The Bible Has a Lot to Say about Marriage

The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man." For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
Genesis 2:18, 21-25

•     Marriage is                 of human origin

•     The marriage of a                 and a                           is God's design

Our Problem -- We                                God's design

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen.
Romans 1:25

• Result #1:                 outside of marriage

  But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
  Matthew 5:27-28

  Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
  1 Corinthians 6:18-20

• Result #2:                                    

  So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
  Matthew 19:6

• Result #3:                                                                         before                                         

  For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
  Genesis 2:24

  Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
  Hebrews 13:4

• Result #4:                                                                                  

  Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

  Romans 1:26-28

It's a Good Thing Grace is in Place

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11

1. Receive God's                                                        

2.                                                          for God's design for marriage and home

3.                                and