Part 3 | Be Married
From Genesis 1-2
Four facing Marriage:
1. The Pursuit of .
2. Misconception of .
3. Tolerance of .
4. Idolatry of .
📖 Genesis 1:27-28 ESV So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
In God, has a world-shaping .
How to be married:
1. Consider it .
📖 Genesis 1:28 ESV And God blessed them.
📖 Proverbs 18:22 ESV He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
How to be married:
2. Understand its .
A. Marriage is for .
📖 Genesis 1:28 ESV And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth…”
B. Marriage is for .
📖 Genesis 1:28 ESV And God said to them, “…fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
C. Marriage is for .
📖 Genesis 2:18 ESV Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
📖 Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 ESV Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
D. Marriage is for .
📖 Genesis 2:24 ESV Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
How to be married:
3. serious .
📖 Genesis 3:16 ESV To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”
📖 Ephesians 5:22-23 ESV Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
📖 Ephesians 5:25 ESV Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
How to be married:
4. Serve the .
📖 Genesis 2:24 ESV Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
📖 Ephesians 5:31-33 ESV “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Sermon in a Sentence:
Marriage is not about but rather how glorify God in , surrendering our to God’s and representing on the .
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