This account of the very first marriage highlights the fundamental characteristic of a godly marriage—a husband and wife become “one flesh.” Obviously, they remain two individuals, but in God’s ideal for marriage the two become one—in purpose. They share the same values, the same goals, the same outlook.

Marriage was divinely established at the beginning with Creation. It’s in the Bible, Genesis 2:18, 22-24, NKJV. “And the LORD God said, ‘It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him’… Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

questions about sex and marriage; church order; the gifts of the Spirit; and the resurrection body; The best-known chap­ter in the letter is 1 Corinthians 13, where Paul de­scribed love in such a beautiful way. Since these same issues are still important today, Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians still deserves to be studied closely.

Marriage is honorable in God’s sight. It’s in the Bible, Hebrews 13:4, ESV. “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. God guards marriage through the seventh and the tenth commandments. It’s in the Bible, Exodus 20:14, 17, NKJV. “You shall ...

Crime has become a huge threat to civilization. From the first groan of Abel to the last prayer upon the scaffold, this commandment comes thundering into the hearts of men, “Thou shall not murder.” 7. You shall not commit adultery. Bible reference - …

Luke’s introduction to Theophilus, in the book of Luke, begins like this: “Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.”

It could be argued that society in the first century was more divided than today with all our modern problems. Jews and Gentiles, slaves and free, men and women, Greeks and “barbarians”—all these had their separate and distinct places in society. Jews and Gentiles distrusted each other and had as little to do with each other as possible.

To every Christian listening in, let me say: If you are living for Christ, you are doing more than anything else that you possibly could do to bring men to Him. A missionary in China was telling of Jesus for the first time to a group of people in an inland town. When he had finished, someone spoke up and said: “Oh, yes, we knew Him.

This will be their line of argument: ‘So Jesus promised to come back, did He? Then where is He? He'll never come! Why, as far back as anyone can remember everything has remained exactly as it was since the first day of creation.'" Wars and conflicts are signs of the times. It's in the Bible, Mark 13:7-8, NKJV. "But when you hear of wars and ...

“But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. Then two men will ...