Marriage is important to God Knowing marriage’s importance in God’s eyes and its linkage with sexuality and the headship of the husband helps us see why Satan and the lost so passionately campaign against the sanctity of marriage, the husband’s authority, and sexual purity. By denying the truth about these things they’re able to mount a multifaceted attack on the core building block of society according to God’s design, the family. One of Satan’s goals is to grow his kingdom by deconstructing marriage and family. By denigrating marriage, including redefining it to include same sex couples, Satan sows disdain for…
What about single Christians? God’s establishment of marriage in the Garden of Eden laid the foundation for all righteous interactions between men and women. He established males and females as complementary but different, with different roles and authority, but of equal value, and gave sexual relations to bless couples in their oneness. Knowing that, we can look further into Biblical manhood and womanhood. What about Christians who remain single? Is their relationship with God diminished in any way? No. Bruce Ware rightly says: With that, we can look further into Biblical manhood and womanhood. We’ve explored the blessings and deep…
Marriage is to reflect the Trinty As a reflection of the unity of purpose within the Trinity, God gave Adam and Eve the same overriding purpose. Together they were his vice-regents over creation. In that role they were to serve and glorify him. That remains our goal today. We’re here to serve and glorify God. One purpose of marriage is marriage is as a reflection of the relationship of Christ and the church, something Paul calls a great mystery. There’s foreshadowing of the mystery in the Old Testament. In several instances God compares his relationship with the Israelites to a…
The Purpose of marriage God established marriage for several reasons. One was to provide Adam and Eve with everything they needed to receive their blessing and complete their task as his vice-regents over creation. They could receive their blessing as two complementary but different individuals coming together emotionally and sexually as one. Working together they could begin the task of subduing the earth and ruling over its creatures. Implicit in God’s appointment of Adam and Eve as his vice-regents was the understanding that it couldn’t be accomplished apart from him. Adam and Eve couldn’t fulfill their charge unless they obeyed…
The Origin or Marriage Like all of God’s laws, those regarding manhood and womanhood are part of a non contradictory and coherent unified whole. In this section we’re going to look at four factors relative to men and women that are so tightly linked and interrelated by God that they can’t rightly be considered apart from one another. They are marriage, single life, male authority, and sexuality. We’ll begin with marriage, because that’s where God laid the foundation for all righteous interactions between men and women. It’s good to look at marriage first because it’s impossible to understand the role…