Marriage

 

Marriage and Its Amazing Mystery!


By Pastor Dan Kennedy

© June 12, 2011 

www.pastorkennedy.com


There are at least Three Critical Domains of Marriage in which all marriages find themselves:


  1. Bullet  Peace

  2. Bullet  Power

  3. Bullet  Perversion



  1. Bullet  Peace

The Foundational Elements of a Peaceful, Happy and United Marriage


•Love

•Authority

•Faithfulness

  1. •Submission   

    = Unity


God’s Goal for marriage is Unity – Oneness.

A marriage cannot have true Unity and Oneness without Peace.


Woman was created from Adam’s side

Genesis 2:18

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


Structural DNA is taken from Adam’s side symbolically and genetically.

Genesis 2:18–25

Ephesians 5:21-33


Profound Spiritual Mystery of Christ and the Church

Ephesians 5:32  32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.


John 17:20–26 – Oneness as seen in the Father and Son

20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me….


Oneness brings Fellowship and the Blessing of Children


Ecclesiastes 4:9–12  9Two are better than one…


Psalm 127:3–5 Children are a heritage from the Lord…


  1. Bullet  Power 


The coveted position, without acknowledgement of God’s designated authority.


When a marriage union is based on power, there seems to be a continual grasping for the place of authority.  Love is conditional on the release of power.  Faithfulness is relative – expected at certain times, but conditional on base desire.  Submission is reluctantly granted, as long as everyone knows who is still in charge.


Potential problems of a “Power” based marriage

Ephesians 5:1-20 

•Immorality

•Impurity

•Selfishness/greed

•Verbal Abuse/Obscenity/Destructive Speech


  1. Bullet  Perversion:


The Absence of Light; Glorifying Perversion


• An attack against fidelity in marriage – the breaking down of faithfulness.

• An attack against responsibilities in marriage – the breaking down of God-given roles.

• An attack against traditional mores in marriage – the breaking down of God-given moral values of one man and one woman.

o  The consuming spirit of hedonism

o  The proliferation of STDs throughout society

o  The neutralization and destabilization of the family structure and retrogression of future generations, perversion without procreation.


Peace, Power, or Perversion