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pastor, author, and teacher David Platt.

If you have a Bible, and I hope you do, I invite you to open with me to 1st Corinthians

Chapter 7.

Over the last few weeks, we have gone from Psalm 78, where we are commanded from God to be intentional about passing the gospel into the next generation to consider how we do that as

biblical men biblical women biblical marriages biblical parenting how all of these things affect the way

we pass the gospel into the next generation now leading today to singleness and the next generation.

I come to this topic with, oh, so many different thoughts in my mind that I'm wrestling and

have been praying through.

I know that there is a temptation for some to tune me out this morning.

There's a temptation for some who are single to tune me out.

Look at me and say, well, when were you married?

21, when Heather invaded my singleness for good.

And so there's temptation for some to say, well, you don't know much about singleness.

I know that there are all kinds of people around this room that I don't know and I don't presume to know.

Circumstances where you find yourself in, I know there are singles in their 20s and singles in their 70s who have never been married and everywhere in between.

I know there are numerous people who are divorced,

many who are single parents.

I know there are a variety of folks who are widowed

who have experienced a husband or a wife passing away.

And I don't presume in any way to know each of the different circumstances that might be

represented around this room.

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