Finally a true and balanced perspective on singleness! We all have the ability to portray the gospel to the world regardless of marital status. Being single and pure is a startling example in a world where casual sex is the norm 🙏🏽

Amen. I was single when I got saved and have been since and I'm content. I have to keep my eyes on Christ and Ministry which for me is 24/7. If God puts someone in my life that loves Christ as much as I do than it would be the closest thing to heaven on Earth I could imagine. But for me it's purely about the heart and Christ and His kingdom , spreading the Gospel, helping the lost. Lust of the flesh will never fullfil you. #Christ alone! When we get in relationships even as Christians we are quick to put our spouses in front of Christ, or hobbies, sports etc. Phi. 4:6 is my life verse for a reason. Be anxious for nothing, all things through prayer, and the peace of God will gaurd your heart mind and soul. #Pray about it. Accept whatever God does. God bless ✝️🛐✌️☝️🙏

As a single man, never married, no kids; this was encouraging. Interesting statistics at the beginning. It would be nice to be married, but if it doesn’t happen so be it. Doesn’t matter a million years from now if we are married or not.

wow...my thoughts exactly esp how we worry abt dying old and single in this short life...we'll be single and happiest for billions of years to come...and if u cant be content and happy single in this life you wont be ready for whats to come...if you get married to the right person in this world thats also a gift...we should remember that whoever we marry will affect or eternal salvation also...be careful, be cautious, be happy beloved brothers and sisters...see you in the heavenly city...cant wait to know you and have dinner in that big dinner table in heaven and even have a one on one visit to get to know you...ive got millions of years to know you all!!

I enjoy singleness, tbh, but I don’t mind meeting my God’s best! Thank you, Jesus, for the contentment you have given. 🙌🏽🙏🏽💕

I'm glad someone else is able to see that voluntary singleness and celibacy is a unique gift.

I've never thought of this. Very well said. Being single ain't that bad ;)

i'm single and in a relationship with jesus

Encouraging and convicting message!

Great message and really powerful. I feel blessed having listened to this although I feel much of it is hard teaching.

very well said, we have been made to believe that true fulfillment can only come from marriage/ family, so blinded! Undivided devotion to the Lord is the only way, thank you David for this message

I have been single whole my life. I think one of the reason is hard to see a Christian woman that fear God with full obedience, but I am sure there are but hard to find them. I will be honest the other reason is that our young Christians women won't wear proper clothes, but they wear worldly clothes which don't glorify Jesus,but their own desires.

Only part that killed me during this was when he said “if you are free from a wife do not seek a wife” and forgot that Paul even said he was not inspired by God to say that but it was his opinion

As a 50 year old, never married, single this was encouraging for me.

I’m actually very happy I am single and I want to tell other young women that you don’t need a husband to satisfy you. You need Christ. Once you have him, you won’t desire marriage as an idol anymore. Yes, if God is willing I would like to get married but I don’t care lol. I love you all and I hope and pray you will be full in Christ ALONE💛

WELL SAID!!!

I've listened to this and I conclude that my time as a single person is ending...The speaker talked about living a productive life for God's kingdom..a time to serve, and be consumed with The Lord's agenda...I did missions, had careers tht were more of a serving nature; had a ministry feel, no shade but I had no times for video games...I worked a FT gig & a PT gig...I reflected while listening to this & found so many examples in my life of serving the Lord in specific ways BECAUSE I was single...thank you good man... I also realized listening to this I may need to buy a new car😫😭😭😆

Thank you David.

Hey! Excellent!

I have come to realize that for this time in my life I am called to singleness. Not even dating. To be alone and heal from emotional trauma I experienced when I was much younger! I truly don't want to be in a relationship or even a casual dating time. No, I need solitude and absence from any sexual activity.

Amen Amen Amen 🙏🏻

Wow, this is powerful. Focus on our purpose in Jesus Christ.

Brothers and sisters if you are young stay single and enjoy the intimacy with Christ ! It's easier to preach the gospel the closer you are to God.

"At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven." Matt 22:30 "Marrage is temporary but relationship with Christ is timeless; we will be single for eternity - hence singleness in this sense uniquely portrays our eternal state with Christ as a member of his church." Great words.

EXCELLENT AMEN, AMEN...PERFECT SCRIPTURE REFERENCES...& JESUS TOO mentions "spiritual eunuchs", when HIS disciples ask about marriage and divorce, WOW, THANK U YESHUA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And for all that are singles , my advice to you , if you’re happy this way praise the Lord for your blessed life and don’t let other people they’ll you otherwise . But if you ‘re unhappy this is understandable, remain strong, keep praying , God will listen and bring you happiness and deliverance. Maybe through a partner maybe other ways, but sure thing is that God wants that his children have abundance life in Christ. My thought : not everybody can be single and holy and happy , only those God has chosen to be , like bible says.

