TRUSTING GOD WITH THE MARRIAGE THING.
We are no more mightier than our willingness to fully trust and obey the Father,
Son and holy Spirit...Jlvp
There are a few men spoken of in the bible that tells us a lot about their character. These men all had one thing in common, they all had a relationship with God. Meaning they were close enough to God as to hear his voice. They were given instructions and told what to say on most occasions. In Fact they were men called by God and given a mandate or a purpose to fulfill.Might i just say that everyone who fulfilled their mandates and went on to be examples to follow, all had one thing in common too.
They obeyed God fully.
There is nothing worst than giving instructions to some who knows more about what your trying to impart to them, without them even hearing what your gonna say in the first place. That's just one example. How about the person that no matter what you say or how you say it, they just don't believe you at all. How long can you go on trying to convince them that you are trust worthy. They seem to not have any confidence in your plan or way forward. Despite the fact that you both have proven all the obvious failings. With proof of past disasters that both of you have experienced. They still don't get it.
So what do you think is going to happen next? there is going to come a time perhaps sooner than later when you will have to part ways. Trust is important in every relationship. Especially when your in relationship with God.
Jeroboam
You are living on his his word and trusting in his person. All that God is rides on the fact that God is the only one who really knows you and i. He knew you before you were born. So what is the problem with trust? The problem is innate. And i believe that's why God puts up with our tantrums from time to time. We know he is able, we know he is faithful, we know he wont let us down, but for us it has to be a progressive time of learning to trust the Lord. And God is patient to walk us through the years of learning to know him.
Learning to know God well enough that we know that under no circumstances is he going to change his mind on Sin. And if we knew him well enough, even if only to know this, then we can claim to have some understanding of who God is and what he stands for.
Few days ago i witnessed what is shaping up to be a turning point in this nation and no doubt other nations are looking at this one in many ways as an example. Internally the views of some may render a totally opposite view, but that's to be said anywhere one goes. The turning point i speak of is none other than that of the same sex marriage bill.
Let me save digital ink and cut to the chase here. When a nation who has been given a directive from God to be a light and to be salt, turns from that directive and starts copying the other nations around them. That nation falls under judgment. When that nation claims in God we trust but then starts to exert it's own way of dealing with matters, that nation falls into a path that only leads to judgement. Judgement can come in various ways. Economic collapse social unrest, war.
1 Kings 3
Solomon was one of those mighty men of God who was given untold wealth, because his heart was in the right place in the beginning. He started out in the right place and like his father David, knew he needed God in all his dealings with the children of Israel. A nation whom he realized that there was no way he could govern them on his own. To humble himself before God and wait on God for wisdom would be his way of life as a leader. So God blessed him abundantly, far above any other kings has ever been blessed. Solomon had riches untold and peace of mind in the kingdom to boot. No point having millions and stress to go with it too. God had warned him though. We all like to quote this line and sometimes in a joking way....'With great power comes great responsibility.' Well Solomon had only to stay faithful to God. Of course, to the one who put him in power to begin with. That was not too much for God to ask. When your in a relationship, your asking the silent question too. You know that the future of your relationship and it's longevity depends on fidelity.
So what was Solomon warned about concerning which would bring about his downfall? It was the M word. Marriage is the uniting of two opposites that have come into unity thus making one, opposite in nature/body one in spirit.
Unnatural marriages
Well this was to be quite some deep look into the workings of the word which yielded some truths i found to be closer to home in this present day than i first realized. There were a type of mixed marriages going on that at the time before the God's wrath with the flood, that was unnatural. It should not have been happening but it was. The end result was after a period of time when every imagination of mankind was only evil continually, and after 120 years of Noah's preaching and building the ark, there could be no repentance from the people. His lifestyle of following God's principles was met with utter disdain. Judgement came and as a result the earth was cleansed. You see, sin is of such that it never stops. It keeps on going and asking for more till you are dead. What the governments fail to to see and know is that this situation if allowed to continue will bring the nation down as a whole. Sexuality is the main menu on the list for spiritual perversion. It's part and parcel in occult worship and idolatry. It's apart of apostasy and the one thing that brings about the heart corruption of the heart when used and not honored. Hebrews 13:4
1 Kings 11:1
But Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh. It goes on to list the nations from whom these strange women came from. Not that they were strange in gender or some weird type of female, but strange in their differing lifestyles of spiritual worship. They all had idols whom they worshiped. God had warned Solomon not to marry into these women because of their idolatry practices.
It was not just King Solomon God was concerned about but he was concerned about the nation whom he had given King Solomon to lead. His example would directly influence the nation on a whole. God said, 'Ye shall not go in unto them, neither shall they come in unto you:for surely they will turn your away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
Idolatry-Like Adultery
The fundamental fact is that there is only one God to whom we must worship. To say anything else besides that would be to teach a lie and a deception. To say that God is pleased with same sex marriage would be to lie and to teach a deception, and to say it's ok to practice idolatry. If i love anything more than i love God, that thing whatever it is has become an idol to me. And if i done put it away, i bring God wrath upon me. Perhaps like a husband to his wife when he finds out she has been or is being unfaithful, and likewise. I am not condoning a husband who take rage against his wife, I am just sating the obvious outrage that is felt by mere man. How much more God's heart. So what of the same sex marriage proposal? I don't think words can describe the enormity of such apostasy in our midst today.
