Family Matters 5 | Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

Should I Stay Or Should I Go? (Matthew 19:1-10)

Read The Scriptures (vs.4-6)

Don’t look for advice from Hollywood, Dr. Phil, or the world.

Don’t try and look for excuses to get out of your marriage!

Research Your Spirit (vs.7-8)

If you looking for a way out instead of a way in, you’ve got a hard heart.

Resolve What’s Sure (vs.9-10)

Genesis 2:18-24,

Proverbs 18:22 “Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favour of the Lord.”

Favour - great happiness and pleasure, joy

The best thing (next to being saved) is getting married to the love of your life.

You can really experience the salvation that God gave you by being married. (Christ and the church/bridegroom and the bride)

Reconcile With Your Spouse

Reconcile -  to be or become restored to favorable or friendly relations with another after a presumed wronged.

This is not only for the marriage relationship, but can be applied to multiple relationship troubles. (Marriage, friends, church trouble, etc)

Reconcile Cause of the Promise That Was Heard and Rendered

1 Corinthians 7:10–11 “And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.”

If our marriage is to be like Christ and the church, we must realize that we are part of Him.

Ephesians 5:28–33 “So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”

CHRIST SAID HE WILL NEVER LEAVE US OR FORSAKE US. IF THE MARRIAGE IS TO BE LIKE CHRIST AND THE CHURCH, WHEN YOU MADE YOUR VOWS, YOU SAID YOU WOULD NEVER LEAVE OR FORSAKE YOUR BRIDE.

Ecclesiastes 5:5 “Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.”

Reconcile To Portray the Help of the Redeemer

Colossians 1:21–22 “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:”

Genesis 3, God initiated contact and reconciliation first.

How long would the relationship between God and man been put off if God had not of come first.

Reconcile To Prevent Hindering of Reverence

Matthew 5:23–24 “Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.”

1 Peter 3:7 “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”

Reconcile to Promote Healing of Relationship

Turn to 2 Corinthians 5:17–19 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”

Reconciliation is not, “I’ll come home, but your sleeping on the couch.”

Reconciliation is not, “I’ll stay married, but only if you but me a new dress every week.”

Reconciliation is not, “I’ll come home, but you need to learn to cook better.”

RECONCILIATION IS COMING BACK TOGETHER AND FORGETTING WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST LIKE IT NEVER HAPPENED.