WHAT IS MARRIAGE? Part 1 of 14 God has a purpose and a plan for everything He created. Even the elements obey His commands. With mathematical precision the massive heavenly bodies move and fulfill their purposes. You and I live and move and have our being in HIM. In the Pacific Ocean off the Fiji Islands, on the coral rock six feet under the surface of the water, lives an annelid worm called the Palolo. He lives to the gracious old age of one year. Exactly on the stroke of midnight, the last quarter of the moon in October, every year, this little created thing detaches itself and rises to the surface for the sole purpose of reproducing a new palolo. This birth- cycle lasts from that bewitching hour of midnight until eight oclock in the morning, when the new creature sinks back, attaches himself to the same rock, and lives his allotted time. His timing device is astronomical. Surgical operation could not detect his time alarm. Brain inspection would never reveal this intelligence. Then, Who taught him to know when midnight strikes? That God, our Creator, should have provided so minutely for every object of His creation and left the life pattern for Man to chance, is unthinkable. Man, His masterpiece! Man, only, created in His own image! Man, only, endowed with a will, or the privilege of choice! Only of man is it said, God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and Man became a living soul. Gen. 2: 7. With the completeness of creation, God looked upon it all and said, It is good. But man looked about and found no one for himself. Then God per- formed His first operation. Causing a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, this Master Anesthetist took from his side a rib and made Woman. When God brought her unto the man, Adam said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. THEREFORE shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, THE MAN AND HIS WIFE, and were not ashamed. Gen. 2: 24,25. And He answered and said unto them, Have ye not read that He which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and sai4, FOR THIS CAUSE shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one flesh. Mat. 194-6. But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. FOR THIS CA USE shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh; so then they are no more twain, but one flesh; WHAT, THEREFORE, GOD HATH JOINED TOGETHER, let not man put asunder. Mat. 10: 6-9. For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. FOR THIS CA USE shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. Eph. 5:30, 31. MARRIAGE, Gods first institution, was inaugurated. WHY? Because the Lard God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And on this premise, God spoken, the Therefore, and For this cause, is built the platform, the propositions, the requirements for Marriage.
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