Sermon starts with Eph 5:33 - The Mystery about Marriage.
And a Prayer to God to reveal.
Pastor Bisi of the Secret place wives brings a unique and uncommon perspective to the institution of Marriage. If I attempted to sum up the sermon in a few words it would be .. Marriage is a divine call to fixing your partner...or better put a call to reconcile your spouse to God.
This may not be an unfamiliar perspective, but the meaning is more profound when you understand, you too need some fixing.
Some key points from the sermon.
Marriage is one of the kind of relationship that goes sour fast.
- If you are experiencing issues in your Marraige..nothing is wrong..(it's a part of it. (This explains everything, if there is an issue, it an opportunity to do the Lord's works, and you'll be fulfilling God's purpose)
John 15v2 - 4 tells us why.
He that abides in Him bears fruit.
We treat challenges in marriage as a wall, instead of a bump. (The friction calls for us to slow down and gently navigate the issues, and not see it as the end of the road)
The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
- You mindset is what produces your outcome.
- Your Marriage serves a purpose of reconciliation. We are supposed to return others back to God.
God's Marriage plan is to point us back to God.
God needs your attention and marriage does a good job of giving him that.
"Oh, he/she is flawed, he/she is at fault" Let he/she be a reminder of God's love to you. You are flawed also.
You are ready for Marriage when you don't have anything to proof in your Marriage.
God just want people who will redirects each other to God, not judges.
Marriage will not cure your loneliness or your insecurities, if anything it highlights it.
A key question... I'm in ready to reconcile someone/people to God? - (it is the true meaning of Love.)
Let your partner see your heart and understand God's heart.
You must own your Marriage..it is yours as much as it is ours.
The instructions for Marriage are actually instructions to bring you back to God.
Your marriage is designed to fix the problems you are running out of it for. (Is this grammar rightly put..I hope you get the point - the reason people are running out of Marriages is the very reason why marraiges exists, to fix those issues)
The behaviors God expects you to do in Marriage is not anything extra ordinary. It's actually things you need to do to fellow humans.
Marry the person you love.. Love the person you married.
Marriage is for reconciliation and restoration.
The idea is to point each other toward God.
Your spouses' weakness are supposed to remind you of you.
If it wasn't for Christ...that's actually you. (You ver. Flawed)
Beyond looking for differences are you able to see similarities. (The you are both flawed)
We are more similar than we are different.
There 3 people in the Marriage, God and the 2 couples.
There will always be 2 people working on it
"We personalize their issues" - wrong mindset. Help them overcome it, rather than focus on how it affects you.
Only those who can grow into marriage should do it.
It's all call to die, a call to surrender, a call to carry one another (Just like God's unconditional Love)
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