Wedding Sermon Outline

Mark E. Berlin

PMM 440

Reverend Roger Pitelko

Marriage Sermon

“Holy Ground”

Gen.2:18-24

The Lord yokes man and woman together on the holy ground of His presence.  marriage and in it foresaw Christ’s relationship with His church.

             I.      The Lord’s Holy Ground.

A.     What God made was Holy.  In the beginning God created.  What He created was glorious and Holy – from the twinkling of the first star to the dawning of the first day, from the sound of the first wave crashing upon the shore to the song of the first bird singing His glorious praise.  Everything God created was Holy.  From the Holy earth God formed a Holy man and breathed into Him His Holy breath of life.  And knowing that it was not good for man to be alone He made woman from him.  God created her from man and gave her back to him.  Adam was given the gift of life and then he is given the gift of a holy wife, Eve.  Adam rejoices as he cries out “you are bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.  They walked on Holy ground because they were in the presence of the Lord.   

B.     Marriage is a Holy Yoking.  In that holy place of paradise God instituted marriage making man and woman for each other and joining them to one another.  Jesus said, “What God has joined together, let no one separate.”  The word joined can be literally translated as yoked.  In other words God has yoked man and woman together.  Holy marriage is where the Lord Himself fits and fastens two people together. 

Why do two Christians who stand at the alter fit each other?  On their wedding day, at that sacred time and in that sacred place, they fit each other because each one has been fit to Jesus Christ first.  Each one has been yoked individually to Jesus Christ.  As Christians each one has been shouldered with the yoke of Christ that is the yoke of the gospel and the free gift of forgiveness that gives life and salvation.     

          II.       Made Unholy and Broken in the Fall.

The sad fact is that you Richard are not Adam and you Jessica, are not Eve.  And you do not live in paradise.  You do not live with original righteousness but with the consequences of sin.  

       III.      Made Holy Again, Redeemed by Christ.

A.     Made Holy Again

B.     The Example to Guide.