Top 5 Reasons To get Married

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Top 5 reasons why NOT to get married;

1. To Be Happy (wrong answer)

• Happiness is never found in people/places/or things

• So much unnecessary hurt created

Proverbs 3:13 (AMPC)

Job 5:17 “Happy is the man God corrects”

Psalm 127:4-5 (KJ)

2. To Find Value and Worth (wrong answer)

• That only comes from Jesus

• Go vertical (God) not horizontal (man)

• Price Paid ?

1 peter 1:18-19

3. To Complete Me (wrong answer)

• While we compliment one another, God makes us complete

Colossians 2:9-10 (NLT)

4. To Get Out Of Trouble (wrong answer)

1 Corinthians 7:28

• Marriage is a lot of things, but a “trouble free zone” is not one of them

• It has its own set of troubles

• The road to a healthy, successful marriage is under constant construction

5. I thought I would give it a try and see how it went

• Marriage is not a social experiment

• It is a covenant

Malachi 2:14 “wife of thy covenant” “wife by covenant”

Top 5 Reasons on why TO get married;

1. Companionship

• Partners in the grace of life

Genesis 2:18 (MSG) (AMP)

Malachi 2:14 (NKJ)

• Life was not meant to be lived alone

2. To Become One Flesh

• No longer two but one

Genesis 2:19-25

Malachi 2:14

• She was In him

• God brought her back

• Adam called her woman (Eve)

• They were as one in marriage as in creation

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Genesis 5:1-2 (kJ)

3. Avoid Fornication

1 Corinthians 7:1-2 (KJ)

1 Corinthians 6:18 (NLT)

• Celebrate marriage not fornication

• Sexually experiment and enjoy in the covenant of marriage

4. Pro-Create

• Be Fruitful and multiply

Malachi 2:14-15

Genesis 1:28

5. Reveals Christ and the Church

Ephesians 5:30-33

• Marriage is holy in symbol

• Marriage is spiritual not just natural