Be One Series

Wedding Sermon

Matthew 18:18-20

Greetings: The Lord is Good and His love endures forever!!

I would like to share with you from the above passage about the importance of married life. Keep in your mind the below three thoughts.

Be Together

Believe together

Become together

1. BE TOGETHER

Marriage is a new experiment in life. This experiment is an Experiment for creation. Henceforth, you are resigning from the position of Bachelor and spinster.

You are entering into a family tie-up. Wedding is legal and lawful. So far you are free birds but you have so many relationships and “in-Laws.” Father-in-law, Mother-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law. Slowly you have to convert everything into “in-Love.”

Loneliness is not good therefore God instituted marriage. In Genesis 2:18, God saw everything as good in His creation but for a man being alone. therefore, God created a woman to be the fitting alliance for man. He did not create WOMEN but a WOMAN.

In Amos 3:3, we read that Oneness is very essential to live together and to walk together.

Walk with one mind, one thought, one plan, one purpose, one goal, one aim, and one spirit because both of you are having a common goal of attainment yet with distinctive characters.

Both of you have to decide for your future, your issues(children), and your problems. Partners who are away from each other in their hearts, minds, in thoughts can’t walk together. Therefore, your work, your friends, your boss, your servant, and your colleague are not good enough to replace your spouse.

God the Father gave importance to the life of a man and woman. He made them as one. He made them in his own image and in his own likeness. (Genesis 1:26).

God, added Masculine and feminine characteristics to them. So those real characters have experimented in the institution of weddings. He is a holy God therefore he condemned experiments of masculinity and femineity out of wedlock.

Genesis 2:24 talks about the ONE FLESH concept. Proverbs 5:18-20 talks about the husband-and-wife relationship. He told them to be one. He emphasized the importance of the family life.

To be together, one simple formula is to accept that You’re never right before your spouse:

“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, keep quiet.”

2. BELIEVE TOGETHER

Being together is built on believing in one another, now believing together is another important aspect. Believe together in the Bible, worship together in one Church, read together some books, or share thoughts. Pray together, if possible, every day. Go to the mission works together.

Today not only Christians are divided as denominations but even families are divided as denominations. The husband goes to one Church, Wife goes to one Church and the Children go to another. The best example in the Bible is Aquilla and Priscilla (Acts 18:1-3 worked together, v.26 worshipped together and witnessed together)

Believing together is a new Experience with the Creator - walking together with the Lord. Jesus has promised “to be present” among the two (Matthew 18:20.) Jesus was present in Eden (Genesis 3:8). He was present Among Emmaus walkers (Luke 24:11ff).

God is present in the day-to-day life of the devotees, and the life of the disciples who talk about His greatness and His words (Malachi 3:17).

He promised that His presence will go before you when you pass through water, fire, difficulties, struggles, etc., (Isaiah 43:2).

Jesus has promised “to give whatever two ask” on earth. Mathew 18:19. If two are united and ask in my name I will give them whatever they ask of me. He gives children, he gives status, he gives success, he gives peace, and he gives everything.

3. BECOME TOGETHER

Socrates: “By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”

Becoming together means developing together. Becoming a mature person in Christ must be the ultimate of the Christian life. It must be the ultimate purpose of married life.

Maturity in forgiveness, maturity in consulting one another, loving one another, maturity in caring for one another. Above all, a maturity in forgetting bitter experiences, and unwanted experiences.

Ephesians 4:11-12 perfecting in Christ. Becoming a perfect man and a woman. This is a great mystery in life.

Watch for the return of Jesus Christ. Expect the return of Jesus. Watch together for His return. Matthew 24:40-41. There will be two in the field and in the house but one is taken and one is left. So, both of you must be alert, watchful, sanctified, holy, and be at the Centre of the will of the Lord, so that you can be with the Lord while he returns secretly.

A saying goes like this:

“When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that’s a few steps ahead is the one that’s mad.”