is somewhat of a mixed congregation,

but it is mostly Gentile converts. And when you have

mostly Gentile converts who have stepped right out of the Roman Empire into the church,

they are coming with all the baggage of a pagan world system like the Roman Empire. So you have

Gentiles who are getting saved. They believe in Jesus,

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