1 Corinthians 14:33. For God is not a God of disorder (NIV) For God is not the author of confusion, (KJV)

Divine Order 1 Corinthians 14:33 • For God is not a God of disorder (NIV) • For God is not the author of confusion, (KJV) God’s Divine Order • I...
Author: Diana Howard
6 downloads 2 Views 163KB Size
Divine Order

1 Corinthians 14:33

• For God is not a God of disorder (NIV)

• For God is not the author of confusion, (KJV)

God’s Divine Order • In our Personal Life • In our Marriage/Family • In our Church

God’s Divine Order: Personal life • Right Foundation

• Right Priorities

God’s Divine Order: Marriage

God’s Divine Order: Marriage By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures. Proverbs 24:3,4 (NIV)

God’s Divine Order: Marriage • Right Foundation/Right Start

• Right Roles

Right Foundation/Start Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? II Corinthians 6:14

Right Foundation/Start

• Genesis 2 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Right Foundation/Start EQUALLY YOKED PARTNER LEAVING CLEAVING BECOMING ONE (1+1 =1, not 2)

RIGHT ROLES Husband, Wife, and God

What are the Husbands called to do? • LEAD Ephesians 5: 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: • LOVE Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; • HONOR I Peter 3:7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

What are the wives called to do? • SUBMIT & RESPECT • Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submityourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 32 and the wife see that she reverenceher husband

What are the wives called to do? • ADORN WITH GODLY CHARACTER

• I Peter 3: 1 Likewise, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. 3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. 5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: 6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

Husbands &Wives: Mutual submission & Interdependence • Ephesians 5: 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. • 1 Corinthians 7:4-5 The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.

ROLE OF GOD IN MARRIAGE

Role of God in Marriage • Eccl 4:12 “and a threefold cord is not quickly broken” • Psalms 127: 1 Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: … 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows:

God’s Divine Order: Marriage • Right Foundation • Right Roles for God, Husband and Wife

Marriage Promise I,____, take thee,_____, to be my lawful wedded Wife/Husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance.

Blessings of Following Divine Order: Rare and Beautiful Treasures

By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures. Proverbs 24:3-4

Suggest Documents