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First Corinthians 7.

As you're turning to 1 Corinthians 7, I'm going to read Genesis 5 a couple of verses.

This is the book of the generations of Adam in the day that God created, man in the likeness

of God made He Him.

Male and female created He them and blessed them and called their name Adam in the day that they were

created. Adam was the man of the earth, made of earth, and his name, Adam means red soil.

He's taken from ruddy soil, if you will, kind of like Oklahoma dirt. I don't know what his complexion was,

but I gather that he had a kind of a ruddy or reddish complexion from all the commentary.

But Adam was created male and female. Out of his side came Eve. Her name Chava in Hebrew means life. She brought life to humanity.

1 Corinthians 7. Now concerning the things whereof you wrote unto me, it's good for a man not to touch a woman.

Well, that starts us right out there. Should we go farther

than the first verse? Male and female. God created male and female for procreation, but also

for mutual enjoyment and for the work that had to be done. A lot of reasons why God created male

and female. This chapter 7 in 1 Corinthians is perhaps the best chapter in the Bible to illustrate

the value of context. It's very important that we consider the context in which this is written,

including Paul's first statement here, concerning the things whereof you wrote unto me.

They wrote with a lot of questions.

They lived in a tough place in a tough time.

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