Marriage: A Covenant, Not a Contract (Part 1 of 2) - 06/10/2022

[@toddradfordjr.3669]

Good morning to all, & may each of you here have a Blessed Day🙏🏻☕

[@mattmallecoccio8378]

It's imperative to know AHEAD of time what marriage both IS and ISN'T. As a single man, it is good to prepare for a possible earthly marriage by being true and loving to the Lover of my Soul. That being Jesus Christ alone. In the series To Marry or not to marry, I learned from Pastor Begg that devotion to Jesus is a prerequisite for a devotion to a woman.

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[@beasst55]

Amen- praise our Lord and God!!

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[@mattmallecoccio8378]

As a younger man, a teen and 20 something, I was saved, but not devoted - like Gomer was when Hosea married her. It took me too long to become hopelessly devoted to God.

[@toddradfordjr.3669]

Hello Matt, you are Saved🙏🏻, but it doesn't mean you weren't/aren't devoted enough! Our spiritual walk with our Savior Jesus Christ is continually growing day by day, meaning stay in the Word of God daily, He will make things known to us by our relationship with the Holy Spirit! None of us are perfect, only Him, but we can watch & listen for His promptings, & grow to be more like Him🙏🏻

[@NipkowDisk]

Thank you for your balanced messages, Uncle Allie!

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[@mattmallecoccio8378]

Thank you, Pastor Begg

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[@simuljustuset_peccator]

Blessed message!

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[@EvangelistRBColbert]

No one should ever look at marriage as a contract. Many people get married and stay married due to money or some other form of security.

[@brianhemmert9394]

I respect your sincere insight into these important issues for our time, however I respectfully disagree with your exegesis on remarriage (for the believer) after divorce. You emphasize over and over the life long covenant of marriage, but give it all away at the end. As many teachers today do? Romans 7:2-3 & 1st Corinthians 7:39 are quite clear marriage is for life, death and only death ends the sacred covenant of marriage. Pastors will have a tuff time explaining to all mighty God why they did not hold his word above his name?

[@toddradfordjr.3669]

"As many teachers today do?" The verses you've quoted here from the Book of Romans, & the Book of 1 Corinthians are very clear, & we KNOW these things to be True, the very Word of God, not to be rewritten or changed by others! "And I solemnly declare to everyone who hears the words of prophecy written in this book: If anyone adds anything to what is written here, God will add to that person the plagues described in this book." Revelation 22:18🙏🏻

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[@ErikaRodriguez-db5kg]

My soon to be ex-husband and I were unfaithful to each other but he would always ask me to forgive him and I had hoped that he would also since he was the one who would tell me to find someone to LOVE ME? He would also verbally and physically abuse me because he never truly LOVED ME. He would preach about GOD and he memorized GOD'S word but he never actually followed it with his heart. He would verbally and physically abuse our 3 daughters and I for 33 years of our marriage. We got separated in 2019 and are still going through the divorce process. He always asked for forgiveness and I forgave him many time his infidelity and all the verbal and physical abuse that he did against me. Because I loved him so much but he did not love me enough to forgive him. This only proved to me that he never had GOD'S love at all. And now we are going through the divorce. I even was considering to us one last chance and start going to marriage counseling and spiritual support as well but like I said, he really did not love me enough to forgive so could start again. Anyway I feel sorry for him because he really destroyed our marriage in the end. I walk alone with my Savior and I have asked him to forgive me for all of sins and to make me clean as his words says. I know he loves me and has forgiven me. This I know for he gave his one and only son to die for this wretched sinner. I will follow my Lord, my King, my God of the Bible for ever and ever in Jesus name. Amen!

[@vaquera9368]

My husband divorced me in 2016 to remarry another Christian woman he had met on a dating site. He was on the site while we were married. We were married 26 years. He even introduced her to three of our four children while he was still married to me. He bifurcated our marriage divorced me in March of 2016 and married in June of 2016, three months later. He had an affair three years into our marriage which I forgave him. When we had separated because of so many issues, he started to date telling me and our children he had divorced me in his “heart.” This was a man who was raised in the mission field with BOTH parents who were pastors. He was always leaving home for days when we had issues leaving me with our four children. I was desperate trying to save our marriage running to many of our Christian friends and NONE of then wanted to help even speak to him. He told me I should have stayed Catholic because I would do anything to save our marriage which I replied, “It has nothing to do with being Catholic but with what God’s Word says.” The effects of his choice has devastated our family. Three of our children are now divorced, two had married non-believers except one who married a believer but she wasn’t walking with the Lord. None of our children follow the Lord when we were once homeschoolers and they know the Truth. I also had a meddling mother-in-law who at one time was my confidante and lead me to the Lord in 1987. He tells our young adult children the second wife IS the wife from God. I would advise you to seek Christian counseling. People have no fear for the Lord nowadays nor submit to His ways. I’m sorry you are going through this. I’ll pray for you. Bless you.

[@ErikaRodriguez-db5kg]

@@vaquera9368 Yes, I will continue to seek for the Lord's love and of course church support and therapy. I used to do without my soon to be ex-husband because he always said that I was the one with all the problems. I thank you for sharing your life story and I appreciate it. I thank God that I am not alone in this battle. Thank you so much again for sharing and God bless you.

[@vaquera9368]

@@ErikaRodriguez-db5kg my husband told me in FRONT of our children I could go out with male friends. We were separated but seeking counseling. He said that TWICE to me. I told him, we are married! Why did he say that?? Because he was seeing other women and wanted me to do what he was doing, which I didn’t know that at the time. Oh, I’ve been through hell and back with him. Too many to count especially in court. I had to remind him in front of the judge GOD was in that courtroom because he was lying. God takes care of it all eventually. We all give account to the Lord for everything. I’ve grown closer to the Lord and know Him like I never have before. One night, the Lord told me when I was outside looking at the stars (I live in the mountains) that the sin in the garden with Adam blaming the woman just had moved into the household. Many men still pointing the finger at the woman…it truly breaks my hearts for many marriages. If BOTH would submit to the Lord’s ways, marriages families could be saved from this system which devalues marriage. I’m a big advocate for marriage even with what I’ve gone through. The Lord is GOOD no matter what! Trust Him in everything like Proverbs 3 says. Seek Him, acknowledge HIM, and forgive yourself and He won’t fail you.

[@vaquera9368]

More people should be coming along side you and him especially from church. It’s EVERYONES business when a marriage is failing! Bible says we are ONE body in CHRIST and when one body part hurts/suffers the whole body hurts! Upsets me people can’t even do what scripture says! I am glad you shared because I will pray for you. Bless you for being genuine on here. I hear your pain. You wouldn’t have shared this otherwise. God sees your heart and hears your prayers. He does. He won’t forsake you. ♥️ “If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.” 1 Corinthians 12:26