Marriage: Messes and Miracles | The Love Boat Week 2 | Pastors Andrew & Kerry Cromwell

John 13:34 NIV: A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

 

Two Foundational Truths

 

1. How you marriage shapes the way you approach marriage.

 

How you see marriage shapes how you approach marriage.

Matthew 19:4-6 NIV: “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

 

2. How you see marriage shapes how you approach .

Ephesians 5:3 NIV: But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality…

Ephesians 5:3 MSG: Don’t allow love to turn into lust, setting off a downhill slide into sexual promiscuity…

 

Four Lies that Destroy Marriages

 

1. I can .

PRAY

James 5:16 NLT: The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.

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2. A good marriage is .

Solution: Spend the rest of your life trying to outgive your spouse and determine not to count.

Ephesians 5:24-25 NLT: As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything. For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her…

 

3. This one thing isn’t a thing.

Song of Solomon 2:15 NLT: Catch all the foxes, those little foxes, before they ruin the vineyard of love, for the grapevines are blossoming!

James 5:16 NLT: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.

 

4. There’s for my marriage.