Foolish & Wise Reasons For Getting Married

1. Foolish & Wise Reasons For Getting Married

2. Genesis 2:24 (ESV)24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. • Matthew 19:4-6 (ESV)4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

3. Foolish Reasons For Getting Married • Some marry for financial reasons. • Luke 12:15 (ESV)15 And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

4. Foolish Reasons For Getting Married • Some marry for financial reasons. • To escape a boring or miserable domestic situation. • Ecclesiastes 7:26 (ESV)26 And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

5. Foolish Reasons For Getting Married • Some marry for financial reasons. • To escape a boring or miserable domestic situation. • Some marry out of revenge. • Romans 12:19 (ESV)19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

6. Foolish Reasons For Getting Married • Some marry for financial reasons. • To escape a boring or miserable domestic situation. • Some marry out of revenge. • Some marry because it’s the trendy thing to do. • Exodus 23:2 (ESV)2 You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,

7. Foolish Reasons For Getting Married • Some marry for financial reasons. • To escape a boring or miserable domestic situation. • Some marry out of revenge. • Some marry because it’s the trendy thing to do. • Some marry to cover a mistake. • Ephesians 5:3 (ESV)3 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

8. Foolish Reasons For Getting Married • Some marry for financial reasons. • To escape a boring or miserable domestic situation. • Some marry out of revenge. • Some marry because it’s the trendy thing to do. • Some marry to cover a mistake. • Some marry on the basis of physical attraction. • Proverbs 31:30 (ESV)30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

9. Foolish Reasons For Getting Married • Some marry for financial reasons. • To escape a boring or miserable domestic situation. • Some marry out of revenge. • Some marry because it’s the trendy thing to do. • Some marry to cover a mistake Some marry to cover a mistake. • Some marry on the basis of physical attraction. • Some marry out of desperation. • Hebrews 12:16 (ESV)16 that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

10. Foolish Reasons For Getting Married • Some marry for financial reasons. • To escape a boring or miserable domestic situation. • Some marry out of revenge. • Some marry because it’s the trendy thing to do. • Some marry to cover a mistake. • Some marry on the basis of physical attraction. • Some marry out of desperation.

11. Wise Reasons For Getting Married

12. Wise Reasons for Getting Married • 1. Love at 1st sight! 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (ESV)4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Don’t panic If you find someone like this…

13. Wise Reasons for Getting Married • 1. Because I am in love! • 2. I need a spiritual partner in this life. • Matthew 19:5-6 (ESV)5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh’?6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

14. Wise Reasons for Getting Married • 1. Because I am in love! • 2. I need a spiritual partner in this life. • 3. We have the desire to raise children in the Lord. • Psalm 128:3 (ESV)3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

15. Wise Reasons for Getting Married • 1. Because I am in love! • 2. I need a spiritual partner in this life. • 3. We have the desire to raise children in the Lord. • 4. I am committed to a life-long relationship! • Romans 7:2 (ESV)2 Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.

16. Wise Reasons for Getting Married • 1. Because I am in love! • 2. I need a spiritual partner in this life. • 3. We have the desire to raise children in the Lord. • 4. Because I want a life-long relationship! • 5. We have intimate needs to be met! • 1 Corinthians 7:3 (ESV)3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

17. Wise Reasons for Getting Married • 1. Because I am in love! • 2. I need a spiritual partner in this life. • 3. We have the desire to raise children in the Lord. • 4. Because I want a life-long relationship! • 5. We have intimate needs to be met!