Simple Faith Simplicity, One Love, One Husband, Jesus Christ

Simple Faith

Simplicity, One Love, One Husband, Jesus Christ

Simple faith is Simplicity, One Love, One Husband, Jesus Christ   

Jesus promised He is coming back

The promise is to those who are betrothed to Christ

Jesus is coming back for His bride, glorious, without spot or wrinkle

Simple faith is getting ready for that wedding day

For Christ’s return

The woman who is engaged to be married lives a simple life

Because only one thing is on her mind

She is focused on becoming the most beautiful bride

She is looking forward to being united with her lover as husband forever

I recently saw a couple get married in a hurricane

Because nothing was going to distract them from each other

  Don’t leave the simplicity that is in Christ Jesus

Simplicity, One Love, One Husband, Jesus Christ

Simplicity, according to the King James Version,

 Paul is concerned, the believers in Corinth

are leaving the simplicity that is in Christ.

What is the simplicity that is in Christ?

The word simplicity in the Greek means…

singleness, sincerity, generosity

Paul in the previous verse (verse 2) says…

For I have betrothed you to one husband,

 that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Singleness, marriage is a relationship with one person.

That spouse is the most important person in your life.

No one or nothing comes before your spouse.

Paul says he presented them as a chaste

virgin, innocent, modest, perfect.

This could have only happened through conversion,

the message of the Gospel, a message of the

cleansing power of Christ’s blood, the work of the cross.

This picture is seen in Ephesians 5:25-27…

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

Everything changes when you get married…

 Old things pass away and all things become new.

There is a great temptation for those not married,

it is a relationship(s) without commitment.

Paul is saying I introduced you to Christ,

 I told you all about Him,

Christ forgave you of all the things that

would keep you from being His bride.

He washed you with His Word.

All the things that took you another

direction than His direction of purity and

holiness that you might become a virgin.

Singleness is…

 Out of all the choices in life

you choose one Jesus Christ…

To love and to cherish forever.

The word simplicity also means “sincerity”…

The quality of being free from

pretense, deceit or hypocrisy.

     Simplicity is not complicated with

selfish desires, and lustful thoughts.

Simplicity is sincerity of mind, having

the mind of your husband, Christ. 

 Spending time with each other.

 That time of communicating

gives single vision and purpose.

Simplicity means generosity.

 Jesus gave us His life and everything

we need for life and godliness.

Our hearts should always be filled with

gratitude and a willingness to lay down

our life to give Him our all…

To love Him with all our

heart, soul, mind and strength.

Keep your faith simple.

Jesus wants a relationship of marriage with you.

His Word will wash you,

 transforming your unfaithfulness into

innocence, modesty and perfection.

If you have been crucified with Christ,

it is not you that lives, but

Christ in you the hope of glory.

Keep it simple.

 Don’t seek counsel or self-fulfillment

outside of your husband, Jesus Christ.

 Simple faith is… 

Simplicity, One Love, One Husband, Jesus Christ

    

Jesus promised He is coming back.

 The promise is to those who

are betrothed to Christ.

Jesus is coming back for His Bride,

glorious, without spot or wrinkle.

Simple faith is getting ready for that wedding day…

For Christ’s return.

The woman who is engaged to be married lives

a simple life because only one thing is on her mind.

She is focused on becoming the most beautiful bride.

She is looking forward to being united

with her lover as husband forever.

I recently saw a couple get married

in a hurricane because nothing was

going to distract them from each other.

  Don’t leave the simplicity that is in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:35-36…

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine

or nakedness or danger or sword?

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Scripture Reading

2 Corinthians 11:4 NKJV

 2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted — you may well put up with it!

Romans 8:31-39 NIV

31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died — more than that, who was raised to life — is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:

"For your sake we face death all day long;

we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."  

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.