Marriage homily

Wedding Sermon outline III

Wedding sermon outline

1. A wedding is a beautiful celebration of a covenant of love

a. Scripture talks about the unparalleled beauty, the adorning of bride and groom

i. The “day of gladness of his heart”

ii. Marriage in Holy Scripture is an example of how Christ loves his church

iii. The repentant Christian who is found faithful, is promised a place at the table during the marriage supper of the Lamb.

b. Future joys, like the beauty of the bride, are veiled until we reach it. Like a budding flower that takes time before it blooms, love between a husband and wife takes years to work in relationship under God to flourish.

i. A time to learn each other’s love language

ii. A time to join support each other in your struggles

iii. A time to forgive and bond after failures and misunderstandings.

iv. A time to give up something that’s always been yours…but now?

You are theirs.

c. Marriage is a covenant of sacrificial love that hold beauty from within.

i. Marriage is a covenant, not a contract

ii. It is a commitment for life, and love.

iii. Marriage is a demonstration of God’s love for us.

2. Marriage is under dire attack today from the enemy of love and truth.

a. Marriages will have struggles, but if God holds them close when under fire, God will keep them together when they fight, God always loves them...even when they are acting loveless.

b. In this world there is sin.

i. There's the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh. Greed & selfishness are at an all-time high.

ii. The Lord has given us the commitment of love to be able to come back against the law of sin and empowers us to overcome by the grace of his love...by His sacrifice for our sins in His death on the cross, and resurrection to life.

3. Love and the covenant of Marriage lasts if Christ Jesus is at the center.

a. If both lovers have a personal relationship of love with Him

b. If both lovers agree to stay together through all the trials of life, to love and respect each other.

c. If both lovers pledge themselves in mind and body sacrificially to give themselves up only for the other, because of how Christ has given Himself for us.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2016), 1 Co 13:1–6.