God Created Marriage

The marriage institution is the same throughout humanity. It has all its origins in God the creator of Heavens and earth and all that is in them. It serves His purpose more than ours.

It is as He made it in the beginning in Genesis. Marriage is not a human culture making. It has nothing to do with our human cultures and traditions. It has everything to do with God and His intentions. I am talking about marriage, a holy institution which God loves and not a wedding day or wedding ceremony. The two are different though.

Marriage is not even a scientific discovery or any religious creation. It has nothing to do with religion etc. I repeat, marriage is about God and his purposes and intentions.

Marriage serves a godly purpose in our lives as humanity. I am not dwelling on this purpose today but I just want to look at the foundational principles of this holy institution that God loves. It does not matter where you are and how you think you should do marriage. It does not matter what you have been taught and what your traditions say and think, the principles of this institution are the same. If you decide to do it otherwise, you are in rebellion against the holiness and purpose of marriage. This is one huge reason marriage is so much under attack these days. I will take a few weeks on this subject and hope someone will learn. Christian or not Christian, marriage is one, holy and of God, the God of Heaven and the Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

What are the principles then?

Principle 1. One wife. One Husband.

The foundational principle is that each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. Right from the beginning when God wanted to create humankind in His own image and Likeness, He created a marriage. He created a man and a woman, male and female. He brought these together and blessed them and gave them the assignment part of which was to replenish the earth with His image in their seed. Paul in 1 Corinthians 7 is also teaching and emphasizing on this truth of one man one wife and one woman one husband. Marriage is marriage when this truth is observed and lived. Anything else is outside the marriage that God intended. Things like polygamy are not of God and are not even our human culture. I have said elsewhere in my writings that I have a challenge with many things we call our human culture in that they have nothing to do with us but born out of rebellion to God. Polygamy began in Genesis 4 after the fall. It began with Lamech a grandson to Cain, the father of rebellion. Cain rebelled from God and murdered his brother Abel and was banished from the presence of God. He lived and did what he did outside the will of God and in outright rebellion. He had no thought of repentance, only revenge. Lamech has this rebellion in his blood and he married two wives out of that kind of hard heartedness.

Right in the heart of polygamy is rebellion and hardheartedness. It has nothing to do with our culture. It has everything to do with rebellion and is meant to defile the holy sanctuary of God called marriage.

It shocks me how people have embraced this rebellion as their culture. I know that there are many religious groups that have taught this rebellion as their gospel. They go to the extent of arguing that man like David who loved God was polygamous. It is true they were but God never told them to marry many wives. It was David’s weakness which cost him many things. It was never God‘s plan for him and Solomon and all the rest. You do not make some’s weakness your gospel. It is ridiculous. Marriage is about one wife and one husband and is between a male and a female. The so called same sex marriages are defilement and the work of the same rebellious spirit with Polygamy.  The rise of same sex unions is a sign that a society is in the last stages of decay and rebellion.

Principle 2. Giving affection.

The reason for marriage is so that the couple gives affection to each other. In marriage there is no withholding of affection. It is the only place where this kind of affection is given. You belong to each other in marriage. There is no selfishness. You do not deprive each other of sexual intimacy unless you are agreed on it. What we see these days with many couples withholding affection and depriving each other and getting more selfish is a violation of the foundational principles of this holy sanctuary which God loves. Marriage is a place of joy and unity and purpose. Violence, selfishness, grumblings, and all other things we allow into this sanctuary are not of God. They defile marriage.

Marriage operates well on the law of giving.

Beloved, If we are going to do marriage the way of God and the way it should be done, Let us all understand the principles that govern it and make it what it should be. I will see you next week with more of these principles.

Kilton Moyo is creator of Fruitful Marriages, a renewal and enrichment program and is pastor, counselor and author of The Sex Trap.

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