Sermon Tone Analysis

Marriage & the New Self

Albert Mohler - The Breifing, Constant refrain: We are in the midst of a sexual revolution.

What does that mean?

The norms of human sexuality and sexual identity are being challenged and “revolted” against.

There are proponents/activists/lobbyist who have gone all in on this revolution

deconstructing what it is to be male and female,

redefining human sexuality as non-binary (more than two options)

I believe I’m simply stating the this is just what’s out there

Looking at this from a Christian worldview, I believe what all of this confusion and chaos is the same lie that satan told Adam and Eve in the Garden

What the snake was doing in the Garden of eden was deconstructing Adam and Eve’s world view and understanding of who God is and who they are, “Did God really.

And they tried to redefine what it is to be human on our own terms: where we, of course, are Gods.

It’s not really wrong.

It’s just different...

What we believe: We believe that those living in the Kingdom of God should live under the rule of God.

The Bible teaches, that marriage in the kingdom of God, is between one man and one woman.

The fact that the patriarchs and kings of Israel, disobeyed God’s plan for marriage does not negate God’s design for human flourishing.

We were never meant to look to the men and women of the bible as examples of how we should live our lives.

We were given these examples in the Bible to show us that even the best humanity has to offer has been affected by sin and brokeness

the flawed men and women of the bible point us to Jesus

Where human relationships fail our expectations, Jesus satisfies

Where people prove themselves to be unfaithful, Jesus is faithful and true

Where humanity has strayed from God’s plan and purposes, Jesus provides a way back.

The fact that the culture around us disagrees with and operates under a different definition of marriage is nothing new.

What is marriage?

This is a question our culture is asking… and answering!

We are in the midst of a sexual revolution.

Culturally in our country in our community, in our city.

This is a question our culture is asking… and answering!

In the span of less than a decade, public opinion regarding sex and marriage has changed more drastically than it has in the last century.

Example: In 2008, President Obama, then Presidential Candidate Obama, held to a traditional view of marriage.

Meaning, he did not believe same sex marriages should be legal.

That’s right.

2008 President Obama, would be considered unelectable by the democratic party.

That was only 11 years ago!!!

Our culture has sought to redefine sex and marriage in a way that our own desires

Our culture’s idea of sex and marriage has rejected the idea of a creator God, rejected the idea that there is a plan and a purpose behind human sexuality and relationships, and looks to itself as the final authority.

In the public school curriculum for heath and sex education the over-arching authority that is being taught is consent.

The activists in our culture’s sexual revolution argue that the ultimate authority regarding sexual relationships (inside and outside of marriage) is consent.

That same ideology (where consent is king) is what is defining relationships, marriage and family in our culture.

Everything goes as long as everyone consents.

In the midst of cultural ideological shifts, God’s word remains the same.

Here in , Paul briefly addresses Christian Marriage and what Christian households should look like in the context of a radically opposed culture that surrounds them

This is not a passage addressed to unbelievers telling them they should repent and clean up their act

Look at the heading (if you bible or app has headings)

My says “Rules for Christian Households”

in the same way this sermon is not directed to unbelievers, but to professing believers instructing you on how your household should operate now that you have this new self

Not that the Bible does speak to all that culture is throwing at us in the present moment in the cultural revolution, but today’s passage is primarily speaking to Christian households, we too will try to stay in the

Summarize Colossians backstory

This isn’t anything new.

The Christian view of marriage and family has always been counter-cultural and has always pushed back to

What is the purpose of marriage?

To display the glory of God in human relationships

Let’s look to the passage for today’s message

You can have similar tools perform vastly different purposes.

And their purpose defines how you use them.

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Before we jump into the text and how this affects our lives, our marriages and our homes, I want to quickly remind you of .

Remember last week I said this is the banner verse that hangs over everything Paul is writing from this point forward.

We would do well to keep this in mind as we read everything that follows it.

Christ is all, and in all.

This idea doesn’t just pop up out of nowhere here in chapter 3. It really is in all of Colossians: Christ is all, and in all.

In your marriage: Christ is all, and in all.

This doesn’t completely diminish your previous identity and personhood, but it serves as a banner flies over and above who you were previous.

Paul - Roman

So...

What is the purpose of marriage?

Why does marriage even exist?

In traditional ministers handbooks there’s usually some phrasing like this: “God intended marriage to be for your mutual joy, for the help and comfort of one another in prosperity and adversity, and, as God sees fit, the raising of children in the wisdom of God according to his word.”

God intended marriage to be for your mutual joy, for the help and comfort of one another in prosperity and adversity, and, as God sees fit, the raising of children in the wisdom of God according to his word.

All things… even marriage!

were created through him and for him.

This is a question our culture is asking… and answering!

To display the glory of God in human relationships

Marriage pre-exists the fall of Adam and Eve

Genesis 2:

How does marriage display the Glory of God?

2 people become 1 new creation (one new family

New life through the gospel as described in

That family of origin is shed and you get to make a new family!!!

2 different, diverse, broken people can be reconciled

Not just reconciled, but reconciled to the most intimate of relationships, becoming 1!!!

Men and women are very different

not just biologically

mentally, hormonally, emotionally

A Holy God and sinful man are seemingly incompatible

even before the fall, God was telling a gospel narrative

Marriage is a sanctifying process

Your wedding day is not the end of they story

Happily ever after doesn’t start when at the alter.

There’s an already, not yet aspect of the gospel

We are already saved, we are not yet completely holy/perfect.

It’s the same way in marriage, your already married, you’re already one, you’re still working on how to relate as 1 flesh in this new family.

This is what these 2 verses speak to: how to live as a husband/wife in this new Kingdom of God

Colossians 3:19-19

God gives different instructions to men and women because Men and Women have different roles in the Household.

Colossians 3:18-19

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As a church, we are committed to teaching and leading from a complimentarian view of men and women.