1. Behold, you are fair, my love! Behold, you are fair! You have dove's eyes behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats, Going down from Mount Gilead. 2. Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep Which have come up from the washing, Every one of which bears twins, And none is barren among them. 3. Your lips are like a strand of scarlet, And your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your veil Are like a piece of pomegranate.” 11. Your lips, O my spouse, Drip as the honeycomb; Honey and milk are under your tongue; And the fragrance of your garments Is like the fragrance of Lebanon.”

Genesis 2:18 “And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.” "Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD" Proverbs 18:22 Ecclesiastes 4:9-11 “Two are better than one;”

21. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22. And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.” Genesis 2:21-22

"House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD" Proverbs 19:14 Proverbs 3:6 “In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

Love as our own bodies Genesis 2:23 “And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” “So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it" - Ephesians 5:28-29

Must leave our Parents Genesis 2:24 “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

Must cleave to each other Genesis 2:24 “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Join fast together To glue; cement Job 19:20 “My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.”

Must cleave to each other Following Closely Ruth 1:14 “Ruth clung unto her” Plato’s strange idea = God wants two to be one Heb. 13:4 “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and Adulterers God will Judge.”

Must Fight Satan Together Genesis 3:1-6 Satan chose a time when Eve was alone Could she have dealt better if Adam was there? Probably

Can lead each other into sin Genesis 3:6 “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” 2 Tim. 2:22 “Flee also youthful lusts:”

Should not blame each other Genesis 3:12 “And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.” Luke 14:20 “I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.”

Understand difficulties Genesis 3:16-19 Woman = greatly multiply thy sorrow Man = cursed is the ground – sweat of thy face Adam and Eve leave the garden Eve = Birth of Cain and Abel Adam = working in field

Stay together Genesis 3:23-24 “So he drove out the man:” Anniversaries celebrated: 5 th - 82 % 10 th - 65 % 25 th - 33 % 35 th - 20 % 50 th - 5 %

Last for a lifetime Marriage is for those who love God and one another. Should remain sweethearts for a lifetime.

Love In Marriage Sermon by Arthur Pigman Evans Church of Christ 515 Gibbs Road Evans, Ga Sunday Morning March 18, 2012