CREATED FOR ONENESS
Genesis 2:18 (ESV) – Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
Genesis 2:22 (ESV) – And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
Genesis 2:23–24 (ESV) – Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
“Marriage is a union between two people so profound that they virtually become a new, single person. The word “united” (in older translations, “to cleave”) means “to make a binding covenant or contract.” This covenant brings every aspect of the two persons’ lives together. They…merge into a single…unit…In love they donate themselves, wholly, to the other.” -Tim Keller
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ONENESS WAS LOST
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RECOVERING ONENESS
Song of Solomon 3:6 (ESV) – What is that coming up from the wilderness like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?
- Strength in their oneness
Song of Solomon 3:7–8 (ESV) – Behold, it is the litter of Solomon! Around it are sixty mighty men, some of the mighty men of Israel, all of them wearing swords and expert in war, each with his sword at his thigh, against terror by night.
Song of Solomon 3:9–10 (ESV) – King Solomon made himself a carriage from the wood of Lebanon. He made its posts of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple; its interior was inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem.
Song of Solomon 3:11 (ESV) – Go out, O daughters of Zion, and look upon King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart.
Genesis 2:24 (ESV) – Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
“The Bible does not counsel sexual abstinence before marriage because it has such a low view of sex but because it has such a lofty one.” -Tim Keller
Ephesians 5:31–32 (ESV) – “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
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RESTORING ONENESS
Revelation 19:6–9 (ESV) – Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”—for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”
Revelation 22:17 (ESV) – The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
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