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What brings us here today is ordained by God, whose Holy Word mandates that you step out from your two separate worlds and become one entity, "one flesh"
To Groom: Mark, have you accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and personal Savior?
Response: I have.
Have you received the Holy Spirit to dwell in you?
Response: I have.
To Bride: Karen, have you accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and personal Savior?
Response: I have. Have you received the Holy Spirit to dwell in you?
Response: I have.
To Bride and Groom
Now upon public profession of your faith, you have made known to all men that Jesus Christ of Nazareth is your Lord and your Savior. I make this announcement before this congregation and these witnesses: When two people join themselves to the Lord Jesus Christ by faith, according to God's own words and God's own statement, they stand cleansed-as clean before God as Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden before they sinned. This is not just a forgiveness of sin. The Bible says “any man who is in Christ is a new creation; old things have passed away and all things have become new.”
A miracle took place when you made Jesus the Lord of your life. The Holy Spirit used the very power of God-His creative power-to cause your spirit to be reborn. It is the same power that God used when He raised Jesus from the dead, and He joined you to Jesus by that power. When two born-again believers come before God to be joined together as husband and wife, the Apostle Paul calls it a “mystery" and says, "...but I speak concerning Christ and the church." When you made Jesus the Lord of your lives, you were joined to Him. First Corinthians 6:17 says “you are one spirit with Him.” In Ephesians, it says that “you have become one flesh with the Lord.” You are His. He is yours. You are one together with Him. I want you to understand that if you rightly discern the Body of Christ, then you rightly discern the miracle that takes place in marriage. Your spirits will be joined together and you will become one. You will not be one just in the eyes of the law. There is something much more powerful that happens. The very creative power of God will join you together. The same power that joined you with Jesus when you made Him your Lord will join you together. Don't ever tamper with that union. The love of God doesn't say, "I love you, but do you eally love me?" The love of God says very simply, "I love you." That's all it ever says. Don't ever tamper with that miracle. Don't ever let the sun go down on your wrath. Something holy, something beyond reproach, will take place by the Spirit of God inside your bosom; and it is a precious thing. It is our hope and expectation that you will walk together in the light of God's Word and in the bond of His Love. Only this bond will be strong enough to hold you secure when the storms come,
To Witnesses I want to speak this to the witnesses here: Jesus said in the 18th chapter of Matthew's gospel, “Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.” You are not here just because of tradition. You are here for a serious purpose-to bear witness forever of the miraculous union that will take place, and to add your agreement before God to that which takes place. Don't ever, ever, ever tamper with that agreement. From this day forward, regardless of what comes, you are in agreement with this union. Don't ever attempt in any way to cause it to be anything other than a happy union. |
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