MARRIAGE

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman only, no third human being is involved. There was no other person in the Garden of Eden besides Adam and Eve. Marriage must be between a man and a woman not a man and a man or a woman and a woman. There is human and demonic invention to foil God’s pattern of marriage.

Marriage is a relationship between two people who share a common identity or origin and therefore equal in worth and statue before God. Genesis 1:27. Adam and Eve were both made in the image of God-common identity or origin. Adam understood that fact as soon as he set his eyes on Eve, which is why he exclaimed, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh”. In other words, this is now somebody who is identical to me. If your marriage is such that one person is looked upon as inferior either because of gender, education or otherwise, know that in the beginning it was not so.

Adam realized that none of the animals in the garden shared his identity or origin. None was made in the image of God. Genesis 2:18, 20. When a husband does not consider his wife as equal to him, he is simply unconsciously telling God that his life is like one of those animals that were not made in the image of God.

If you don’t consider your spouse as equal in worth and status to you, you cannot be one flesh with her. You will be unequally yoked. Marriage is a relationship of commitment where two become one. It is not a relationship were two people come to live together. In marriage we don’t talk of togetherness but oneness, one flesh, one asset, etc.  After marriage, the husband and wife are not two different persons living together but one person consisting of a head (the husband) and a body (the wife). Ephesians 5:23, 28. For the husband is the head of the wife............so husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own life loves himself....”  in fact the woman was called Eve because she was taken from  man. God took Adam’s rib and brought it back up to him as a woman.

                            

Marriage is a relationship which is publicly acknowledged, that is , it is done in public. It entails a leaving of parents and if it is not publicly done the parents may be tempted to know that the marriage couples have not left them and this may bring problems in their marital home.