Title: The Marriage System Made by God
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18. Yahweh God said, It is not good for a man to be alone; I will make a helper for him.
19. From the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would name them.
20. And Adam gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the air, and to all the beasts of the field, because Adam had no helper.
21. And the LORD God put Adam into a deep sleep, and while he slept, he took one of his ribs and filled it with flesh instead.
22. The LORD God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from Adam, and brought her to Adam.
23. And Adam said, This is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; and she shall be called woman, because it is taken from man.
24. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
25. Adam and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.
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25. Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it.
26. It was washed with water, and made clean with the word, to be sanctified.
27. To set before him a glorious church, without speck or wrinkle or such, holy and without blemish
28. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29. No one at any time hates his own body, but nourishes and protects it, just as Christ nourishes the church.
30. We are members of that body.
31. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
32. This mystery is great, I speak of Christ and of the church.
33. But each of you must love his wife as himself, and let the wife fear her husband.
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Subject: The Marriage System Made by God
Text: Genesis 2:18-25, Ephesians 5:22-33
There is a saying, “Marriage is due to lack of judgment,” “Divorce is due to lack of patience,” and “Remarriage is due to lack of memory.” These are bitter words. Professor Hazan (Cindy) of the Department of Psychology at Cornell University said that there are three kinds of love in humans. 1) Love that acknowledges, comforts, helps, instills confidence, and guides the other - the love of parents and children. 2) The love of people who can provide and depend on material and spiritual food - the love of children for their parents. 3) Love between a man and a woman - It is the most ideal love among the three, considering the strengths and virtues of the other person as the most ideal, and does not care about weaknesses and shortcomings. Marriage is said to be a union between a man and a woman that allows them to experience and enjoy all three of these types of love within one enclosure. So it is said that this is the characteristic that makes marriage a factor of great happiness.
Almost all of these who speak of human happiness refer to a healthy marriage as a prerequisite for happiness. They do not say that marriage is the work of the Creator. Instead, it is said that marriage is not an institution created through the evolution of a civilized society, but an ‘invention of natural selection’. It is an attempt to replace the first and second chapters of Genesis 1 and 2 with the word ‘nature’, which is the record of creation faith. In the record of creation, we read the consideration of the Creator's love, who values human happiness. In the creation record, ‘good’ (Genesis 1:4,10,12,18,21,25,31) is not a moral concept, but a functional concept. ‘It is not good for a man to be alone’ (Genesis 2:18a) describes the situation before the words of ‘it was very good’ in Genesis 1:31. He said, “I will make a helpmate for him” (Genesis 2:18b). The origin of marriage is the Creator.
Thus, the creation of human beings and the creation of the family are inseparable. There are words that make you think. In the process of creation, 'according to our image, according to our likeness' (Genesis 1:26), in the process of redemption (intercession), 'so that they may become one, just as we are one' (John 17:22). Iranian words. These are expressions reminiscent of the Holy Trinity. It is a biblical record of the institution of marriage. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). The result was happiness (Genesis 2:25). Today's New Testament text (Ephesians 5:22-33) is a text commonly used in wedding ceremonies. The unity of husband and wife is compared to the unity of Christ and the church (Ephesians 5:31). It is a relationship of oneness of life and love. A happy marriage is a gift of God's love, verified and planned through creation and redemption. God's love is essential.
The root of a healthy marriage is God's unconditional love. There are wounds in human love. Those wounds must be healed. Noncombustion leads to the death of the soul and eternal death. ‘Nevertheless love’ is necessary. Wordsworth's <Rainbow> is a poem that reminds us of God's love. ‘Nature loves people with its whole body / but people love only with their mouths. Thunder and lightning are the rods of the heavens against human lies. The sky holding a stick/I can't help it, my heart hurts/I shake hands of reconciliation through the rainbow. Red, green, blue, nambo, the seven colors/for the ignorant life/is a layered love/love. Toward the world/I want to become a small rainbow/I want to embrace the world.’ A rainbow is a product of the sun that is created only when there is sunlight. The rainbow is the covenant of God's love (Genesis 9:8-17).