1. HOME BUSTERS
Home Busters
Part 3

2. Home Busters not spending enough time together
husbands and wives do not spend enough time alone (1 Cor. 7:1-5)

3. God’s View Male and female—God’s design (Gen. 1:27)
One to one—God’s original and binding intent (Gen. 2:24; 1 Cor. 7:2; Song. 4:12, locked garden)
Together time—God’s gift for both (1 Cor. 7:3, 4; Song. 4:10, 11, 16)
Regular together time—God’s wisdom (1 Cor. 7:5, 6; Prov. 5:19)
“Deprive” – (cheat, defraud, rob, see Mk. 10:19; 1 Cor. 6:8; “kept back by fraud,” Jas. 5:4)
“Consent” – (agreement)
“time” (a defined limited period of time)
“Concession” (from a compound of “with” + “to know” = with knowledge and understanding)

4. Learn To Love LOVE is something that is learned (Titus 2:4; Eph. 5:28)
LOVE is something done, not said
Saying “I love you” is not the same as “loving you” (1 Jn. 3:18)
Love is an emotion in action(Jn. 14:21-24)
Love does not seek its own (1 Cor. 13:5; Jn. 14:28)
Application, why should a husband seek to please his wife (1 Cor. 7:33)?
Why should a wife seek to please her husband (1 Cor. 7:34)?

5. What Then Would Love Do? + Does love deprive?
Compare 1 John 3:17
Who is happy when a husband and wife loses the romance which the Bible describes?
Who is innocent?
No One!
Marriage
Adultery 1 1 2 +
Deprives

6. What Then Would Love Do?
“Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control” (1 Cor. 7:5)
Does love deprive?
Compare 1 John 3:17
Who is happy when a husband and wife loses the romance which the Bible describes?
Who is innocent?
No One!
Marriage
Adultery 1 1 2 +
Deprives