A Committed Marriage Is A Lasting Marriage | And They Shall Become One
Most People Don’t Plan To Ruin Their Marriage- They Just Don’t Plan Not To
Until Death Do Us Part – Slowly Falls Apart
Commit To Endure
Commit To Pursue
Commit To Forgive
A Committed Marriage Is A Lasting Marriage
If You Want Your Marriage To Change – You Change
Commit To Endure
Matthew 19:4-5
4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
Matthew 19:6
6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Marriage Is A Covenant NOT A Contract
1 Corinthians 13:4-6
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[a] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
Marriage Is A Covenant NOT A Contract
1 Corinthians 13:7
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
A Committed Marriage Is A Lasting Marriage
Commit To Endure
Commit To Pursue
Ecclesiastes 4:12
12 And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ephesians 5:33
33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
9 Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain[a] life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.
Philippians 2:3-4
3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Commit To Pursue Christ ALWAYS
A Christian Marriage Believes In Christ – A Christ Centered Marriage Pursues Christ
James 4:7-8
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.
A Praying Marriage Is A POWERFUL Marriage
Commit To Endure
Commit To Pursue
Commit To Forgive
A Broken Marriage QUITS In Conflict- A Strong Marriage COMMITS Through Conflict
Ephesians 4:2-3
2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Colossians 3:12-13
12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
You Can NOT Heal From What You Refuse To Release
Forgiveness In Action
Reveal (Psalm 139:23) 2.
Repent (1 John 1:9) 3.
Restore (Ephesians 4:32)
Committed To Endure The Cross For You
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. (Heb. 12:2)
2. Committed To Pursue After You
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Rom. 5:8)
3. Committed To Forgive You
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. (Col. 2:13-14)
Commit To Endure
Commit To Pursue
Commit To Forgive
A Committed Marriage Is A Lasting Marriage