1. What does God teach us about his gift of marriage?
The Sixth Commandment
What does God teach us about his gift of marriage?

2. Question #1
How did marriage get started?

3. Genesis 2:21-24 Matthew 19:5-6 Romans 7:2 1 Thessalonians 4:4-5
Ephesians 5:24-25
Genesis 2:24
1 Corinthians 7:2-5
1 Corinthians 7:8-9
Psalm 113:9
Psalm 127:3
God started it
(not a human custom)
The _______ union
of one man and
one woman
lifelong
holy and
honorable
Key Point #1
Key Point #2
Key Point #3
Key Point #4
companionship
sexual happiness
children

4. Genesis 2:21-24
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 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."

6. Key Point #1
Marriage started when ___ made ___ and brought her to _____ to be his ____.
God
Eve
Adam
wife

7. What does God want marriage to be?
Question #2
What does God want marriage to be?

8. Matthew 19:5-6
“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. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

9. Romans 7:2
For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

10. God wants _______ to be the ______ _____ of one ____ and one ______.
Key Point #2
God wants _______ to be the ______ _____ of one ____ and one ______.
marriage
lifelong
union
man
woman

11. How does God want us to go about entering into marriage.
Question #3
How does God want us to go about entering into marriage.

12. 1 Thessalonians 4:4-5
that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God;

13. God wants us to enter into _______ in a way that is ____ and ________.
Key Point #3
God wants us to enter into _______ in a way that is ____ and ________.
marriage
holy
honorable

14. With what gifts does God bless a husband and wife in marriage?
Question #4
With what gifts does God bless a husband and wife in marriage?

15. Genesis 2:18
The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."

16. Ephesians 5:24-25
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

17. Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

18. 1 Corinthians 7:2-5
But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife. Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self control.

19. 1 Corinthians 7:8-9
Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

20. Psalm 113:9
He settles the barren woman in as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD .

21. Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him.
Psalm 127:3
Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him.

23. Key Point #4
husband
God blesses a _______ and ___ with his gifts of ____________, ______________, and _______.
wife
companionship
sexual happiness
children

24. What I’ve Learned
God teaches us that he wants marriage to be the lifelong union of one man and one woman – a union that God blesses with some wonderful gifts.