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God’s Design for Marriage (3): Preaching a Silent Sermon In A Secular Age
Series: Genesis 2: God’s Design for Life And Relationships In an age where truth is relative and marriage is redefined believers preach the loudest through godly conduct—especially in marriage.
Locations & Times
Living Grace Foursquare Church
3646 N Rancho Dr, Las Vegas, NV 89130, USA
Sunday 8:30 AM
Sunday 10:30 AM
I. The Cultural Conflict
Secularism is the cultural beliefs and practices of western society that reimagines a worldview of all aspects of humanity human life away from a God-informed identity to self-established items, as a result of the dawn of the post Christian and secular age.
The 6 Lies of Secularism:
1. You need to be true to yourself.
2. You are free to live however you want, as long as it does not harm.
3. No one has the right to say what's right or wrong.
4. Uncertainty is the ultimate expression of sincerity.
5. Your experiences and emotions are the authorities of your reality.
6. Happiness is the goal; Pain is the enemy
Secularism is the cultural beliefs and practices of western society that reimagines a worldview of all aspects of humanity human life away from a God-informed identity to self-established items, as a result of the dawn of the post Christian and secular age.
The 6 Lies of Secularism:
1. You need to be true to yourself.
2. You are free to live however you want, as long as it does not harm.
3. No one has the right to say what's right or wrong.
4. Uncertainty is the ultimate expression of sincerity.
5. Your experiences and emotions are the authorities of your reality.
6. Happiness is the goal; Pain is the enemy
The author concludes: "The sooner we move away from the myth of the so-called traditional biblical marriage, the better prepared we will be to discuss what constitutes a family in the 21st century."
“This interpretation is a form of hyper-skepticism, which currently takes the form of postmodernism. It says textual meaning is unstable and cannot be nailed down. Culturally or in the bigger picture, traditions and certainties should be overthrown”. James Arlandson
“This interpretation is a form of hyper-skepticism, which currently takes the form of postmodernism. It says textual meaning is unstable and cannot be nailed down. Culturally or in the bigger picture, traditions and certainties should be overthrown”. James Arlandson
II. God’s Design
Genesis 2: 23 Then the man said, bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”[i]. 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
Genesis 2: 23 Then the man said, bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”[i]. 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
III. The Silent Sermon
1 Peter 3 Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, 2 when they see your respectful and pure conduct.
Your changed life speaks louder than your words.
Sometimes a wife has the best husband and sometimes a wife makes the best husband out of her man—not always by your words to him but by your words to God .
1 Peter 3 Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, 2 when they see your respectful and pure conduct.
Your changed life speaks louder than your words.
Sometimes a wife has the best husband and sometimes a wife makes the best husband out of her man—not always by your words to him but by your words to God .
IV. Living Counter-Culturally in Marriage
1. Sometimes God tells us to endure suffering for His sake
**Don’t Submit to Sin
**Don’t Submit to physical abuse to you or your children
a. Boundaries? Yes
b. Leave? “What if God is calling me to suffer in this
**Don’t Submit to Sin
**Don’t Submit to physical abuse to you or your children
a. Boundaries? Yes
b. Leave? “What if God is calling me to suffer in this
V. A Call to Husbands
In the same way
1. Husbands, live with your wife
a. He lives with her, not solely roommates.
b. He is not passive but actively living with her
c. With understanding
i. Make it your life-long ambition to get to know her. Get your PHD in your wife.
ii. Ask.
1. Husbands, live with your wife
a. He lives with her, not solely roommates.
b. He is not passive but actively living with her
c. With understanding
i. Make it your life-long ambition to get to know her. Get your PHD in your wife.
ii. Ask.
1. Honor
2. Respect
3. Fellow heir of the grace of life.
a. Else
—> Hindered prayer.
i. God takes this seriously!
ii. He cares so much for the godly wife that is dishonored and disrespected that he blocks her husband’s prayers.
iii. God hears her pain before He hears your prayers
2. Respect
3. Fellow heir of the grace of life.
a. Else
—> Hindered prayer.
i. God takes this seriously!
ii. He cares so much for the godly wife that is dishonored and disrespected that he blocks her husband’s prayers.
iii. God hears her pain before He hears your prayers
Marriage is not a power struggle—it’s a picture of the Gospel
Don’t just preach with words, live the message of Christ
Everything begins with relationship with Jesus!
Don’t just preach with words, live the message of Christ
Everything begins with relationship with Jesus!