Lies About Marriage
Sermon Series: Protect What Matters Most
March 3, 2024
Pastor Phil Chorlian
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. (John 8:44)
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:31-32)
Lies that can
a marriage:
I. I can
The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. 17 Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. —James 5:16-17
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” —Luke 18:1-8
Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. —Psalm 139:23-24
II. A good
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. —Ephesians 5:25
III. This one little thing isn’t a
Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom. —Song of Songs 2:15
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. —James 5:16
IV. There’s no
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” —Matthew 19:26
Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her. 15 There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. —Hosea 2:14-15