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Foundations for the Family 02
/Text: Matthew 19:1-11/
Place Preached - (Mississauga International Baptist Church)
Date Preached - (12~/07~/03)
Introduction:
(/REVIEW/) - Marriage is the Divinely recognized union of one man and one woman in a one flesh relationship for one lifetime.
*/Verse 4/* establishes God’s desire for the home and the crucial foundation upon which it is built.
!!!!! I.
The Oracles of God
By “Oracles”, of course we mean the Scriptures
/“Have ye not read?”
vs.4 - / *Gen.
1:27 & 2:18-24*
/If we’d just go back to God’s Word – We’d straighten out a lot of controversy!!/
!!!!! II.
The Ownership of God
“/He Made them../” – Vs.4 - *Colossians 1:16-17*
!! God Instituted Marriage vs.6 - Marriage is an institution and appointment of God, and therefore not to be changed and altered by man at his pleasure.
Marriage is the highest order of familial relationship.
It is the primary family relationship (Nobler than the parent-child relationship.
Marriage, not children complete the family!
! III.
The Orderliness of God
“/Male & Female/” vs.4
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One Man – One Woman
Not one man and several women, or One woman and a number of men, Not two women or two men.
Not “Adam & Steve”, but “Adam & Eve”!!
One Woman and One Man for One Lifetime.
In the very circumstances of the creation story, Adam and Eve were created for each other and for no one else; their union was necessarily complete and unbreakable.
Now, says Jesus, these two are the pattern and the symbol of all who were to come.
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One Flesh – vs.5
Jesus said that man and wife became so totally one that they could be called one flesh.
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This total unity means that marriage is not given for one act in life, however important that act may be, but for all./*
Marriage is given, not that two people should do one thing together, but that they should do all things together.
*/2).
Another way to put this is to say that marriage is the total union of two personalities./*
*/Two people can exist together in a variety of ways.
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One can be the dominant partner to such an extent that nothing matters but his wishes and his convenience and his aims in life.
Again, two people can exist in a kind of armed neutrality, where there is continuous tension and continuous opposition, and continuous collision between their wishes.
Life can be one long argument.
HUMOR: - My husband became extremely frustrated with my mood swings.
He bought me a mood ring so he would be able to monitor my moods.
When I'm in a good mood it turns green.
When I'm in a bad mood it leaves a big red mark on his forehead.
Again, two people can base their relationship on a more or less resigned acceptance of each other.
To all intents and purposes, while they live together, each goes his or her own way, and each has his or her own life.
(CAREER ~/ FRIENDS ~/ VEHICLES ~/ VACATIONS etc.)
The ideal is that in the marriage state two people find the completing of their personalities.
Marriage should not narrow life; it should complete it.
/A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short./
ANDRE MAUROIS
*/3).
We may put this even more practically--marriage must be a sharing of all the circumstances of life./*
*/The days of Courtship – GLAMOUR – Both partners see each other at their best./*
Somebody once said that "love" is a word consisting of two vowels, two consonants and two fools.
You give each other looks that you could pour on a waffle – SYRUP!!
/Linda: "Do you really love me, or do you just think you do?"/
/Jack: "Honey, I really love you........I haven't done any thinking yet."/
But in marriage two people must see each other when they are not at their best;
When they are tired and weary; when children bring the upset to a house and home that children must bring;
When money is tight, and food and clothes and bills become a problem; when moonlight and roses become the kitchen sink and walking the floor at night with a crying baby.
Unless two people are prepared to face the routine of life as well as the glamour of life together, marriage must be a failure.
/[A married partner must learn] to tolerate his mate’s infirmities, because in doing so he either cures her, or makes himself better/.
- *Jeremy Taylor*
Marriage means constantly living together.
It is perfectly possible for ingrained habits, unconscious mannerisms, ways of upbringing to collide.
ILLUS: Love, once illusive, is now like a Giant Oak growing up through the middle of your house – It is Inescapable!!
*/4).
the basis of marriage is togetherness, and the basis of togetherness is nothing other than considerateness./*
*ILLUS: - Out Together *
A farmer and his wife were sleeping in bed when a tornado came and swept them and their bed out of the house.
There they were, flying through the air together in their bed, when the wife began to cry.
The farmer said to her, "This is no time to cry!"
She replied, "I can't help it!
I'm so happy because this is the first time we've been out together in twenty years."
If marriage is to succeed, the partners must always be thinking more of each other than of themselves.
Selfishness is the murderer of any personal relationship.
! IV.
The Ordination of God
“/In the Beginning/” vs.4 & vs.8
God set forth a pattern.
*Genesis 1:31* And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
It was Very Good to begin with, It was Right, It was Perfect.
Since then things have not gotten better – Sin entered the world and through sin a curse and death.
Things are not getting better, they are getting worse.
It’s not Evolution – It’s Devilution!!
God’s intention for that original pattern has not changed!! – He gave it to be followed, He intends for it to be followed today!!
The A. V. is commonly understood to mean, it was not so in the beginning.
But that is not Christ's meaning.
(The Perfect Tense conveys the continuance of past action)
A good understanding is “/Notwithstanding Moses' permission, the case has not been so from the beginning until now.
The original ordinance has never been abrogated nor superseded, but continues in force/.”
COMMENT on the Disciples reaction to this in verses 10-11.
! V.
The Opposition of Man
“/Let Not Man put Asunder/” vs.6
ASUNDER – To Separate, to place room between.
To go away, to depart.
Now there are a lot of forces from without blasting away at the foundation of God’s order for the family and the home~/marriage.
EXAMPLES – TV, Media, Internet, Public Opinion, Peers, Courts
But the greatest opposition comes from within, from the heart.
*Mark 7:20-23* And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
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