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Lafferty, Greg - Passion for God's Covenant

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Passion for God's Covenant
by Greg Lafferty
Text: Malachi 2:10–16
Topic: Why we should stay married
Big Idea: We can keep the covenant of marriage because of God's covenant with us.
Keywords: Cause and Effect; Children; Church, body of Christ; Community; Covenant; Divorce; Faithfulness; Faithfulness, divine; Faithfulness, human; God, covenants of; God, faithfulness of; Husbands; Marriage; Parents; Wife


Introduction:
  • Divorce is a breaking of faith with terrible consequences for all involved.
  • The whole world depends on marital faithfulness
Marital faithfulness represents a passion for God's covenant.
  • Malachi 2:10
  • What we experience in marriage is a mirror of what we are to experience spiritually with God.
  • Illustration: In the book A Promise Kept, Robertson McQuilkin describes the challenge of his love in caring for his wife during her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Marital faithfulness represents a passion for God's community.
  • Malachi 2:11–12
  • God dwells within us not just individually, but makes his full presence and power known in us collectively. Together we're God's sanctuary.
Marital faithfulness represents a passion for God's children.
  • Malachi 2:13
  • Illustration: In his book The Mystery of Marriage, Mike Masons says it's not love but vows that keep a marriage together.
  • Malachi 2:15
God offers grace for the divorced
  • God himself has been divorced and knows how you feel.
Conclusion:
  • God will never divorce you.
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