Title: Let's Rethink Marriage.
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Title: Let's Rethink Marriage. Main text: 1 Corinthians 13:13 What is marriage? Genesis 2:24 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” Marriage is leaving your parents. Marriage is to unite with a wife. To join means to glue together. It refers to the state of being stuck together and not moving. And what constitutes one body is marriage. This speaks of imperfect people gathering together to become one perfect body. Everyone wants a happy marriage rather than a failed marriage. However, there is a saying that only 5% of people are happily married. The cause is precisely in love.
1. A happy married life must see whether you are doing the love that belongs to God's love.
2. We need to see if we are having a greater love than hope rather than faith.
1 Corinthians 13:13 “Therefore, there will always be these three: faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love.” Faith and hope are both great qualities and gifts, but love is greater than that. The word ‘best’ in the text of this text has the meaning of ‘greater, greater’. Then why is love greater than hope than faith? It is that faith is focused on the Word of God, whereas love is focused on God Himself. Because hope is concerned with living forever with God in a perfect world, but love is focused on God. Faith and hope are needed only in this world, but love is forever needed in heaven. We exist because of God's love, and we are saved because of God's love. John 3:16 The love of God is the love that hopes that the person to be loved will not be destroyed. Then, in our marriage life, we should look at whether our husband or wife is in love with the hope that they will always prosper and be happy.
3. We need to see if we are married to love each other as the Lord has loved me.
John 13:34 The Lord has given us a new commandment. The commandment is to love one another. We must love our parents and we must love our neighbors. How to love is to love as the Lord has loved me. The problem with marriage is that you don't love the other person more than you do. The problem is that while she loves her especially, the other wife or husband does not love half of her.
4. We need to check whether the marriage is in the love of the debtor.
Romans 13:8 We are debtors of love from God. They are the ones who live with the only debt that we cannot repay even if we dedicate our lives to paying it off. Even married couples live in debt to each other. The debt we owe to God must now be repaid by showing love to the wife and to the husband. Everyone! Debts do not have to be paid or not, but must be paid. If you do not repay, you will be liable for civil and criminal liability. Marriage happiness doesn't just come. It comes when couples love each other with God's love. Now, I would like to congratulate you all on living with the words you gave for a happy married life in your heart.