A marriage covenant should not be a place for its parts (spouses) to gather and then act as if they had it all together spiritually. Rather, it should be a place where two genders, male and female, come together to grow into His spiritual offspring, being transformed by the Holy Spirit and the word of God. Everything written in this blog is to spur your hearts and minds if you are married, to have a consciousness of the fact that there are truths in God’s word regarding issues of life that are relevant to marital well-being and its eternal purpose.
These issues are not all the things one deals with on a daily basis in marriage, but they are ones not talked about and or prayed about among God’s children. And they are areas the Church has unfortunately deemed not for discussion at the pulpit; thus, struggles prevail individually and in the union, much of it as the world appears in it, that is, without the light of life as God has revealed. So, in a sense, marriage has been left to the world’s ways of living to garner its God-given purpose and meaning, or, let’s say, to understand that it exists in a way God does not intend.
Knowledge about marriage that is contained within God’s word and any power crafted within is readily available to those who are respectful of the Spirit of God, the one who is the only true revealer of it. John 14:16-17 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. Long before the Church’s structured format appeared, there was some form of spiritual conformity among all who were in Israel and among any who saw God as worthy of worship and praise.
Much of the processes endured are revealed in the manner in which even husbands and wives cooperated in the covenant to be a part of the Holy Spirit’s working in the lives of others. This worldly manner of living is not the real issue here; rather, it is that before the Church came into existence, the core of God’s eternal plan was being fulfilled through the covenant standards brought into the marriage. That is right, you heard me, churches, though prophetically present, are not the only entity capable of bringing someone to maturity in their spiritual purpose.
The synagogues and temples in respect to Israel are maturing by maintaining spiritual consciousness before God. But the real nurturing and revelation of true knowledge among the Israelites is happening within the family structure. As parents and tutors taught the children the Judaic principles and the traditions and customs that God had instructed them to observe. The activities of the synagogues and temples and the glory of God that prevailed there were to maintain the spiritual union of a covenant. But by the time an Israelite was of age to participate in the events, they already knew about the God of all creation and His promises.
God did not rely on the religious leaders of Israel as the only means to impart the truth that would bring about His eternal purpose for man and woman. He ordained the marriage union in the very beginning, long before the Church or Israel was ever revealed, and He is still today relying upon it to bring forth His spiritual offspring. We have allowed religious doctrines and worldly manners to remove the true, eternal purpose of marriage and replace it with the ordinances of social traditions and corporate statutes. While the Church still has a purpose in the spiritual development of marriage, its path to accomplish this is through individual persons in covenant with one another and nurtured by the Holy Spirit.
The Church, even though it believes it is, is never going to be the intimate place of union that is to exist within marriage and family structures. Sheep produce sheep; that is the way God purposed it to be within His creation, and spiritual sheep are to produce more spiritual sheep. Within a confined family structure, the Spirit of God has liberty in. Today’s sense of righteousness in marriages among believers suggests that the local church is the only place where the power and authority of God prevail. And they diligently flock to them, seeking an appearance of it on a regular basis.
The truth is, such authority and power existed long before the Church appeared, were then revealed, and are still today, purposed to be revealed through the family lineage founded upon God’s marriage outline. Abraham and Sarah, though not in control of all things, were by the working of it prospered in every area. And the wealth of their inheritance was passed on to Isaac and Jacob. David was victorious in battle by the authority and power of God, and even though he failed in many areas of marriage, his lineage was deemed a heritage of kingship forever.
The immaculate conception of Mary and the eventual birth of Jesus Christ were not fulfilled by the angelic host, but by the intercourse of authority and power through the Spirit of God entering a marriage union of Joseph and Mary. I in no way intend to diminish the Church and its eternal part in God’s plans, but the true purpose of marriage has unfortunately been diminished to the bedroom and the act of sexual intercourse.
Marriage should not be the precipice of our life in Christ; it should be the pinnacle of an eternal promise exercised by authority and power by spouses moving in the Holy Spirit. 1 Peter 3:22 (GW) Christ has gone to heaven where he has the highest position that God gives. Angels, rulers, and powers have been placed under his authority. Spouses as believers are a part of His body, and the authority and power of Christ are to flow through them by the Holy Spirit. That means that if they are of faith, then the first place of manifestation is to be within their own covenant union by principles that reveal His image.
There must be a conscious knowing of the eternal instinct within the marriage union, revealing the one who gave His life for theirs to the one opposite of them in marriage. This is not done for the sake of the local church but for the sake of marriage, and if correctly done strengthens the Church corporately. I pray, I am not losing you on this, as God clearly placed within His word truths that pertain to marriage and His eternal purpose for it. Mal 2:15 GOD, not you, made marriage. His Spirit inhabits even the smallest details of marriage. And what does he want from marriage? Children of God, that’s what. So guard the spirit of marriage within you. Don’t cheat on your spouse.
So, the most important fact for you to know is that the union of marriage, viewed as a covenant by God, was ordained before the Church Age had even existed, making it the former place of the Spirit’s nurturing. Rev 19:7-9 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. Why is a marriage conveyed as the final union with Christ at the end of it all? Jesus clearly revealed to John that this revelation is true since God said it. 9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
There is a significant truth to be learned, or in this case, a mystery to be revealed. Who is the Church to Christ? A spiritual body that completes His eternal purpose for humanity. What is a wife to her husband or a husband to his wife? The person who completes the union of marriage for the eternal purpose of humanity being God’s spiritual offspring. Eph 5:30-33 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
In the Church of today, it appears as though we have thrown away the real purpose of marriage and replaced it with the evil dexterity of worldly-minded activity. Thus, by nullifying its true purpose, marriages of believers now take on a carnal character. The eternal purpose of marriage is not about the individual’s destined purpose, but a purpose destined by God for a union of individuals who are male and female, procreating a replenishment He decreed in the beginning. Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
The power and authority of God rest in the marriage union through the Spirit of God and the truth of the word as He reveals it. There is an intimacy within the family union that creates an atmosphere where faith can operate and develop into offspring who know the Father and the Son on a basis that will continually establish the family’s righteous stature by the truth. His Spirit inhabits even the smallest details of marriage. As seen previously, there is to be participation that nurtures the overall well-being of the marriage union, affecting all its parts, not just the spouses. Your children are far more receptive to your authority than that of those in the Church; though respectful of them, they cannot affect their lives in the way you can by the Holy Spirit.
We have taken the one place where God by the Spirit can affect individuals on a continuous daily endeavor, and placed it into society at a far distant position from that which God ordained it for. There is more to know about this, but it is not a mystery as some would think; it is in plain sight for all believers to know and have faith in the working of it by the truth the Holy Spirit reveals.
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