FOM
Notes
Stop Putting God At The
Center Of Your Life
Part 1 of 6 in the series “How To Get A Divorce”
March 30,
2008 Pastor
IF DIVORCE STATISTICS ARE TRUE, WE
HAVE ONE OF TWO CHOICES:
Ê (Join) them
Ê (Learn) from them
QUESTION:
Would you be happy married to a
selfish, irritable, insensitive, critical, hard-hearted, generally unhappy
person?
WHEN GOD IS NOT AT THE CENTER OF MY
LIFE, I AM . . . .
ü more (selfish)
ü more (irritable)
ü more (insensitive)
ü more (critical)
ü more (hard-hearted)
ü
most (unhappy)
THE MARRIAGE FORMULA
Two people become (one flesh)
“ . . . 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. Therefore what God has joined together,
let man not separate.’ ”
Matthew 19:5-6
WHAT HAPPENS?
Complete p(hysical), m(ental),
s(piritual), and e(motional) bonding to
one another
WHOSE PLAN IS THIS?
What (God) has joined
together vs. (man’s) desire to separate
HOW DOES ‘ONE FLESH’ ACTUALLY
HAPPEN?
Sacrificial (submission) to God and sacrificial (giving)
to one another
“Now as the church submits
to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ
loved the church and gave himself up for her . . .”
Ephesians 5:24-25
BEING THE BEST MARRIAGE MATERIAL I
CAN BE
I
Growing spiritually . . .
I won’t settle for (shallow)
living
I
Thinking and planning . . .
I have (dreams) and goals
I
Sensitive to others needs . . .
I am emotionally (stable)
I
Physically engaged . . .
I am in this for the (long haul)
THE FINAL QUESTION:
WHERE ARE ALL OF THESE ATTRIBUTES
FOUND?
MARRIAGE PRINCIPLE
When 2 people are growing closer to
God, they cannot simultaneously grow farther apart from one another