Chapter 1
Tenants of the
First Royal Law of Courtship
Part II of III
"By the grace of Almighty God, I will marry
the person God has created for me."
"But How Will I Recognize the One God Created for Me?"
This book is written to give you Bible principles that will help to guide you to this person. When the time comes, God will let you know. But remember this: he/she is not the one if you have to sacrifice and of your seven biblical goals in order to "make it work." Here are a few suggestions that will help you know and recognize God's perfect will, and be wise enough to recognize a counterfeit sent by Satan.
1. God's perfect will is discernible only to those who have dedicated their lives to the Lord.
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God" (Romans 12:1-2)
God makes clear His good, acceptable and perfect will to you only if you are willing to present your body as a living sacrifice to Him. By the way, this is not an unreasonable request on the part of God. He made you, and He bought you with His Son's own blood. To refuse to dedicate yourself to God prevents you from discovering God's perfect will for your life.
2. God's perfect will is discernible only to those who have transformed their minds from worldly thinking to Biblical thinking.
"...but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God" (Romans 12:2)
If you are to discover God's perfect will, He has a second requirement: you must learn to think differently. The young person who learns to think Biblically, who learns to see things from God's perspective, becomes capable of recognizing the perfect will of God. Your mind will be renewed daily as you spend time in God's word and meditate on those truths you discover.
3. No unsaved person should ever be considered a potential marriage partner.
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers" (II Corinthians 6:14)
Did you know that the main reason God sent the Old Testament flood to destroy the world was because of Christian young people making the foolish decision to marry unbelievers?
"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Genesis 6:1-5)
Here, briefly, are the events leading up to the Old Testament flood. Two civilizations emerged from Adam and Eve. The descendants of Cain created a civilization where God was excluded. The descendants of Seth, on the other hand, created a civilization where Jehovah God was honored and worshipped. For many generations, these to civilizations had little or no contact.
At some point, each gre and expanded to the point where ther began to be an increased contact between these two groups. The young men who were descendants of Seth began to notice the young ladies from Cain's lineage. They began to pursue them because of one stated reason: "they were fair," meaning they were appealing to the eyes and to the flesh. Years before, Cain's civilization had left behind decency and virtue. Like many young women of today's world, they had been raised with the dangerous notion that the way to attract men was through immodesty and seduction. They wore less, but they were also worth far less.
God's reaction to His children marrying the wroldly, lost inhabitants of the earth was anger. (It is still His reaction today!) He was so angry that He immediaately shortened the average life span of mankind to 120 years. That may still seem like a lot of years, but remember, Adam lived to be 930 years old. If we use his age as a benchmark, God reduced man's life span by 87%!
Did the children of these unscriptural marriages grow up to serve the Lord? NO! Just the opposite is true, for the Bible describes the next generation in sad and frightening terms. "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth...got it repnteth me that I have made them" (Genesis 6:5-7).
When a Christian young person marries an unsaved young person, it grieves the heart of Jehovah God.
1. God's perfect will is discernible only to those who have dedicated their lives to the Lord.
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God" (Romans 12:1-2)
God makes clear His good, acceptable and perfect will to you only if you are willing to present your body as a living sacrifice to Him. By the way, this is not an unreasonable request on the part of God. He made you, and He bought you with His Son's own blood. To refuse to dedicate yourself to God prevents you from discovering God's perfect will for your life.
2. God's perfect will is discernible only to those who have transformed their minds from worldly thinking to Biblical thinking.
"...but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God" (Romans 12:2)
If you are to discover God's perfect will, He has a second requirement: you must learn to think differently. The young person who learns to think Biblically, who learns to see things from God's perspective, becomes capable of recognizing the perfect will of God. Your mind will be renewed daily as you spend time in God's word and meditate on those truths you discover.
3. No unsaved person should ever be considered a potential marriage partner.
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers" (II Corinthians 6:14)
Did you know that the main reason God sent the Old Testament flood to destroy the world was because of Christian young people making the foolish decision to marry unbelievers?
"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Genesis 6:1-5)
Here, briefly, are the events leading up to the Old Testament flood. Two civilizations emerged from Adam and Eve. The descendants of Cain created a civilization where God was excluded. The descendants of Seth, on the other hand, created a civilization where Jehovah God was honored and worshipped. For many generations, these to civilizations had little or no contact.
At some point, each gre and expanded to the point where ther began to be an increased contact between these two groups. The young men who were descendants of Seth began to notice the young ladies from Cain's lineage. They began to pursue them because of one stated reason: "they were fair," meaning they were appealing to the eyes and to the flesh. Years before, Cain's civilization had left behind decency and virtue. Like many young women of today's world, they had been raised with the dangerous notion that the way to attract men was through immodesty and seduction. They wore less, but they were also worth far less.
God's reaction to His children marrying the wroldly, lost inhabitants of the earth was anger. (It is still His reaction today!) He was so angry that He immediaately shortened the average life span of mankind to 120 years. That may still seem like a lot of years, but remember, Adam lived to be 930 years old. If we use his age as a benchmark, God reduced man's life span by 87%!
Did the children of these unscriptural marriages grow up to serve the Lord? NO! Just the opposite is true, for the Bible describes the next generation in sad and frightening terms. "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth...got it repnteth me that I have made them" (Genesis 6:5-7).
When a Christian young person marries an unsaved young person, it grieves the heart of Jehovah God.
Copyright 2004
by Ultimate Goal Publications
All rights Reserved
(Permission given by Author)
Part III of III coming tomorrow!
by Ultimate Goal Publications
All rights Reserved
(Permission given by Author)
Part III of III coming tomorrow!
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Thanks for posting this. As a mom of teen girls, am interested in learning about courtship. I started a blog roll, if you ae interested, it can be found here: http://ifbkjv.blogspot.com/
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