Why do married Christians always preach messages about "it's OK to be a single Christian, being single is the higher calling, don't hunger for getting married" etc. I'm a single Christian and I hate it. I want a partner, and yes I want sex too. Is that such a terrible thing? It is so frustrating. Yes my life is complete with God but, oh boy, my life would be so much more complete if I had a wife as well. Now I'll get lots of replies saying stuff like 'oh seek first his kingdom' and 'always put God first'. Well I do, but I'm still damn frustrated!!

Amen

I have no desire whatsoever to be single. I absolutely hate it.

Ive spent a lot of time studying about The Spirit of Jezebel and its affects on the community and the breakdown of the family. Ive worked with a lot of men who have had this experience and been devastated by the spirit's influence Ahabs' all of them. This spirit is active and men seeking relationships may be blinded by thier desire. This spirit is active in churches, bible studies and everywhere else. All men should study and know what to look out for and how to recognize this spirit.

HALELU-YAH

Sometimes I think I'm called to be a celibate, because I'm not the kind of man bible teaches a man must be, and no girl even wanted me. However, I have so many struggles against the sexual sin( And so much losses).

There are singles who have a special gift where they are able to live with no desire for sex and marriage, but want to live solely for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven! But there are also single people who do not have this special gifting, but who nonetheless are unable to engage with members of the opposite sex because of emotional or psychological problems that prohibit them from being able to be married. They want to be married but cannot. They must remain celibate regardless of not having the gift the first group has. So I'm sure this is the more difficult path. But if that is where you are embrace it and use the freedom you have to serve the Lord, but also to travel, develop hobbies, try new adventures, and enjoy your time. Your money is yours to do with it what you want. Just accept what your state is, and don't worry about finding a spouse. Not having sex is not the worst thing that can happen to you!

I really desire to meet someone, get married, build a family. I know i have to wait but i haven't had a girlfriend in 14 years, ive been in depression for 12 of those years and when i finally met God i started to date again but no girlfriend, after i got saved i got closer to getting a girl but still nothing, everyone tells me that God will bring me the right one and i believe it, but not experiencing this affection means that i long for it, i want to see what im missing out, but i dont want a girl out of church, i want to wait until marriage, gave up on a girl because she didnt want to wait, so im so so lost on what to do. sometimes im like, God show me a littl mercy and just lt me date to be able to get practice in dating. Any advice would be appreciated

I am NOT a dry tree!!!

Keeping the Sabbath? That's another issue that needs to be addressed, as being fruitful is linked to obedience to keeping commands..not doctrines of men

I'm sure this sermon was easy to deliver as a married man!

This is a powerful message indeed but I find it very difficult. I have known only ever same sex attraction and I hate being single and celibate, finding it hugely lonely and miserable and frustration. I burn with passion but I cannot marry. I have found that God has not helped me in the ways I had hoped. Sorry this message is pretty depressing! But for me it is the truth.

I've been single forever. I can't seem to find a Christian man.

I do find it interesting, and believe part of the difficulty, from I've seen is that there is a growing movement within society that is determined to undermine religion and relegate God to nonexistence. Maybe this has always been the case but it has become more and more obvious to me. The further people get from God, the more absent he seems. One of my biggest problems with organized religion of any denomination is the apparent contradictions and hypocrisy. Pastors and priests and rabbi's etc who do not practice what they preach, who all appear to be about the money and entertainment and filling stadium sized seating venues. Dr. David Platt is an excellent example, he has a brilliant mind, is an excellent teacher but he doesnt practice what he preaches. I dont believe you would catch Christ in such a church if he returned today. He'd be in a smaller more private, more intimate venue, a struggling church, with a struggling flock, in a storefront of in a home among His devoted. The funny thing about Gifts from God or The Holy Spirit, Gifts like singleness, or prophecy or talking in tongues is that they dont feel like Gifts, they dont seem to get us what we want from them, which is why we must die to the flesh before receiving them. Far to many people, Christians (so called) go along their way imposing their will upon God, praying for what they want and getting mad when they dont get it. The Lords Prayer tells us in its conclusion "Thine Will, Not Mine Be Done". We decide what we want, we convince ourselves that must be what God wants for us and we go about all our efforts to push and shove others to get it. SELF WILL vs God's Will. More and more this is the case, if you cant have a a baby, if you cant find a spouse, if you dont like the spouse youve got. People are willing to cause themselves all kinds of pain to get their way, to get that child to get that partner, to fill that God shaped hole. So instead of praying to get, pray to offer yourself. This made a huge difference in my life. God I offer myself to thee...send me Lord, use me, crucify me so that I may be made empty, buried and resurrected as that new man, that new ceation. Help me to want for myself only what you would want for me. Help me to reject the demands of self and my ego.

I might have missed it but it seems like he begins with one message and quickly picks up another. I can agree that singleness is good, and marriage is good, but he begins with a stark decline of marriages since 100 years ago. Singleness is a gift, but is this common adult singleness a symptom of some warped society?

This is the 1st video I have seen where since men are active and commenting. Otherwise it’s just single women crying and cribbing how they can’t find anyone and how Christian men are scarce although it’s women population that’s less to men in the world this time.

