BUILDING THE HOME

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BUILDING THE HOME

• A Series of Lessons

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BUILDING THE HOME

• Consult the Architect

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Introduction

• Home and family are in serious decline
• Marriages are falling apart
• Difference in home and house
• Use analogy of building a house, apply to home
• What if your house burned to the ground?
• Lose THINGS
• Still have home, family, memories, character
• Today 3 Demands of the Architect

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Text Genesis 221-24

• 21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall
  on Adam, and he slept and He took one of his
  ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22
  Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from
  man He made into a woman, and He brought her to
  the man. 23 And Adam said "This is now bone of
  my bones And flesh of my flesh he shall be
  called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man."
  24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and
  mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall
  become one flesh.

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SEVERANCE

• LEAVE FATHER AND MOTHER
• Cut the cord with parents
• Parents cut the apron strings
• Children no longer dependent
• Love, respect, honor, seek advice
• At wedding father gives away the bride

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SEVERANCE

• LEAVE FATHER AND MOTHER
• How old is she, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?
• How old is she charming Billy?
• Three times six and four times seven
• Twenty-eight and eleven.
• She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother.
• NOTE She is 85 years old.

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SEVERANCE

• LEAVE FATHER AND MOTHER
• Problems will arise in every relationship
• DON'T call your parents
• CALL your spouse
• In argument some say, Do what I want or I will
  go home to mama.

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PERMANENCE

• JOINED TO HIS WIFE
• KJV - cleave
• Cleave bound, glued, stick together
• Greek word means to glue, join together
• Winston Churchill - Wars are not won by
  evacuation.

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UNITY

• BECOME ONE
• Not instant Work at it, learn to become one
• Blend your
• Temperaments
• Gifts
• Habits
• Backgrounds
• Values

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UNITY

• BECOME ONE
• Unity is not a duplicate, a clone
• Uniformity donut machine, assembly line
• Unity 2 people who blend into each other

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The Floor Plan

• Proverbs 243-4
• 3 Through wisdom a house is built, And by
  understanding it is established
• 4 By knowledge the rooms are filled With all
  precious and pleasant riches.

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The Floor Plan

• BUILT WITH WISDOM
• Built
• To construct, repair, assemble, put together
• Building takes time and energy
• Wisdom
• Seeing with discernment
• Use your common sense

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The Floor Plan

• BUILT WITH WISDOM
• ESTABLISHED WITH UNDERSTANDING
• Establish
• To erect, put upright position
• Set the foundation and build from there
• Understanding
• Responding with insight
• Seek to understand each other

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The Floor Plan

• BUILT WITH WISDOM
• ESTABLISHED WITH UNDERSTANDING
• FILLED WITH KNOWLEDGE
• Filled
• Overflowing
• More than just getting by
• Knowledge
• Learning with perception

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Final Thought

• Charlie Shedd, author
• Marriage . . . is not so much finding the right
  person as it is being the right person.