The family is the very image of the GOD head. Like the Father, Son and the
Wholly Ghost or Spirit. The family is made up of the Father, the children and
the mother. For that reason, the Bible tells us that GOD hates divorce. Thus
we must prepare for marriage and choose the right partner, according to the
scriptures. I am about to try to provide you with some helpful information to
assist you in that process and possible help you to correct some of the
problems you may be experiencing in a marriage you are in now.
Mrs. Billy Graham
"If you marry an unbeliever you'll have the devil for a father-in-law." The
Bible explains, how to prepare for marriage, how to relate each other and
your children. The Bibles says in Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave
his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be
one flesh.
Speaking of divorce the Bible says in Matthew 5:32 But I say unto you, That
whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication,
causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is
divorced committeth adultery.
Mark 10:7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave
to his wife;
Mark 10:9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Romans 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her
husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from
the law of her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:10 ¶ And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the
Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
1 Corinthians 7:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be
reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
The instructions for re-marriage were to marry that man's brother and have
him raise the children of that family because of the blood ties.
Ge 38:8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry
her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
1 ¶ Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man
not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and
let every woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also
the wife unto the husband.
4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise
also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that
ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that
Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his
proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they
abide even as I.
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than
to burn.
10 ¶ And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the
wife depart from her husband:
11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her
husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that
believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her
away.
13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be
pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the
unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children
unclean; but now are they holy.
15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is
not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. {to peace:
Gr. in peace}
16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or
how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? {how: Gr. what}
17 ¶ But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every
one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is
any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping
of the commandments of God.
20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be
made free, use it rather.
22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s
freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant.
{freeman: Gr. made free}
23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
25 ¶ Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my
judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say,
that it is good for a man so to be. {distress: or, necessity}
27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a
wife? seek not a wife.
28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she
hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I
spare you.
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they
that have wives be as though they had none;
30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as
though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this
world passeth away.
32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for
the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: {that
belong…: Gr. of the Lord}
33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how
he may please his wife.
34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman
careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in
spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she
may please her husband.
35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon
you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord
without distraction.
36 ¶ But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his
virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do
what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity,
but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he
will keep his virgin, doeth well.
38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her
not in marriage doeth better.
39 ¶ The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her
husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in
the Lord.
40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also
that I have the Spirit of God.
1Pe 3:1 ¶ Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that,
if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the
conversation of the wives;
1Pe 3:2 While they behold your chaste conversation [coupled] with fear.
1Pe 3:3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of plaiting the
hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
1Pe 3:4 But [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not
corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the
sight of God of great price.
1Pe 3:5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who
trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own
husbands:
1Pe 3:6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye
are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
1Pe 3:7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge,
giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs
together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
1Pe 3:8 ¶ Finally, [be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one of
another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous:
1Pe 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but
contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should
inherit a blessing.
1Pe 3:10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his
tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
1Pe 3:11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
1Pe 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord [are] over the righteous, and his ears
[are open] unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord [is] against them
that do evil.
Marriage while once an institution that represented the very image of the
GOD head, has become a tool of the d-evil, used to tarnish GOD’S name. A lot
of it stems from practices of ignorance in the community or more over the
CHURCH. Ignoring GOD's instructions. The Bible say’s in Hosea 4:6 My people
are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I
will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast
forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. With the fact
that so many so called ministers are not priests to GOD because they have
rejected or ignored the knowledge that GOD has used for instructions to live
by. This ignorance becomes a real advantage of the d-evil. D being latin for
(of the) and the second syllable is the word evil. Thus the word devil means
of the Evil.
Many of the influences in the world today are a result of experiences that
have taken place in the lives of the people. For an example dysfunctional
families may be the result of child abuse, molestation, abandonment, broken
homes or any number of things. These things are the result of spiritual
influences by The one third of heaven that were thrown out by Michael the
Arch angel. It is said these angels were later referred to as Nefilem. They
have been also that they have taken form in demons and have had significant
influences on the actions of people by way of demonic possession. One such
incident is recorded in Mark 5:2 And when he was come out of the boat,
straightway there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. 5:3
who had his dwelling in the tombs: and no man could any more bind him, no,
not with a chain; 5:4 because that he had been often bound with fetters and
chains, and the chains had been rent asunder by him, and the fetters broken
in pieces: and no man had strength to tame him. 5:5 And always, night and
day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting
himself with stones. One could say that as a result of things that may have
taken place in the life of this man, things that he experienced which had
emotional influence or impacted him so as to disturb him, he responded
emotionally. With bitterness, animosity, fear, intimidation, all of which
are spiritual influences that result in him being categorized as emotionally
disturbed. These are the things that one must be aware of in an individual
or one self, before entering into a marital relationship with another
individual. The Bible says in: How can two walk together, unless they agree.
