1/9/22 The Vow : Week 1 - The Vow of Priority
Marriage was
The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
—Genesis 2:18, 21-24 (NIV)
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
—Matthew 22:34-39 (NIV)
The Vow of Priority: I promise that
The
Your children are a
your marriage is a
You must
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
—Ephesians 5:25 (NIV)
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