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		<title>By: CC</title>
		<link>http://deeperdevotion.com/articles/171/comment-page-1#comment-59666</link>
		<dc:creator>CC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 05:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>INTERESTING LINK:

http://www.christianforums.com/t7450058-9/#post54843789 


[TOPIC:

The lack of support or encouragement given for the 
+30 year old and +40 year old single Christians to 
remain &#039;virgins&#039; (or even just &#039;abstinent&#039;) until marriage.

Shockingly, it&#039;s actually been found that the place that 
this group is most often mocked, discouraged and / or
ridiculed for their decision is &quot;within the church&quot; itself.]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>INTERESTING LINK:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.christianforums.com/t7450058-9/#post54843789" rel="nofollow">http://www.christianforums.com/t7450058-9/#post54843789</a> </p>
<p>[TOPIC:</p>
<p>The lack of support or encouragement given for the<br />
+30 year old and +40 year old single Christians to<br />
remain 'virgins' (or even just 'abstinent') until marriage.</p>
<p>Shockingly, it's actually been found that the place that<br />
this group is most often mocked, discouraged and / or<br />
ridiculed for their decision is "within the church" itself.]</p>
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		<title>By: kelechi</title>
		<link>http://deeperdevotion.com/articles/171/comment-page-1#comment-12965</link>
		<dc:creator>kelechi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have a real problem with sexual sin and its not for a lack of knowledge, I just cant seem to step out, it always seems to wrap itself around my life and threaten my security. I find myself letting the enemy into my living situations in ways that could have me lose everything, i need help, please e-mail me…</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a real problem with sexual sin and its not for a lack of knowledge, I just cant seem to step out, it always seems to wrap itself around my life and threaten my security. I find myself letting the enemy into my living situations in ways that could have me lose everything, i need help, please e-mail me…</p>
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		<title>By: Derek</title>
		<link>http://deeperdevotion.com/articles/171/comment-page-1#comment-12427</link>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have a real problem with sexual sin and its not for a lack of knowledge, I just cant seem to step out, it always seems to wrap itself around my life and threaten my security. I find myself letting the enemy into my living situations in ways that could have me lose everything, i need help, please e-mail me...


