PILLAR TALK Part 1: Priority

Philippians 3:13–16
…Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize…

Book – Four Laws of Love

1. Marriage is the safest relationship on the earth when God’s laws for love are honored.

2. You have a 100% chance of happiness and success in marriage when you honor God’s laws of love.

Genesis 2:24-25
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

Leave = to depart from, leave behind, leave, let alone

LAWS
God knows us through relationship.
God rules the universe through laws.

Mark 11:23

“Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.”

Contract protects my rights and limits my responsibilities

Covenant sacrifices my rights and states my responsibilities

Pillar 1 : Your Marriage must be a Priority

Matthew 19:3-6
Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?” “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

“In love” = infatuated: marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness

“For most of history it was inconceivable that people would choose their mates on the basis of something as fragile and irrational as love.”
~Stephanie Coontz

Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Prioritize Love over In Love