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What You Should Know Before Getting Married Christ and the Church: Living Symbol of Marriage Why Christians Should Not Obtain a State Marriage License Biblical Reasons For Marriage and to Stay Married
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and the Church: Living Symbol of and Marriage God instituted and set aside marriage, from the world, for His purpose. Marriage was created for the purpose of glorifying the relationship of Christ and His Church. Believers (Christ followers) are the church! As Christ and his Church are one body so is the husband one flesh with his wife. Marriage is submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. (21) Husband must first submit his will to Christ so that he can properly and voluntarily love his wife in the proper ways. (The way Christ loves the church, believers, his followers, disciples). A husband cannot love his wife in the ways of God if he himself is not a man of God. The man needs the Captain to help steer his family in the right direction. Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. (22-23) God designed for the husband to be the spiritual head of the wife and a wife should acknowledge her husbands headship position through voluntary submission. A wife should not be controlled to submit to her husband--it is a voluntary act just as is a individuals submission to Christ is a voluntary act. If a husband were to make his wife submit to him then it is not submission any more and a husband is misusing his headship position. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. (24) Who is the church? God's people are the church. The body of believers, the church (Christ followers) are to love and serve God with all of their heart, mind, and soul. This is the way a woman is to submit to her husband in everything. For this step to be accomplished, a husband must first submit his own life to Christ so he will WANT to love and care for his wife as Christ does the church. Then the wife should want to voluntarily submit to her husbands spiritual lead. Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it. That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word. That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish. (25-27) Christ sacrificed his life for our life and that is how much He loves the church of believers--His followers. How did Christ serve the disciples? Jesus washed their feet and taught them in love and servitude? This is the way a husband is to love his wife. A husband washes his wife and makes her holy, without blemish for God through the Word of God. This is why it is called spiritual lead. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man yet ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth, even as the Lord does the church: (28-29) Marriage is a sacred and holy relationship that needs tender loving self-sacrificing care every day! How should a husband love his wife? 1) A husband should be
willing to sacrifice everything for his wife's well being Christ cleansed the church by the washing of baptism. It is God's Word that cleanses us. A husband is to cleanse his wife with the word through his actions. This is why it is very important that a husband FIRST submit his life to Jesus Christ so his wife will WANT to submit to him!! For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. (30) The body of believers are united with Christ in marriage. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. (31) The one flesh of marriage means caring for each other as you would care for yourself by helping each other become all you can be in the Lord Jesus Christ. God gave Adam and Eve the gift of marriage--they were created perfect for each other. Gods institution of marriage has three basic aspects. 1) The man leaves his parents
and promises himself to his wife Strong marriages include all three of the above aspects. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. (32) Nevertheless let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. (33) If a husband submits his life to Christ he will not have a difficult time loving his wife in the ways of the Lord, and if a wife is loved from her Godly husband the way Christ has shown his love for his people, the church, then she will not have any problems submitting to her husband. This is the way marriage is intended to be. It is God's design and ideal for marriage! The establishment of marriage is also found in Genesis 2:24 and Matthew 19: 4-6 ******************************************* Marriage is a
sanctified and holy union between a man and a woman and is set apart from the world
for God and his purpose. The First Marriage Was Between Adam and Eve The Lord God said, “It is not good
for a man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
(Genesis 2:18) The Marriage Contract Cannot Be Broken Permanency of marriage was God’s
intention. Jesus says in no uncertain terms that marriage is a lifetime
commitment. To leave your spouse and marry another may be legal but it
is adultery in God’s eyes. God designed marriage to be
indissoluble. Marriage Can Be Recorded In Family Bible The definition of a
"license" demands that we not obtain one to marry. Black's Law
Dictionary defines "license" as, "The permission by
competent authority to do an act which without such permission, would be
illegal." We need to ask ourselves, why should it be illegal to
marry without the State's permission? More importantly, why should we
need the State's permission to participate in something that God
instituted? Marriage Is A Living Symbol of Jesus Christ and the Church …For the husband is the head of the
wife as Christ is the head of the Church, his body, of which he is the
Savior. Now as the Church submits to Christ, so also wives’ should
submit to their husbands in everything. (Ephesians 5:23-24) ************************************* |
