1. What’s Wrong with Living Together? Rev. Robert J. Smith Pastor Colonial Hills Baptist Church

2. Matthew 19:4-6 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

3. What’s Wrong? What’s Wrong with Marijuana? What’s Wrong with Alcohol? What’s Wrong with Living Together?

4. Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

5. Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

6. What is Truth? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6 (KJV)

7. What is Truth? Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. John 17:17 (KJV)

8. The Making of a Marriage Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 2:24 (KJV)

9. The Making of a Marriage

10. And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12 (KJV)

11. What’s Wrong with Living Together? Living together robs you of God’s Presence!

12. The Leaving of a Marriage There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. Proverbs 30:11 (KJV)

13. The Leaving of a Marriage Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Exodus 20:12 (KJV)

14. What’s Wrong with Living Together? Living together robs you of Honor and Blessing!

15. The Cleaving of a Marriage Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. Malachi 2:14 (KJV)

16. The Cleaving of a Marriage Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. Ecclesiastes 9:9 (KJV)

17. What’s Wrong with Living Together? Living together robs you of Commitment!

18. The Becoming of a Marriage And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. Genesis 4:1 (KJV)

19. The Becoming of a Marriage Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Hebrews 13:4 (KJV)

20. The Becoming of a Marriage What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 1 Corinthians 6:16 (KJV)

21. What’s Wrong with Living Together? Living together robs you of Intimacy!

22. The Keeping of a Marriage And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: 1 Corinthians 7:10 (KJV)

23. The Keeping of a Marriage Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. Psalm 78:41 (KJV)

24. What’s Wrong with Living Together? Living together robs you of Protection!

25. But my heart… The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9 (KJV)

26. Maybe you’re going too fast! R – Repent P – Place your faith in Christ M – Make Jesus the Lord of your relationships