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We All Want the Perfect Marriage
God’s Plan For Our Marriage
I don’t know of anyone who does not want to believe they are doing the right thing.
In all marriages we try like crazy to make it work, but often we end up tired, discouraged, and feeling like failures.
The fact is, we are not equipped to do the right job when it comes to creating the best relationship with our spouse.
We see there’s a big job to be done and we try to use the best relationship tools we know, but we end up getting off course.
I don’t know of anyone who does not want to believe they are doing the right thing.
In all marriages we try like crazy to make it work, but often we end up tired, discouraged, and feeling like failures.
The fact is, we are not equipped to do the right job when it comes to creating the best relationship with our spouse.
We see there’s a big job to be done and we try to use the best relationship tools we know, but we end up getting off course.
Trying to No Avail
I don’t know of anyone who does not want to believe they are doing the right thing.
In all marriages we try like crazy to make it work, but often we end up tired, discouraged, and feeling like failures.
The fact is, we are not equipped to do the right job when it comes to creating the best relationship with our spouse.
We see there’s a big job to be done and we try to use the best relationship tools we know, but we end up getting off course.
Often the work we try to do as Christian spouses is not the right job at all.
We focus on wrong behaviors and set out to apply pressure, control behavior, and do everything in our power to change our spouse or ourselves.
That’s the primary cause of exhaustion, depression and the hopeless sense of wanting to bail out of it all.
When people spend their lives trying to transform our self or our spouse the natural result is exhaustion, discouragement, and the desire to quit.
Re-Focus
We need to see where we get off course in Christian marriage.
We burn ourselves out doing a job we were never meant to do.
We need to learn the difference between God’s job and ours.
It’s God’s job to fix and change us as people.
It’s not our job to fix and change each other.
We get off course in so many ways and we need to be able to isolate these.
The only way you can meet the need for love and acceptance of your spouse or receive the fulfillment you need is through Christ.
He can and will meet the needs of others through you and make your Christian marriage meaningful!
But first of all let’s examine:
God’s Original Plan for Christian Marriage
Co-Rulers, Co-Subduers
V. 27 It takes both male and female
Woman’s Responsibility
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Woman’s Responsibility
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Suitable – They fit together – brings strength.
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Helper – not subservient.
Helper – not subservient.
V. 28 Rulers together
v. V. 28 Rulers together
One flesh
Man’s Responsibility.
Command to Adam
Genesis 2:
Adam’s response when he awoke and saw Eve.
1. Watch Adam’s response when he awoke and saw Eve.
He took one look and said, “Whoa man!”
He went on in verse 23 “This is bone of my bones . . .
She shall be called Woman.”
He didn’t say, “Great, now I have someone to go get me my stuff, do the chores I don’t feel like doing and cater to my every want.”
He took one look and said, “Whoa man!”
He says in verse 23 “This is bone of my bones . . .
She shall be called Woman.”
He didn’t say, “Great, now I have someone to go get me my stuff, do the chores I don’t feel like doing and cater to my every want.”
Woman’s Responsibility
Suitable – the fit together – brings strength
Helper – not subservient.
2. Helper – not subservient.
Subdue the world – not each other.. God’s Plan
We live like Him
We help each other
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We help eachother
The world tries to rip this apart .. marriage is the greatest tool we have.
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The world tries to rip this apart .. marriage is the greatest tool we have.
God’s original plan for Christian marriage is a dependence upon God as we find our source of completion in Jesus Christ: two becoming one flesh, co-ruling, a relationship in the image of God.
God’s Plan For Christian Marriage Gets Sidetracked
Deception, Rebellion, Shame, Hiding
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Total dependence on God
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Total dependence on God
They reflected his image
1.
They reflected his image
The made no demands on each other (fulfillment was from their dependence on God)
2. The made no demands on eachother (fulfillment was from their dependence on God)
They were one flesh.
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They were one flesh.
Serpent’s plan
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Serpent’s plan
You don’t need to be dependent on God
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You don’t need to be dependent on God
You can meet your own needs
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You can meet your own needs
The Curse 3:14-19
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The Curse 3:14-19
To the woman – your desire will be for your husband
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To the woman – your desire will be for your husband
Your heart will try to deceive you into thinking that your life and your nurturing will come from a man who is simply not capable of filling those deep needs.
– never was and never will be.
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Your heart will try to deceive you into thinking that your life and your nurturing will come from a man who is simply not capable of filling those deep needs.
– never was and never will be.
To the man – He shall rule over you.
2. To the man – He shall rule over you.
Your heart will always be seeking to aggressively or passively rule over her – keeping her quiet about his inadequacy to meet her needs.
(which he secretly knows he simply is not capable of doing – no matter how hard he tries)
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