WEDDINGS, MARRIAGES, AND COVENANTS (4 OF 6)
by Roger Thomas
Scripture: GENESIS 2:18-25
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Weddings, Marriages, and Covenants (4 of 6)
Family Matters
Roger Thomas
Genesis 2:18-25
Today, I want to explore the biblical understanding of marriage. Our text from Genesis 2 is where it all begins. It is this passage that is quoted throughout the rest of the Bible to explain why marriage is important and what it is to mean. I want to get to the topic by examining the differences between weddings and marriages. The Bible says a great deal about marriages and very little about weddings. In our culture, however, we tend to concentrate enormous planning and money on the wedding while giving only the slightest thought to the marriage that follows. Consider three differences between a wedding and a marriage:
Difference Number One: A wedding is for a day. A marriage is for a lifetime. Don't misunderstand. I have nothing against weddings. Quite to the contrary, I think weddings are wonderful celebrations. As a minister, I have probably been to more weddings than anyone in this room. I remember the very first wedding I ever attended. I was nineteen years old and I was the officiating minister. I have officiated at many since.
I, of course, remember my own wedding thirty-five plus years ago. I was twenty years old. In Illinois at the time guys were not of age until twenty-one so my mother had to go to the courthouse to sign for my wedding license. The wedding itself was uneventful except that Rose dropped her engagement ring just before she was to walk down the aisle and had to crawl behind a foyer door in her wedding gown to retrieve it.
Some of the guys in our wedding party attempted to make our honeymoon trip memorable. In addition to the string of cans behind the car and shaving lather on the windows, someone got the wise idea to put a handwritten note by our gas cap that read, "This wedding is a hoax. I have been kidnapped. Call the police." This was before self-serve gas pumps. Fortunately, someone had second thoughts at the last minute and warned ...
Family Matters
Roger Thomas
Genesis 2:18-25
Today, I want to explore the biblical understanding of marriage. Our text from Genesis 2 is where it all begins. It is this passage that is quoted throughout the rest of the Bible to explain why marriage is important and what it is to mean. I want to get to the topic by examining the differences between weddings and marriages. The Bible says a great deal about marriages and very little about weddings. In our culture, however, we tend to concentrate enormous planning and money on the wedding while giving only the slightest thought to the marriage that follows. Consider three differences between a wedding and a marriage:
Difference Number One: A wedding is for a day. A marriage is for a lifetime. Don't misunderstand. I have nothing against weddings. Quite to the contrary, I think weddings are wonderful celebrations. As a minister, I have probably been to more weddings than anyone in this room. I remember the very first wedding I ever attended. I was nineteen years old and I was the officiating minister. I have officiated at many since.
I, of course, remember my own wedding thirty-five plus years ago. I was twenty years old. In Illinois at the time guys were not of age until twenty-one so my mother had to go to the courthouse to sign for my wedding license. The wedding itself was uneventful except that Rose dropped her engagement ring just before she was to walk down the aisle and had to crawl behind a foyer door in her wedding gown to retrieve it.
Some of the guys in our wedding party attempted to make our honeymoon trip memorable. In addition to the string of cans behind the car and shaving lather on the windows, someone got the wise idea to put a handwritten note by our gas cap that read, "This wedding is a hoax. I have been kidnapped. Call the police." This was before self-serve gas pumps. Fortunately, someone had second thoughts at the last minute and warned ...
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