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A Loud and Clear Call Ministries

Keala Thompson: Relationships, God's Way

Keala Thompson

Empty in Sychar: Sexual Integrity for Women

Eyeless in Gaza: Sexual Integrity for Men

Playing the Love Game: Calling out Affections and Attention

Passion and Purity

Finding Your Soul Mate

What Do I Look For?

Marrying the Right Person

Why Relationships Go Bad

Wherever You Go, I Will Go

The Search for Oneness

The Player Gets Played!

Wounded Hearts Restored

God is truly good to all of us here this morning.

Let me hear you say Amen if you believe that.

I invite you to turn to me to our opening text and it's found in Proverbs chapter 20 verse 19.

Proverbs chapter 20 verse 19 is our opening text.

The sermon title this morning is Playing the Love Game.

We focused on the first sermon, remember, was on women.

And then the next sermon, 2 weeks ago, was on men.

That was probably the most straightest sermon I've ever preached, I felt.

Today's 1 is on playing the love game, men and women.

This is a series of sermons I have outlined, 12 different series.

We're focusing on relationships between husband and wives, boyfriend and girlfriend.

We start off with a foundation of our relationships, boyfriends and girlfriends, finding your soulmate, moving on to sexual integrity, the foundation, and moving on how to find your loved 1, your soulmate, then moving on to how to, you know, restore that first love and keep on going on to how to live with your 1 loved 1 who cheated on you to completion all the way to the end.

And so now we're on our third sermon entitled, Playing the Love Game.

You see, Satan today has made the gift of love into a cheap game, today especially.

And the men and women who play these games, the love game, are called players, People who play in the game of love are called players.

Have you ever heard someone say, he's a player?

What that means is that that person who is a player has learned how to manipulate women or play women to get them to do what they want them to do.

This term player also applies to women who learn how to play men or manipulate men also.

We have learned in the last 2 sermons that women's battles are with the ears and the emotional while men's battles are with the eyes and the physical.

The crafty players in a game of love, whether they be men or women, understand these principles I just share with you very well, so much to the utmost, So much so that they play the opposite sex that they can get what they really want.

They don't care about the other party getting hurt for they are selfish and only concerned about gratifying themselves.

You believe this is true, let me hear you say Amen.

I'm not way out there, you're out of touch with the world, but you're out there.

As Christians, we are not to play this game of love.

God does not want us to be a player, nor does God want us as Christians to be played, right?

For God knows that 1 wrong decision in our love life may determine whether our future will be a happy 1 or a living hell.

Beloved, this morning I would like to study with you from the Word of God the tricks and games people play in order to manipulate.

We'll be studying this topic so that we may learn to never play any of these dangerous games as Christians and so that also we may have a happy and a successful love life is my humble prayer this morning.

Father, as your word is open, we humbly ask that you may help us to learn from it, that you may teach us what you want us to learn, and that we may apply.

Let's first take a look at the games men play.

Proverbs 20 verse 19 the Bible says, He that goes about as a tale-bearer, revealeth secrets, knoweth the second part especially, therefore meddle not, or associate not, with who?

We're counseled not to meddle or associate with anyone who flatters with his lips.

You see, women are aroused by what they hear and it's out of a woman's emotional desires that her heart cries out for someone who can satisfy the innermost needs to be loved, needed, valued, cherished.

And when a man seems to satisfy these needs, a woman falls head over heels for him.

Women, men who are players, know this and They use flattery as a way to sweet talk you to get you to do what they want you to do.

To play with your emotions by what they do.

And once they have called out your affections, they are then able to manipulate you.

See players know the effects their words have upon you women.

And before many women finally wake up, you probably know people like this, or maybe you're 1 of these people, before they finally wake up many of the years have been wasted with this 1 man who had totally destroyed and ruined their whole life.

And all their friends know that that person had manipulated that person the whole time.

You don't have to say anything, but think about it.

Friends, family, used, manipulated by a certain man, all these years wasted because of what that man did to that woman?

In other words, women, don't fall for 1 who calls out your affections by sweet-talking you.

You may think that you're the only 1 he talks that way to you, too.

But if he's talked that way to you, you know he's talked to a hundred different women that way also, right?

Look at this quote from the Spirit of Prophecy, Ellen White.

It says here, to trifle with hearts, call out affections, is a crime of no small magnitude in the sight of a holy God.

Yet some will show preference for young ladies and call out their affections.

And then go their way and forget all about the words they have spoken and their effect.

A new face attracts them and repeat the same words, devote to another, the same what?

So, are there people out there that do this, you think?

Are there people in the church that maybe do these Love games?

Now that we looked at how we shouldn't call out affections and play with a person's emotions, let's look at a situation.

Look how we may deal with a situation where a person is already attracted to you, maybe they're attracted to you, you didn't call out their affection, but they're attracted to you.

Maybe you did, but what are you supposed to do when they're attracted to you?

The answer is found in the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife.

What did Potiphar's wife want to do with Joseph?

The Bible says, And it came to pass after these things that his master's wife, Potiphar's wife, cast her eyes upon Joseph and she said, what?

She wanted to sleep with her husband's servant.

Look at verse 10 to 12, the Bible says, And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearken not unto her to lie by her, or to be with her.

And it came to pass about this time that Joseph went into the house to do his business, and there was none of the men of the house there within.

And she caught him by his garment saying, lie with me.

And he left his garment in her hand and what?

I want you to notice that the Bible says here in verse 10 at the end, it says not only did he not sleep with her, the Bible says that he would not even, what?

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Keala Thompson: Relationships, God's Way

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