1. God’s Design For Marriage
Genesis 2:18-25

2. Marriage is important and significant

3. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. (Genesis 2:24 ESV)

4. The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." (Revelation 22:17)

5. Sin and Satan pervert God’s design for marriage

6. 2 Corinthians 4:3-4

7. What is God’s design for marriage?

8. Marriage Is Complementary
God’s Design for Marriage – Genesis 2:18-25

9. “It is not good”

10. Genesis 2:18

11. Companionship

12. “I will make him a helper fit for him”

13. Psalm 10:14

14. Psalm 33:20

15. “But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him”

16. Genesis 2:19-20

17. “This at last”

18. Genesis 2:21-23

19. Ephesians 5:25, 28-31

20. Marriage Is Exclusive
God’s Design for Marriage – Genesis 2:18-25

21. “leave …hold fast”

22. Genesis 2:24

23. “leave his father and his mother”

24. Proverbs 4:1-4

25. Ruth 1:14, 16

26. “hold fast to his wife”

27. Exclusive

28. 1 Corinthians 7:2

29. Marriage Is Permanent
God’s Design for Marriage – Genesis 2:18-25

30. “hold fast ”

31. Genesis 2:24

32. Permanent

33. “to cleave, to adhere, specially firmly, as if with glue”
Gesenius, W., & Tregelles, S. P. (2003). Gesenius’ Hebrew and Chaldee lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures (p. 185). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

34. Numbers 36:7-9

35. Deuteronomy 10:20

36. Covenant

37. Proverbs 2:17

38. Malachi 2:14

39. Lifelong

40. Matthew 19:4-5

41. Romans 7:1-3

42. Malachi 2:16

43. Marriage Is Cohesive
God’s Design for Marriage – Genesis 2:18-25

44. “they shall become one flesh”

45. Genesis 2:24

46. Cohesion

47. Genesis 2:23

48. “naked…not ashamed”

49. Intimacy

50. Genesis 2:25

51. 1 Corinthians 7:1-5

52. Hebrews 13:4

53. United

54. Genesis 1:27-28

55. God’s Design For Marriage
Genesis 2:18-25

56. Complementary Exclusive Permanent Cohesive

57. Is your marriage according to God’s design?