Family Matters Part 1 Why Marrage
Todays Sermon Notes
“Family Matters” – Part 1
Why Marriage?
This series applies to everyone because ____________ of all Americans will be married at some point before they reach age 55.
Marriage isn’t just for the ___________________.
Marriage isn’t just for the ___________________.
Big Idea: Marriage is God’s _____________________ of His desired ___________________ to mankind.
This doesn’t mean that those who are not married are _____________ _____________ citizens in the kingdom.
The entire Bible uses marriage __________________ to describe God’s relationship to His people.
Throughout the centuries the church has been a poor ____________________ of God’s plan for His people.
Three Key Areas
1. God seeks relationships with __________________________.
Genesis 2:24
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24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
God desires husbands and wives to be one with __________ _________ and God desires you and me to be one with ______________.
2 Corinthians 5:17, John 17:20- 21
2 Corinthians 5:17
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17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!
John 17:20-21
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Jesus Prays for All Believers
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
2. God seeks relationships with ________________________.
God’s desire for marriage is for a ___________________.
____________ of people between the ages of 18 and 29 expect their marriages to last a lifetime.
In the midst of much __________________ regarding marriage, young people are overwhelmingly _________________ about their own marriage potential.
The church’s job is to ____________ people to God’s high standard for marriage and yet not ___________________ those who do not meet that standard.
There is no such thing as a _________________ from Jesus.
3. God seeks relationships with ____________________.
Husbands are called to _____________ their wives in a way that is not _________________ for them.
Wives are called to ______________ their husbands in a way that is not _________________ for them.
The sacrifice involved in marriage is meant to _______________ the sacrifice involved in a relationship with God.
Marriage pictures the _________________ we are to have with God, the ___________________ of our relationship with God and the shared _____________________ that comes through a relationship with God.