God also established marriage for procreation. The Scripture records that after joining Adam and Eve together in holy matrimony; God blessed them and “said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth” (Genesis 1:28). They were to be fruitful and reproduce after their own kind. God’s will and plan that every marriage fulfils this purpose of producing offspring in order to fill the earth.
Moreover, God also instituted marriage for purity to be maintained. This evident in Apostle Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church: “Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman hove own husband” (1 Corinthians 7:2). Obedience to this biblical injunction helps Christians to maintain purity in their relationship with others, especially with members of the opposite gender. This is important because God hates fornication and all other forms of sexual defilement. In Hebrews 13:4, the lord commands that marriage must be kept honourable in every way and the marriage bed must not be defiled because God will judge all those who engage in sexual immorality.
Marriage is also meant for pleasure. The fact that God made them male and female and endowed them with unique features is to enable them have intimacy. God has only permitted such intimacy within the boundaries of marriage. Engaging in such act of intimacy before or outside marriage is sinful before God. To foreground how important intimacy is within the context of marriage, the Scripture says that husbands and wives should not deny each other intimacy, except for the purpose of fasting: “Defraua ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency” (1 Corinthians 7:5).
It is also instructive to know that by creating them one male and one female, God’s intention from the beginning was a monogamous marriage: one man, one woman. He had all the power to have made more women for Adam if He wanted to establish polygamy, but He didn’t. His plan was one man and one woman joined together in holy wedlock to become husband and wife. The Lord Jesus also stressed this paint in Matthew 1 9:4: “And he answered and said unto them, have ye not read, that he who made them at beginning made them male and female.” God’s standard has not changed, must also be noted that marriage is a permanent union. The husband and wife are to stick to each other until death, if God permits, separates them. This is why every Christian should consciously seek God’s will in marriage through prayers because He is the Author of marriage and He alone is the perfect Matchmaker.
Moreover, God also instituted marriage for purity to be maintained. This evident in Apostle Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church: “Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman hove own husband” (1 Corinthians 7:2). Obedience to this biblical injunction helps Christians to maintain purity in their relationship with others, especially with members of the opposite gender. This is important because God hates fornication and all other forms of sexual defilement. In Hebrews 13:4, the lord commands that marriage must be kept honourable in every way and the marriage bed must not be defiled because God will judge all those who engage in sexual immorality.
Marriage is also meant for pleasure. The fact that God made them male and female and endowed them with unique features is to enable them have intimacy. God has only permitted such intimacy within the boundaries of marriage. Engaging in such act of intimacy before or outside marriage is sinful before God. To foreground how important intimacy is within the context of marriage, the Scripture says that husbands and wives should not deny each other intimacy, except for the purpose of fasting: “Defraua ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency” (1 Corinthians 7:5).
It is also instructive to know that by creating them one male and one female, God’s intention from the beginning was a monogamous marriage: one man, one woman. He had all the power to have made more women for Adam if He wanted to establish polygamy, but He didn’t. His plan was one man and one woman joined together in holy wedlock to become husband and wife. The Lord Jesus also stressed this paint in Matthew 1 9:4: “And he answered and said unto them, have ye not read, that he who made them at beginning made them male and female.” God’s standard has not changed, must also be noted that marriage is a permanent union. The husband and wife are to stick to each other until death, if God permits, separates them. This is why every Christian should consciously seek God’s will in marriage through prayers because He is the Author of marriage and He alone is the perfect Matchmaker.
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