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Mistreated woman

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6. 1990 2000 2 1900 1 12.7 1940 6 Year Divorces Marriages
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Year
Divorces
Marriages
1900 1
12.7
1940 6
1990
2000 2

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10. “You shall love your neighbor as… yourself.”
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“You shall love your neighbor as… yourself.”
Matthew 22:39

11. I can only give what I have
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The 3:6 Principle
See Acts 3:6
I can only give what I have

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“Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal…”
Philippians 3:13,14

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17. “I will praise You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made”
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“I will praise You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made”
Psalm 139:14

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20. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?”
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“Tell me, what do you have in the house?”
2 Kings 4:2

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23. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
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“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
Philippians 4:13

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25. “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love”
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“Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love”
Jeremiah 31:3

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29. “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
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“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Matthew 22:39

30. “And who is my neighbor?”
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“And who is my neighbor?”
Luke 10:29,36,37

31. Far Away Neighbor!

32. Next Door Neighbor

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“So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.”
Ephesians 5:28

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39. not to please ourselves.” Romans 15:1
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“We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and
not to please ourselves.” Romans 15:1

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41. “For even Christ did not please Himself”
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“For even Christ did not please Himself”
(Romans. 15: 3)

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44. If my spouse is my first neighbor, my child is my second neighbor!
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If my spouse is my first neighbor, my child is my second neighbor!

45. While my spouse is my “second self”, my child is my “third self”!
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While my spouse is my “second self”, my child is my “third self”!
“Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh”!

46. The Lord’s Prayer illustrates our love relationship. I say to God:
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The Lord’s Prayer
illustrates our
love relationship.
I say to God:
“My Father.”
My child says to me:
“My father.”
My child says to God:
Therefore my child and I are brothers and sisters!

47. “Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.”
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God advises:
“Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.”
Colossians 3:21

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“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.”
Matthew 22:37

50. In the beginning God Created Our World
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In the beginning God Created Our World

51. Size of our Milky Way Galaxy is And there are millions of galaxies!
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Size of our Milky Way Galaxy is
100,000 light years!
Speed of light is
186,282 miles per second!
186,282x60x60x24x365 =
5,874 billion miles a year!
So, 100,000 light years is
587,458,000,000,000,000 miles!
That’s only one galaxy!
And there are millions of galaxies!
There is a God in heaven!

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Then God Made Marriage

53. Since God manufactured marriage, He knows about its maintenance!
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Since God manufactured marriage,
He knows about its maintenance!

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58. If you invite Christ into your home, He’ll turn your
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If you invite Christ into your home,
He’ll turn your
Water into wine!
Challenges into victories!
Sadness into gladness!

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61. Love myself. Love my spouse better than myself. 3. Love my child
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Love myself.
Love my spouse
better than
myself.
3. Love my child
as part of myself
4. Love God best
of all.

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63. The Happy Family “Happy the home when God is there, And love fills
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The Happy Family
“Happy the home
when God is there,
And love fills
every breast;
When one their wish
and one their prayer,
And one their
heavenly rest.”
Henry Ware

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All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the NEW KING JAMES VERSION. Copyright  1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations designated by NIV are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright  1973, 1978,1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

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Happy Family Bible Seminars has been created for the glory of God, through the grace of Christ, by inspiration of the Holy Spirit

67. Authors: Gordon & Waveney Martinborough
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