Marriage

The True Apostolical Succession

Psalms 45:16

… earth.” The forty-fifth Psalm is a sort of marriage-song, proclaiming the glories of Christ, the husband; and the beauties — the God-given beauties of the Church …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage (Continued)

… It was good discipline for the Pastor’s intended wife, who needed no inconsiderable amount of training to fit her in any measure for the post she was …

Loved and Loving

… Our marriage union with husband or wife cannot be more clear, more sure, more matter of fact than our oneness with Christ and our enjoyment of that oneness …

Evening, October 6

Nu 12:1

… Moses met with opposition because of his marriage, and both himself and his spouse were the subjects of an evil eye. Can we wonder if this vain world …

Christ's Sympathy With His People

Hebrews 2:18

… Her husband's other wife had children, but she had none. Though she was greatly beloved of her husband, her adversary vexed her sorely to make her fret …

A Proclamation from the King of Kings

Jeremiah 3:12

… What unnatu-ralness! Shall a wife not know her husband's voice? Shall a brother forget his brother's? Yet it is so with some of you who …

Romans, But Not romanists

Romans 16:1-16

… a wife conspiring in hypocrisy, and here a wife and a husband united in sincere devotion. Thrice happy are those who are not only joined in marriage, but …

A Glorious Church

Ephesians 5:25-27

… Again, a husband loves his wife with a constant love and so does Christ His Church. He will not cast her away tomorrow having loved her today. He …

Household Sin and Sorrow

… Then, meanwhile, the wife has not confidence in her husband! She hears this little speech between her husband and her son—she was eavesdropping, I suppose, always fearful …

Shut In Or Shut Out

Genesis 7:16

… Ah me! What if any of you should become pillars of salt! "Remember Lot's wife!" But when, like Noah, you are divided from the world's pursuits …

The Voice From Heaven

Revelation 11:12

… No true wife has rest save in the house of her husband. Where her consort is, there is her home—a home which draws her soul towards it …

The Savior Resting in His Love

Zephaniah 3:17

… Now, Jesus Christ has taken His people into such a connection with Himself that they are nearer to Him even than the wife is to the husband—they …

Love at Its Utmost

John 15:9

… More surely than parent or child, or husband or wife, or the best tried friend, Jesus loves his blood-bought ones! O my soul, he loves thee! Be …

The Lord's Own View of His Church and People

Solomon 4:12

… We live in such joyful fellowship with Him as a sister has with a brother, or a wife with a husband! Be not backward towards your own Betrothed …

A Pastoral Visit

… I have heard of a wife walking home with her husband from a place of worship. He was an ungodly man. She had often prayed for him and …

The Nature and Design of Divine Chastening

1 Corinthians 11:32

… kicked and the great mercy over which we stumbled? A husband feels an unkind word from his wife far more than from anyone else because he loves her …

The Double "Come"

Revelation 22:17

… Albeit we are to seek sinners with all our might and to compel them to come in to the marriage supper, yet we must not forget whose marriage …

Obeying Christ's Orders

John 2:5

… And both Jesus was called and His disciples to the marriage. Happy marriage, where Christ is invited to be present! Where Christ goes, His disciples go. If they …

Heart-communing

1 Kings 10:2

… That would be a strange kind of marriage union in which the wife should be in the presence of her husband and not even speak to him by …

That Horrible East Wind!

Colossians 3:15

… But I am quite clear that it was not a happy household where that question took long to answer, for the husband is the head of the wife …

The Flight to Zoar

Genesis 19:23

… you cast away with devils? O husband, will you find yourself crying, with Dives, for a drop of water, while your wife is in the Presence of Jesus …

Creation’s Groans and the Saints’ Sighs

Romans 8:22-23

… A wife waiting for her husband’s footsteps; a child waiting in the darkness of the night till its mother comes to give it the evening’s kiss …

The Head of the Church

Colossians 1:18

… A mysterious union has been established between Christ and His Church which is constantly compared to that of marriage: "For the husband is the head of the wife …

Strange Ways of Love

Hosea 2:14

… God compares Israel to a wife who has left her husband, broken her marriage vow and become unchaste, filthy and polluted. In such a case as that, there …

Enquiring of God

2 Samuel 2:1

… Young woman, if you can ask the Lord's blessing upon your contemplated marriage, you may enter upon it. Young man, if you can ask the Lord's …

Filling With the Spirit and Drunkenness With Wine

Ephesians 5:18

… Once more, many men, no doubt, become drunkards from love of what is called good fellowship. "Look," said a wife to her husband, "how can you drink at …

Carried by Four

Luke 5:16-26

… A husband and a wife are here, both happily brought to Christ; you are praying for your children; never cease from that supplication: pray on. Perhaps one of …

Sept. 25 — THE SACRIFICE HAS BEEN ACCEPTED

Judges 13:23

… It was not likely that the Lord had revealed to Manoah and his wife that a son would be born to them, and yet had it in His …

God's Tender Mercy

Luke 1:78

… us in the sacred bonds of marriage with Himself! "Your Maker is your husband." Oh, what bountiful provision will such a Husband make for us! How well will …

The Child of Light and the Works of Darkness

Ephesians 5:11

… Nevertheless, let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife see that she reverence her husband. Thus the Spirit of God …

Lecture II: Anecdotes From The Pulpit.

… THE HUSBAND AND HIS WITTY WIFE.--The husband told his wife that he had one ill quality--he was given to be angry without cause. She wittily replied …

The Almighty Warrior

Psalm 45:3-5

… Lord Jesus Christ, and to His marriage union with His Church. Under the Mosaic dispensation, when a man had married a wife, he was not to go out …

'Bought with a Price'

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

… According to some, the allusion price here is to the dowry that was paid by a husband for his wife in ancient days. According to the Rabbis there …

Do You Know Him?

Philippians 3:10

… Even the spouse may not know her husband. The most loving wife who ever entered into the cares of her husband, must have discovered that there is a …

'Jesus Our Lord'

Romans 4:24

… Are we, through His Infinite Love, united to Him in the bonds of sacred marriage? Then He is our Husband and it becomes our delight to bow to …

A Door Opened In Heaven

Revelation 4:1

… The night after he had a dream which so impressed him that his wife said to him in the morning, "You look very sad, Jan. What is the …

Turning From Death

Ezekiel 33:11

… The worst of crimes—that a wife should be false to her marriage vows and turn aside from her husband whom she is bound to love! And very …

Love's Transformations—a Communion Meditation

John 14:28

… your baby to Jesus? Do you grudge your mother, your brother, your wife, your husband to Him that bought them with His blood? Oh, I say again, it …

Accepted of the Great Father

Ephesians 1:6

… He says to her, "You are my dear son's wife; therefore you are my daughter and dear to me. You are welcome in my house at any …

The Christian's Motto

John 8:29

… your relationship, that as a husband and as a father you please God. My good Sister, it must be as a wife and a mother that you please …