Matthew chapter 22<\/p>\n
Weddings are special times, a covenant relationship between a man, a woman and God.\u00a0 This is not an agreement to love until love runs out but a covenant where the two by God become one flesh.\u00a0 A marriage is the picture of our covenant relationship with Christ.\u00a0 We are Christ\u2019 bride through salvation.\u00a0 We anticipate the wedding ceremony being committed to Christ through the sealing of the Spirit at salvation.\u00a0 The Spirit is called the earnest payment or the betrothal payment.\u00a0 When a groom and bride was \u201cengaged\u201d, betrothed to one another, a payment was made for the bride.\u00a0 After the wedding was guaranteed the groom went to prepare a place for the bride.\u00a0 When the place was secured and ready the groom returned and the marriage took place.\u00a0 Christ has gone to prepare a place for us and He will come again for us when it is ready.\u00a0 We are called to the wedding as the bride of Christ.\u00a0 We are His chosen bride.\u00a0 How exciting to know we have been redeemed and placed into the family of God.<\/p>\n
In marriage today, the picture of marriage has been destroyed.\u00a0 God instituted marriage with Adam and Eve.\u00a0 God has made marriage a special ceremony that brings two people into one.\u00a0 There are no longer two lives but one.\u00a0 The same happens with our relationship with Christ.\u00a0 We no longer belong to ourselves, we are joint heirs with Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}