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Series Intro: The modern family is in trouble!
Divorce is rampant.
Dissatisfaction between mates is at an all-time high.
Parents have lost their way and they are watching their children lose theirs as well.
The modern family has lost its moorings.
There was a time, and it was not so long ago, that most families acknowledged God, His Word and His right to rule in the home.
That day has long since past.
The family needs to be brought back to God.
The family needs to be deeply anchored in the things of God if it is to survive.
The modern family is in a mess.
There are examples here and there of godly families in action, but most families are adrift on a tossing sea of immorality, selfishness and discontentment.
The modern family can be saved!
When families know and honor the unchanging principles of the Word of God in their lives, they can survive.
Families can even thrive in this world, if they are given the right tools, the right encouragement and the right path to follow.
Sermon Intro: Sometime back, a magazine printed an article about saved people who survived life and death situations.
That article revealed the truth that when the end of life seemed certain; people’s thoughts would invariably turn to their family and to God.
In that article there was a story about a man who shared his experience.
He said that he was having some difficulties on his job and it appeared that he might even lose his job.
He was called by the CEO of the company to come to headquarters.
He made the plane arrangements and was greatly troubled about it.
He could think of nothing but his job and his job security.
He got on the plane and as the plane was making its way to the city where the home company was located, all he could think about was his job and what he was going to encounter when he met with the CEO.
In the course of the flight, the plane got into some very serious trouble.
It appeared that it was going down and that he might lose his life.
He says when that occurred, suddenly everything that had been a concern to him, every worry related to his job situation, disappeared and his thoughts were dominated by thoughts concerning his family.
He said that when you really get down to it, the bottom line is not so much your social connections, it is not so much your financial circumstances, it is not even so much your job.
What really matters when you get to the bottom line is family.
The Bible says in 1 Tim.
5:8, “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
We need to understand the importance of working toward having strong family relationships.
Of course, the great authority on family is the Lord Jesus Christ.
I have read His words today.
These words reveal to us that when it comes to marriage and the family, Jesus Christ is the Great Home Builder.
He is the Great Home Improvement Expert!
We know also that the devil is the great home wrecker.
The devil has a number of tools in his arsenal to try to destroy family life.
• Divorce is an enemy of the family.
Nearly one out of every two marriages in our country end up in divorce.
• Alcohol is an enemy of the family.
Almost every situation where there is marital discord and family problems, you will find that alcohol is a feature.
• Materialism is an enemy of the family.
In our families we have an abundance of material things, but that doesn’t seem to have made us very happy.
We have more cars and yet less compatibility.
We have more gadgets and yet we have less grace.
We have more luxuries and yet we have less love.
We are finding out that an accumulation of material things does not necessarily give you a stable, happy family.
So Jesus is the Great Home Builder, and you will notice in verse 4 that He said to them, “Have you not read …” Then He quotes from Genesis, chapter 2.
He is referring here to the formation of the original marriage and the original family.
The Bible says that God brought all the animals to Adam so that Adam could give them a name, Gen. 2:18–20.
All the animals came before Adam and he gave them the name he wanted them to have.
This process was not to see how smart Adam was.
God used this to build within Adam a desire for a mate.
When Adam, saw all the animals and their respective mates, it dawned on him that he was alone in the world.
He had God, but there was not another person with whom Adam could share his life.
As God said in verse 18, this was a situation that was “not good”.
God created this desire within Adam for a mate and God satisfied that desire.
In verses 21–25, the Bible tells us how God formed the woman from Adam’s rib and gave her to the man.
So, God planned, organized and conducted the first wedding.
The animals were the witnesses.
On that day, God brought Adam and Eve together in holy matrimony.
In Matt.
19:4–6, the Lord Jesus Christ quotes from that Gen. 2. He makes a strange statement.
He mentions it twice in the verses I have read to you.
He says in verse 5, He says “They twain shall be one flesh.”
Then He says it again in verse 6. “They are no more twain, but one flesh.”
This is the same thing God says in Gen. 2:24.
God uses some very strange math here.
The Word of God says that God took one man and one woman.
He put them together and they became one.
One plus one equals one.
That is some very strange math indeed!
Now, if you want to carry out a real Home Improvement project, then you are going to have to do it God’s way.
To do that you must understand the mathematics of marriage, that one plus one equals one.
If you want to have a fantastic marriage and family, then God says, “Do the math.”
I want to do the math today.
I’m talking primarily about the husband and wife relationship.
If you are going to have a strong family and a strong relationship between parent and child and siblings in the family, you first of all have to have a strong marriage relationship.
God says the way to have a strong family relationship is to understand One Plus One Equals One.
As we do the math today, I want to to show you the ways God has made the husband and the wife one in Him.
I am sure that we have some serious math lovers with us today, so let’s do a little math and look at the ways God has made us one.
I want to preach on the subject One Plus One Equals One.
I. ONE PLUS ONE EQUALS ONE PHYSICALLY
Man was made in the image of God, Gen. 1:26–27.
The Bible teaches us that God is a trinity.
That is, God is a Godhead made up of three Persons.
He is Father.
He is the Son and He is the Holy Spirit., God is a trinity.
Man is also a trinity.
Every person is made up of body, soul and spirit, 1 Thes.
5:23; Gen. 2:7 says, “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
God made the human body; He breathed the spirit into it; and man became a living soul.
That one verse tells us that there are three aspects to every human being.
There is a part of us that is physical.
There is a part of us that is psychological.
There is a part of us that is spiritual.
When a marriage takes place as God intended, the man and woman becomes one physically.
They become one psychologically.
They become one spiritually.
We want to begin by exploring the physical portion of our lives.
There is a physical union that occurs within marriage.
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