Marriage belongs to God

Christians and Conservatives have been battling in recent years the hot topic of marriage. Mainly we have heard on the news how homosexuals want to be able to legally marry their partner of choice, and have been denied repeatedly this right in most states. Now states are giving couples who live together for an extended amount of time the same recognition as those legally married. Marriage belongs to God, not man, so we do not have the right to redefine God's laws. Marriage has become a mockery, and Galatians 6:7 says, "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows." Well, beloved ones, we will reap what we sow.

I was reading in Hebrews 13:4, God said, “Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.”

Marriage is an institution ordained by God Almighty Himself and I don’t think I can truly express in words how society has twisted and perverted the sanctity of marriage.  Do you think most people honor marriage? I don’t think so, in fact I think if I pulled statistics of those who are unfaithful in their marriage would show a drastic increase in recent years, as well as the number of people moving in together without being married first. I realize most people probably say, “A piece of paper (marriage license) doesn’t define our commitment.” but here is my response; you are not honoring the courts by getting a license to be married, you are honoring God, because marriage is so sacred to Him.

Who could be encompassed with the sexually immoral; homosexuals, polygamist, those who have pre-marital sex, men/women living together outside of marriage, an adulterer, and I would even add a man or woman with holding sex from their spouse for selfish reasons/or gain (1 Corinthians 7:2).  Please understand I am not judging, I merely want to share the seriousness of marriage.

Christians out there, who know this truth and still live in sin, will suffer greatly on judgment day.  Hebrews 10 26-29 says this about a man or woman who sins deliberately against God

“If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of Truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected to the Law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?”

Essentially what those verses are saying is this: In the Old Testament, those who disobeyed God died, usually instantly, and I believe so they could be made an example. If you disobey Me (God), this is what will happen.  I just want to add this because I believe most do not understand the “Law”. Basically the Law is the rule book on how to live a life worthy of God, and you will see in the OT, Jews giving animal sacrifices to atone their sin against God. When Jesus Christ died on the cross He atoned our sins. He is our sacrificial Lamb. When Christians accept Christ as their Savior and deliberately sin against God, we are making a mockery of Jesus. We embarrass Jesus when we continually sin. So you bet, if we are unrepentant then we are going to suffer big time on Judgment Day.  I know this note seems as though God is all about judgment and punishment, but God is love, protection, mercy, and grace.  His words are not to harm us, but to prosper us. He loves you dearly beloved friends, which is why He wants to protect you from sin.  How do you avoid sin, you stay firm in God’s word and live out His word in your daily life.

If you are living in one of the perverse ways I described above, I promise you it is not too late to ask the Forgiver to forgive and change the course of how you are living. I can guarantee you the temporary “satisfaction” are not worth the wrath of God, the Holy One.  I think a big mistake we have made is, forgetting God is so very holy.  He will never prosper us nor will we grow if we are living in sin. It just goes against the very nature of who God is. 

Remember we answer to a higher calling; do not let this world entangle you in their sin! Society wants to pervert the institution of marriage and slam the Creator, but  Christians we need to say NO, not on our watch!  “We are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.” –Hebrews 10:39.