Realtionships with our Significant others

Intro

How many people in here are Married?

How Many of you are dating?

How many of you want to be dating?

How Many of you want to some day be married?

This is actually a huge question and I remember when In was in Jr. High I didnt think to much about these things

I think more and more it is something that is hyper focused on

Really maybe the focus is more on what type of person you want to date or marry

And thats why we must talk about it

We need to talk about what the Bible says about our realtionship with our significant other

And the fact is the Bible has a lot to say about this issue

We wont get into all of it because most of you in here are a while from actually having that relationship

BUT you can be preparing for that

Read Genesis 2:18-24

If you all remember a few weeks ago when I started this mini series in our larger series

I said I would come back to this point

This companionship is necessary for us as human

God saw that everything was Good Except for man being alone

So he fixes that problem

And if you remember I said this problem of need of companion is not something solved by animals

Believe it or not mans best friend is not a dog

Especially not cats

Mans best friend will be, is designed to be , fellow man

Just as God himself is not alone but has fellowship

So Man needs comapanions

We have some of these companions through normal friendships

I have had many good guy friends in my life

To this day I have some friends who are very close to me

BUT NO ONE IS CLOSER TO ME THEN ELISE

We have have been designed for companionship with each other

But more specifically we were designed for companionship with our spouse

Look at Genesis 2:22

Genesis 2:22–23 ESV

22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”

This is at last what I needed

Woman!!!!!!

This is the companion the one designed for me a helper

This was the intended design for this relationship

And God makes that point clear

Read Genesis 2:24

Genesis 2:24 ESV

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

For this relationship a man will leave his closest relationships as we have looked at these past couple weeks and he will form a new bond

A bond so strong that the two will become one

They will be so close that they will be indistiguishable from one another

MArk and Elise, Jesse and melissa, Kirk and yolonda, Mike and rebecca

I want to take a quick moment and adress culture here

When we talk about the wisdom that comes from the Bible

When we say that following this word is the key to a life well lived

We must look at the words said and hold those to be true

Even in the face of fierce opposition

The question has never changed a few verses later we see the serpent come on the scene and ask did God really say

Culture asks the same thing

Did God really say that a man and a women or did God really mean that

Yes thats what he said thats what he intended

Our closest earthly relationship

The only relationship that trumps all others here on earth is this relationship with our spuse

The order of importance for a life well lived is this

Our relationship to God

Our relationship to our spouse

Other relationships

This may not be the order for you yet but it will be some day

The bible is full of advice for how to act in that marriage relationship

Ephesians 5.

1 Peter 3.

Proverbs all over the place

Nagging wife

The wife is the crown of her husband