Covenantal Marriage: God's Divine Design and Purpose

God uses this word, he says she is Your Wife by Covenant. She is your wife by Covenant they were talking about divorce in Malachi too. It says the reason you can't end this relationship is she is your mate by Covenant. This is the theological, hermeneutical, exegetical, expositional word that is the foundation of marriage. Whenever God wanted to establish something official in the Bible with his people, he would covenantalize it. [00:07:19]

A covenant is defined as a divinely created relational Bond. Covenant is a divinely created relational Bond. It is where God was establishing something official between himself and Mankind by which he would operate. The reason why you have to understand the word covenant is covenants have warranties. When you buy an appliance, you get a warranty which means that the manufacturer will stand behind the product. [00:08:32]

Covenants have Divine warranty because covenants are divinely created bonds. As long as the Covenant is operating by means of the purpose for which it is created, God stands behind the warranty. The moment it is not operating that way, the warranty can be voided and therefore relationships dissolve and all other manner of Chaos in our homes, in our families, and in our relationships. [00:09:23]

One of the great stories in the Bible is first Samuel 17. David and Goliath. If I were to ask you how did David kill Goliath, some would say faith in God, some would say a slingshot. Most would not say this: Goliath was nine foot six inches tall. He had never been defeated. He was the champion. He had on over 100 pounds of armor, and it caused all the men in Israel, it says, to flee because he terrorized them. [00:10:00]

Here comes a teenager named David, and in verse 26 and in verse 36, he says the same thing twice. He says, who is this uncircumcised Philistine who had taunt the armies of the Living God? While all the other men fearing him looked up here, David looked down there and said he ain't been to the doctor. That boy ain't been cut. In other words, he has not been covenantally covered. [00:10:47]

A covenant is a covering. It is like holding an umbrella over your head when it is raining. The umbrella does not stop it from raining; it just stops it from raining on you because it provides a covering. So covenants provide covering, and they are designed for God to step into the situation by means of His official relationship to it because covenants are kingdom administrative mechanisms by which God operates in history. [00:11:19]

If you're here today and you have accepted Jesus Christ, you're part of the New Covenant. You're part of this Divine covering by his sacrificial life and the blood. He says she is Your Wife by Covenant. So what you need to understand is one word, and that is marriage is a covenant. That's more than a contract because you can have a contract without a personal relationship. You cannot have a covenant without one. [00:12:03]

All covenants have five ingredients, and when these ingredients are operating Under the Umbrella of the word covenant, there is covering and there is empowerment because you are in the Covenant. Number one, all covenants, biblical Covenants, are transcendent. That's a big theological word that simply means they are God or authored and God ordained. They come from another realm. [00:12:52]

Transcendent means outside of this realm. It descends from another realm or, to put it in everyday language, marriage is God's idea. Marriage is not a humanly established institution. It is for humans but not established by humans because it is transcendent, meaning God came up with the idea. This is why God says in Matthew 19, let not man put asunder what God has joined together. [00:13:36]

The origin of marriage is established in Genesis 1, Genesis 2. And we're given three reasons for it. First of all, we're told it was established for reflection. That is, we're going to create man and woman in our own image. An image is a mirror, so we want them to mirror us. Who's the US? Let us make man that you want to mirror. Well, the godhead since he uses the plural. [00:14:36]

The godhead is God the Father, God the son, God the Holy Spirit, one God composed of three co-equal persons who is distinctive personality while simultaneously being one in essence. The father's not the son, the son is not the spirit. It's like a pretzel with three holes. First hole is not second hole, second hole is not the third hole, but they're all tied together by the same Doe. [00:15:14]

When God created marriage, he didn't create man and woman at the same time. He framed them. He creates man out of the man. He creates woman out of the woman comes the child. Why? Because he wants to traumatize family, and so he does it to mirror him as reflection. Then there is replication. Be fruitful and multiply. But what exactly are we multiplying? [00:16:04]

We're not merely multiplying look-alikes so that we can have someone come from us who looks like us. We're multiplying His image. So the idea of the multiplication is that there would be the generational manifestation of God as families spread so that if you have four children and one goes to the west coast, East Coast, one goes north, south, east, and west, the replication of God has traveled with them through the parenting process. [00:16:39]

There is reflection, there is replication, and then there is ruling. Ruling, he says, and let them rule. The word is Dominion. Let them operate on my behalf in history. Now, without getting too didactical and too technical, the whole concept is that God created man in the physical so that the spiritual could become visible in time and space. [00:17:14]

So what he did was he created Mankind in order that he could reflect himself as he does in the spiritual realm down into the Physical Realm. So the first thing you need to know is that covenants are Transcendent. That means they are God authored and therefore only God defined, which is why you can't have gay marriage because that's not God defined. [00:17:44]

The second aspect of marriage, of Covenant, all covenants are hayochial and hierarchying is a chain of command. It's a way we operate. God created Adam. There was no woman. In God's economy, there would never be a single person. Singlehood only exists because sin exists. Without sin, there'd be no death. Without sin, there'd be no widows like or widowers like myself. [00:18:08]

Without sin, there'd be no divorce. Only sin did that, but God established a process by means of a chain of command by creating Adam before he created Eve because he would hold the man responsible. It would be the man he would hold responsible. So when he creates man, when he creates in Genesis 1, he uses the Hebrew word Elohim that means strong one will create a god. [00:18:47]

He gives Adam a job. He tells him to tend the garden, and he gives him, he gives them trees. It gives them trees, and he says from every tree of the god you may freely eat, except the tree in the middle of the garden, the Google tree. That's the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. It's the information center. It's a Google tree. [00:20:13]

I want to tell the man because there is no woman yet. I want to tell the man you are to live by Revelation, not by human reason. I don't know. I do not want you to make your decisions based on human reason that conflict with divine revelation. And when you do that, you will believe in Freedom because the first use of the word free is used by God in the garden, not by America in 1776. [00:20:40]

He gives him instruction. He tells them to name the animals. It's part of the Dominion. God didn't name him. God brought him. The man had to name them because we act with what God brings. So now God goes and Fashions a woman. He puts the man to sleep. He takes out his side, so now Adam is half the man he used to be because half of him is now missing. [00:21:10]

God plays Cupid. He brings her to him. He brings her to him, and Adam names her. That's where we get the woman taking the man's name. Adam names her Adam's name is e She names her Isha Hebrew, the feminine form of each, and then he performs the marriage vows. And in the marriage vows, the man leaves his father and mother. [00:22:08]