What is the purpose of marriage?

The purpose of marriage is the blending of two different identities into the image of God.
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Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge..Hebrews 13:4

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?..2 Corinthians 6:14

Let every step toward a marriage alliance be characterized by modesty, simplicity, sincerity, and an earnest purpose to please and honor God. Marriage affects the afterlife both in this world and in the world to come. A sincere Christian will make no plans that God cannot approve. {Adventist Home 49.1}

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Year Divorces

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There is not one marriage in one hundred that results happily, that bears the sanction of God, and places the parties in a position better to glorify Him. Testimonies for the Church Volume 4, Page 504

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FIVE Priorities of a Godly Husband 1) Love God - Deuteronomy 6:5 2) Love your wife - Ephesians 5:25-29 3) Manage your family - Ephesians 6:4 4) Provide for your home - 2 Thessalonian 3:10-12 5) Be Involved in a Local Church - Hebrews 10:25 6)Spiritual minded and Christ-like - Philippians 2:5 , Romans 8:6-7, 1 John 2:6 ,1 Corinthians 11:1 ,John 14:15 Galatians 4:19,2 Corinthians 2:14,John 13:3-5,Matthew 5:48,Titus 3:1-8 ,1 Corinthians 1:3-15,John 15:20,Romans 6:4, Galatians 5:22-23, Luke 6:46, Galatians 3:27

Husbands should be careful, attentive, constant, faithful, and compassionate. They should manifest love and sympathy.... When the husband has the nobility of character, purity of heart, elevation of mind, that every true Christian must possess, it will be made manifest in the marriage relation.... He will seek to keep his wife in health and courage. He will strive to speak words of comfort, to create an atmosphere of peace in the home circle. [10] {AH 228.2}

Five Priorities of a Godly Wife 1) Love God - Deuteronomy 6:5 2) She is a Virtuous woman-Proverbs 31:10-31 3)Good Conduct -1 Timothy 2:9-10,1 Peter3:3-4,Proverbs 31:10, Colossian 3:12-14,jeremiah 4:30 4)They should be witness to the younger woman-Titus 2:4-5 5) Be Involved in a Local Church - Hebrews 10:25 6)Spiritual minded and Christ-like - Philippians 2:5 , Romans 8:6-7, 1 John 2:6 ,1 Corinthians 11:1 ,John 14:15 Galatians 4:19,2 Corinthians 2:14,John 13:3-5,Matthew 5:48,Titus 3:1-8 ,1 Corinthians 1:3-15,John 15:20,Romans 6:4, Galatians 5:22-23, Luke 6:46, Galatians 3:27 Here are some addition for the wives. 1. Respect your husband. 2.Do not be loud, stubborn or feet wont abide at own house ( Prov 7:11) 3.Submit unto your husbands (Eph 5:22,23.) 4. Do not be beguiled by another man as Eve was.( Gen 3:1-3). 5. Remember that the man is the covering of the Woman (1Cor 11:2-16) 6. Woe unto them with children in the last days. (Matt 24:19) Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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Satan makes every effort to lead people away from God; and he is successful in his purpose when the religious life is drowned in business cares, when he can so absorb their minds in business that they will not take time to read their Bibles, to pray in secret, and to keep the offering of praise and thanksgiving burning on the altar of sacrifice morning and evening.--Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 426. {Christian Service 209.4} Let the family worship be made pleasant and interesting. --Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 335. Christian Service 209.5}

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You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
Matthew 22:37

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matt 6:33

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In the beginning God Created Our World

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Size of our Milky Way Galaxy is 100,000 light years! Speed of light is 186,282 miles per second! 186,282x60x60x24x365 = 5,874 billion miles a year! So, 100,000 light years is 587,458,000,000,000,000 miles! Thats only one galaxy! And there are millions of galaxies!

There is a God in heaven!

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Then God Made Marriage

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Since God manufactured marriage, He knows about its maintenance!

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You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 22:39

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The Acts 3:6 Principle I can only give what I have Lets look at it

But suppose I dont love myself? Can it be changed? Or Does loving my-self means I have should a high self-esteem?

