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More than any other time, it is this time that the sacredness and sanctity of Marriage should be taught and should be preached.

More than any other time, the sancticty of marriage has been lost in the society and culture that we live in.

As we are gathered here to celebrate and be part of the union between Don-Don and Rebecca, we have to understand and realise why marriage is still honorable, and why God will bring to judgement those who descrate the sanctity of holy matrimony.

god expects marriage to be honorable among all people, not just church people but among all people, marriage is a sacred institution.

1. Marriage is instituted by God in the begining of creation.

Adam was not the one that taught about his need for a wife and came up with idea of marriage.

God was the one that taught about it and gave him Eve and and united them and made them one flesh.

This shows us that Marriage come 100 percent from God.

It is divine, it is something that God gave to humanity

2. Marriage (union between one man and woman under God) is honorouble because it forshadows the union between Christ and the Church.

Ephesians 5:22–32 (NKJV)

22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.

24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,

27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.

29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.

30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.

31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Before we even look at the instruction of how a husband or wife should behave we must understand the mystery spoken of by Paul

That “we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.”

How are we members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones

How did you did you partake of your fathers nature,

By being born of our natural father we reflect their image and likeness, Their dna is in every cell of our body.

That is how we know they are our parents.

To be memebrs of Christ body, of his flesh we have to be born of God

John 3:3–7 (NKJV)

3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old?

Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

2 Cor 5:17 “17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

The kingdom of God is for his church and his bride.

Adam is a shadow of Christ and the woman is a shadow of the Church.

When God was uniting the two in marriage is was forshadowing the union that was to come in the fullness of time between himself and the Church.

Marriage is honorouble because it involves God, God himself is going to get married.

He is currently preparing his bride the Church and one day he will come and take her to his wedding.

The invitation is acts 2:38, and we accept it by obeying it.

Marriage should refelct this union between Christ and the Church

The model for what a husband should be like is Christ and the model for what wife should be like is the Church.

We don’t get our ideas about marriage from the world but From God because it was he who created it and established it.

Husbands Should emulate Christ

husband should be the head of the wife, Meaning he should be the leader.

The one that leads the houshold which includes his wife.

He must lead his wife as Christ leads his Church, which is by Example.

Husband must love his wife to the point of laying down his own life for her

Example Adam who put the blame on his wife to save his own skin

Christ took our sins upon himself.

1 Peter 3:18 “18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,”

Wife must submit to her husband

Christ also submit to the church out of love.

When we pursue to reflect this type of relationship that CHrist has with his church, the blessing of God is going to be upon that union.

Becuase you are honoring God in your marriage.

When Brother Don-Don and Rebecca make their vows they will be making them in Light of this understanding.

This Church is a church that honours the institution of marriage.