Title: Maximum Marriage - Responding to the GAP
Author: Zach Terry
Text: James 4:1-2
INTRODUCTION: Conflict is an inevitable experience of life, whether you are a two kids playing on the playground or if you are the President of the United States doing a press conference with another head of state. Conflict is inevitable. Yet, it is nowhere more predictable than in the context of marriage.
You see, God knew, for you to become the person He designed you to be - it would require pressure. All of your anger would have to be brought to the surface, all of your rough edges would need to be filed down, all of your hangups would need to be exposed and dealt with - therefore to make you look less like you and more like Jesus, God gave you your spouse. Your spouse is God's answer to your worldliness, selfishness, short temper, and laziness.
As such, your marriage is the laboratory of your sanctification.
Your spouse is perfectly designed to: push all your buttons, get under your skin, test your patience, drive you up the wall - at least that is what Julie tells me.
Martin Luther said, "Marriage did for me what no monastery could"
If you can figure out how to live with your spouse joyfully, you just may be ready for Heaven.
You don't know that on the front end...
ILLUSTRATION: I heard a man say this week that when he was dating his wife he had a car that had been in a wreck on the driver's side. So he always parked in such a way that she never saw the dent. They were married before she realized there was a huge dent in his car. The fact is, we all do that don't we?
Have you been married long enough to discover a few dents?
Today - I want to help you to deal with the dents biblically. James raises the question in his epistle...
TEXT: James 4:1-2 (ESV)
1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obta ...
Author: Zach Terry
Text: James 4:1-2
INTRODUCTION: Conflict is an inevitable experience of life, whether you are a two kids playing on the playground or if you are the President of the United States doing a press conference with another head of state. Conflict is inevitable. Yet, it is nowhere more predictable than in the context of marriage.
You see, God knew, for you to become the person He designed you to be - it would require pressure. All of your anger would have to be brought to the surface, all of your rough edges would need to be filed down, all of your hangups would need to be exposed and dealt with - therefore to make you look less like you and more like Jesus, God gave you your spouse. Your spouse is God's answer to your worldliness, selfishness, short temper, and laziness.
As such, your marriage is the laboratory of your sanctification.
Your spouse is perfectly designed to: push all your buttons, get under your skin, test your patience, drive you up the wall - at least that is what Julie tells me.
Martin Luther said, "Marriage did for me what no monastery could"
If you can figure out how to live with your spouse joyfully, you just may be ready for Heaven.
You don't know that on the front end...
ILLUSTRATION: I heard a man say this week that when he was dating his wife he had a car that had been in a wreck on the driver's side. So he always parked in such a way that she never saw the dent. They were married before she realized there was a huge dent in his car. The fact is, we all do that don't we?
Have you been married long enough to discover a few dents?
Today - I want to help you to deal with the dents biblically. James raises the question in his epistle...
TEXT: James 4:1-2 (ESV)
1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obta ...
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