1. Building the Family from the ground up
Home Improvement
Building the Family from the ground up

2. Home Improvement Jesus is the Great Home Builder
Genesis 2:18-24 – “And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall

3. Home Improvement Jesus is the great home builder
upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

4. Home Improvement Jesus is the great home builder
Matthew 19:4-6 – “And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

5. Home Improvement Jesus is the Great Home Builder
I. One Plus One Equals One Physically
Genesis 1:26,27 – “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He them.”

6. Home Improvement Jesus is the Great Home Builder
I. One Plus One Equals One Physically
I Thessalonians 5:23 – “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly, and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

7. Home Improvement Jesus is the Great Home Builder
I. One Plus One Equals One Physically
Hebrews 13:4 – “Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”

8. Home Improvement Jesus is the Great Home Builder
I. One Plus One Equals One Physically
Sex is God’s idea
Sex is a gift of God
Sex is good
Sex is of God when it is within the bounds of marriage

9. Home Improvement Jesus is the Great Home Builder
I. One Plus One Equals One Physically
I Corinthians 6:9-11 – “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”

10. Home Improvement Jesus is the Great Home Builder
I. One Plus One Equals One Physically
I Corinthians 6:18 – “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body , but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”

11. Home Improvement Jesus is the Great Home Builder
I. One Plus One Equals One Physically
Hebrews 13:4 – “Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”

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II. One Plus One Equals One Psychologically
₋ To develop emotional oneness the key word is communication
• Learn to listen to the other person: Make good eye contact and concentrate on what they are saying
• Learn to handle your anger: Exercise self-control
• Learn to avoid certain words: Stay away from the words that cut deep
• Learn to not to dwell on the past: There comes a time when you have to let the past go

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II. One Plus One Equals One Psychologically
₋ To develop emotional oneness the key word is communication
₋ When speaking to your spouse be careful how you speak:
• Be careful what you say
• Be careful how you say it
• Be careful when you say it
• Be careful why you say it
I Peter 3:7 – “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.”

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III. One Plus One Equals One Spiritually
₋ The most important thing we can learn from marriage is how to be like Jesus
Ephesians 5:25 – "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it."

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III. One Plus One Equals One Spiritually
₋ The most important thing we can learn from marriage is how to be like Jesus
₋ Christ loved the church unconditionally and sacrificially
₋ The aim is to be Christlike

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Proverbs 18:22 – "Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord."