1 Corinthians 7:17-24 Last Lord’s Day evening we read some verses from later in this same chapter 7 of 1 Corinthians, verses in which Paul seems to say that, all things considered, the single life is the life to be preferred for Christians, not requiring them to divide their interests between the Lord and a […]
Two more sermons will conclude our series of evening sermons on the Bible’s doctrine and ethics of marriage, tonight’s and next Lord’s Day evening’s sermon on singleness. I’m sure that I could have covered more subjects than I have, but one must make an end somewhere and I think I have treated the Bible’s primary […]
We are these Lord’s Day evenings considering the Bible’s ethics of marriage having spent some weeks first on the Bible’s theology of marriage. We always have both in the Bible: the indicative and the imperative; what is and what this means for our conduct. How ought men and women to live together as husband and […]
Genesis 2:23-24 It has been some time since our last sermon in this series on marriage, so let me remind you where we were when the series was interrupted. Having considered the Bible’s theology of marriage, we are now considering its ethics of marriage, how husbands and wives are to live and relate to one […]
Genesis 2:23-24 To refresh our memories after being away from our subject for two weeks, we took seven Lord’s Day evenings to consider the Bible’s theology of marriage; to answer the question: what is marriage? More recently we have begun to consider the Bible’s ethics of marriage; what it teaches about the responsibilities of husbands […]
Genesis 3:1-19 We have discussed at length the Bible’s theology of marriage and began, Last Lord’s Day evening, to consider its ethics of marriage. How are husbands and wives to live in the married state? We began with Ephesians 5 and Paul’s famous assertion of a distinction between husbands and wives and talked about how […]
Ephesians 5:22-33 Our text this evening is Paul to the Ephesians 5:22-33. I realize that this text is beset with all manner of interesting detail that is worthy of comment, but I am going to simply read it through as I want this evening to deal not with the specifics of Paul’s argument but with […]
We have been dealing these past Lord’s Day evenings with the Bible’s theology of marriage, or the Bible’s definition of marriage. We have found in the Word of God that marriage is an institution of human life, established at the creation, by which the human race is organized in families; that marriage is a relationship […]
So far we have developed the Bible’s theology of marriage this way: 1) Marriage is a creation ordinance, God’s way of organizing human life in families; 2) Marriage is a relationship of love; more than simply functional it is to be deeply satisfying and full of personal pleasure; 3) Marriage is a covenant, a sworn […]
It will be some moments before we get there but you can turn to the Song of Songs for this evening’s consideration of the Word of God. We have been dealing first with the theology of marriage. We have not yet considered the ethics of marriage: how we are to live and love in marriage. […]