"You shall not commit adultery" (Exodus 20:14).
IDEA: Christian marriage is not primarily a contract, but a covenant.
PURPOSE: To help listeners understand the difference between a covenant and a contract basis for marriage.
What is a prenuptial agreement?
I. The Bible describes marriage as a covenant.
"The Lord has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, with whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and your wife by covenant. But did He not make them one, having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth" (Malachi 2:14-15).
"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh" (Genesis 2:24).
"To deliver you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God" (Proverbs 2:16-17).
"Jesus answered and said to [the Pharisees], 'Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning, made the male and female, and said, "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh"? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate' "(Matthew 19:4-6).
Hosea and Gomer.
Our marriages are designed to mirror God’s marriage to Israel and to His church in both its purpose and permanence.