Teaching God's Wedding Wisdom: The Simplicity of Marriage

God ordained both salvation and marriage. If you try to get to Heaven your own way, you go to Hell when you die. If you try to do marriage your own way, you can make life Hell on earth but marriage done God's way gives both wife and husband a taste of the joys of heaven.

Before He spoke the world into existence (Jn. 1:3[1]), Jesus knew that Adam would sin (Rev. 13:8[2]). He knew that He would have to die to offer everyone a chance to have all their sins forgiven so that they could go to Heaven. He knew this, yet He loved all of us enough to create us anyway.

There is no way that a God who loved us that much would ever create men and women in such a way that marriage wouldn't work. God planned marriage to give us a taste of the joys of Heaven while we're on earth, but there's a condition: we must do marriage in God's way.

We don't expect people to drive cars without teaching, how can we expect women and men to have joyful marriages without teaching? This book teaches couples how to do marriage God's Joyful Way.

God loves both men and women equally (Gal. 3:28[3]). We were created carefully so that God's Plan of Salvation can give us the Fruits of the Spirit in this life and prepare us to spend eternity with Him in the next life. God's Plan of Marriage helps couples give the entire family a taste of the joys of Heaven, right here on earth.

If lost people see a family sharing the Fruit of the Spirit - love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: (Gal. 5:22-23[4]), they'll want God's grace for themselves. We can explain God's Simple Plan to get God's grace and forgiveness, but they must want it and ask God for it. You can't want it for them any more than they want it for themselves.

You both must strive to share the Fruit of the Spirit in your marriage. Your spouse is the only person on earth whom you must serve without limit and must never criticize.

You must love God with perfect hearts. The command "love the Lord thy God" appears 14 times (Deu. 6:5, 11:1, 11:13, 11:22, 13:3, 19:9,30:6, 30:16, 30:20, Joshua 22:5, 23:11, Mt. 22:37, Mk. 12:30, Lk. 10:27)! 1 Kings 11:4 and 15:3 speak of David having a perfect heart with the Lord his God. David sinned, but he loved God and never turned from worshiping God toward worshiping anything else. His faithfulness and repentance made his heart perfect with God.

God expects you to keep your hearts perfect with Him and with each other. You must not let your hearts stray toward anyone else or anything else (Job 31:1, Pr. 25:38, Song of Solomon).

As David was perfectly confident in God and rested in what God gave him, you must rest contentedly in each other and in what God gives you (Ruth 1:9, Mt. 11:28, Phi. 4:11, 1 Tim. 6:6, Heb. 13:5).

[1] All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:3
[2] And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Revelation 13:8
[3] There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28
[4] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23