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Session 3 Happily Ever After
Marriage is Challenging
It is almost never what we expected.
You listened to the Kuses, Frasers and Moors
We watched them walk through some really tough seasons of their lives.
We saw their faith increase and they grew closer together.
Regardless of if they told your story or not you know:
Marriage is full of un foreseen obstacles---- ALL MARRIAGES
John 16:33 ““I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.
In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart!
I have overcome the world.””
Amanda told you why we picked HEA.....
If you have been married very long… HEA is not quite how you would describe your marriage.
Gary Thomas’s book Sacred Marriage
He coined the phrase “what if God didn’t create marriage to make us happy but to make us holy?”
I believe that is so true, I believe God gave us marriage as a tool to make us more like Jesus.
Gods Deeper Purpose for marriage:
Is to make us more like HIM
If we will accept that:
Then each and every problem is an opportunity to grow in Christ and be even more transformed in to His image.
Our marriages are to be a display of the Gospel.
That is all really good information and even justifies and AMEN.
When things are going great.
What do we do when, just like in the testimonies, the unforeseen comes crashing into our lives?
I think we worship.
Worship is offering our bodies as a living sacrifice- Romans 12:1
I think we maintain a level of worship that keeps us constantly aware, regardless of our circumstances, that Gods promises are yes and amen in Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 1:20 “For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ.
And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.”
God has given you a promise:
Prov 18:22 The man who finds a wife finds a treasure and he receives favor from the Lord.
If you have found a wife you have found a treasure.
Therefore your marriage is a treasure.
“He receives favor from the Lord”.
How do we marry Prov 18:22 to John 16:33, that marriage is a treasure and that we will face troubles.
I am going to attempt to do that today.
We are going to look at what the bible has to offer.
Abraham and Sarah Story.
This is a lot of scripture so I will be paraphrasing much of this for times sake.
This story starts in Gen 12 and goes to Gen 23,
Its really a beautiful picture of what marriage looks like.
The good, the bad and the ugly.
Chapter 12
God calls Abram......
How many of you know to hear the call of God its exciting.
As far as we know this is the first time God has Called or spoken to anyone since Noah and his family......
Gen 12:1-2 “The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.”
That is an awesome promise!
I will make you into a great nation
That is very important thing to note.
In times of old a linage was very important
Passing on their legacy was the way they lived their lives.
Hold up I forgot one key detail
Gen 11:30 “Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.”
Abraham was 75 years old when God calls him.
Their marriage journey started out with trouble.
We are not sure how long he and Sarai was married
They have this problem in conflict with Gods promise
The enemy loves to elevate your problems above Gods promise.
This promise was a big deal.
Abraham is obedient to Gods call.
He takes his family and heads to the new land.
For the next 25 years Abraham and Sarah faced many troubles
If you study the marriage of Abraham and Sarah you will find times of:
Worry
Famine
Wavering Faith
Death
Depression
War
Times of pain and tragedy
Times they lost faith, times they doubted, times they done it their own way, times where I am sure they felt as though they failed.
Gen 21:1-2 “Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.
Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.”
I want to point out that this promise from God took 25 years to arrive.
Between those 25 years was a lot of tragedy, troubles and pain.
There are way more scriptures describing the difficulty of the journey
It was essential that Abraham and Sarah would cling to the promise that God gave them.
They would go years between hearing from God.
They simply had to believe and trust Him.
Even when their circumstances would say otherwise
Tucked away in the middle of all of this you find these scriptures:
Gen 12:7 “The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.”
So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.”
Gen 12:8 “From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east.
There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.”
Gen 13:4 “and where he had first built an altar.
There Abram called on the name of the Lord.”
Gen 13:18 “So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents.
There he built an altar to the Lord.”
Gen 17:3 “Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,”
In the end Hebrews 11 records both Abraham and Sarah as being full of faith and examples of what it looks like to have faith in God.
At the Heart of who Abraham and Sarah were you find:
“Worshipers of God”
God was their True North
He was their fixed point in an unstable world
Abraham always went back to the altar, he always was found calling on the Name of the Lord.
Even in times where his natural circumstances appeared to go against Gods Promise.
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