Sermon Tone Analysis

TITLE:  How does God define Family?

TEXT:  Start with Genesis 2:18-25

 

OBJECTIVE:  The family is the first and beginning institution set up by God.

It is to be permanent and unending through out all of time.

God has given us all the truths we need for family matters.

INTRODUCTION:

1.

This series will include: 

 

1.

Original design

 

2.

What is marriage

a.  Dating

b.  Romancing

c.  Courting

d.  Covenant vs. Contract

      Covenant—binding agreement between two or more parties

      Contract—Legal agreement enforceable by law

 

3.

What is a Family

 

4.

Husband and Wife

 

5.

Parenting

 

6.

Divorce and Remarriage

 

7.

Love, sex and marriage

 

8.

Finances in marriage (another time)

 

9.

Extended family (Another time) (parents, grand parents, children, Grand children)

 

I.

Original design: Husband & Wife (and children)

 

      A.

Let’s look at the beginning:

Genesis 2:18-25 ESV 18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

19 So out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them.

And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field.

But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.

21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.

22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

23 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.” 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

B.

In the Context of questions about Divorce

 

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV 4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh’?

6 So they are no longer two but one flesh.

What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Mark 10:4-8 ESV 4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”

5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

7 ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, 8 and they shall become one flesh.’

So they are no longer two but one flesh.

C.

In the Context of Daily living

 

Ephesians 5:28-31 ESV 28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies.

He who loves his wife loves himself.

29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body.

31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

D.

Look at the Words--Marriage is:

            1.

Leaving‑‑No longer has authority over, Forsake, leave, loose

 

2.

Cleaving—To cling, to cleave, to keep close

 

3.

One flesh—One body, one in the same

 

4.

Naked without shame—Moral issue

 

a.  has the idea of being open to each other

b.

That openness is to be found in marriage

c.  no other relationship brings the openness

d.  Nakedness is shameful outside of marriage

 

      1)  Clothing is a moral issue

 

      2)  Clothing is to cover the body

 

      3)  Clothing is to modest

 

GEN 2:25.

GEN 3:7  GEN 3:10-11.

GEN 9:22-24—Noah’s nakedness

 

EXO 32:25.

And when Moses saw that the people {were} naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto {their} shame among their enemies:) (KJV)

 

Lev 18, 20

II.

Marriage & Family is God's Idea    

      A.

We have seen this already in Genesis 2

 

      B.

Commitment is essential

            --Why do you want to marry that person?

--I Love them—What do you mean??

 

            Commitment is essential in marriage

Genesis 24:58‑60  Rebekah commitment to Isaac

 

C.

Romance is important in marriage

Song of Solomon 4:9-10.

9 “You have made my heart beat faster, my sister, /my /bride; You have made my heart beat faster with a single /glance /of your eyes, With a single strand of your necklace.

10 “How beautiful is your love, my sister, /my /bride!

How much better is your love than wine, And the fragrance of your oils Than all /kinds /of spices!

NASB 95

 

Song of Solomon 4:9-10 ESV 9 You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!

How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!

D.

Marriage holds times of Great joy

 

E.

Marriage is best for raising children (godly offspring)

 

Malachi 2:14-15 ESV 14 But you say, “Why does he not?”

Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

15 Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union?

And what was the one God seeking?

*Godly offspring*.