𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐲 | 𝐆𝐨𝐝’𝐬 𝐎𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐞

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬!

• those secure in identity can give and receive
• the insecure only sell as little as they believe they need to in order to get what they cannot do without
  Marriage is Between Two Priests!
  Freedom from Sexual Politics and Power Plays!
• power of tradition/religion/submission, power of the “new woman”
• how can you have power and intimancy at the same time? Love and coercion?
• male and female is a calling for time, not an identity for eternity, Mark 12:18- 27
• eternal identity of individual is priest & there is only one class of priest- royal, holy! I Peter 2:4 -10
• corporate identity of church is both female, ie, the bride and male, ie, the one new man
• male and female have different spheres of authority, leadership and roles in family life
• do those roles carry over into sexual intimacy? No!
• equal authority/power over one another’s bodies, I Corinthians 7: 4
• what does this mean? It means no sexual politics, power struggles, no hierarchy in the relationship.
• it means opportunity to die to self
• it means sex is not god; I Corinthians 7 teaches that the best is to remain single unto the Lord!
• if sex is god that gives the other power over me, ie, that gives power to the power plays
• suspend marital relations only by agreement, only for a time and only for prayer and fasting
• sexual practices within marriage? Hebrews 13:4 and again, I Corinthians 7:4
• birth control issues? No abortion or abortion inducers otherwise freedom to life and voice of God
  Marriage is not for your entertainment and your “rights” primarily. That self-life standard is sold to you by the world.
  <<<<<<<<<<<<
  Again, marriage is not a place to hide from God’s Word. It’s a place to explore a close-proximity relationship to help each other be more like Jesus.
  And marriage is not to be pursued for self-interests. It must not be pursued on the basis of what you want for yourself, rather than what would best serve God. “MY house”—“MY family”—“MY time”—“MY day off”—“MY yard”—“MY job”—“MY dinner table”…. These are very weak and destructive expressions of one that is not connected to the Head and the Body of Christ.
  People who live that way will not See the Kingdom in the Lives around them, beyond the middle-class, cultural counterfeits. Don’t settle for that! God has designed you for better!
  And never, ever, EVER marry someone based on wishful thinking—hoping that someday “they’ll be a man of God or woman of God.” Only marry based on what is proven and bears fruit, not on what you hope it will be someday if they “grow into it.”
  You must forever live with what you decide in these matters. Don’t be naïve or self-deceived, or let your hormones rule you and ruin your life!
  The human body is just a decaying earth-suit that ends up shriveled and stretched and ripped in a short amount of time anyway.
  Be wise! Be governed by the Spirit, seeing “no man after the flesh,” as Paul said. Nothing is judged or decided by “the seeing of the eye or the hearing of the ear” if we are walking with God.
  A marriage is not meant to be a hiding place. It is meant to be a place to bring each other to the highest possible place in the shortest amount of time.

So, DON’T SHRINK BACK from that responsibility.

“We’re neither married nor given in marriage in heaven,” Jesus taught.
A marriage is not meant to be a hiding place. It is meant to be a place to bring each other to the highest possible place in the shortest amount of time.

So, DON’T SHRINK BACK from that responsibility.

“We’re neither married nor given in marriage in heaven,” Jesus taught

Polygamy
The first shortcoming, polygamy—more specifically, polygyny, marrying multiple wives—violates God’s instituted pattern of marital monogamy. While it was certainly within God’s prerogative and power to make more than one wife for the man, God only made Eve.
Yet within six generations after the fall of humanity, barely after Adam had died, Lamech took two wives (Genesis 4:19).
Later, prominent men in Israel’s history such as Abraham, Esau, Jacob, Gideon, Elkanah, David, Solomon, and others engaged in polygamy. However, not only did polygamous marriage fall short of God’s original design, it regularly resulted in disruptive favoritism, jealousy between competing wives, and decline into idolatry.
<<<
The One Flesh Principal and Consequences of Sexual Sin…. I Corinthians 6:16- 17

• sexual sin is not worse than any other but it has different consequences
• God designed physical union to involve union of the whole person, ie, they become one
• spiritual ties, soul ties and physical ties hold them together through life
• multiple partners means ties to different people and no strong ties to any one person
• if virgins when they marry, only about 5% will divorce, if not about 50% will divorce
• multiple partners means that I have given away of myself and received from many, the feeling of emptiness and the loss of identity which can drive to more relationships
• sexual relations are a prime avenue for transfer of unclean spirits