Mark 5:6 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshipped him;
Mark 5:7 and crying out with a loud voice, he saith, What have I to do with
thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, torment me
not.
Mark 5:8 For he said unto him, Come forth, thou unclean spirit, out of the
man
Mark 5:9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he saith unto him, My name
is Legion; for we are many
Mark 5:10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of
the country.
Mark 5:11 Now there was there on the mountain side a great herd of swine
feeding.
Mark 5:12 And they besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may
enter into them.
Mark 5:13 And he gave them leave. And the unclean spirits came out, and
entered into the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into the sea, in
number about two thousand; and they were drowned in the sea.
Note: (love does not conquer all) It does not have to conquer the will of an
individual that does not choose to accept it. I was married to the wrong
individual and had an occaision to discuss the application of GOD's
principles with here. After explaining to her what the Bible had to say
about here actions and what she was doing to our family and marriage, She
told me. "If you use the Bible to tell me what do like that, You'll make me
hate you and GOD. You see neither love nor the Bible changes a person's
will. Love, however does conquer a multitude of sin.
My wife had a friend that she referred to as a brother in the Lord. He would
drive her places, go to meeting with her and even worked for her putting out
a Christian publication, she sold advertising in.
I could however see that he had an emotional attachment for her and often
throught of her being his wife. This man claims to be a minister and a
prophet even though the Bible says in Ex 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy
neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his
manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that
is thy neighbour’s. and again in
De 5:21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou
covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his
maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s. Even
so after she and I seperated they were eventually married. What does the
Bible say concerning this?
Matthew 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife,
saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and
whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Mark 10:7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave
to his wife;
Mark 10:9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Romans 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her
husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from
the law of her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:10 ¶ And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the
Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
1 Corinthians 7:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be
reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
It goes on to say.
2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should
abstain from fornication:
4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in
sanctification and honour;
5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;
6 that no man {1} transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because
the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we {2} forewarned you
and testified. {1) Or overreach 2) Or told you plainly}
7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
8 Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his
Holy Spirit unto you.
9 ¶ But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto
you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
10 for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia.
But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;
11 and that ye {1} study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to
work with your hands, even as we charged you; {1) Gr be ambitious; See Ro
15:20 margin}
12 that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have
need of nothing.
13 ¶ But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall
asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that
are fallen asleep {1} in Jesus will God bring with him. {1) Gr through; Or
will God through Jesus}
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive,
that are left unto the {1} coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them
that are fallen asleep. {1) Gr presence}
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ
shall rise first;
17 then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught
up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with
the Lord.
18 Wherefore {1} comfort one another with these words. {1) Or exhort; 1 Th
5:11}
1 ¶ But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that
aught be written unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a
thief in the night.
3 When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh
upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise
escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you
{1} as a thief: {1) Some ancient authorities read as thieves}
5 for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the
night, nor of darkness;
6 ¶ so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are
drunken in the night.
8 But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate
of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God appointed us not into wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation
through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 who died for us, that, whether we {1} wake or sleep, we should live
together with him. {1) Or watch}
11 ¶ Wherefore {1} exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also
ye do. {1) Or comfort; 1 Th 4:18}
12 But we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are
over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
13 and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work’s sake. Be at
peace among yourselves.
14 And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the
fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.
15 See that none render unto any one evil for evil; but always follow after
that which is good, one toward another, and toward all.
16 ¶ Rejoice always;
17 pray without ceasing;
18 in everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to
you-ward.
19 Quench not the Spirit;
¶ Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall
depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of
devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot
iron;
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,
fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn
away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly
women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2Th 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that
obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: