A House in Order – An Ordered Life! 2 Kings 20:1-7
Placing the House of Your Marriage in Order!
The Word to Hezekiah – “Place Your House in Order!”
2 Kings 20:1 In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, `Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.'”
The House: Of Your Life, Marriage and Family and the Church!
What Jesus Says: Matthew 7:24-27
The House in Order is the House Built on the Rock! !
What the Word Says:
Your Life Dwelt by the Spirit of God!
1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
A House Led By the Spirit of God! Galatians 5:16-24
This is Peace with God – Oneness with God!
The House of Your Marriage:
Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
What Does This Look Like in Marriage as a Husband?
Husband, Love Your Wife just as Christ also loved the Church!
Ephesians 5:25-30 – Laying down your life, cherishing and nourishing
1 Peter 3:7 You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
Husband! Live With Your Wife in An Understanding Way!
Husband! Grant Her Honor as Fellow Heir of the Grace of Life!
Husband! What Does This Do For Your Wife?
“It Will Meet the Basic Needs that a Woman Has that only her Husband is designed to Meet!”
Security (Spiritual, Emotional, Physical and Financial)
Emotional Intimacy
Significance
What Does This Look Like in Your Marriage as a Wife?
Wife! Be to Your Husband as You are to the Lord! VS22-23
Ephesians 5:22 Wives, be to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
Wife! See to it that You Respect Your Husband! VS 33
Ephesians 5:33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.
You Are to Love Your Husband! Titus 2:3-5
What Does This Do For Your Husband?
“It Will Meet the Basic Needs that a Man Has that only his Wife is designed to Meet!”
Admiration
Companionship
Physical Intimacy
Structure in the Home
He Attacks the Scriptural Ideals of Marriage:
Marriage: One Man, One Woman, Til Death Parts Them!
The Ideal of Oneness! The Better Way! 1 Corinthians 13
Matthew 19:4 And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from 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 ‘?
The Ideal of Suitability!
Genesis 2:18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”
Colossians 3:18 Wives, be subject to your husbands as is fitting in the Lord 19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.
The Ideal of Permanence (No Severance, No Divorce, No Division)
Matthew 19:6 “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
Assessment!
Do you believe what the word says about your marriage? One, Suitable,
Husband, do you love your wife? Do you
Husband, do you truly seek to understand your wife?
Husband, are you harsh or embittered toward your wife?
Wife do you respect and honor your husband?
Wife are you fulfilling your role as a wife in marriage?
Wife are you affectionately loving your husband?
Husband are you meeting the needs of your wife?
Wife are you meeting the needs of your husband?
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