WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT A MAN/WOMAN, IF HE/SHE GAINS THE WORLD AND LOSES HIS/HER FAMILY Part 2

WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT A MAN/WOMAN, IF HE/SHE GAINS THE WORLD AND LOSES HIS/HER FAMILY Part 2

*1 Corin. 7:*

1. Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 

2. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 

7. For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. 

8. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. 

29. But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; 

40. But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

*1 Corin. 9:*

4. Have we not power to eat and to drink? 

5. Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 

6. Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

The word lose or lost in the context of this lesson does not mean total vanishing out of sight or human existence.

One in every five families is a lost family with a serious feeling of total abandonment.

Many of our married men here In Nigeria and some married women, whenever they gain opportunity to travel abroad especially to Europe or America, ninety percent of them never come back to the wife, husband and children that they left back home with unfulfilled promise "that I'm coming back to take the family" only very few have been able to fulfill that promise.

Many as soon as they transit, in attempt to secure residential papers/citizenship they will forsake and forgot completely their family back home. They will shamelessly marry another man or woman in the name of residential papers. You may have made your gains but let me tell you in case if nobody has told you that you have sinned against your family and God. Worst of all some of those we knew here as good brethren, deacon and Deaconesses and clergymen and women also fall into this abomination with flimsy excuses whenever you confront them on why they do it? "Wisdom of man is foolishness before God Almighty"  A lot of PROFESSORS from different walks of life has lost their wives or husbands as the case maybe. In pursuit of knowledge, fame, honour and popularity. Some don't even ask of where their children are. IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO KNOW THAT NOT EVERY MAN OR WOMAN THAT IS A MARRIAGE MATERIAL. YOU CAN BELIEVE IT OR NOT BUT THIS IS WHERE PRAYERS COMES IN.

The fundamental thing that we need to capture in the scriptures above is Apostles Paul and Banabas and indeed some others did not marry and yet they were fulfilled especially God's purpose in their lives. Few prophets and God's people in old testament did not get married and yet they fulfilled purpose.

It is better not to get married than to marry the one you will abandon at the middle of the sea and in the same vein it is better not to bring a child into the world than to give birth to a baby that you will left stranded at the middle of deep blue sea. May God help everyone of us to get his/her true life partner in Jesus' name. Shalom.