Family Matters Week 2 : The Model Marriage
Family Matters Week 2: The Model Marriage
February 9, 2025
God has a plan for your family.
My family can be better than it is right now.
The way you define marriage will determine the way you do it.
Where does our definition of marriage come from?
God designed marriage and gets to define.
You have a 100% chance of success in your marriage. You just have to do it God’s way.
Definition of Marriage:
Marriage is a man and a woman becoming one, living naked, working in a garden, and walking with God.
“Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”
Genesis 2:18
“At last!” the man exclaimed.
“This one is bone from my bone,
and flesh from my flesh!
She will be called ‘woman,’
because she was taken from ‘man.’”
Genesis 2:23
This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
Genesis 2:24
Marriage is a team sport.
The biblical model of marriage is itself a miracle. It’s two individuals being united together.
Two people, two hearts, two wills, two visions for life, coming together and becoming one.
Two don’t become one through compromise, where each person gives a little and gets a little.
Two people become one through collaboration. (1) Both sides bringing their best to the table, (2) both sides learning to love what God has put in the other person, and (3) both sides creating and pursuing a common vision together.
Adam and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.
Genesis 2:25
Practical Tips for Getting Naked for Your Spouse
Tip 1: Take off Your Clothes First
Tip 2: Discuss Don’t Dump
Tip 3: Forgive and Bless
So God created human beings in his own image.
In the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27
Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and subdue it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
Genesis 1:28
Mary was standing outside the tomb crying, and as she wept, she stooped and looked in. She saw two white-robed angels, one sitting at the head and the other at the foot of the place where the body of Jesus had been lying. “Dear woman, why are you crying?” the angels asked her.
John 20:11-13a
“She turned to leave and saw someone standing there. It was Jesus, but she didn’t recognize him...She thought he was the gardener”
John 20:14,15