What Does The Bible Say About Marriage? Series

What does the Bible say about marriage?

June 17, 2024

46% of American adults are single. That’s 117 million people.

There are singles who are perfectly content in their singleness.

There are singles who want marriage but are willing to wait.

Every culture that nurtures strong marriages and subsequently strong families tend to thrive.

Great marriages benefit all of us.

1. Marriage is holy.

2. Marriage is between a man and a woman.

3. Marriage is forever and always.

Matthew 19:3-6 NIV

“Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason? Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female and said, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

Hebrews 13:4 NIV

Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

Marriage requires commitment to gloriously difficult work.

Marriage is a covenant, not a contract.

Covenant – We give up all our rights and take full responsibility.

Contract – We keep all our rights and do not accept any responsibilities.

Here is the point – covenants are costly and therefore are difficult to toss aside.

Contracts cost us nothing and are easy to discard.

The secret to a great marriage is make Jesus the center of it all.

There are four basic needs that humans are instinctively motivated to satisfy all their lives:

1. Acceptance – I need to be loved.

2. Identity – I need to know who I am.

3. Security – I need access to basic needs.

4. Purpose – I need significance.

Jesus has accepted you.

Jesus has given you an identity.

Jesus has provided all you need.

Jesus has a plan for your life.