1. The Family Foundation - Marriage Family Matters Genesis 2:18-25

2. 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

3. Traditional Marriage Unnecessary? Genesis 2 – Created by God

4. Why did God create marriage?

5. Intimacy Genesis 2:25 – And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

6. Security Malachi 2:15 – 15 Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.

7. Testimony Ephesians 5:32 – This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.

8. Deceptions to Destroy The Family Foundation

9. The Cohabitation Lie Deuteronomy 22:21-22 – 21 then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father's house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. 22 “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

10. The Divorce Lie Malachi 2:15-16 – 15 Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. 16 “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the L ORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the L ORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

11. The Homosexuality Lie Leviticus 18:22 – You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

12. The Homosexuality Lie Romans 1:25-27 – 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

13. The Homosexuality Lie 1 Peter 2:11 – Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

14. The Homosexuality Lie Isaiah 1:18 – “Come now, let us reason together, says the L ORD : though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”

15. Honor Marriage Hebrews 13:4 – Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

16. Protect Your Children Deuteronomy 6:6-7 – 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

17. Model Marriage 1 Peter 2:15 – For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.

18. The Truth - Marriage is the Foundation for Family. "The Truth Will Set You Free."