How to Survive A Marriage!

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Selfish means to be focused on self.   Two people living selfish is hell on earth.  

1.  How do we become one?

Genesis 2:24 NLT)

24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.

Ephesians 5:31 (NLT)

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.

1 Corinthians 6:15-17 (NLT)

15 Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never! 16 And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.” 17 But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.

When we are intimate in body, we become one body.  However, we must become intimate in spirit, too!

 We must die...to self.  When we became one with God, we died to self.   We, too, must become one with our spouse, and we must die to self. The world would be a lot better off if we'd just die...to self.  

Don't leave any kind and good thing unsaid or undone.

The dominate person in the marriage needs to die first.  

Jesus has dominion, and He had to die first.  God made marriage to kill you, so you'll be happy.  

Men are like dogs.  If you praise him, you've got him.  

2.  Why do we become one?

We have three test.

1.  Faith

2.  Family

3. Financing.

Malachi 2:8-10 NLT)

8 “Should people cheat God? Yet you have cheated me!

“But you ask, ‘What do you mean? When did we ever cheat you?’

“You have cheated me of the tithes and offerings due to me. 

9 You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me. 

10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test! 

(Faith & Financing)

The tithe is the only thing that we can test God on.  You are foolish not to tithe.  God gives us His money back guarantee.  

Malachi 2:13-16 (NLT)

13 Here is another thing you do. You cover the Lord’s altar with tears, weeping and groaning because he pays no attention to your offerings and doesn’t accept them with pleasure. 

14 You cry out, “Why doesn’t the Lord accept my worship?” I’ll tell you why! Because the Lord witnessed the vows you and your wife made when you were young. But you have been unfaithful to her, though she remained your faithful partner, the wife of your marriage vows.

15 Didn’t the Lord make you one with your wife? In body and spirit you are his.[a] And what does he want? Godly children from your union. So guard your heart; remain loyal to the wife of your youth. 

16 “For I hate divorce!” says the Lord, the God of Israel. “To divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “So guard your heart; do not be unfaithful to your wife.”  

(Faith & Family)

God loves people, but hates divorce because divorce hurts people.