Sunday, May 25, 2025

“God’s Purpose For Marriage” Pt 2

Hebrews 13:4 NKJV

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled;

but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Ephesians 5:31-33 NKJV

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and

be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ

and the church. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular

so love his own wife as himself,

and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

What is God’s purpose for marriage?

1. To procreate and produce godly seed on the earth.

Malachi 2:15 ESV

Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their

union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring..

The family was created before the church.

Biblical marriage is a union between a man and a woman

before God

Biblical marriage is a blood covenant not a contract.

2. To flee or to avoid sexual immorality.

I Corinthians 7:2 NKJV

Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality,

let each man have his own wife, and let each woman

have her own husband.

Seek, embrace, live, communicate, and honor Jesus and the

Truth of the Word of God in all we do.

3. To Make Us One Flesh

Mark 10:8-9 NKJV

The two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two

but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together,

let not man separate.”

We celebrate and enjoy our sexuality within the boundaries of

marriage.

Sex between a man and a woman in the covenant of

marriage is the only sex blessed by God.

4. A Model of Christ and the Church. Ephesians 5

What is the Marriage Mystery?

The husband is the type of Christ and the wife is the type of

the church.

Every mystery of God was not hidden from us but hidden for

us.

Marriage is patterned after Christ’s covenant to his church.

When we lower the standard of marriage we show the

ultimate disrespect to Jesus Christ and His death on the

cross.

God separated a singular created entity into two uniquely

connected but different beings.