November 2019

GETTING THE BEST IN MARRIAGE (PART III) Judges 9: 8-15; Psalm 144:11-15; Song of Solomon 6:8-13 Nothing exists for its own sake. The sun is to give light and warmth (Psalm 84:11), the herbs provide food for man (Hebrew 6:7), every creature of God is created to give and provide services in a peculiar sense. The best giver in nature is the earth; it is interesting to know also that the best receiver is the same earth! Ecclesiastes 3:20.

GETTING THE BEST IN MARRIAGE (PART IV) James 1: 17, 18. Genesis 24: 1-28, Proverbs 18:22, Psalm 32:8-11. “Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but the woman that fears the Lord, she shall be praised” (Proverbs 31: 30). A lot of believers nowadays have shunned and denied the way of the cross: “Then said I, Lo I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do Thy will, O my God: yea Thy law is within my heart”. Psalm 40:7,8.

GETTING THE BEST IN MARRIAGE (PART V) Ruth. 3:1-18, 4:1-13, Hebrews 13:4-16. To every intending couple, the Word of God through Paul Apostle must be observed and kept as their sure anchor. “Let all things be done decently and in order:” 1 Corinthians 14:40. No genuine and heaven-minded Christian must handle marriage carelessly. It is a stage along the Christian pilgrim journey where maturity and fruit of the Spirit in believers are tested.

GETTING THE BEST IN MARRIAGE (PART VI) Ephesians 5:25-28. 505. 4:7 1Corinthians 10:29-33. 1Peter 4:11 A Christian wedding is a reminder of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, when Christ and the Saints in fine linen, clean and white shall be joined together, forever! Revelation 19:7-9. Christ Marriage must therefore bear the image and resemblance of that which is holy and heavenly. Not to be done with excesses of wantonness and drunkenness (Romans 13:10-14), but in love and fear of God, doing that which is honourable, praise worthy and excellent in the sight of God. Philippians 4:8-9.