Marriage

 

Marriage

 

In the beginning GOD created everything that exists! He created everything that is in the Heavens, He created everything that is in the earth and He created everything that is in the seas. On the sixth day the last thing GOD created was mankind, He created mankind in His own image and He created them male and female. To create them He formed dust of the earth into the form He wanted mankind to have and then He breathed into that form His breath, which is the breath of Life and mankind was a living spirit, soul and body. GOD called them Adam and placed them in His Garden in Eden.  GOD did not want Adam to be alone so He created from the ground every living animal; then GOD brought them all to Adam to see what he would call them; but there was no companion for Adam. So GOD put Adam to sleep and took from him a rib. GOD took Adam’s rib and formed a female. When Adam awoke he saw the female and said, “Woo-man, at last! “This is now flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone and I shall call her Woman.” This is why a man is to leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they are to become one flesh.”

 

The statement for Genesis 2:24, “This is why a man is to leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they are to become one flesh.” is the institution of Marriage, the relationship between GOD and a husband and a wife to fulfill GOD’s purpose for humanity. Marriage is a covenant and each participant is all in, marriage is a three way relationship where each one is committed one hundred percent. As a Christian we become One with The Father, One with The Son and One with The SPIRIT – GOD is One and in CHRIST JESUS we are One with GOD. Now in Marriage a Christian man and a Christian woman become one as husband and wife so that they are now one in the flesh and One in The SPIRIT.

 

GOD is the initiator of the marriage covenant and when a man and a woman enter into it as a husband and wife where they become one flesh they are restored to GOD’s original creation of mankind as one being.

 

A common misconception is that GOD made Eve from Adam’s rib because none of the animals were a good helper for Adam. While it is true that none of the animals were a good helper for Adam, it is wrong to believe that GOD created Eve separately. He had already created Eve when He made Adam He had made them in His image as male and female (Genesis 1:27). He only separated them by taking Adam’s rib and formed her and made them two separate beings; in marriage He reunites us as one so that we can fulfill His purpose in the earth as it is in Heaven!

 

This is why GOD makes such a big deal about fidelity in marriage! It is a covenant between GOD the husband and wife! “In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if some of them do not believe the Word, they will be won over by your conduct, without your says anything…the same way Sarah obeyed Abraham, honoring him as her lord. You are her daughters, if you do what is right and do not succumb to fear. You husbands, likewise, conduct your married lives with understanding. Although your wife may be weaker physically, you should respect her as a fellow-heir of the gift of life. IF YOU DON’T YOUR PRAYERS WILL BE BLOCKED.” 1 Peter 3:1-7 (Study Ephesians 5:21-6:4 on the marriage and family structure.)

 

The husband and wife may be a couple physically but they are one in the flesh (spirit, soul, body) according to Genesis 2:21-25. That is why GOD is against every sexual sin; fornication, adultery, homosexuality and bestiality! Every sexual activity physically and emotionally ties people together. Every sexual sin destroys the marriage covenant! “…Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for The LORD, and The LORD for the body…Shall I take the members of CHRIST ad make them members of a harlot? Certainly not!...But he who is joined to The LORD is One Spirit with Him. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body…” 1 Corinthians 6:12-20, study the whole passage. “Marriage is honorable in every respect; and in particular, sex within marriage is pure. But GOD will indeed punish fornicators and adulterers.” Hebrews 13:4

 

Study Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18, 24:1-4; Matthew 5:27-32, 19:1-12; Mark 10:1-12; Romans 1; Galatians 5:16-26; 1 Corinthians 7; 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8; Revelation 21:6-8