The Marriage Covenant

What is God's true purpose for marriage? What is the marriage covenant? Do I have a marriage covenant with my spouse and God? These are the questions that are in desperate need of answers! And not just any answers. These are questions that only the Bible can answer. These are questions we should be asking God. We should be seeking these answers in Scripture, not the world. Why? Because the world is hell bent on twisting God's design and creation into something it was never intended to be for their own selfish purposes, which are mainly keeping God out of our lives.

Did you know that not every marriage on the face of this earth is a marriage of covenant? At least, not as God intended it. Hollywood and celebrity marriages are a shining example of that! Not to mention various countries all over the world that reject God, reject Christ, and embrace a false God like Mohammed, or Alah, or Buddah. Let me tell you something, you can visit the graves of all those so called "Gods" and find the skeletal remains of those men still in those graves! There's only ONE grave that used to be occupied, but was quickly emptied and has remained empty for over 2,000 years! And that's the tomb of the Lord Jesus Christ where they laid Him after He was crucified. Name any god you want and I'll tell you they are STILL in their grave! Jesus is NOT in His tomb and hasn't been since His resurrection! And it has STAYED empty to this day!

So, if not every marriage is in covenant with God, what kind of marriage is it? What I like to call, "A marriage of the land". Why do I call it that? Because the only "law" it recognizes and is recognized by is the "law of the land". It's a marriage of man and not of God. "How can that be? We were married in church?" So? Just because you got married in church doesn't mean you got married in God. "What does that mean?" Simple. If God was not kept at the center and forefront of your relationship and your marriage, there was no covenant established. God has to be at the head of the marriage and the center of you and your spouse in order for the covenant to take hold.

If God's not in it, He didn't bring it. So many couples get married over nothing but lust and man made emotions. God's intention runs much deeper than that! Let's look at the first marriage. Adam and Eve. Genesis 2:15-24 (I want you to see the whole picture here):

15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;

17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.

21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.

22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

23 The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called ‘woman,’

for she was taken out of man.”

24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Let's pause for a word of prayer: Heavenly Father, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We acknowledge You today as Creator of the heavens and the earth. God of all creation, we acknowledge You Father God and reverent Your Holy Name. Father, let every man and woman who read this message be filled with wisdom and the grace of Almighty God. Let a revelation spirit open their eyes, their hearts, and their minds to what the Spirit of the Lord would say to them today. Do not let one person read these words and not be touched by Your wonderous love. Show all of them Your Glory and let them all feel Your loving presence where they are. In Jesus Holy Name do we ask and receive Your blessing today. AMEN!!!"