Keeping The Vow

Welcome: Introduction who we are, what we are doing, why

Prayer:

define vow: a solemn promise. :oath, pledge, bond, covenant, commitment, affirmation, assurance, guarantee;

Ecclesiastes 5:4–5 NLT

4 When you make a promise to God, don’t delay in following through, for God takes no pleasure in fools. Keep all the promises you make to him. 5 It is better to say nothing than to make a promise and not keep it.

Matthew 19:3–6 NKJV

The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

A. Definition Marriage may be defined as that lifelong and exclusive state in which a man and a woman are wholly commited to live with each other in sexual relationship under conditions normally witnessed to by their social group or society. Although Christian opinion is divided on the necessity of sexual intercourse for validating marriage, Paul plainly taught that it is the specific act by which man and woman become one flesh.

Introduction to Marriage Ceremony:

“Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God, and this company, to join together this man and this woman in Holy matrimony. Marriage is an honorable estate, instituted of God, blessed by our Lord Jesus Christ, and declared by Saint Paul to be honorable among men. It is not, therefore, to be entered into without Holy advice or lightly, but reverently, soberly, advisedly, and in the fear of God. Let us, therefore, under seriousness of this act, invoke Divine Presence upon this occasion.”

Prayer: thats when the preacher would pray.. ( you don’t have to say this)

MARRIAGE VOWS:

THE MINISTER TO THE MAN:

(Name) , do you take this woman to be your wedded

wife? And do you earnestly promise, before God and these

witnesses, that you will love her, comfort her, honor and

keep her in sickness and in health; and that, forsaking all

others for her alone, you will perform unto her all the

respect that a husband owes to his wife, until God,

by death shall separate you? MAN: "I will"

THE MINISTER SAYS TO THE WOMAN:

(Name) , do you take this man to be your wedded

husband and do you earnestly promise, before God and

these witnesses, that you will love him, comfort

him, honor, and obey him, in sickness and in health, and

that forsaking all others for him, will perform unto him all

the duties that a wife owes to her husband, until God, by

death, shall separate you?

WOMAN: "I will."

Man/Husband/Father = Provider/Protector/Coverer

Women/Wife/Mother = Carrier/Helpmate/Nurturer

2. Do you take this woman to be your wedded wife?

Do you take this man to be your wedded husband

Wedded Means: get married to, United, attached or dedicated, bound together, inseparable, fused