For Better or For Worst
Song of Solomon 8:6-7 – 6 Place me like a seal over your heart, or like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, and its jealousy is as enduring as the grave. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love; neither can rivers drown it. If a man tried to buy love with everything he owned, his offer would be utterly despised. (New Living Translation)
It’s About a Commitment
1. Commitment is the __________________ for marriage
Ephesians 5:21 – Honor Christ by submitting to each other. (The Living Bible)
1 Corinthians 7:4 – The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband also gives authority over his body to his wife. (New Living Translation)
Proverbs 4:23 – Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything you do. (New Living Translation)
2. Commitment is the _____________________ for marriage
☞ Committed love is as powerful as ______________________
Romans 8:38-39 – 38 For I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can’t, and life can’t. The angels won’t, and all the powers of hell itself cannot keep God’s love away. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, 39 or where we are – high above the sky, or in the deepest ocean – nothing will ever be able to separate us from the love of God demonstrated by our Lord Jesus Christ when he died for us. (The Living Bible)
☞ Committed love will not _______________ __________ easily
☞ Committed love is not easily _______________________
3. Commitment must be ____________________ in marriage
Isaiah 43:2 – When you go through deep waters and great trouble, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown! . . . (New Living Translation)
4. Commitment must be a __________________ in marriage
☞ Love is a priority over ________________________
☞ Love is a priority over ___________________________
Matthew 7:26-27 – 26 But anyone who hears my teaching and ignores it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. 27 When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will fall with a mighty crash. (New Living Translation)