Culture vs. Christ. The story of Biblical Marriage!

 We often fail to realize how influential culture is. I would characterize the effects of culture like a clear running stream that flows over a rock. The stream is so persistent and steady the rock never realizes it is being changed and shaped. Our culture is one of tolerance not truth. It is a culture where the foundational principals of Scripture are compromised to the subjective feelings of the individual. Scripture may be clear on specific truth since the beginning of time but when Culture is finished, what was a clear solid truth becomes obsolete and narrow. There is no greater example of this than the erosion of Biblical marriage. Biblical marriage is a commitment to another of the opposite sex for life until death parts them. It is built on a covenant that one makes with another before their creator. We are to love each other as God has loved us, unconditionally. The feelings of love come and go but the commitment of the husband wife relationship pushes beyond that . An example of this is found in Eph. 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. Clearly, The church did not deserve the love of Christ. Love for Jesus made itself known in Him making the hard decision to go to the cross and sacrifice Himself. What we know is that Jesus, in the garden, asked the father to take the cup that he was going to have to drink away. This is simply Jesus saying if there is another way, will do that but what ever your will is Father that is more important. Imagine what our marriages would be like if instead of waiting for a “ feeling” of love we made a decision to love. So many marriages end because one will say “ I donʼt love you any more “ as if love was a feeling that comes and goes. In reality it is a choice one makes like Jesus. Aren't you glad in the garden, Jesus did not wait for a warm feeling before he he showed his love?I know I am.” Pastor Paul Bixler