Mike Crump - Assisting Pastor's teaching references for 03/21/2013

Song of Solomon 4 - An Unbridled Love

Life Lesson

We cannot know true freedom until we know God's Word.

Life Lesson

Marriage should never be just about sex, but a marriage without sex is unhealthy.

Life Lesson (verse Song of Solomon 4:1)

The marriage bed should be a place of peace and comfort.

Life Lesson (verse Song of Solomon 4:5)

The marriage bed is not a place of selfishness. It's a place of love.

Life Lesson (verse Song of Solomon 4:16)

The marriage bed is where love is given and love is responded to.

Lev 18:18 NLT

“While your wife is living, do not marry her sister and have sexual relations with her, for they would be rivals.”

Lev 18:20 NLT

"Do not defile yourself by having sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife."

Lev 18:22 NLT

"Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin.”

Rom 13:13 NLT

Because we belong to the day, we must live decent lives for all to see. Don't participate in the darkness of wild parties and drunkenness, or in sexual promiscuity and immoral living, or in quarreling and jealousy.

Gen 2:24-25 NKJV

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genesis 4:1 NKJV

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain

Mark 10:9 NKJV

"Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."

1 Cor 7:4 NKJV

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Gen 24:67 NKJV

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

Gen 1:28 NKJV

Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it;”

1 Corinthians 7:5 NLT

Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won't be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Proverbs 5:18-19 NLT

18 Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. 19 She is a loving deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you always. May you always be captivated by her love.

Phil 2:3 NKJV

Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

Song 1:6b NKJV

They made me the keeper of the vineyards, But my own vineyard I have not kept.

Song 2:9 NKJV

My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind our wall;
He is looking through the windows, Gazing through the lattice.

Scripture quotations marked "NKJV(tm)" are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.