(6) If you want God’s favor, you’ve got to follow God’s ways. Bottomline…living together is sinful. I don’t say that is a judging way, but instead as one who has had to go through a journey of realization and repentance for my own sinful choices. We watch as each of these couples come through our class looking for God’s favor on their marriage. They don’t want their marriage to go the way of the world, to a miserable existence or to end in divorce, yet they are following the world’s way into marriage. If you want God’s favor, you’ve got to follow God’s ways.