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THE MARRIAGE COVENANT
(The Benefits of Family)
10~/19~/02 and 10~/20~/02
Review:
We have been talking about the subject of Covenant.
Last week we talked about Covenant Relationships.
Earlier we talked about the Blood of the Covenant and God’s Covenant with Abraham.
We could do this for a year and not finish it all.
There are so many directions we could go.
Some main points to remember are, GOD ALWAYS BLESSES THROUGH COVENANT.
He uses covenant as a means to get His life and purposes to you.
Your confidence in God is as strong your faith in the covenant.
-Today we are going to focus on */the marriage covenant/*.
Ephesians 5-The Message
*/Out of respect for Christ, be courteously reverent to one another./*
*/ Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ.
The husband provides leadership to his wife the way Christ does to his church, not by domineering but by cherishing.
So just as the church submits to Christ as he exercises such leadership, wives should likewise submit to their husbands./*
*/ Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting.
Christ’s love makes the church whole.
His words evoke her beauty.
Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness.
And that is how husbands ought to love their wives.
They’re really doing themselves a favor—since they’re already “one” in marriage./*
*/ No one abuses his own body, does he?
No, he feeds and pampers it.
That’s how Christ treats us, the church, since we are part of his body.
And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife.
No longer two, they become “one flesh.”
This is a huge mystery, and I don’t pretend to understand it all.
What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church.
And this provides a good picture of how each husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in loving her, and how each wife is to honor her husband./*
-We read that at marriage ceremonies to give people an idea of the expectations in marriage.
-Deeper than that yet is the principle of the marriage covenant.
Malachi 2
*/10 /**/Have we not all one Father a?
Did not one God create us?
Why do we profane the covenant of our fathers by breaking faith with one another?
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*/11 /**/Judah/**/ has broken faith.
A detestable thing has been committed in /**/Israel/**/ and in /**/Jerusalem/**/: /**/Judah/**/ has desecrated the sanctuary the Lord loves, by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
12 As for the man who does this, whoever he may be, may the Lord cut him off from the tents of Jacob b—even though he brings offerings to the Lord Almighty.
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*/13 /**/Another thing you do: You flood the Lord’s altar with tears.
You weep and wail because he no longer pays attention to your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands.
14 You ask, “Why?”
It is because the Lord is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.
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*/15 /**/Has not the Lord made them one?
In flesh and spirit they are his.
And why one?
Because he was seeking godly offspring.
c So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
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*/16 /**/“I hate divorce,” says the Lord God of /**/Israel/**/, “and I hate a man’s covering himself d with violence as well as with his garment,” says the Lord Almighty.
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*/So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.
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-Notice that the marriage covenant is the means and method God uses to produce GODLY OFFSPRING.
-Notice that the family covenant is the place for children to be raised to love and serve God.
-The best way to learn about how Jesus loves the church is to watch how crazy your father is about your mom.
(The old saying is that the best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.)
-The best way to learn about God’s love for His children is to watch how your parents love you in sacrifice.
-Disciples are best made in an atmosphere of loving discipline where self-discipline replaces external discipline.
-The best way to see the Covenant of Grace is when there are very strict rules that are released when that child gives their hearts to Jesus completely.
-You don’t need a curfew when the child is being led by Jesus.
They will instinctively do the best thing because of the internal~/eternal compass.
-It is a great responsibility to place in that child the internal abilities rather than to just focus on the outside.
-You move them from law to grace and they see the N.T. idea.
-Family is God’s laboratory to grow Godly people.
At least it should be.
-We try to act like divorce doesn’t hurt people, that’s not true.
-Whatever your past is, START HERE.
-God is bigger than anything in your past.
Just make sure you don’t turn your experience into a theology.
The Bible is our standard.
Hebrews 13
*/4 /**/Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral./*
(NIV)
*/4 Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage.
God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery./*
(TLB)
*/Honor marriage, and guard the sacredness of sexual intimacy between wife and husband.
God draws a firm line against casual and illicit sex./*
(The Message)
-The first Saturday morning in November we are having a men’s breakfast.
I will be talking about “EVERY MAN’S BATTLE”.
-That is about lust and sexuality from a Biblical point of view.
-Three books for sale in the back.
INTIMATE ISSUES-FOR WOMEN, EVERY YOUNG MAN’S BATTLE, AND EVERY MAN’S BATTLE.
-They address the whole issue of sexual intimacy in marriage.
I don’t need to do it here other than to say */it was God’s idea/*.
-The world has twisted it into something to sell products with.
It is so distorted that we think it belongs to them and we borrow it.
-That isn’t true.
We have first shot at it as Christians.
-God is very blunt about it and so are these books.
Matthew 19
*/One day the Pharisees were badgering him: “Is it legal for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”/*
*/ He answered, “Haven’t you read in your Bible that the Creator originally made man and woman for each other, male and female?
And because of this, a man leaves father and mother and is firmly bonded to his wife, becoming one flesh—no longer two bodies but one.
Because God created this organic union of the two sexes, no one should desecrate his art by cutting them apart.”/*
*/ They shot back in rebuttal, “If that’s so, why did Moses give instructions for divorce papers and divorce procedures?”/*
*/ Jesus said, “Moses provided for divorce as a concession to your hardheartedness, but it is not part of God’s original plan.
I’m holding you to the original plan, and holding you liable for adultery if you divorce your faithful wife and then marry someone else.
I make an exception in cases where the spouse has committed adultery.”/*
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