Lets see our memory verse – we have a new one –

Deuteronomy 28:1-2 - If you fully obey the Lord your God and

carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord

your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All

these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you

obey the Lord your God:

Pericope: Eph 5:31-32 - For this reason a man will leave his

father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will

become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking

about Christ and the church.

Sermon Text: Eph 5:32 - This is a profound mystery—but I am

talking about Christ and the church.

Sermon Title: Harvest Covenant Connection Pt 4. The Mystery

of Marriage 

Origin of the covenant

Genesis 2:22-23 – ADAM AND EVE COVENANT

Genesis 15 ABRAHAM AND SARAH COVENANT

Genesis 17:21, 24 ISAAC AND REBEKAH COVENANT

Genesis 17:21, 24 JACOB AND RACHEL COVENANT

Genesis 17:21, 24 ISRAEL COVENANT

Genesis 42, 50 JOSEPH COVENANT

Deuteronomy 28 WILDERNESS COVENANT

COVENANT

The intent

In every marriage vow, there is the intent. It begins with will you

Man - Will you take this woman to be your wedded wife? And do you

earnestly promise, before God and these witnesses, that you will love her,

comfort her, honor and keep her in sickness and in health; and that,

forsaking all others for her alone, you will perform unto her all the respect

that a husband owes to his wife, until God, by death, shall separate you?

MAN: “ I will”

BISHOP to the Woman:

Woman - will you take this man to be your wedded husband? And do you

earnestly promise, before God and these witnesses, that you will love him,

comfort him, honor and keep him in sickness and in health; and that,

forsaking all others for him alone, will perform unto him all the duties that a

wife owes to her husband, until God, by death, shall separate you?

WOMAN: “I will.”

It is different than the vow. The vow begins with do you

BISHOP TO THE WOMAN AND THE MAN:

Therefore, since it is the agreement of the man and the woman to be

husband and wife, please join right hands and repeat after me, before God

and these witnesses, the marriage vows.

BISHOP:

REPEAT AFTER ME

I man take thee woman to be my wedded wife to have and to hold from this

day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness, in

health, and to love and to cherish till death do us part, according to God’s

Holy ordinance; and thereto, I pledge thee my faith.

1. Will you live a prosperous life, walking in the power to get

              wealth?

2. Will you do all that God‘s word requires of you to live their

    prosperous life?

3. Will you honor God with your time talent, and treasure?

(SEE "CONTRACT VS COVENANT" CHART BELOW)

Proverbs 19:21 - Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is

the Lord’s purpose that prevails.

1 Corinthians 6:20 - you were bought at a price. Therefore honor

God with your bodies.

Romans 3:23 - “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of

God,”

1 Peter 4:8 - Above all, love each other deeply, because love

covers over a multitude of sins.”

Romans 7:21–25 - “So I find this law at work: Although I want to

do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight

in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war

against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law

of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will

rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to

God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I

myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature

a slave to the law of sin.”

Philippians 2:6–8 - Who, being in very nature God, did not

consider equality with God something to be used to his own

advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very

nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being

found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming

obedient to death— even death on a cross!”

Romans 8:31–39 - What, then, shall we say in response to these

things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not

spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not

also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring

any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who

justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ

Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the

right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall

separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or

persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is

written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are

considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we

are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am

convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,

neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height

nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to

separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Song of Solomon 1:2 King James Version - “Let him kiss me with

the kisses of his mouth: For thy love is better than wine.”

Write your covenant.

Dear God, I _____ enter into covenant with you, putting you first,

with my time, talent and treasure - indeed, my life to carry out

your will in the Earth and change lives in my lifetime. I believe and

expect to live a wholistic, prosperous life, spiritually, emotionally,

physically, financially, career wise, retirement, and family life.