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15th Sunday after Trinity Sep 12, 2021
SUB-THEME:
6: Marriage and Covenant with the living God (4)
TOPIC:
PRINCIPLE OF GOD’S COVENANT ON MARRIAGE- MALE AND FEMALE-
TEXT: Gen 2:21-24; Matt 19:4-5
AIMS
1. To teach the biblical concept of God’s creation of gender and
2. To teach further the physical and spiritual consequences of disobeying the principle of having male and female in marriage.
INTRODUCTION:
God created mankind with gender difference and the Bible is explicitly clear about God’s involvement of the principle of gender in marriage. Marriage should be between male and female and not male and male or female and female. It is a principle that has been challenged historically and this has raised different global perspectives on marriage that put to test the ideal marriage in Christianity. The study today will focus on why God created the woman in different gender and how the abuse of God’s divine principle of gender distinction has led to the orthodox or fundamental stand of some Christians who will not accept any forms of marriage that contravene God’s one man, one wife, male and female only marriage.
STUDY GUIDE:
1. What is the basis for gender difference in God’s creation and in the establishment of the marriage principle? Matt 19:4-6. Mention the factors involved. Gen 2:22-23.
2. What are the grounds for man and man; woman and woman; man, animal; woman and animal marriages and what challenges do these pose to contemporary society? 2Ki 17:15; Rom 1:20-22; 26-28;
3. What should the Christian’s stand be in the face of these ungodly marital principles as upheld among homosexuals and bestials? – Eph 4:17-18
4. What are the physical and spiritual consequences on the abusers of the godly principle of male and female marriage? Rom 1:28, Rom 1:32; Rom 2:2
CONCLUSION:
If God created mankind as male and female, and procreation is always through the union of male and female genders, why then is it difficult for some people to uphold this principle but have other preferences? As Christians, we must always see every sexual aberration in marriage as an impediment to the morality of God’s kingdom being upheld and practiced by Christians. Christians should not join the rebels in any these.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
Whoever disobeys God’s rules for human marital relationships joins those rebelling against God.
MEMORY VERSE:
Matt 19:4-5 “And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, for this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh”?