Promises: Marriage
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Promises: Marriage
I am convinced that if we are willing to go to the God kind of level in our relationships, then we will experience the God level of success.
Promises: Marriage
Contract is when we protect our rights... and limit our responsibility.
Promises: Marriage
Genesis 2:21-25 GNT
Then the LORD God made the man fall into a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping, he took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the flesh. He formed a woman out of the rib and brought her to him. Then the man said, “At last, here is one of my own kind— Bone taken from my bone, and flesh from my flesh. ‘Woman’ is her name because she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one. The man and the woman were both naked, but they were not embarrassed.
3 Rights We Give Up
1) The right of PRIORITY - I give you the right to be first priority in my life, and I will protect that place against anything you even perceive as competition with you.
3 Rights We Give Up
2) Right of Ownership - I give you the right to co-own and co-administrate everything in my life.
Right of Ownership
1 Corinthians 7:4 NIV
The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife.
3 Rights We Give Up
3) Right of Privacy - I give you free un-hindered access to every part of my life... transparency to the highest level!
Right of Privacy
John 15:15 NIV
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
Promises: Marriage
Ephesians 5:22-33 NIV
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
3 Things We Pick Up
1) LOVE Unconditionally - I assume the responsibility to love you according to the standard of Christ’s love for me.
Love Unconditionally
- Contract is Conditional - Promise says I am bound to you regardless of your behavior.
Love Unconditionally
CONTRACT takes both parties to agree - but PROMISE only takes one. I’m not basing PROMISE on what you do - I am basing PROMISE on what I have decided.
3 Things We Pick Up
2) HONOR Respectfully - Honor says I respect you because you are God’s creation.
Honor Respectfully
1 Peter 3:5-7 NIV
For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear. Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
3 Things We Pick Up
3) SUBMIT Mutually - Submission isn’t something we demand from our husbands or wives. It is something we give.