HONEY PT 3 For This Reason

HONEY PT 3
For This Reason

Proverbs 18:22 NIV
22 He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord .

What if we let the one who DESIGNED marriage DEFINE marriage?

Ephesians 5:25-33 NIV
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Genesis 2:24 NIV
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Matthew 19:4-6 NIV
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ ? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

The Honeymoon lasts when we..

I. Leave
A. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother…”

You can look at what you LEAVE for your marriage as a SACRIFICE or you can see it for what it really is, an INVESTMENT.

The Honeymoon lasts when we..

II. UNITE (Cleave KJV)
A. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

Matthew 19:3-11 NKJV
3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” 4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’ ? 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” 7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” 8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.” 10 His disciples said to Him, “If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” 11 But He said to them, “All cannot accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given:

Matthew 5:31-32 NKJV
31 “Furthermore it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.

Matthew 5:31-32 NKJV
31 “Furthermore it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.

Romans 7:1-3 NKJV
1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man.

The Honeymoon lasts when we…

III. LOVE and RESPECT
A. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

HUSBANDS: Your greatest duty in marriage is to love
his wife in ways she can see and feel in her own heart.

WIVES: Your greatest duty in marriage is to respect her
husband for who he is as the head of the home.

1 Peter 2:17-18 NIV
17 Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor. 18 Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.

The rule that never changes is: you can’t get what you need by depriving your partner of what your partner needs.

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Learning How to Sweeten Our Relationships PT. 1

Honey, Pt. 1

Learning How to Sweeten Our Relationships

Proverbs 16:24 NKJV
24 Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.

We’re supposed to learn relational skills growing up in our family. But, a lot of us grew up in dysfunctional families where we did not learn relational skills, how to express anger appropriately, or how to resolve conflict and communicate when we are hurt—or even how to compromise.

Song of Solomon 4:11 NKJV
11 Your lips, O my spouse, Drip as the honeycomb; Honey and milk are under your tongue; And the fragrance of your garments Is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

Let me put it like this: our mind is what we think, our will is what we decide, and our emotions are what we feel. They could be described as the foundation of our lives.

We try to treat anger issues with anger management. We try to treat anxiety issues with medicine.

Zechariah 2:8 NKJV
8 For thus says the Lord of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.

I Peter 2:9-10 NKJV
9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.

Even as Christians, we tend to focus more on what we do than why we do it.

Zig Ziglar said, “You’ve got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.” Change must first occur within us to affect what comes out of us.

Romans 12:2 NKJV
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Your foundation, your mind, needs to be changed from your old way of thinking to God’s way of thinking.

Frederick Douglass said, “It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

The healing of our foundation should not be a blame game.

Hebrews 12:2 NKJV
2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Finisher. Greek – Perfecter; bringing to a conclusion or completeness.