03A Choose your Spouse Wisely (Malachi 2:10-12)

If you want to make a gift/offering to Hope in Christ Church, click here to learn about ways to give.

You can view a digital bulletin Here

You can watch a Livestream at 9:30 am on our facebook account.

Sermon Outline

03 Mal 2;10-12 Faithfulness in marriage is really important

Part 1 chose your spouse wisely

Outline

1. Marriage Introduction
   1. A marriage is a gift, a torture or a grace of God
   2. Choose your spouse wisely, you will be sharing your life together.
2. Faithfulness in Marriage is a spiritual barometer
   1. Opening Thoughts
      1. A Review
      2. 2 Questions, 2 Preliminary Truths (Mal 2:10)
         1. There is one God and Father (Dt 6:4, Rom 3:30)
         2. We are his children
      3. The Charge: Faithless (Mal 2:10)
         1. Faithless (Prov 25:19, Jer 3:20, Judg 9:23, Isa)
         2. Interpersonal unfaithfulness.
         3. Profaning the Covenant of our fathers
      4. The Geographical Extent of Covenant Unfaithfulness (Mal 2:11)
         1. Judah has been faithless
         2. Faithless and Abominable (Dt 18:9, 25:16, Lev 18:26, 20:13)
         3. Israel and Jerusalem
         4. The Sanctuary of the Lord
3. The Sin of Intermarriage (Mal 2:11)
   1. The problem isn’t ethnic, racial or national bias.
   2. The problem is idolaters (Gen 27:46, Dt 7:1-6)
   3. The punishment for such idolatrous marriage (Mal 2:12, Lev 17:10)
4. 3 Applications
   1. Our Marriage partners really matter (1Ki 11:4, 1Cor 7:39)
      1. No missionary dating
   2. Our life with others affects our life with God
   3. Our life with God affects our life with one another
5. Conclusion