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*Headed for Happily Ever After*
*2~/21~/2004** and **2~/22~/2004*
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*Review:*
Last week we talked about the family covenant.
The things we said that all of us should do are;
· *Value your family*
· *Have a growing relationship with Jesus*
· *Have a growing relationship with people in the Body of Christ-the church*
I used the example of bonding in marriage and I received a call this week to say that science has discovered the same thing.
There is a bonding that takes place and can be eroded.
(Pam M. testimony if she is there.)
This week I want to specifically focus on marriage.
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**Redefine Happily Ever After*
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-It would be a really good exercise for you to determine how and where you received your perspective of marriage.
-This is the media generation and a lot of us have been brainwashed into thinking that everything gets fixed in half an hour or 1 ½ hours if it’s a movie.
-We may have read a book or even seen someone else’s marriage and all of our hopes are based on those dreams.
-The intense emotion you see in Tom Cruise and some girl comes to mind when you are grocery shopping or mowing the yard or changing the diaper.
-The question to people is: Why aren’t you like Tom Cruise?
The answer is: Tom Cruise isn’t like Tom Cruise.
He just plays him at the movies.
In real life he left his wife and children for another woman.
-We have to shock ourselves and evaluate our information.
-Happily ever after is better than TV but you take a different road to get there.
Genesis 29
*/After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month, 15 Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing?
Tell me what your wages should be.”
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*/16 Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
17 Leah had weak a eyes ,(one translation says beautiful eyes) but Rachel was lovely in form, and beautiful.
18 Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”
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*/19 Laban said, “It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man.
Stay here with me.” 20 So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
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*/21 Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife.
My time is completed, and I want to lie with her.” /*
*/22 So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast.
23 But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and Jacob lay with her.
24 And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter as her maidservant.
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*/25 When morning came, there was Leah!
So Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me?
I served you for Rachel, didn’t I? Why have you deceived me?” /*
*/26 /**/Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one.
27 Finish this daughter’s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.”
28 And Jacob did so.
He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.
29 Laban gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
30 Jacob lay with Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah.
And he worked for Laban another seven years.
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-In my Bible I am supposed to summarize what the chapter is about and write it at the beginning.
My title for this chapter is:
*Whoops!
Wrong girl.*
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-The truth is that a lot of people wake up after marriage to the same feeling even though it is the same person.
-In courtship the best foot is presented and after the wedding there is a time when you wonder where that person went.
-If you know the story of Ruth, she is married to a man of great character-Boaz.
I have a sermon for singles called, *“Don’t settle for Bozo while you are waiting for your Boaz.”*
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-I have a book called; *Dated Jekyll, Married Hyde with the subtitle; Whatever happened to Prince Charming?*
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-You can see the girl calling home during the first year saying, “*Mom I kissed the frog but he didn’t turn into a prince, I thought my love for him could change him but he’s still hopping and croaking.”*
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-The problem is one of unreal expectations.
Hebrews 13
*/4 /**/Marriage should be honored by all,…”/*
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-In order to value and honor marriage we have to re-evaluate where we are going and what God intended this thing to look like.
-Marriage is a great tool to sharpen your character and provide a safe place to raise children.
-Ravi Zacharias said, *“Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the father.”*
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-You don’t marry a dream, you marry a person.
-There are pleasant and unpleasant surprises.
-It is better than you think.
-It isn’t just ending up at a certain place it is going there together as you share your lives and you are changed and transformed by the presence and love of someone who is committed to you no matter what.
-I can look out at some of the couples in this church and see great examples.
You have been married for years and you are still glad.
You’ve had problems but don’t wish you had married someone else.
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**Enjoy all the Seasons of Your Marriage*
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-There are definite steps and seasons that all marriages go through.
-We need to flip the pyramid so to speak.
-We see the best time as the early years when emotions are high and then the later years as just hanging on cause who wants us now we’re old or whatever.
-The truth is; the later years should be the better years.
-If you love someone you have known for less than three years that is great but if you have known someone for 50 years and still love them, you’ve got something to say.
I am really impressed with you.
-Choose someone who will love you when you aren’t cool anymore.
-I love the story of Isaac and Rebekah in Genesis 24.
-Abraham is distressed by the girls he sees around him so he sends his servant back to his homeland to get a wife for his son, Isaac.
Of course you have to take into account the customs of the day.
The servant went back to the place and he prayed for God to help him.
He said that the girl who would water his camels as well as him would be the one God had sent.
Of course this is a character test.
The girl was a worker, she cared about strangers.
He was looking for character.
You know the story, she goes to Isaac sight unseen (of course he is rich).
They meet each other.
Both have a sense of God joining them together I believe but they didn’t choose, God and others did.
Genesis 24
*/61 /**/Then Rebekah and her maids got ready and mounted their camels and went back with the man.
So the servant took Rebekah and left.
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*/62 Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the /**/Negev/**/.
63 He went out to the field one evening to meditate, h and as he looked up, he saw camels approaching.
64 Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac.
She got down from her camel 65 and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” /*
*/“He is my master,” the servant answered.
So she took her veil and covered herself.
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*/66 Then the servant told Isaac all he had done.
67 Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah.
So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
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