This work will draw them nearer to God. It will help them to see that of themselves they are altogether inefficient, that they must be wholly the Lord's. They must put away their self-esteem and selfimportance, and put on the Lord Jesus Christ. When they do this, they will be willing to go without the camp and bear the burden as good soldiers of the cross. {Counsel to

Parents, Teachers and students 508.2}

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Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
Ps 119:127-128 (KJV)

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Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal
Philippians 3:13,14

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I will praise You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made

Psalm 139:14

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Tell me, what do you have in the house?

2 Kings 4:2

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I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Philippians 4:13

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Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love

Jeremiah 31:3

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You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 22:39

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And who is my neighbor? Luke 10:29,36,37

Far Away Neighbor!

Next Door Neighbor

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So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:28

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We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Romans 15:1

Sanctity of the Family Circle. There is a sacred circle around every family which should be preserved. No other one has any right in that sacred circle. The husband and wife should be all to each other. The wife should have no secrets to keep from her husband and let others know, and the husband should have no secrets to keep from his wife to relate to others. The heart of his wife should be the grave for the faults of the husband, and the heart of the husband the grave for his wife's faults. Never should either party indulge in a joke at the expense of the other's feelings. Never should either the husband or wife in sport or in any other manner complain of each other to others, for frequently indulging in this foolish and what may seem perfectly harmless joking will end in trial with each other and perhaps estrangement. I have been shown that there should be a sacred shield around every family. {Adventist Home 177.1}

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For even Christ did not please Himself

(Romans. 15: 3)

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Infant children are a mirror for the mother, in which she may see reflected her own habits and deportment, and may trace even the tones of her own voice. How careful then should be her language and behavior in the presence of these little learners who take her for an example. If she wishes them to be gentle in manners and tractable, she must cultivate those traits in herself. {Reflecting Christ 189.5}
Prov 17:6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

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If my spouse is my first neighbor, my child is my second neighbor!

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While my spouse is my second self, my child is my third self! Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh! Gen.2: 23

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The Lords Prayer illustrates our love relationship.

I say to God: My Father. My child says to me: My father. My child says to God: My Father. Therefore my child and I are brothers and sisters in the Lord!

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God advises: Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Colossians 3:21

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If you invite Christ into your home, Hell turn your

Water into wine! Challenges into victories! Sadness into gladness!

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1.Love God best of all. 2.Love myself. 3.Love my spouse better than myself. 4.Love my child as part of myself.

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The Happy Family Happy the home when God is there, And love fills every breast; When one their wish and one their prayer, And one their heavenly rest. Henry Ware

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12 Marriage/Relationship Tips

1)Keep Christ at the center of your home Psalm 127:1; Proverbs 3:6 2) Pray Together Matthew 26:41; James 1:5 3) Communicate Freely and Often Proverbs 15:32; Proverbs 26:12 4) Practice Abundant Forgiveness Ecclesiastes 9:9; Proverbs 15:1 5) Keep the Honeymoon Alive Roman 12:10 6) Guard Your Marriage/Relationship Exodus 20:17; Proverbs 4:23

7) Dont Go to Bed Angry Ephesians 4:26,32 Love Like Jesus 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 9) Watch Your Words Colossians 3:19; Matthew 7:3 10) Balances your Lives 1 Corinthians 9:25; Romans 6:12,13 11) Work Hard to Plrase Proverbs 31:10-31; 1 Timothy 5:8 12) Cherish and Practice Respectfulness Romans 12:10

Father, We Commit to You God before us, God beside God within us abide God in Heaven, and in this place Father, we commit to You this day God in pleasure, and God in pain God will ever remain God in gladness, and God in strife Father, we commit to You our lives For we know that You are faithful through the stillness and the storm For You've been with us from the start Father, we commit to You our hearts God in pleasure, and God in pain God will ever remain God in gladness, and God in strife Father, we commit to You our lives For we know that You are faithful through the stillness and the storm For You've been with us from the start Father, we commit to You our hearts Father, we commit to You our hearts

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