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This message is a continuation of Dr. Nettleton's message on December 28, 1975.

Scripture Text

Matthew 5:31-32

Main Points or Ideas

Care After Getting Married 

- You lost one kind of freedom to gain a better kind. 

- It is good to be trusted and be able to trust one another in this matter. 

1. Give more emphasis to being the right partner than finding the right partner. 

• Marriage is just as much a matter of being the right person than finding the right person. 

2. Communicate

• The natural reaction is always to defend yourself how apparent the fault may be. 
• Be swift to hear and slow to speak. 
• Everyone will find it difficult to accept criticism graciously. 
• Learn to communicate. 
• A right relationship will depend on good communication. 
3. Worship Together
• Go to the same church - the man should lead 
• Worship in the home together. 
• Families that pray together, stay together 
4. Live and Let Live within the Marriage Relationship
• There are no two people that think exactly alike. 

5. Take Your Scriptural Place 

• Accept your role that is defined for you in the Bible. 
• God’s way is better and happier. 
• God is not cruel but kind, not foolish but wise. 

6. Avoid Two Great Problems 

• Sex and Money 
• We are to practice moderation in all things. 
• Love moderately and live modestly. 
• You will avoid the trouble of indebtedness and arguing about things on the other side and you will find yourselves happy. 

Conclusion

If you sign a marriage contract and give your solemn word orally that you will abide by that partner until death do you part then you solemnly resolve to be a man and a woman of your word no matter what. Once you enter into that binding agreement, you resolve in your heart that no matter what develops you pledged and promised and swore and witnessed in front of others that the idea of divorce will never enter your mind and if it does that by the grace of God you will cast it out.

You should determine to stay together to obey the Word of God, your word of promise to another and your example in front of others. Even if you do have ample cause for divorce, he encourages you to forgive and try to make amends and not divorce.