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Marital/Child Raising Tax Breaks
How many of you have paid your taxes this year?
If you are married and/or have children, you probably got a pretty decent tax break.
Turn and talk to one another about this...
Why do you figure the federal government gives tax breaks for marriage and for children?
Point One: The federal government gives tax breaks for marriage and child raising because the creation and stability of family is central to societal health.
If the federal government can figure that out, how much more should we understand it in the church!
What Is Marriage?
Early On…Contractual and Transactional
Was not withoput love.
Later we read that Isaac loved Rebecca.
Was not without love.
Later we read that Isaac loved Rebekah.
But it was not compatibility, relationally, and even necessarily spiritually driven.
Marriage was primarily contract focused.
Jesus returned marriage to its spiritual meaning…Covenantal.
What Jesus so often did in his time on earth, was return the real meaning to things.
Matthew 19:
He healed on the Sabbath because the Sabbath wasn’t about the rule, but about the Spirit of the rule.
Reminded people that salvation
Reminded people that marriage wasn’t about contracts, but about a covenant made between a man, a woman, and God.
What do you think Jesus might say about the way we tend to see marriage today?
How about your marriage?
Point Two: God wants in marriage for love, devotion, and spiritual intimacy to be so deep, that the bond is unbreakable.
Transparency = Intimacy
Do you see that theme in marriage today?
Do you see that theme in your marriage?
Let’s talk about how we get there.
How?
Transparency = Intimacy
Cannot tell you how many times I have spoken with people who broken the bonds of covenant in marriage because they were afraid to be transparent with their spouse.
Odd dynamic.
We very often get married with the idea that the person makes us feel good.
Also carry with us this weight that the other person cannot walk with us through our baggage.
In marriage, intimacy is created when we are honest, and when we pray together in that honesty.
1 Cor 13:
Point Three: The single best way to create a spiritual bond in marriage is to be transparent, and to pray together about everything.
I like to think of this as creating space in marriage.
Rather than being quick to take offense, to feel threatened, or to be angry, we recognize that we are both married to a sinner, and we are also a sinner.
As such, we are patient, kind, humble, truthful.
It protects, trusts, hopes, and perseveres...
If we can be both transparent, and a spouse, we can then take the not so good in marriage to the foot of the cross in shared prayer.
Point Four: Transparency trusts in God’s power, not our power.
We only see the power of us.
Point Five: Phrases that should be regular parts of your conversation with each other...
I’m scared
I’m tempted
I’m sad
I’m hopeful
Hope
Recall a conversation with an Eastern Orthodox priest.
“Tears are ok for repentance.
But too many tears point to despair.”
Transparency isn’t designed to be a hopeless enterprise.
To give voice to everything in marriage is to actually speak of trust that God is going to work an amazing, and great thing in marriage!
It is to trust that God is bigger than circumstances.
That God will be there in the joys, and in the valleys.
that we may not see a way, but god will always make a way.
Christian marriage is, in the end, the msot hopeful enterprise of all the things we can experience on earth because...
Two Christian people who trust enough to share everything in prayer, can get through anything.
Anything.
Conclusion: God’s design for marriage is that it would be better than good.
God wants marriage that is Godly.
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