From This Day Forward: “Have Fun”

From This Day Forward
“Have Fun”
8/17/25
Pastor Mark England

Lamentations 3:19-23 (CSB) Remember my affliction and my homelessness,
the wormwood and the poison. ²⁰ I continually remember them and have become depressed. ²¹ Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope: ²² Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for his mercies never end. ²³ They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness!

Are great marriages possible?
, they are possible, but they are not likely. Even for because we often follow the “” way and not God’s way.

God’s way isn’t … It !

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In order for relationships to work it needs to have .
Is the culture of your relationship ?

Life

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 (CSB) I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, ²⁰ love the Lord your God, obey him, and remain faithful to him. For he is your life…

1. Life-giving relationships look to as the of their life.
I’m not going to put on a person to make me and .

2. Life-giving relationships happen when are in love.
Great relationships have a great !

3. Life-giving relationships make the choice .
Myth: “We in love, but we of love…”
Stop talking about love like it’s a you keep driving in.
Love is not a , love is a .
We make the mistake of thinking love is just going to there, but the truth is we have to make this choice !

If you want to going, it takes !

Ecclesiastes 9:9 (NLT) Live happily with the woman you love through all the meaningless days of life that God has given you under the sun. The wife God gives you is your reward for all your earthly toil.

Ecclesiastes 9:9 (CSB) Enjoy life with the wife you love…

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You have a , and it needs to be and built.
The quickest way to empty or fill someone emotionally is with your .

1 Peter 3:8-9 (CSB) ⁸ Finally, all of you be like-minded and sympathetic, love one another, and be compassionate and humble, ⁹ not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you may inherit a blessing.

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Follow way. He is for not against you.
God’s way is the way it works.
God’s standard is in Scripture, regardless of what says about it.
God’s Standard: , , .
The increase of physical/medical issues preventing sexual intimacy is directly linked to following a way that has no in it.
If you come back to , everything will begin to work again.
God put the in sexuality.

Proverbs 5:18-19 (CSB) Let your fountain be blessed and take pleasure in the wife of your youth. ¹⁹ A loving deer, a graceful doe— let her breasts always satisfy you; be lost in her love forever.

Song of Solomon 4:5 (CSB) Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies.

Men: Be in your approach toward . When you’re hunting a , you gracefully it. You don’t or they run off! Then your “” is over!
Great sex is sex.
Great sex is .
Great sex is .
Great sex is .
Great sex is .
Don’t do anything that will this relationship. Everything the world has to offer towards sex will cheapen the of what created.

Women: If men need to be careful about their approach, all you need to do is . He won’t , just !
Women have the “ gate”, then understand he has the “ gate”.
Women are aroused by what they , men are aroused by what they .

one-another in this way!

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When you have fun , it you together like nothing else.

Hebrews 3:1 (GW) Brothers and sisters, you are holy partners in a heavenly calling.

God designed the two of you to make a difference on this earth.

If you aren’t together, making a difference, then you are denying a are and the most you two can have together.

Matthew 6:21 (CSB) For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

lead. follow.