Keeping The Vow (2)

Bishop Robert Middleton

RLMiddleton Ministries

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Numbers 30:2

Luke 20:34–35

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Keeping The Vow

Luke 20:34–35 AMP

34 And Jesus said to them, The people of this world and present age marry and are given in marriage; 35 But those who are considered worthy to gain that other world and that future age and to attain to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage;

Week 1 (The Husband)

MARRIAGE VOWS:

THE MINISTER TO THE MAN: (Name) , do you take this woman to be your wedded wife? And do you earnestly promise, before God and these witnesses, that you will love her, comfort her, honor and keep her in sickness and in health; and that, forsaking all others for her alone, you will perform unto her all the respect that a husband owes to his wife, until God, by death shall separate you? MAN: "I will"

Vow: A Solemn Pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave In a certain manner.

Genesis 28:20–21 AMP

20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and will give me food to eat and clothing to wear, 21 So that I may come again to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God;

Numbers 30:2 AMP

2 If a man vows a vow to the Lord or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break and profane his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Do you take her to be your wedded wife

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Eleventh Edition) Wed

1: to take for wife or husband by a formal ceremony: MARRY

2: to join in marriage

3: to unite as if by marriage

And do you earnestly promise, before God and these witnesses, that you will

1. Love her

Genesis 29:18 AMP

18 And Jacob loved Rachel; so he said, I will work for you for seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.

2. Comfort her

Genesis 24:67 AMP

67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

3. Honor

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised Honor

Honor usually results in people being elevated in the eyes of the community.

4. keep her in sickness and in health

5. forsaking all others for her alone

You will perform unto her all the respect that a husband owes to his wife

Until God, by death shall separate you?

Next Week the Sisters

THE MINISTER SAYS TO THE WOMAN: (Name) , do you take this man to be your wedded husband and do you earnestly promise, before God and these witnesses, that you will love him, comfort him, honor, and obey him, in sickness and in health, and that forsaking all others for him, will perform unto him all the duties that a wife owes to her husband, until God, by death, shall separate you?