Godly Homes in an Ungodly World (2)

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Godly Homes in an Ungodly World (2)

• The Act of Marriage

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In our last study

• Why this study
• The home in our society
• Characteristics of a godly home?
• TODAY The Act of Marriage

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What is Marriage?

• a. A social institution under which a man and
  woman establish their decision to live as husband
  and wife by legal commitments, religious
  ceremonies, etc. b. a similar institution
  involving partners of the same gender. Random
  House Dictionary

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What is Marriage?

• Legal the state of being united to a person of
  the opposite sex as husband or wife in a legal,
  consensual, and contractual relationship
  recognized and sanctioned by and dissolved only
  by law.Websters Legal Dictionary (1996)

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What is Marriage?

• Biblical the union of a man and a woman as
  husband and wife, which becomes the foundation
  for a home and family.Nelsons Bible Dictionary

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What is Marriage?

• Biblical For this reason a man shall leave his
  father and mother and be joined to his wife, and
  the two shall become one flesh'? So then, they
  are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what
  God has joined together, let not man separate."
  Matt. 195-6, cf. Gen. 224

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What is Marriage?

• Instituted by God ordained by Him. As the home
  goes, so goes society the church
• It is a covenant an agreement entered into
  willingly seriously
• The beginning of a new home unit

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The Purpose of Marriage

• To provide needed human companionship
• Gen. 218-25 not good that man be alone.
• One of basest needs of society Eccl. 49-12

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The Purpose of Marriage

• To provide needed human companionship
• The marriage relationship develops a bond that
  fulfills this need abundantly.
• Is your home lonely?

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The Purpose of Marriage

• To propagate the human race
• Gen. 128 Be fruitful and multiply
• Society today does not see marriage as important
  to accomplish this.
• Consider homosexuality Rom. 126-27

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The Purpose of Marriage

• To prevent sexual immorality
• We have a sexual desire. It is God given and
  good.
• BUT it is reserved for marriage!Heb. 134, 1
  Cor. 72-5

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The Purpose of Marriage

• To prevent sexual immorality
• What about premarital relations?
• While society promotes such it is SINFUL and
  FILTH!Heb. 134, Eph. 55, 1 Cor. 615-20

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The Purpose of Marriage

• To develop an atmosphere for rearing children
• Prov. 226, Eph. 64, Titus 24-5
• The ideal home environment is a father and
  mother

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The Purpose of Marriage

• To develop an atmosphere for rearing children
• This too is under assault in our society. 40
  of children being raised without a father. No
  father 70 of long-term prison inmates raised
  without a father. 3 times more likely to fail
  school, need psychiatric treatment, commit
  suicide. Horn Bush, Fathers, Marriage and
  Welfare Reform, 1997.

Marriage provides a stable environment for
raising children and drastically increases the
chance of success!
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The Purpose of Marriage

• To help each other develop spiritually
• We need help getting to heaven
• If marriage is founded upon a relationship with
  Christ, we will be closer to one another

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The Purpose of Marriage

• To help each other develop spiritually
• Many marriages do not begin with this goal.
• 2 Cor. 614-15, Eph. 522-32, 1 Pet. 37

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• May we seek to build healthy marriages that
  magnify God!