MARRIAGE AND IT'S MEANING

1. Marriage is a Picture of the Relationship between the Believer and Christ.

    Ezk.16:8, 38,  Hosea 2:19 and Ephesians 5:22-32.

2. Notice when Marriage was instituted.

    A. Before sin entered into the human race

    B. Before the earth was cursed

    C. Before man was driven from the Garden of Eden

    D. Before man was alienated from God because of sin

    E. After Adam was unable to find a help meet in the animal kingdom

3. God made a help meet for Adam by subtraction.

    A. God could have just created a woman, but God wanted a help meet that was closer

         than that. The man is not complete without the woman and the woman is not

         complete without the man.  Gen. 2:21-25, Adam recognized the woman is part of

         him. Gen. 2:23, notice also Ephesians 5:28-30.

    B. This "bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh" carries responsibility, Gen.2:24

    C. The Lord Jesus reaffirms God's law of marriage in Matt.19:1-6, Eph.5:31.

WHAT DOES MARRIAGE TEACH?

   1. Man is born into this world incomplete and deficient.

   2. Man can only find completeness in a wife.

   3. The man and his wife are an invisible unit, one flesh.

WHAT IS THE SPIRITUAL TRUTH?

   1. Man is separated from God because of sin.

   2. Man can only find completeness in Christ, Col.2:10

   3. The Believer and Christ form an invisible unit, Eph.5:30

WHAT CONSTITUTES A MARRIAGE?

   1. Although we are told to obey the laws of the land, marriage is more than a legal

       involvement.

   2. It is more than a physical union, I Cor.6:15,16

   3. Marriage is a covenant (this is important and we will deal with the matter of divorce

       later) between two people, Prov.2:17,  Malachi 2:14

When two people hold hands and repeat their marriage vows, that is teaching a Spiritual truth.

A person is saved when they repent of their sins and receives the Lord Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, John1:12