| MARTHA ROBINSON |
It gives me great pleasure to write
these things to you! These are exciting times! God has great plans for your
life! Your future looks bright! For it is written: “I know the thoughts that I
think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not evil, to give you
an expected end.” Jeremiah 29:11-Bible
I bring you greetings in the name of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who loved us, and washed us from our sins in his
own blood, and has made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to Him be
glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen!
I trust that my writing will make for
good (instruction to be followed), and whole heartedly quiet time reading. I
suggest that you read it undisturbed! Meditate it and let the Lord bless you!
PART I: THE
INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE
Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God said, “It is not good
(sufficient, satisfactory), that the man should be alone; I will make a
companion (a helper) for him.” I will make someone to share and minister to his
needs, someone adapted and complimentary to him! The man is incomplete without
his (wife)!
The Making and
Presentation of Woman!
Genesis
2:21
And
the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept. While he
slept the Lord God took one of his ribs and closed up the place from which he
had removed it with flesh. God performed the first surgery! Smile!
Genesis
2:22
And the rib which the Lord God had taken
from the man He built up and fashioned into a woman, and He brought her unto
the man! This is where we get the phrase: “Who gives this woman to be wedded to
this man?” It is usually the bride’s father!
This is why marriage is so important to
the father. The father actually gives his daughter away to another man! This is
a serious thing for the father because all fathers prize their daughters
highly, and all fathers want the best for their daughters!
Genesis
2:23-25
“This is it!” explained Adam. “She is
part of my flesh and bone! She shall be called woman because she was taken out
of man.” This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to
his wife in such a way that the two become one in the Lord. And the man and his
wife were both naked and were not embarrassed or ashamed in each other’s
presence.
PART II: DON’T
BE UNEQUALLY YOKED!
(GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS ON MARRIAGE!)
II
Corinthians 6:14-18
Verse
14
Don’t be teamed up with those who do not
love the Lord, for what do people of God have in common with the people of sin?
How can light live with darkness?
Verse
15
And what harmony can there be between
Christ and the devil? How can a Christian partner with one who doesn’t believe?
Verses
16-18
And what union can there between God’s
temple and idols? For you are God’s temple, the home of the living God, and God
has said of you, “I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their
God and they shall be my people.” That is why the Lord has said; Leave them,
separate yourselves from them; don’t touch their unclean things, and I will
welcome you, and be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters.
The Lord is saying that the two people who
marry must share the same beliefs! Our God, (the God who made heaven and
earth), demands that we serve only Him. It is written: “Thou shalt have no
other Gods before me!”
PART III: THE
DEMANDS OF MARRIAGE
Matthew 19:3-6
The Pharisees also came unto him,
(Jesus), tempting him, and saying unto him, It is lawful for a man to put away
his wife for every cause?
“Do you permit divorce?” they asked.
“Don’t you read the scriptures?” He replied. “In them it is written that at the
beginning God created man and woman, and that a man shall leave his father and
mother, and be forever united to his wife. The two shall become one- no longer
two, but one! And no man may divorce what God has joined together.” (The Living Bible)
Verses 7-9
“Then, why, did Moses say a man may
divorce his wife by merely writing her a letter of dismissal?” Jesus replied,
“Moses did that in recognition of your hard and evil hearts, but it was not
what God had originally intended. And I tell you this, that anyone who divorces
his wife, except for fornication, and marries commits adultery.”
PART IV: BASIS
FOR A STRONG MARRIAGE
(GOD’S ORDER FOR A HAPPY MARRIAGE)
Ephesians
5:21-33
Honor Christ by submitting to each
other! Wives, you must submit to your husband’s leadership in the same
way you submit to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as
Christ is the head of the Church. (He gave his very life to take care of it and
to be its Savior!) So you wives must willingly obey your husbands in
everything, just as the Church obeys Christ!
And you husbands, show the same
kind of love to your wives as Christ showed to the Church when he died for her,
to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God’s Word; so that He could
give her to himself as a glorious Church without a single spot or wrinkle or
and other blemish, being holy and without a single fault.
That is how husbands should treat
their wives, loving them as parts of themselves. For since a man and his wife
are now one, a man is really doing himself a favor and loving himself, when he
loves his wife! No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as
Christ cares for his body, the Church of which we are part.
That the husband and wife are one
body is proved by the scripture which says, “A man must leave his father and
mother when he marries, so that he can be perfectly joined to his wife, and the
two shall be one.” I know that this is hard to understand, but it is an
illustration of the way we are parts of the body Christ.
So again I say, a man must love his wife
as a part of himself; and the wife must see to it that she deeply respects her
husband-obeying, praising, and honoring him.
I
Peter 3:1-8
Wives, fit in with
your husband’s plans; for then if they refuse to listen when you talk to them
about the Lord, they will be won by your respectful, pure behavior. Your godly
lives will speak to them better than any words. Don’t be concerned about the
outward beauty (so much) that depends on jewelry, or beautiful clothes (only),
or fancy hair arrangements.
Be beautiful inside, in your hearts,
with the lasting ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit which is so precious to
God. That kind of deep beauty was seen in the godly women in the Bible days; these
women trusted God and fitted in with their husband’s plans.
Sarah, for instance, obeyed her husband,
Abraham, honoring him as head of the house. And if you do the same, you will be
following in her steps like good daughters and doing what is right; then you will
not need to fear [offending your husbands].
You husbands must be careful of
your wives, being thoughtful of their needs and honoring them as fragile.
Remember that you and your wife are partners in receiving God’s blessing, and
if you don’t treat her as you should, your prayers will not be answered
quickly.
Verses 9-12
Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t snap
back at those who say unkind things about you. Instead, pray for God’s help for
them, for we are to be kind to others, and God will bless us for it. If you
want a happy, good life, keep control of your tongue, and guard your lips from
telling lies.
Turn away from evil and do good. Try to
live in peace even if you have to run after it to catch and hold it! For the
Lord is watching his children, listening to their prayers; but the Lord’s face
is hard against those who do evil.
I
CORINTHIANS 13:4-8 (The Amplified Version of the Bible)
Love
endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with
jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.
It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude
(unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly.
Love
(God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is
not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account
of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].
*This type of
love will never see the inside of a divorce court!*
[This
love] … does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when
right and truth prevail. Love bears up under anything and everything that comes.
[It] is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless
under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].
Love
never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].
*The reason that
love never fails is because God is love and God never fails!*
May the good Lord God, bless you and keep
you, for His honor and for His service! Amen!
Laborers
together with God! Fishers of men!
Martha
Robinson
The Epistle of Marriage
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