Sermon Notes from Sunday 10.31.10

Here are the sermon notes from today's sermon on Mark 10.1-16.  I tried to take a really vision-painting tack on this text about marriage and divorce.  As always, you can find the notes in PDF and the sermon audio at sermons.heritagepark.org.

Family Matters to Jesus

Mark 10.1-16

Jesus is much more concerned with what God says is right than what man can get away with. 

Covenant

• Throughout the Bible, God relates to His people in covenant.
• This relational covenant has seasons and its ups and downs.
• Covenant is designed to be unbreakable (v.6, 9-11).
• In marriage, my covenant is not only with my spouse, but also with God.

Commitment (v.7)

• This commitment is not like other earthly commitments that tend to be bound by time and resources.
• It is necessary to break of parental bonds to form a new family unit.
• You must make a practice of cleaving first, foremost, finally to your spouse.
• Remember that this is a commitment to God and spouse.

Why Commitment?

• Heaven is a real place.
• God uses trials for our spiritual growth.
• You can’t fix it all.
• You don’t know what the future holds.

Context (v.8) 

• It is in this covenant that intimacy flourishes.
• Apart from this security, intimacy tends to wither.
• Intimacy is not less than the physical union, but it is more.

Children (v.13-16)

• You have a covenant with your children that was established by God when He gave them to you.
• Kids come into this home and are blessed.
• Our part:  lead them to Jesus in example, teaching, shepherding, and blessing.