Whether you are married or not, natural marriage is not the holy marriage of God. There is a natural body and a spiritual body. The natural body is the body of sin. The spiritual body is the holy body of the church and Christ is the head. So to apply the doctrine of marriage, we apply it spiritually, not according to the flesh. The reason why mankind has a controversy over marriage rights and gender equality and identity is because most everyone, including the majority of "christians," havr minds after the flesh and not after the spirit. When you read the gender roles of the bible in the flesh, you try to answer it with the flesh. And because the natural fleshly body can only sin, all marriages in the flesh are sin. But if you read the bible in spirit, then you answer the roles of gender and marriage in the spiritual body. So the new man is Christ, and his bride is the Church, the souls of his believers. The only holy marriage that exists is the one between Christ and the church. And we inherit all that he is, including his flesh and earthly body. So being united to him in spirit through this most holy betrothal, the two become one flesh. Christ IS our life. And this natural body dies so that we can gain all things in Him. So any time you read the bible, try to see the role of male or husbands as Christ, and the role of female or wives as the members of the church. So we, being the wife of Christ, will be silent in His wisdom, Christ being our head will speak on our behalf. But we support all that he edifies because he is Truth. Likewise, we keep our heads covered, because being the woman of Christ, our head covering is our glory. And because Christ is our glory, He alone is our head covering! The most common head covering a bride wears is a veil. That is why the bible refers to Christ's body as a veil. It is the veil through which God our father now sees us. And being joined to his holy Son in his marriage, we are the children of God through that adoption. This all makes sense when you read it in the spiritual context of the truth revealed to us through the word.

Adam was created by God as a normal man with human failures , Jesus was sent from God on earth to accomplish a mission as perfect man and perfect God. Jesus didn’t come to satisfy his desires, but to do God’s will, be a perfect man free of sin, preach the gospel and finally dying on the cross. We can compare Adam to Jesus only in the perspective that the first one leaded us to death and the second one to life . Spiritually speaking. But bible tells us that spirit lasts, and flesh doesn’t.

P.S. I’m married and I have two children, and a “perfect” normal life, but I still am hungry and thirsty of God , of Jesus , of the Holy Spirit... I sometimes think that I maybe love Jesus more than I love my husband (and we two have a great intimacy ) and this is only by the grace of God. I hope that I will put God’s reign and will before my own life. And that is by the power of God. I want to be obedient to the gospel and follow Jesus Christ in my life, Lord help me to accomplish your will in my life. My point ist that marriage doesn’t fulfill entirely my life, Jesus does. Praise the Lord!

Genesis 2:18

Fun Fact: Dr. David Platt is married with children. So we have yet another married pastor telling single people how great being single is.

If you have a bible, and I hope you do, let me invite you to open with me to... lol EVERYTIME!

On your other video about the trinity sounds confusing! Because the trinity is mystery and with our 3 lbs brain is hard to comprehend! i got the easiest and simplest and quick analogy! Ready? an egg!! thats it! An egg is an egg but has a shell has the white part and the yellow part! they all play a roll to make an egg but is an egg... with 3 parts!

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Let me guess. - he’s MARRIED

Haha " it's better to marry than burn with passion " nothing like a long marriage to quench the fires of passion Lol JK

Allow me to interpret, "I did not chose the single life, but I am going to tell you what it is to be a Christian single and how to do it....now get out of our Church, go serve somewhere else far away from us, and stop messing up the club we have here"

STOP TRUST JEZUS!

A submissive God fearing churchgoer is not less than OUR God we worship. All Christians are just coming from a different perspective with different knee-pads for prayer and devotion. I view domination and submission of THE LORD as puzzle pieces. Your Savior may have different shapes, smells and colors, but HE fits together to make something stronger and more pungent in his HOLY EYES. AMEN, so is the Spoken Word of the Prophet!

Why are married people the only ones “allowed” to have sex?? Married people have sex for lustful reasons not just to procreate. In most of my encounters, the marrieds act as tho they are better than the singles and love to rub in my face what I am missing and how amazing the sex is. WTH??? Also kind of hard to hear a message about this from a married person. Double standard and married people look down and have pity on singles. It makes me feel less of a person as if no one could love me enough to marry me like Hahahhaa you are a defect or something. My job kept me traveling a lot not much time to settle down. One guy was abusive. So I’m not allowed to enjoy the touch and pleasure from a man because that is reserved for the elitist marrieds. Sounds like discrimination to me.

Maybe this guy shouldn’t have gotten married

did your God not say to Adam man shouldn't be alone and made eve then Jesus comes along and wants you to be single , well as usual the bible contradicts itself .

You all are crazy.

It's probably best to forget that junk about Jesus and bibles and just go out and have a pleasant life. Let the christers pay for their own sins. Who cares? That last christian nut case?? first thing he asked me: "Will you fuck me?" WOW, was I surprised. I asked him, "why do you think I'm gay?" ...Answer: "It's the way you pray and cut the cheese at the same time". AMEN on that one. There is sin just running everywhere.