MARRIAGE

EPHESIANS 5:31 “FOR THIS REASON A MAN WILL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE UNITED WITH HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO WILL BECOME ONE FLESH.”

MY NEPHEW MARRIED A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN RECENTLY AND THE WEDDING WAS PRISTINE. THE SITE WAS ELEVATED ABOVE THE SURROUNDING FARMLAND AND THEIR WAS NO EVIDENCE OF CIVILIZATION. WE WERE SURROUNDED BY BLUE SKIES, A FEW CLOUDS AND WE FELT LIKE GOD WAS WATCHING THE CEREMONY AS HE VIEWED FROM THE HEAVENS

THEY RECITED THEIR VOWS. FOR BETTER OR WORSE, RICHER OR POORER, IN SICKNESS AND HEALTH, LOVE AND CHERISH, AND AS LONG AS WE BOTH SHALL LIVE. THEN THEY EXCHANGED THE RINGS AND WERE PRONOUNCED HUSBAND AND WIFE, MR. AND MRS. SMITH (NOT THE REAL NAME).

SO, WHAT’S NEXT FOR THESE YOUNG NEWLYWEDS? SO HOW DO THEY ABIDE BY THE VOWS THEY JUST PROMISED TO EACH OTHER?

THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY…..JESUS! THE ONLY WAY TO GOD IS THROUGH THE SON!

JOHN 14:6 “I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE, NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME.”

ON ACCEPTANCE OF JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR, WE ARE GRANTED A REMARKABLE GIFT FROM GOD…. THE HOLY SPIRIT!!

EPHESIANS 1:13 WHEN YOU BELIEVED, YOU WERE MARKED WITH A SEAL, THE PROMISED HOLY SPIRIT!

THE HOLY SPIRIT THRIVES TO PRODUCE CHARACTER TRAITS IN EVERY BELIEVER.

GALATIANS 5:22 BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS AND SELF CONTROL.

SO WHY DO WE NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT??

ROMANS 8:5-6 THOSE WHO LIVE ACCORDING TO THE FLESH HAVE THEIR MINDS SET ON WHAT THE FLESH DESIRES; BUT THOSE WHO LIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SPIRIT HAVE THEIR MINDS SET ON WHAT THE SPIRIT DESIRES. THE MIND GOVERNED BY THE FLESH IS DEATH, BUT THE MIND GOVERNED BY THE SPIRIT, IS LIFE AND PEACE.

WE ARE NOT CAPABLE OF LOVING OUR SPOUSES THE WAY WE ARE SUPPOSED TO WITHOUT JESUS IN OUR LIVES. THE CLOSER WE COME TO GOD, THE CLOSER WE COME TO OUR SPOUSE.

JOHN 8:12 JESUS SAID, “I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. WHOEVER FOLLOWS ME WILL NEVER WALK IN THE DARKNESS BUT WILL HAVE THE LIGHT OF LIFE.”