Sermons on Marriage
“Wisdom in Covenant Love” Song of Solomon 1:1-8:14 (Overview)
An Expositional Sermon Song of Solomon 1:1-8:14 “Wisdom in Covenant Love” Theme/Big Idea: The desire of sexual intimacy is beautiful in the context of the marriage covenant, and it teaches us of the greater and more powerful covenant love of God for His people. Aim/Appropriation/Application: Delight in the beauty of intimacy God has designed for the marriage covenant, and realize that intimacy points beyond itself to the beauty of the marriage of the church (the bride) to Jesus Christ (the bridegroom). Outline:…
“God’s Promise Extends to Jacob” Genesis 25:19-31:55
Theme: God will keep His promises and He will hold His people fast.
Aim: Build your hopes in the promises of God, and have the Lord as your fear.
(1) God Elects (Genesis 25:19-34; Malachi 1:2-3; Romans 9:13)
a. Pray God’s promises (Genesis 25:21; 32:9-12)
(2) God Is His People’s Fear (Genesis 26:1-35)
(3) God Fulfills His Promise Through and To Sinners (Genesis 27:1-28:22)
(4) God Gives Jacob a Family (Genesis 29:1-31:55)
“God’s Promise Extends to Isaac” Genesis 21:1-25:18
Theme: Though God’s covenant people struggle with unbelief as they wait, God keeps His promises.
Aim: “Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!” (Psalm 27:14)
(1) Faith & Unbelief in God (Genesis 21:1-33)
(2) Faith that God Can Raise the Dead (Genesis 22:1-23)
(3) Faith that God Will Fulfill His Promises (Genesis 23:1-25:18
“God Judges in Fire” Genesis 18:1-20:18
Theme: God is just in His judgment of humanity for their sins.
Aim: Pray that God would make His love for us so real to our knowledge and experience that it expels our temptation to sin.
(1) God Will Save His People (Genesis 18:1-33)
(2) God Will Pour Out Wrath for Sin (Genesis 19:1-38)
(3) The Struggle with Fear & Unbelief (Genesis 20:1-18)
“Pay Your Taxes & Marriage Isn’t Forever” Mark 12:13-27
Theme: Jesus said to give up your life to God, and that Yahweh is the God of the living.
Aim: Worship God with your whole life, and submit to our earthly government. Pray for faith to believe in the resurrection and to find hope, not in earthly marriage, but being united to Jesus Christ as our Bridegroom.
(1) Pay Your Taxes (Mark 12:13-17)
(2) Marriage Isn’t Forever (Mark 12:18–27).
“Who Stands Between You and God?” Mark 10:1-31
Theme: Jesus defines marriage, receives children, and invites us to lose everything to follow Him.
Aim: Be humbled in light of Jesus’ teaching about marriage, that He would make us more like children in our dependence upon Him, and be helped by Him to lose all things in order to follow Christ.
(1) Divorce & Marriage (Mark 10:1-12)
(2) Self & Children (Mark 10:13-16)
(3) Selfishness in Riches (Mark 10:17-31)
“God Redeems His People” Ruth 4:1-22
Theme: God redeems His people.
Aim: Put your hope in God’s redemption through Ruth’s great-great grandson; King David’s greater Son, Jesus Christ.
(1) A Proper Redeemer (Ruth 4:1-6)
(2) God’s Promise (Ruth 4:7-12)
(3) A Marriage (Ruth 4:13-17)
(4) Genealogy of Another Redeemer (Ruth 4:18-22)