God’s Blueprint for Marriage

Marriage Seminar:        God’s Blueprint for Marriage

¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”…  ²¹ So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. ²² And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. ²³ Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” ²⁴ Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. ²⁵ And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. (Genesis 2:18,21-25)

Oneness is the goal of marriage, and married couples should strive and endeavor to be one.

 ²⁸ And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. ²⁹ They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, ³¹ foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. ³² Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. (Romans 1:28-32)

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)

FUNDAMENTAL LESSONS FOR A STRONG BIBLICAL MARRIAGE:

1. Marriage is a covenant bond (a commitment to oneness)
2. Marriage requires physical and spiritual compatibility (necessary for completeness)
3. Marriage thrives when people submit to the lordship of God (divine authority)
4. The word of God forms and shapes us for healthy marriage
5. The word of God is the solid foundation upon which we build and sustain marriage
6. The ways of the world lead to destruction (Psalm 1)