amanenemy@hotmail.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a real problem with sexual sin and its not for a lack of knowledge, I just cant seem to step out, it always seems to wrap itself around my life and threaten my security. I find myself letting the enemy into my living situations in ways that could have me lose everything, i need help, please e-mail me&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="mailto:amanenemy@hotmail.com">amanenemy@hotmail.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Boby</title>
		<link>http://deeperdevotion.com/articles/171/comment-page-1#comment-9779</link>
		<dc:creator>Boby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 07:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey do u guys know What the bible says about sexual relationships???</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey do u guys know What the bible says about sexual relationships???</p>
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		<title>By: tamie</title>
		<link>http://deeperdevotion.com/articles/171/comment-page-1#comment-9400</link>
		<dc:creator>tamie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 16:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>my bf and i kiss and touch eachother regularly bt we&#039;ve planned not to have sex.. is it wrong</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>my bf and i kiss and touch eachother regularly bt we&#8217;ve planned not to have sex.. is it wrong</p>
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		<title>By: JC</title>
		<link>http://deeperdevotion.com/articles/171/comment-page-1#comment-4720</link>
		<dc:creator>JC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What did Jesus say about sex? I don&#039;t see anything quoting Jesus directly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What did Jesus say about sex? I don&#8217;t see anything quoting Jesus directly.</p>
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		<title>By: alpha omega</title>
		<link>http://deeperdevotion.com/articles/171/comment-page-1#comment-4616</link>
		<dc:creator>alpha omega</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hmm... have you all thought about the word MARRIAGE?   god does not recognize state granted marriaged ... for those are of ceaser and of sin...... better think a little harder folks ... you are being dupt here...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hmm&#8230; have you all thought about the word MARRIAGE?   god does not recognize state granted marriaged &#8230; for those are of ceaser and of sin&#8230;&#8230; better think a little harder folks &#8230; you are being dupt here&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: MJ</title>
		<link>http://deeperdevotion.com/articles/171/comment-page-1#comment-4356</link>
		<dc:creator>MJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m impressed by the many insiteful answers and the honest and open discussion-very impressed.  And I&#039;m extremely thankful that there are so many deeply devoted people that are living for our Lord.  Cherri brought up what I was immediately thinking-God is VERY direct about not being yoked w/a non-believer.  The analogy is strikingly clear-LIGHT vs DARKNESS.  Jesus is light and if you don&#039;t have Jesus, you have darkness-and the 2 aren&#039;t compatible.  The choice of who to marry is prob. the 2nd most important decision next to deciding to give your life to Jesus.  Paul recognized marriage&#039;s influence so greatly that he actually told us it&#039;s better NOT to get married!  That&#039;s a BOLD statement, but it demonstrates how extremely important marriage is.  He (and the Lord through him) says married people are concerned w/their spouse (rightly so), but do you think the Lord wants us to devote ourselves that deeply to anyone that has rejected (at the present time) His Son?  It doesn&#039;t mean don&#039;t love and care for a non-believer-that would NEVER be the case.  But marriage is so COMPLETELY important (JESUS is &quot;married&quot; to His church) that we&#039;re instructed against not marrying a non-believer.  There&#039;s much to be considered-God absolutely instructed His people to NOT intermarry. In Ezra 10, Shechaniah says, &quot;We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land...&quot; Then they made a covenant to put away the strange wives and those born of them.  It was so grievous, they left their wives AND CHILDREN!  Now, these were &quot;strange&quot; wives who weren&#039;t what we&#039;d call today &quot;believers.&quot;  This isn&#039;t to say if you&#039;re already married, leave your unbelieving spouse-Paul said not to do that (if they want to stay married to you).  But this illustrates how important it is to God to not marry an unbeliever.  Marriage is so critical that all of the implications need to be considered.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m impressed by the many insiteful answers and the honest and open discussion-very impressed.  And I&#8217;m extremely thankful that there are so many deeply devoted people that are living for our Lord.  Cherri brought up what I was immediately thinking-God is VERY direct about not being yoked w/a non-believer.  The analogy is strikingly clear-LIGHT vs DARKNESS.  Jesus is light and if you don&#8217;t have Jesus, you have darkness-and the 2 aren&#8217;t compatible.  The choice of who to marry is prob. the 2nd most important decision next to deciding to give your life to Jesus.  Paul recognized marriage&#8217;s influence so greatly that he actually told us it&#8217;s better NOT to get married!  That&#8217;s a BOLD statement, but it demonstrates how extremely important marriage is.  He (and the Lord through him) says married people are concerned w/their spouse (rightly so), but do you think the Lord wants us to devote ourselves that deeply to anyone that has rejected (at the present time) His Son?  It doesn&#8217;t mean don&#8217;t love and care for a non-believer-that would NEVER be the case.  But marriage is so COMPLETELY important (JESUS is &#8220;married&#8221; to His church) that we&#8217;re instructed against not marrying a non-believer.  There&#8217;s much to be considered-God absolutely instructed His people to NOT intermarry. In Ezra 10, Shechaniah says, &#8220;We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land&#8230;&#8221; Then they made a covenant to put away the strange wives and those born of them.  It was so grievous, they left their wives AND CHILDREN!  Now, these were &#8220;strange&#8221; wives who weren&#8217;t what we&#8217;d call today &#8220;believers.&#8221;  This isn&#8217;t to say if you&#8217;re already married, leave your unbelieving spouse-Paul said not to do that (if they want to stay married to you).  But this illustrates how important it is to God to not marry an unbeliever.  Marriage is so critical that all of the implications need to be considered.</p>
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		<title>By: InTune</title>
		<link>http://deeperdevotion.com/articles/171/comment-page-1#comment-4220</link>
		<dc:creator>InTune</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>in reply to Yolonda from July, you asked &quot;what should i do?&quot;.  No one likes to give advice on what a person should actually do, including myself.And many months have gone by since your question and your situation may have changed and found your answer.  However there may be others now with a similiar situation.  Your answer can be simple, turn to the bible.  There are many scriptures, but a couple that might help; Exodus 22:16-17 and also Deuteronomy 22:28-29.    My question for you would be,  since you said &quot;we intended to be with each other in the long term, as in marriage,I feel that in a way i’m married to him&quot;.  Then what has kept you from getting married? I am proud of you and him getting back into church and into His word and not letting anger keep you away from the bessings that God has in store for you two. Keeping fighting the fight.  2 Thessalonians 3:13 and Galatians 6:9, etc...- motivation  to fight satan. May God bless you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>in reply to Yolonda from July, you asked &#8220;what should i do?&#8221;.  No one likes to give advice on what a person should actually do, including myself.And many months have gone by since your question and your situation may have changed and found your answer.  However there may be others now with a similiar situation.  Your answer can be simple, turn to the bible.  There are many scriptures, but a couple that might help; Exodus 22:16-17 and also Deuteronomy 22:28-29.    My question for you would be,  since you said &#8220;we intended to be with each other in the long term, as in marriage,I feel that in a way i’m married to him&#8221;.  Then what has kept you from getting married? I am proud of you and him getting back into church and into His word and not letting anger keep you away from the bessings that God has in store for you two. Keeping fighting the fight.  2 Thessalonians 3:13 and Galatians 6:9, etc&#8230;- motivation  to fight satan. May God bless you.</p>
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		<title>By: InTune</title>
		<link>http://deeperdevotion.com/articles/171/comment-page-1#comment-4219</link>
		<dc:creator>InTune</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>in regards to IKJJ from August:  I&#039;m sure you know all the scripture relating to sexual impurity or immorality.  If the act or the giving of pleasure has the word &quot;sex&quot; attached to it, such as oral sex or if the act can be described as  what you called a &quot;sexual thing&quot; ~ then my dear It Is Sex! and outside of marriage it is impure and immoral and displeasing to God.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>in regards to IKJJ from August:  I&#8217;m sure you know all the scripture relating to sexual impurity or immorality.  If the act or the giving of pleasure has the word &#8220;sex&#8221; attached to it, such as oral sex or if the act can be described as  what you called a &#8220;sexual thing&#8221; ~ then my dear It Is Sex! and outside of marriage it is impure and immoral and displeasing to God.</p>
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