The Garden of Marriage

The Garden of Marriage

Genesis 2:15 “The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.”

MAIN IDEA: Marriage is a garden to be CULTIVATED. 

Proverbs 24:30 

I passed by a lazy person’s field
    and by the vineyard of someone with no sense.

31 Thorns had grown up everywhere.
    The ground was covered with weeds,
    and the stone walls had fallen down.

32 I thought about what I had seen;
    I learned this lesson from what I saw.

33 You sleep a little; you take a nap.
    You fold your hands and lie down to rest.

34 Soon you will be as poor as if you had been robbed;
    you will have as little as if you had been held up.

1.  PULL THE WEEDS 

a.  FRUSTRATIONS

b.  FIGHTS

c.  FAILURES

Hebrews 12:15 “Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many”

Ephesians 4:26-27 “DO NOT LET THE SUN GO DOWN WHILE YOU ARE STILL ANGRY, and do not give the devil a foothold.”

2. PLANT THE SEEDS 

Galatians 6:7-9 “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man REAPS WHAT HE SOWS.  8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

a. You reap WHAT you sow.

b. You reap WHERE you sow.

c. You reap AFTER you sow.

Luke 13:8-9 MSG “Let’s give it one more year. I’ll dig around the roots and fertilize it and see if it doesn’t do something. If not we can cut it down.” 

1. He dug deeper

b.  He added fertilizer.

c.  He gave it time

Galatians 6:9 “let us not get weary in doing good for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”