1 Introduction

Average U.S. Divorce Rate = 50%

Divorce Rates 1st Marriages = 41% 2nd Marriages = 60% 3rd Marriages = 73% *J. Baker – Forest Institute of Professional Psychology

Divorce rates among Evangelical Christians are higher then among atheists. *Barna Group

7 Steps… Step #1 – DON’T LEAVE For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother - Gen. 2:24a

7 Steps… Step #2 – DON’T CLEAVE and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. - Gen. 2:24b

7 Steps… Step #3 – DO VIOLATE For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. - Gen. 2:24-25

7 Steps… Step #4 – DON’T MULTIPLY God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” - Gen. 1:28

7 Steps… Step #5 – DON’T SUBMIT Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. - Eph. 5:22-24

7 Steps… Step #6 – DON’T LOVE So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, - Eph. 5:28-29

7 Steps… Step #7 – DON’T SEEK Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. - I Cor. 7:1-3

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. - I Cor. 7:4-5

6 Don’ts & 1 Do Don’t Leave Parents

6 Don’ts & 1 Do Don’t Leave Parents Don’t Cleave To Your Spouse

6 Don’ts & 1 Do Don’t Leave Parents Don’t Cleave To Your Spouse Do Violate The One Flesh Principle

6 Don’ts & 1 Do Don’t Leave Parents Don’t Cleave To Your Spouse Do Violate The One Flesh Principle Don’t Multiply

6 Don’ts & 1 Do Don’t Leave Parents Don’t Cleave To Your Spouse Do Violate The One Flesh Principle Don’t Multiply Don’t Submit

6 Don’ts & 1 Do Don’t Leave Parents Don’t Cleave To Your Spouse Do Violate The One Flesh Principle Don’t Multiply Don’t Submit Don’t Love

6 Don’ts & 1 Do Don’t Leave Parents Don’t Cleave To Your Spouse Do Violate The One Flesh Principle Don’t Multiply Don’t Submit Don’t Love Don’t Get Help