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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.
