From This Day Forward Part 5

From This Day Forward

(Lamentations 3:19-23) I remember my affliction and my wandering,

the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is

downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:

Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his

compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your

faithfulness.

Seek God

2. Fight Fair

3. Stay Pure

4. Have Fun

5. Never Give Up

Theme: Never Give Up

(Matthew 19:3-6) Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They

asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every

reason?” “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the

Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 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

flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Marriage is a covenant not a contract.

✔️ Covenant is based on mutual commitment.

✔️Contract is based on mutual distrust.

SCREEN ONLY: Definition of marriage:

Unconditional commitment to an imperfect person

✔️ Covenant surrenders rights and assumes responsibility.

✔️Contract protects rights and shirks responsibility.

✔️Covenant has the interest of the other in mind.

✔️ Contract has personal convenience in mind.

Theme: From This Day Forward

(Malachi 2:16) So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the

wife of your youth. “The man who hates and divorces his wife,” says

the LORD, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should

protect,” says the LORD Almighty. So be on your guard, and do not

be unfaithful.

We will choose to love.

(Colossians 3:14) And over all these virtues put on love, which

binds them all together in perfect unity.

2. We will prioritize our relationship.

(Galatians 6:7-9) Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A

man reaps what he sows… Let us not become weary in doing

good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not

give up.

3. We will trust God.

(Psalm 127:1) Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor