The Vow of Priority
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· 38 viewsThis series was developed from Lifechurch.tv series called "The Vow" and Jimmy Evans' book "Marriage on the Rock
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Video Clip: The Princess Bride
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
This morning we are beginning a new sermon series for February (the Love month). It’s been said that 50% of all marriages end in divorce (No different in the church world) We are focusing on The Vow because Marriage mirrors God’s covenant relationship with His people.
The principles we will be learning apply to our relationship with Christ
This morning we are beginning a new sermon series for February (the Love month). It’s been said that 50% of all marriages end in divorce (No different in the church world) We are focusing on The Vow because Marriage mirrors God’s covenant relationship with His people. (The principles we will be learning apply to our relationship with Christ)
7 I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.
Let’s pray for marriages this month!
Book Recommendations:
(1) Sacred Marriage: What if God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy? By: Gary Thomas
(2) Marriage on the Rock By: Jimmy Evans
YouTube video clip: My Waffley Wedded Wife (2:23)
Example: Jen = beautiful - Me = bad haircut (Show picture in Keynote)
The difference between men and women - Women dream of the perfect wedding, men dream of the wedding night.
Don’t fall for the Disney fantasy of “I won’t be fulfilled until I find the ONE!”
GOD is your ONE and your spouse is your TWO
GOD is your ONE and your spouse is your TWO
22 He who finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor from the Lord.
Maybe you’re here today and you’re hoping to get married someday or you’re widowed or divorced and have thought about getting remarried:
I will seek the One while preparing for my two!
I will seek the One while preparing for my two!
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
matt 22.
(1) Heart - He’s the source and object of your greatest desires
(2) Soul - The core of who you are, the real you
(3) Mind - Not just feelings and emotions, a deliberate act of will. (Intellect & thoughts)
Become the person you are looking for is looking for! Andy Stanley
1. I promise that God will be my first priority and my spouse will be my second.
1. I promise that God will be my first priority and my spouse will be my second.
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” 18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” 19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
(leaves: (root word azab)—loosen or relinquish.)
(leaves: (root word azab)—loosen or relinquish.)
Talk about how an individual’s first primary relationship is their relationship with their parents, but when they get married that shifts to their spouse.
“a man was to relinquish the highest position of commitment and devotion previously given to his parents in order to give that position to his wife.” Jimmy Evans (Marriage on the Rock)
Notice that life began with man and his relationship with God! And then it was discovered that it was not good for man to be alone. So God created a suitable helper.
The problem with most struggling marriages is misplaced priorities.
God must be our number one and our spouse number two - our helper!
If we attempt to make our spouse our one or begin to think that we’re incomplete if we aren’t married we fall into the danger of idolizing our spouse.
“What you idolize you will demonize.” (Author unknown)
“The problem with looking to another human to complete us is that, spiritually speaking, it’s idolatry. We are to find our fulfillment and purpose in God. . . . If we expect our spouse to be ‘God’ to us, he or she will fail every day. No person can live up to such expectations.” Sacred Marriage by: Gary Thomas
God is a jealous God, He wants to be first - This is a legitimate jealousy!
Webster’s Dictionary defines “jealous” as “intolerant of rivalry or unfaithfulness.
Webster’s Dictionary defines “jealous” as “intolerant of rivalry or unfaithfulness.
4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
14 Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Example: The time I became Jealous over Jennifer / We weren’t dating yet / I had no right. The truth is, you belong to God - He’s allowed to have a righteous jealousy.
There is something God put within us that makes us know our spouses belong to us before anyone or anything else, except Him. (Unhealthy Jealousy - abusive, manipulative behavior, controlling)
2. I will protect my priorities.
2. I will protect my priorities.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Christ’s first priority—after obeying and glorifying the Father—was the church. Here is an example a husband should follow: God first, then his wife.
Men of God, it is your responsibility to protect your priorities and care for the precious gift God has given you!
Example: My children know that my wife is my number TWO / Caleb when he was younger - “you love mommy more than us kids!”
Momma gets the first and last kiss (and a lot in between)
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
“If you allow anything or anyone, no matter how good or important, to take the time and energy that rightfully belong to your spouse, you are violating God’s design for marriage.” Marriage on the Rock By: Jimmy Evans
Possibly have Jennifer share from a wife/mother’s perspective on how we can Protect our Priorities.
Men = Sacrifice
Women = Submit
Both of these attributes are the attributes of Christ Jesus
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Invite prayer team forward to pray specifically for marriages.
