Session One

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Session One

• Gods Plan for Marriage and Family

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Gods plan for Marriage and Family
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Gods plan for Marriage and Family
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Gods Plan for Marriage and FamilyPre-martial
sex undermines marriage

• Sociological surveys show
• It puts couple in High-Risk category for future
  divorce
• Adultery
• Main cause of divorce it is sex outside of
  marriage
• So is Pre-marital Sex

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Gods plan for Marriage and Family

• Recommendation
• Prove to each other, by your actions, between now
  and your wedding day that you no longer accept
  the moral position that sex outside marriage is
  good.

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Gods plan for Marriage and Family

• FOR THE BEST RESULTS
• FOLLOW THE MAKERS
• INSTRUCTIONS

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Gods Plan for Marriage and Family
CREATION WHAT GOD DID FOR ADAM AND EVE(A
DECISION IN LOVE)

• GIVING THE GIFT OF LIFE
• ESTABLISHING INTIMACY
• CREATING A HOME
• EDUCATING IN PRIVILEDGE AND
  RESPONSIBILITY

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Gods plan for Marriage and Family

• THE BASIC LAW OF LIFE
• FOR EVERY PRIVILEGE
• THERE IS
• A CORRESPONDING AND BALANCING
• RESPONSIBLITY

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Gods Plan for Marriage and Family
CREATION WHAT GOD DID FOR ADAM AND EVE(A
DECISION IN LOVE)

• GIVING THE GIFT OF LIFE
• ESTABLISHING INTIMACY
• CREATING A HOME
• EDUCATING IN PRIVILEDGE AND
  RESPONSIBILITY
• Intellect Seek and
  Name the Truth
• Free Will Choose the Good
• The Body Accept Limits in Humility
• Relationships
• ? to God Worship
• to the world Be a good steward
• to Self Love
• to Other People Accept
• EVE, A HELPMATE
• COMMUNITY PERSONS
• GIFT OF FERTILITY THE RIB
  (Gen I and II)

• MARRIAGE
• DO FOR EACH OTHER AND FOR NEW HUMAN BEINGS WHAT
  GOD DID FOR ADAM AND EVE.
• MARRIAGE IS A SACRAMENT, A SIGN
• For this reason, a man leaves father and mother
  and clings to his wife, and the two of them
  become one body.
• (Gen. 224)

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Gods Plan for Marriage and Family

• ORIGINAL SIN

DECIDE INDEPENTLY OF GOD WHAT IS TRUE AND GOOD
LIKE GODS ADVERSE EFFECTS ON MARRIAGE
(Gen. III)
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Gods Plan for Marriage and Family

• REDEMPTION
• CHRIST THE NEW ADAM
• REDEEMS AND ELEVATES MARRIAGE FAMILY THROUGH
  HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION
• THE CHURCH THE NEW EVE
• CHRIST, STEWARD OF THE NEW CREATION
• THE NEW ADAM AND EVE
• A SACRAMENT (SIGN) OF THE FATHERS REDEMPTIVE
  LOVE
• MARRIAGE ELEVATED TO BE THIS SACREMENT AND FAMILY
  TO A DOMESTIC CHURCH

(Eph. V21-33)