MARRIAGE
Sunday Morning:
July 21, 2002
Text: Hebrews 13:4
"Marriage
is
honourable
in all, and the
bed
undefiled:
but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge."
"In ancient days, marriages were arranged by the parents. Our modern
“system” of two people falling in love and getting married would be foreign to
their thinking and their culture. In that day, a man and woman got married and
then learned to love each other; they expected to stay together for life.
Today, a man and woman learn to love each other, then they get married, and
everybody hopes they’ll stay together long enough to raise the children."
Warren Wiersbe.
1 Corinthians 3:12 "Now if any man build upon
this foundation gold, silver,
precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;"
1 Peter 1:19
"But with the precious blood
of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:"
1 Timothy 4:1-3 "Now the Spirit speaketh
expressly, that
in the latter times
some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and
doctrines of devils; 2.
Speaking lies
in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 3.
Forbidding to marry,
and commanding to abstain from meats, . . ."
John 2:2 "And both
Jesus
was
called,
and
his
disciples,
to the
marriage."
MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB
Revelation 19:7-8 "Let us be glad and rejoice,
and give honour to him: for the
marriage
of
the
Lamb
is come, and
his
wife
hath made herself ready. 8. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed
in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of
saints."
DIVIDED ATTENTION
1 Corinthians 7:33-34
"But he that is married careth for the things
that are of the world, how he may please
his wife. 34. There is difference also between a wife and a
virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the
Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she
that is married careth for the things of the world,
how she may please her husband."
1 Thessalonians 4:3-4 "For
this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should
abstain
from
fornication:
4. That every one of you should
know how to possess his vessel
in
sanctification
and
honour;"
1 Corinthians 7:9
"But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to
marry than to burn (with passion)."
Genesis 2:24 "Therefore shall a
man
leave his father and his mother, and shall
cleave unto his
wife:
and they shall be
one flesh."
Genesis 24:3-4 "And I will make thee swear
by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou
shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 4.
But
thou shalt go unto my country, and
to my kindred,
and take a
wife
unto my son Isaac."
2 Corinthians 6:14-15 "Be ye
not unequally yoked together with unbelievers [apistov, not of faith, not pleasing God]:
for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what
communion hath light with darkness? 15. And what concord hath Christ with
Belial? or what part hath he that believeth [pistov,
pleasing God by faith] with an infidel [apistov, not of faith, not pleasing God]?"
Amos 3:3
"Can two
walk
together,
except they be
agreed?"
1 Corinthians 11:3 "But I would have you know,
that the
head of every man is Christ; and the
head
of the woman is the man (who you can submit to); and the
head
of Christ is God."
1 Peter 3:7
"Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge,
giving honour (price, value) unto the wife, as unto the
weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of
the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered."
1 Corinthians 7:10-16
"And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not
the wife depart from her husband:
11. But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled
to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
12. But to the rest speak I, not the
Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not [not of
faith], and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not
put her away.
13. And the woman which hath an husband
(a child of God) that believeth not [not of faith],
and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her
not leave him.
14. For the unbelieving [not
of faith] husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving [not
of faith] wife (a child of God) is sanctified by the husband: else were your children (who are in the
family of God) unclean; but now are they holy.
15. But if the unbelieving [not
of faith] depart, let him depart. A brother (seeking to do the
will of the Father) or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but
God hath called us to peace.
16. For what knowest thou, O wife,
whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man,
whether thou shalt save thy wife?"
Matthew 19:9 "And I say unto you,
Whosoever shall put away his wife,
except
it be for fornication,
and shall marry another, committeth
adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth
commit
adultery."
Deuteronomy 22:22-24 "If a man be found lying
with a woman married to an husband, then they shall
both
of
them
die,
both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away
evil from Israel."
1 Corinthians 7:39
"The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth;
but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married
to whom she will; only in the Lord."
1 Corinthians 7:11 "But and if she depart, let
her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband
put away his wife."