Stand for Marriage Sunday! The Beauty and Message of Marriage
Marriage is a picture of:
-God’s relationship with Israel
-God’s redemption of mankind
-Christ’s relationship with believers
Jesus' teaching on marriage includes:
1. Marriage is instituted by God at the beginning – 19.3-4
2. Marriage is for man and wife, who become one flesh – 19.4-5 (offspring)
3. Marriage is a union that God joins, not the state – 19.6
4. There is no breaking this covenant – 19.7-9
Purpose of marriage:
1. Partnership/Companionship
2. Protection
3. Completion
4. Procreation/Children
5. Enjoyment/Pleasure
Enemies of marriage
1. Impurity/defilement – adultery and fornication (sex before marriage) are an abomination to God!
2. Delay
3. Neglect
4. Divorce
5. Perversion