Kayla Jenkins Topical Sermon

Topical Sermon on Marriage

Introduction: God gave Mankind every good and perfect gift in existence, and one of those gifts is marriage. God wants us to marry, but He also has a picture of what marriage should look like. He intends for both the husband and the wife to contribute equally to the marriage, and He intends for the marriage bond to be permanent except under extremely specific circumstances.

Thesis: God gave Man the gift of marriage to make their lives better, but He also created rules He intends for us to follow

Paragraph One: God wants us to marry.

A. Genesis 2:18 “Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.””

God knows the inner workings of His creation. When He made Adam alone God knew that he would not be complete alone.

B. Proverbs 18:22 “He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.”

Proverbs 19:14 “House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.”

God’s solution to Man’s problem was the creation of Woman and the bond of marriage.

A godly marriage is a blessing that was designed by God to provide companionship and love as husbands and wives bind themselves together

Paragraph Two: God intends for each spouse to contribute to their marriage.

A. Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,”

God intended for husbands to show an unconditional love toward their wives, a love that is willing to commit and sacrifice

B. Colossians 3:18 “Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.”

Because husbands are meant to love their wives in a way that causes them to desire the best for them, God intended for wives to submit to their husbands. Wives are to respect the great responsibility their husbands have and trust in them.

Paragraph Three: God intends for marriage to be permanent.

A. Hebrews 13:4 “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”

God created marriage as a blessing for Mankind, not a toy for us to use and break whenever we feel like it. We are to honor and respect it and treat our wedding vows seriously.

B. Matthew 19:9 “And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.””

When God created marriage, He meant for it to permanently bind husband and wife together through a relationship they shared with no one else. Because that bond is broken through adultery, this is the only acceptable reason for a divorce to occur.

C. 1 Corinthians 7:39 “A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.”

There is one other allowance made for remarriage, the death of a spouse. Once either the husband or the wife has died, the remaining spouse is free to remarry an acceptable candidate in the eyes of God.

Conclusion: Marriage is truly a blessing. The intimacy between a husband and wife is the closest human relationship we can experience, but there are rules laid down by God in order to maintain the life and special nature of marriage. If we follow the guidelines God set out for us in the Bible, we can be confident in the strength and the benefits of this gift.