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Marriage is “instituted by God, regulated by his commandments, blessed
by our Lord Jesus Christ.” What God institutes he also regulates. If God
invented marriage, then those who enter it should make every effort to
understand and submit to his purposes for it.
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Plenty of people who do not acknowledge God or the Bible, yet who are
experiencing happy marriages, are largely abiding by God’s intentions, whether
they realize it or not. But it is far better if we are conscious of those
intentions.
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Two of the most basic teachings by the Bible on marriage – that it has
been instituted by God and that marriage was designed to be a reflection of the saving love of God for us in Jesus
Christ. That is why the gospel helps us to
understand marriage and marriage helps us to understand the gospel.
The work of the Spirit makes Christ’s saving work real to our hearts,
giving us supernatural help against the main enemy
of marriage: sinful self-centeredness.
Table of Contents
1. The secret of marriage
2. The power of marriage
3. The essence of marriage (What is love)
4. The mission of marriage (What marriage is for)
5. Loving the stranger
6. Embracing the other
7. Singleness and marriage
8. Sex and marriage
Source: The Meaning of Marriage: facing the complexities of commitment with the wisdom of God, by Timothy Keller with Kathy Keller (2011)
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