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Life’s Biggest Decisions: Marriage
*/Thesis: God cares very much about who you marry because it’s a gift that refines our character and testifies to the world of His love./*
*/Goal: Inspire people to prayerfully consider who they marry or (if they are married) change the way they relate to their spouse./*
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Introduction
Title Slide
!! A.  Synergy Series
!!! 1.    Small Group Registration
!!! 2.    Family Edition
!!!! a)    Children: Second Service Sunday Morning & Kid’s Choir
!!!! b)    Teens: Second Service Sunday Morning Small Groups
!!!! c)    Bible Studies will have Family Question Section
!!! 3.    Outreach: Next Week
!! B.  Two Week Series on Life’s Biggest Decisions
!!! 1.
Last Week: Does God care about my career?
Yes & if you missed the message, you can go to the website or subscribe through iTunes
!!! 2.    This Week: Does God care about who I marry?
!!!! a)    Tip my hand: “Yes” and I think you should want God’s involvement in the task
!!!! b)    Example
!!!!! (1)  November 2006
Tracey Edmonds (movie producer) start dating Eddie Murphy (comedian & actor)
!!!!! (2)  April 2007
Eddie Murphy’s former girlfriend (Spice Girl: Melanie Brown) proves by DNA testing (because Eddie wouldn’t accept responsibility) that he is the father of her baby (her people called his people because he hadn’t even visited the baby)
Tracey’s good with all that
 
!!!!! (3)  July 2007: Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds engage
!!!!! (4)  New Year’s Day 2008
!!!!!! (a)  Private Island off of Bora Bora among the French Polynesian Islands
!!!!!! (b)  Tracey walked barefoot down the beach at sunset for the ceremony in a custom designed dress
!!!!!! (c)  Eddie was dressed elegantly as well while they stood in a custom designed gazebo made of 6000 shells
!!!!! (5)  January 14, 2008: Edmonds and Murphy Split
"After much consideration and discussion, we have jointly decided that we will forego having a legal ceremony as it is not necessary to define our relationship further," Murphy and Edmonds tell PEOPLE in an exclusive statement.
"While the recent symbolic union in Bora Bora was representative of our deep love, friendship and respect that we have for one another on a spiritual level, we have decided to remain friends.”
Trouble started at the wedding when Eddie began yelling at Tracey in front of the guest
!!!!! (6)  God cares very much about who you marry because it impacts not only your life but the lives of everyone around you.
Transition: We need to begin with the question, “Why is marriage important to God?”  Three reasons but first, prayer
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I.     Understand the Goal of Marriage
!! A.  Your Marriage Is a Testimony
Slide 1
For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church.
He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.
(Ephesians 5:25-26 NLT)
!!! 1.    God wants marriage to be a living illustration to the world of how much Christ loves His church
!!! 2.    Example
Kelly James was a 48-year-old landscape architect who loved to climb mountains.
On December 9 of 2006, he and two of his friends set out to climb Mount Hood in Welches, Oregon.
Tragically, they were caught by a sudden blizzard after reaching the summit, and forced to take shelter in a snow cave.
Kelly was able to use his cell phone to call his family and tell them what was going on, but the storm was too severe for rescue workers to operate.
All three hikers eventually perished.
In an interview with Katie Couric on the /CBS Evening News/, Kelly's widow, Karen James, demonstrated the extreme faith in Jesus Christ that had defined life for the couple.
During the interview, Couric asked if Karen was angry at all with her husband for choosing to climb in the first place.
She replied: "I'm not angry."
Impressed by the strength of Karen's faith, Couric asked if the family's confidence in God had been tested by her husband's death.
"No, it was never tested," Karen answered.
"I remember one time we were watching TV, and Kelly said to me, 'I can't wait to go to heaven.'
And I said, 'What?'
We were watching some show that had nothing to do with it.
And he said, 'Yeah, that's going to be really cool.'
And I said, "Can you hold off?
Can we wait?'
But he wasn't scared.
And so those conversations are what I hold on to."
/"Climber's Widow Tells Her Story," //CBS Evening News// (12-21-06) /
!! B.  Your Marriage Is a Refinery
!!! 1.    God Refines Our Character through Relationships
Slide 2
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.
(Hebrews 10:24 NIV)
The Concept of “Spur” – one of my Greek Dictionaries
!!!! a)    Can mean encouragement: with the implication of stimulating a change in motivation or attitude[1]
OT (1 Samuel): Elkanah  has two wives.
One bears him sons, her name is Penninah, she taunts the other wife, Hannah, relentlessly.
“Why are you crying, Hannah?” Elkanah would ask.
“Why aren’t you eating?
Why be downhearted just because you have no children?
You have me—isn’t that better than having ten sons?” (1 Samuel 1:8 NLT)
!!!! b)    Can mean something a little more direct: a severe argument based on intense difference of opinion—‘sharp argument, sharp difference of opinion[2]
!!! 2.    Examples
!!!! a)    Jacob and Laban
!!!! b)    Paul confronting Peter over his behavior
!!! 3.    Marriage is one of the greatest relationship refiners that God has given us – sometimes our spouse is the spur and sometimes our spouse is the bur
!! C.  Your Marriage Is a Gift
Slide 3
The man who finds a wife finds a treasure, and he receives favor from the Lord.
(Proverbs 18:22 NLT)
In the Garden of Eden, it was a gift to Adam to address his loneliness – need for companionship, aid, love – the ability to create a family was given to us before the Fall, before being outcast from Eden
Transition: if marriage is a testimony, refinery and a gift, what do I do?
Let’s take a look at each:
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II.
Build Your Marriage on a Christian Foundation
!! A.  Build It from the Beginning
Slide 4
You must not intermarry with them.
Do not let your daughters and sons marry their sons and daughters, for they will lead your children away from me to worship other gods.
(Deuteronomy 7:3-4 NLT)
!!! 1.
At FCCH:
!!!! a)    We marry couples when neither have faith in the hope that they will find it
!!!! b)    We marry couples when both have faith because of the joy of the union
!!!! c)    We don’t marry couples when only one has faith because of the testimony
!!! 2.    Why is this so important?
!!!! a)    Do you want to spend eternity with this person?
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