A Heavenly Pattern For Us On Earth

56 a birth certificate give life to the baby, neither does a marriage or divorce certificate make a marriage or give rise to divorce.

Christian marriage involves the marriage partners promising each other certain things. The following marriage vows are derived from scripture and are long-standing Christian beliefs.

A The man promises his bride to love, honour, cherish, care and look after her even as Christ loves and cares for his church.

Col 3:19, Eph 5:2 , 1 Pet 3:7

B The women in return promises to love honour and obey her man (as the church does to Christ). This is the pattern spoken of in

Eph. 5:22-24

This order and pattern of promises are only derived from the scripture and has been the order of things throughout the Church age.

These promises form a covenant and they are made before God and in presence of witnesses. It is not a contract but a covenant and should not be broken. Even if partners fail to fulfil their promises. They are still bound by promise to fulfil their vows. Even if they ignore their vows they are still married. Each partner is responsible to go the second mile in making the relationship work.

In the marriage all the husband has is his wife’s even his body and likewise all the wife has belongs to her husband.

This form of marriage is how God intends it to be and I would argue to depart for the scriptural view of marriage is to turn from what God has revealed. I cannot see how any one in their right mind would turn from Gods way of things. David Clarke 21st Feb 1999

A Heavenly Pattern For Us On Earth

When God the Father set up Christ for our living head he gave us eternal life in him; as it is written, “In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie promised before the world began.”

Titus 1:2

Christ is the head of all things to the Church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Eph. 1.23

Christ is the quickening Spirit, that quickens all his redeemed; for he is our life, who has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. In another passage he himself saith, “Because I live ye shall live also.”

John 14:19

And it must be so; “For, as in Adam all (his natural seed) die, even so in