By Da Effiong Daniel
“And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: and I will make thee swear by the lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.” Gen.24; 1-4,
“The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,” Matt.22; 2, If you fail in marriage, you have failed God and will miss the kingdom of heaven and find yourself in hell fire because of ungodly marriage/traditional marriage.
“The Christian Marriage”
Abraham Married For His Son a kingdom pattern.
The gods, customs, cultures and traditions of places we were born into and the places we are dwelling like Abraham in Canaan have posed a lot of troubles to Christianity, i.e. Abrahams children by faith. No wonder Jesus said, “All whoever came before me are thieves and robbers.” John 10:8a, hence Abraham warned with an oath” put thy hand under my thigh and swear that “thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell “.
Abraham children’s marriage as a holy marriage comes with an oath. Do you see how serious is marriage to God that our father Abraham warned with oath? Because the Canaanites among whom they dwelt worshipped the graves, earthgodess, etc.”(the thieves and robbers”) who were there they before the real God (Jesus Christ) appeared and brought Abraham to the land of Canaan. He saw that unholy marriage with the Canaanites will draw the heart of his children away from serving the real God of Abraham Isaac and Israel, the possessor of the heaven and the earth.
In God wise plan, he directed his children, i.e. the Christians by faith to “go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.” Gen.24; 4, Now we brethren, as Isaac was are the children of promise.Gal4; 28
More so Christians have caused their own troubles for leaving the bible instructions to the traditions and cultures of the people among whom, “they dwelt” by taking a wife unto “my son” of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
By this they are doing their own thing and bring God anger to themselves.
Over the year we have seen Christians lost focus of God's Principle in marriage and followed satanic principle (tradition of men inspired by Satan) in doing things “of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell” .Now there are mixed-up between Christians, i.e. Abrahamic children and the daughters of the Canaanites i.e. the tradition of men who are not in God covenant .It has becomes a normal way of life and no difference again between the clean and the unclean, the covenanted children of God and the uncovenanted Canaanites , the holy and the unholy people of God in the land .
“YOUR WIFE MUST BE BORN AGAIN”
“YOU MUST NOT MARRY UNBELIVER; but go “to my kindred (THE CHURCH; ABRAHAM’S FAMILY), and take a wife unto my son Isaac” (a virgin, neither had any man known her) And he shall take a wife in her virginity. ………….. a divorced woman, or profane, or a harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of “his own people” to wife. Neither shall he profane “his seed among” his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.Lev.21; 13-15
Do you see God heart for a holy marriage? a virgin, (born again) not a divorced woman, profane ,harlot but what has happened now in the Christendom is out of divine order .There is much mixed-up now and the holy marriage which God himself has ordained for his own purpose in the earth has been profane by even ministers of God .And now the church that was ordained to defend God holy purpose on earth has now handed over marriage and make it an unholy marriage by leaving God‘s pattern and followed the tradition of men, “the way of the Canaanites “which supports satanic principle and brought God anger upon the people and the land.
If the church will arise and return to “this God pattern of marriage ,this great holy institution as it was at the beginning” , or at most follow our father Abraham’s son marriage which we are by faith, I believe most of this evil in the society will stop on its own.
When our lord and Jesus Christ ,the initiator of Christianity was confronted with the matter of marriage ,he said, “have you not read, ‘it was not so at the beginning”Matt19;4 and when he solved the problem of marriage in his generation ,he returned marriage to simple / original: the sweet wine”,John,2;10 before now he waited until ‘they were tired with the old wine’ and complex wine of marriage ,until they were tired with their traditions and customs way of marriage . When he appeared in his time, he brought the simple, the new / the sweet wine and when the people tasted; “And he said, to him everyman at the beginning set out good wine and when the guest have well drunk, then the inferior, you kept the good wine till now.”
In Abraham’s children marriage, the girl father confirmed,
This thing proceed out from the lord; we cannot speak unto thee bad or good behold Rebekah is before thee take her and go and let her be thy master’s son wife as the lord has spoken Gen.24;50-51
And the family acted in a haste, since they knew it is the lord will for their daughter, they don’t want to delay God program for their daughter, they happily collected what was given to them and release her to go to avoid God wrath. Gen 24; 56
As if he was saying, we are tired of the complex/ old wine and we want the simple/ new sweet wine now. We don’t want to do this marry as the custom demanded because we know God is involved in this one. What we are having today in our society, or churches are the complex, the hard that even make the man to regret because the demands are too much for him from the family and the church before marriage. Do you see, cried and tears in the man’s heart? God love a cheerful giver not a mournful or sorrowful giver.
Until now the Holy Spirit is still saying “Marriage is not originated from your tradition (the old wine) it is from heaven to you (the new/sweet wine), therefore handed it in the heavenly way to please God. I am the principal witness in your marriage Mal.2; 14
For this reason, everyone marrying or wanting to marry or have married will do go back to God, and ask, was they mistake in my marriage? God show me the right path in marriage .what he want is that all marriage, this God ordained holy Christian marriage, must be very impressive, sacred, dignified, and extremely giving God glory in all things.
I want to let you know that when two born again believers know it is God’s will for them to marry, they come together before God, before the minister of God , and before witnesses to join their heart and lives for as long as they shall live. They are united by God and become as one in his sight. They are joined together as Jesus is joined to the church, can you see the great mystery.
The world (the Canaanites) has the idea of marriage different from the original idea of holy marriage which God inaugurated in the Garden of Eden, “it is not good for a man to be alone”. It is a spiritual, an actual miracle takes place .
Therefore I welcome new couples, to this God ordained Christian marriage; The New/Sweet Wine. No more old wine but new/sweet wine in our day and in our land in Jesus name Amen. May you chose to marry according to God heart and not your heart church nor your tradition nor family pattern in Jesus name? May we have plenty of holy Christian marriages in our generation where Jesus Christ will be the special guest of honor in Jesus Name Amen?
Being a paper presented by Da Effiong Daniel from Africanholyland at a Christian marriage December 21st 2019 at Ikot Ineme Essien Udim Akwa Ibom State Nigeria
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