Romance is the fuel that feeds the flames of passion and love. Romance is the yearning of the young heart and the ambition of the aged. Romance is the key that turns the lock of loneliness and liberates the secrets of the soul. Listen in as we uncover the mystery of romance from the pages of the Bible.
Ephesians 5: 31,32 and Genesis 2: 23,24
In the beginning, God gathered the dust of the ground, shaped the body of a man, and breathed into him the incredible breath of life. Then from man God made one of His most intriguing creations, woman. Together the two made an amazing union, as they became husband and wife. This was a match defined by the most powerful emotions in the known to man: love, passion, and romance. So this is how it all it began, a story where these same emotions perfected would redeem mankind from sin, despair, and an eternity in the flames of Hell. This is the Mystery of Romance…
In creating man, the feeling of loneliness was realized. This is not just a feeling of no one to talk to, but a deep loneliness for sharing. It became clear that man needed a companion of his equal, a person to share his life with. He needed a person who he could trust with all his hopes, dreams, and aspirations; a person he could become uninhibited in his vulnerability with. God looked down at His creation of man and saw this deep need, and went into action.
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
Genesis 2: 18
The great Creator put Adam to sleep and from his rib made a new creature, a women. As Adam woke, his eyes were filled with the most amazing thing he had ever seen, and the feeling of love with all it passion of romance was conceived. This is a love that transcends just friendship, it was a love between a man and his wife, a lifetime commitment of togetherness, two lives became one.
They would become best friends, to share every moment of life’s experiences with. Adam had a person to care for. They would know each other like no one else in the world could ever know.
With one creative act, God solved the problem of loneliness with the invention of the bond of marriage. Two lives intertwined in ways that are designed to fulfill natural needs for companionship and intimacy.
And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the man, made he woman, and brought her unto the man.
Genesis 2: 21-22
Nevertheless, the devil would deceive us with cheap, ugly replacements for the beautiful design of holiness in marriage.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
I Corinthians 6: 18
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
I Corinthians 6: 9,10
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt commit adultery: but I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hat committed adultery with already in his heart.
Matthew 5: 27,28
God created passion, desire, and romance when he made man and woman. Eve was pursued by Adam from the moment he laid eyes on her. He found her the best the flowers he could find, told her the sweetest things he could think of, and held her in tenderest ways he could! Romance was born into the world.
Christ has engaged in the pursuit of love for poor undeserving sinners. He left the splendors of Heaven to pursue a love for you. Just like a caring father would ask for the intentions of suitor for his daugther. His intentions are clear as he pursues us with kindness, love, and mercy. His question echos the couple in love as He on bended knee asks, “Will you be mine? Can I have your heart? Will you give me you?
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins.
I John 4: 10
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Romans 5: 6
In Genesis 3, the happily ever after for Adam and Eve was short-lived as we read about the fall of man when Eve ate of the forbidden fruit.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
Genesis 3: 6
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
I Timothy 2: 14
It is the story of the Gospel and an unbelievable act of forgiveness and love as Adam went with his wife in full knowledge of the consequences. This a love that prompts you stay together no matter what, paints a unmistakable scene of the love that Jesus has for the Church.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
II Corinthians 5: 21
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to unto the LORD.
Genesis 4: 1-3
Eve had babies and everything changed!
Kids are great for family, not so great for marriage.
In Genesis chapter 4 a happy family is broken by sin.
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Able his brother, and slew him.
Genesis 4: 8
Life in the world can throw unexpected things, that hinder your pursuit of each other. For example, Our first child was stillborn. We went to the hospital with all the other expecting couples, but left with empty arms.
It is in these times that your faith in God is really put to the test.
Your faith is not measured on the mountain tops, but by your response in the valley.
In Genesis 2 God had a higher purpose in mind when He created marriage, it was the plan of redemption of mankind. One day there would come a Savoir into this world who love and die for the Church. It was not just about Adam and Eve, but about Christ and the Church.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.
Ephesians 5: 25
Your marriage is about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is not making you happy, but about the story of redemption to this lost and dying world. This is the mystery, that marriage and love is really about the story of redemption. It is not about you, its about and eternal God with a message or hope, forgiveness and eternal life.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 3:16
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
Genesis 1: 27, 28a
Romance produces babies.
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby carriage. Your kids are the direct result of your love for each other. God designed love and marriage to produce more creatures in His image.
Babies are the results of healthy marriage relationship.
A healthy relationship with the Lord will produce more new creatures in His image.
Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature: old things are passed away and all things are become new.
II Corinthians 5:17
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matthew 28:19
When we are right with Him, we have the right faith in Him, the Gospel is propagated into this World. God might do more, if we just believed that He would. The Gospel has not changed and definitely has not lost its power, but we have. If you have a week puny faith and relationship with the Lord, no wonder you have no “babies” in the Gospel!
In the later part of Genesis chapter 4 everything in the first love story in the Bible came full circle.
And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
Genesis 4: 25,26
The mystery of romance is the story of redemption, grace, and the Church!
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