February 20, 2022
DATING & MARRIAGE
Part 2: Breaking the Cycle
- Generational ________________.
(Exodus 20:5-6 NIV) You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
(Genesis 12:12-13 NIV) When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife. Let’s kill him; then we can have her!’ So please tell them you are my sister.
(Genesis 26:3,6-7 NIV) Live here as a foreigner in this land, and I will be with you and bless you…So Isaac stayed in Gerar. When the men who lived there asked Isaac about his wife, Rebekah, he said, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife.”
(Genesis 27:12 NIV) What if my father touches me? He’ll see that I’m trying to trick him, and then he’ll curse me instead of blessing me.”
- Generational ________________.
(Genesis 13:16 NIV) I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
(Acts 13:22-23) God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’ “From this man’s descendants God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as he promised.
(1 Kings 15:3-4 NIV) He committed all the sins his father had done before him; his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been. Nevertheless, for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and by making Jerusalem strong.
(2 Kings 20:5-6 NIV) “Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord. I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.’”
Breaking the Cycle
(Deuteronomy 30:19 NKJV) I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.
- ______ out the ______________________.
(Ephesians 4:22-23 NIV) You were taught…to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds.
2. ______ out from ___________________.
(2 Corinthians 6:17 NIV) Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord.
(Romans 12:2 NLT) Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
3. ______ out help ___________________.
(Galatians 6:2 NLT) Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.
(James 5:16 NLT) Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.
4. ______ out your _____________________.
(Romans 5:12,18-19 NIV) Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned…Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
(Colossians 3:1-3 NLT) Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.