Oct. 22, 2023
INTENTIONAL
Week 7 – Marriage
October 22, 2023
Genesis 2:18-19 (NLT) Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”
23 “At last!’ the man exclaimed. This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man’”
24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
Marriage is God’s ______________.
Matthew 19:4-6 “Haven’t you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. “They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and female.’” 5 And he said, “‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.’” Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together.
Matthew 19:9 “And I tell you this, whoever divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery—unless his wife has been unfaithful.”
Matthew 19:10 Jesus’ disciples then said to him, “If this is the case, it is better not to marry!”
Matthew 19:11-12 “Not everyone can accept this statement,” Jesus said. “Only those whom God helps. 12 Some are born as eunuchs, some have been made eunuchs by others, and some choose not to marry for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”
Marriage is a horrible __________,
but it is a beautiful ______________.
Marriage is a ____________ that helps make us __________, not a ___________ for guaranteed _____________.
“And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30 And we are members of his body. 31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
FOR HUSBANDS
Is my spouse growing spiritually ______________ of me or
___________________ of me?
FOR WIVES
Ephesians 5:33 “So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”
What would it look like in your marriage to truly ______________ the things that he __________________? To ____________ him.
BE INTENTIONAL
Find ways daily _______________________ you have for your spouse. Find ways daily _______________________ you have for your spouse.
____________________________ in the small things.
Stop keeping _____________________.
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