1. Institution of the Divine. So He gets to define it. 2. It's a good institution. Personally, companionship and intimacy. Societally, globally. Dominion mandate. 3. It's a fallen institution. E.g. Adam blamed Eve. Child bearing harder. Needs grace and diligence. 4. A redemptive institution. Genesis. The seed of the woman....the promise and mechanism of the Saviour to come. 5. A Gospel institution. Points to something beyond itself, Christ and the Church, but in a different way, us with Him. In a spiritual family, seek spiritual children, plan for it.
Yeah, he's excellent. He has an entire series on Romans on RU-vid that our home/small group spent nearly 2 years on. It's on Reformed Theological Seminary's channel.
Loved this message! Thank you for the upload, team Ligonier! I truly can testify Christ alone is enough. Walking with Him, living with and for Him was enough for me. And then the Lord brought my husband my way. It was the perfect timing for both of us. Forget about wishlists, brothers and sisters! The person God meant for you to be with will be the right one, but chances are they will be someone you didn't picture yourself with before! My husband and I are two complete opposite personalities! 😄 We've had many storms since our wedding day on March 18th 2022, but the Lord has been faithful. He pulled us out of the storms and we're doing better now. What a grace and mercy! 🙌🏽 A godly relationship/marriage is worth the wait! Pursue Jesus with all you have and live for Him. When He truly is enough, He will change your life at the perfect time. 🕊 Blessings from the Netherlands! 🙌🏽🌸
Thanks for a great presentation. Remember watching the Royal Wedding a few days after I moved to the UK. Minor technical point - it was 29th July, not 28th.
@Greg LeJacques You are absolutely twisting, they are already unequally yoked so they are to stay married. This verse applies BEFORE you are married, not after. 1Corinthians 7:10 Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from her husband. 11 But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife. Divorce just ain't ok at all if you are a believer, unless there is adultery and even then the focus is on the offending party to repent and be reconciled, divorce last resort.
Until someone addresses the “industry” of marriage, it will continue to decay. The Almighty never set up the officiation of marriage. Man did. Man turned marriage into an industry based institution instead of a spiritual union. Greed is the leaven that funds this pulpit and most others. It is greed that exalts man over God! Greed has blinded many. Many are called… Adam and Eve first marriage! Do our marriages parallel theirs at all? Think it thru. Pray. 🙏🔑✌️
Marriage is the last covenant... The marriage of the Lamb of the Lord God... Jesus Christ and His Bride the Church. The husband must love his wife like himself and be willing to die for her. The bride is to respect her husband... Eph 6...learn this before entering marriage... Make sure the man and the woman know their roles
“At this, mother, who was intensely interested in the conversation, spoke and said: ‘O Gabriel, this man by thy side is my own son and was cared for by these hands from the day of his birth and I am deeply interested in all that is transpiring.’ Genevive now stood to her feet in the chariot and leaning forward clasped her arms to my neck and said: ‘Oh, Gabriel, this man was my husband on earth and most sweetly was our earthly lives spent together. But here we are joined in an eternal union.’ At this the angel laughed and said: ‘Are you married again?’ ‘Oh no, we are not married, for saints do not marry in Heaven, nor do they wish to: but these bonds of the highest friendship will be eternal, will they not?’ ‘Sure,’ said the angel. ‘Your love and openness will be far sweeter than it was on earth.’ ‘But I would like to know. . . and I know thou canst tell me, if the angels themselves ever were in love among themselves with a love similar to that of husband and wife?’ At that question, Gabriel slacked the speed of his chariot and turning his head to glance over his shoulder at . . . said: ‘Thou hast almost put me to blush for we are inferior to you, who have descendants and creations of your own. We have no bride neither bridegroom, but MARRIAGE was such a leading passion with the inhabitants of the earth that our Lord intends perpetuating it to eternity, only CHANGED. (He who has the Bride is the Groom). He is now and ever be the Bridegroom and ALL the saints, you, not us will be His Bride. We are working bees of the great family of man on earth and in Heaven, neither drones nor queens, but we are all content with our sphere of actions. We know no sorrow nor any unfulfilled desire which cannot be fully met here in Heaven or on earth. We are your servants. . .’
@@larryellis5675 ‘At this Mary stood up and said: ‘Oh, Gabriel, this man by my side is my father, from whom I parted when only just an *infant.* I think it must have been thine own chariot which brought me to the care of dear *grandmother* as I learned to call her later.’ ‘At this the chariot stood still and the angel arose and turning himself about he laid his hands upon our heads with the blessings of the chief angel of God and said: ‘Oh, ye *saints of the Most High,* I was present when the morning stars sang together and tuned my harp to that sacred melody of the skies. I am the same now I was then. But before you is *an endless progression,* an eternal destiny, with exaltations, honors, and blessings of which you know but little now.’ (1909, P. 144-145).
