sermon: Marriage and the Bride of Christ (Part 2)
General Marriage Principles
Martin G. Collins
Given 08-May-10; Sermon #991; 74 minutes
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Martin Collins suggests that, regarding marital harmony, while one can fake a spiritual facade on the Sabbath, it takes the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to ensure a proper marriage relationship in which the wife submits to her husband, each spouse submits to the other, and both spouses submit to Christ. This is the proper pattern for all marriages, symbolizing the submission of God’s church (the bride of Christ) to Jesus Christ (the Bridegroom). The husband is charged to exercise love to his wife, actually a more demanding task than submitting, carrying more instructions than the command to submit. Becoming a Christian will not make this mandate easy, but will actually present new sets of problems, taking far more effort and care, needing the interposition of God’s Holy Spirit to enable one to follow the Way, a set of behaviors taught in both the Old and New Testaments. There is an intimate relationship between doctrine and practice. When we are confronted by a problem, we should not deal with the effect only, jumping to superficial conclusions, but we should systematically and carefully analyze the causes from the large group to the small group, or general to specific. A marriage is not just a humanly devised arrangement, an evolvement of social culture, developed entirely by human invention. Modern feminism has further corrupted the understanding of the marriage relationship. Not a human contrivance, but derived by God’s ordinances, marital relationships are totally governed by Scripture.
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Abraham and Sarai Adversarial spirit Anthropology Aquilla and Priscilla Acts 18:24-26; 24:15 Animosity Baptism of John Bitterness Cherish Christian view of marriage Colossians 3:18-19 Common submission to God Compartmentalization Conversion Doctrine Ephesians 5:17-33 Felix the governor Feminism I Thessalonians 2:13 Freedom Galatians 1:13 Genesis 1:27 Hagar Hebrews 12:14-15 Large group tests Liberty Mark 10 Marriage and family New Testament only Nourish, cherish, and love Passive/Practice Patiently waiting in faith Paul’s method Politics Practicality Proverbs 12:18; 14:4; 21:23; 31:36 Romans 16:3 Sanctification Saul-Paul II Timothy 3 Secular view of marriage Seeking peace Specific principles Submission Submit, subject, and respect Submitting to one another Thirteen To your own husbands Way of God Wife/wives
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