Marriage
Keep your heart pure before God my friends. God say to keep the marriage bed pure and undefiled. You may not be perfected yet but God is working on you and with you. Your marriage may not be the one it started out to be, but that doesn't mean it's not going to be what God wants it to be. Keep God in the middle and the top of your marriage and everywhere possible you can let God be involved and your marriage will have no other choice but to be successful. Keep yourselves free of idols, let your heart always seek after God's heart, individually and as a couple.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible. Genesis 6
There is nothing worst than giving instructions to some who knows more about what your trying to impart to them, without them even hearing what your gonna say in the first place. That's just one example. How about the person that no matter what you say or how you say it, they just don't believe you at all. How long can you go on trying to convince them that you are trust worthy. They seem to not have any confidence in your plan or way forward. Despite the fact that you both have proven all the obvious failings. With proof of past disasters that both of you have experienced. They still don't get it.
So what do you think is going to happen next? there is going to come a time perhaps sooner than later when you will have to part ways. Trust is important in every relationship. Especially when your in relationship with God.
Jeroboam
You are living on his his word and trusting in his person. All that God is rides on the fact that God is the only one who really knows you and i. He knew you before you were born. So what is the problem with trust? The problem is innate. And i believe that's why God puts up with our tantrums from time to time. We know he is able, we know he is faithful, we know he wont let us down, but for us it has to be a progressive time of learning to trust the Lord. And God is patient to walk us through the years of learning to know him.
Learning to know God well enough that we know that under no circumstances is he going to change his mind on Sin. And if we knew him well enough, even if only to know this, then we can claim to have some understanding of who God is and what he stands for.
Few days ago i witnessed what is shaping up to be a turning point in this nation and no doubt other nations are looking at this one in many ways as an example. Internally the views of some may render a totally opposite view, but that's to be said anywhere one goes. The turning point i speak of is none other than that of the same sex marriage bill.
Let me save digital ink and cut to the chase here. When a nation who has been given a directive from God to be a light and to be salt, turns from that directive and starts copying the other nations around them. That nation falls under judgment. When that nation claims in God we trust but then starts to exert it's own way of dealing with matters, that nation falls into a path that only leads to judgement. Judgement can come in various ways. Economic collapse social unrest, war.
1 Kings 3
Solomon was one of those mighty men of God who was given untold wealth, because his heart was in the right place in the beginning. He started out in the right place and like his father David, knew he needed God in all his dealings with the children of Israel. A nation whom he realized that there was no way he could govern them on his own. To humble himself before God and wait on God for wisdom would be his way of life as a leader. So God blessed him abundantly, far above any other kings has ever been blessed. Solomon had riches untold and peace of mind in the kingdom to boot. No point having millions and stress to go with it too. God had warned him though. We all like to quote this line and sometimes in a joking way....'With great power comes great responsibility.' Well Solomon had only to stay faithful to God. Of course, to the one who put him in power to begin with. That was not too much for God to ask. When your in a relationship, your asking the silent question too. You know that the future of your relationship and it's longevity depends on fidelity.
So what was Solomon warned about concerning which would bring about his downfall? It was the M word. Marriage is the uniting of two opposites that have come into unity thus making one, opposite in nature/body one in spirit.
Unnatural marriages
Well this was to be quite some deep look into the workings of the word which yielded some truths i found to be closer to home in this present day than i first realized. There were a type of mixed marriages going on that at the time before the God's wrath with the flood, that was unnatural. It should not have been happening but it was. The end result was after a period of time when every imagination of mankind was only evil continually, and after 120 years of Noah's preaching and building the ark, there could be no repentance from the people. His lifestyle of following God's principles was met with utter disdain. Judgement came and as a result the earth was cleansed. You see, sin is of such that it never stops. It keeps on going and asking for more till you are dead. What the governments fail to to see and know is that this situation if allowed to continue will bring the nation down as a whole. Sexuality is the main menu on the list for spiritual perversion. It's part and parcel in occult worship and idolatry. It's apart of apostasy and the one thing that brings about the heart corruption of the heart when used and not honored. Hebrews 13:4
1 Kings 11:1
But Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh. It goes on to list the nations from whom these strange women came from. Not that they were strange in gender or some weird type of female, but strange in their differing lifestyles of spiritual worship. They all had idols whom they worshiped. God had warned Solomon not to marry into these women because of their idolatry practices.
It was not just King Solomon God was concerned about but he was concerned about the nation whom he had given King Solomon to lead. His example would directly influence the nation on a whole. God said, 'Ye shall not go in unto them, neither shall they come in unto you:for surely they will turn your away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
Idolatry-Like Adultery
The fundamental fact is that there is only one God to whom we must worship. To say anything else besides that would be to teach a lie and a deception. To say that God is pleased with same sex marriage would be to lie and to teach a deception, and to say it's ok to practice idolatry. If i love anything more than i love God, that thing whatever it is has become an idol to me. And if i done put it away, i bring God wrath upon me. Perhaps like a husband to his wife when he finds out she has been or is being unfaithful, and likewise. I am not condoning a husband who take rage against his wife, I am just sating the obvious outrage that is felt by mere man. How much more God's heart. So what of the same sex marriage proposal? I don't think words can describe the enormity of such apostasy in our midst today.
Marriage
Keep your heart pure before God my friends. God say to keep the marriage bed pure and undefiled. You may not be perfected yet but God is working on you and with you. Your marriage may not be the one it started out to be, but that doesn't mean it's not going to be what God wants it to be. Keep God in the middle and the top of your marriage and everywhere possible you can let God be involved and your marriage will have no other choice but to be successful. Keep yourselves free of idols, let your heart always seek after God's heart, individually and as a couple.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible. Genesis 6
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