• Stay Put and Start Living!

• Stop LOOKING for LOOPHOLES and LICENSES!

— 1 Corinthians 7:7-9 ESV
— Matthew 19:10-12 The Living Bible

— 1 Corinthians 7:39-40 ESV

• STAY PUT and START LIVING.

— 1 Corinthians 7:17, 20 The Message
— 1 Corinthians 7:21-24 MSG

• Stop looking for LOOPHOLES and LICENSES.

• Know that your future heavenly DUTIES should help you settle your current earthly DISPUTES.

• Know that a LAWLESS LIFESTYLE signals a DARK DESTINY.

• Know that your earthly BODY has eternal VALUE.

— 2 Timothy 2:22 NLT
— 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5, 7-8 NLT

• Love exercises AUTHORITY that is not afraid to look like INTOLERANCE.

• Love involves PROTECTION that sometimes looks like ABANDONMENT.

— Proverbs 1:29-33 NLT
— 2 Corinthians 2:4 ESV
— 2 Corinthians 2:5 ESV

— 2 Thessalonians 3:14-15 NLT
— 2 Corinthians 7:8-10 ESV
— 2 Corinthians 2:6-8 ESV

• Get HUMBLE
— 2 Corinthians 6:4 NIV
— 1 Corinthians 9:16 NIV
— 1 Peter 4:10 NASB

• Stay HUNGRY
— Matthew 5:3-6 NIV

• Live in HARMONY

• What does it mean to be SPIRITUAL?
— Jude 1:17-21 NASB

• What does it mean to be WORLDLY?
— 1 Corinthians 3:14-15 NIV
— 1 PETER 1:23 - 2:2 NIV
— Ephesians 4:14 NIV
— Hebrews 5:12-14 NIV

• Look Back
— Hebrews 11:32-40

1. look at it
2. learn from it
3. let it go

• Look In
— Proverbs 28:13
— Psalms 32:1-5

• Look Ahead
— Philippians 3:13-14

• Look Up
— Galatians 2:20

• Look at YOURSELF.

• Look at CHRIST AND HIS CROSS.
— Jeremiah 9:23-24 NIV

• Listen to THE SPIRIT.

Identity

• Paul was called and set apart as an apostle.
• The church is not a building; it's people.
• Sanctified / Saints
• You will always be a saint.


Division

• There is no such thing as a perfect church.
• The church has always had problems.
• The church follows Jesus, not man.
• Do not make your personal preference a moral imperative.


The Gospel

• Jesus Christ rescues sinners through his life, death, burial, and resurrection.

• New beginnings with God require LETTING GO of some things.

• New beginnings with God require HOLDING ON to some things.

• New beginnings with God require simple - but difficult - DECISIONS.

— What decisions do you need to make right now?
— What are you HOLDING on to that you need to LET GO of?
— What do you need to HOLD on to that God has given to you?