1. THE HOME AS GOD DEMANDS IT MATTHEW 19: 1 - 9
1975 – 75 – 80 % OF ALL MARRIAGES WERE LESS THAN HAPPY
1977 – 50% OF ALL MARRIAGES FAILED
1980 – 25% OF ALL MARRIAGES WITHIN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST FAILED WITHIN FIVE YEARS. CHILDRE WERE INVOLVED IN TWO-THIRDS OF THESE MARRIAGES
2000 – 1 OF 3 MARRIAGES LAST LESS THAN THREE YEARS
2010 – 35% OF MIDDLE SCHOOL CHILDREN COME FROM “DIVIDED HOME” ENVIRONMENT.

2. THE HOME AS GOD DEMANDS IT MATTHEW 19: 1 - 9
GOD FOUNDED MARRIAGE
Genesis 2: 8 – 25
“It is NOT good that man should be alone.”
God made man a help meet = a helper fit for his needs
They become one

3. THE HOME AS GOD DEMANDS IT MATTHEW 19: 1 - 9
GOD FOUNDED THE HOME
To avoid fornication
1 Corinthians 7: 1 – 2 -- Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

4. THE HOME AS GOD DEMANDS IT MATTHEW 19: 1 - 9
GOD FOUNDED THE HOME
To avoid fornication
Hebrews 13:4 -- Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

5. THE HOME AS GOD DEMANDS IT MATTHEW 19: 1 - 9
GOD FOUNDED THE HOME
Thus the need for LOVE between husband and wife
Ephesians 5: 22 – 33
Colossians 3: 18 – 19
1 Peter 3: 1 - 9

6. THE HOME AS GOD DEMANDS IT MATTHEW 19: 1 - 9
GOD FOUNDED THE PROPER ORDER OF THE HOME
EPHESIANS 5: 22 – 33
1 PETER 3: 1- 9
Note the UNITY resulting pursuant to God’s order – vs. 10 – 12

7. THE HOME AS GOD DEMANDS IT MATTHEW 19: 1 - 9
PROBLEMS COME WHEN GOD
IS NOT INCLUDED
Job 8:
Philippians 4:13
Colossians 3:17