This document discusses God's plan for marriage and family according to the Bible. It argues that marriage was instituted by God from the beginning and is meant to be an honorable union. However, not all marriages live up to this ideal. The document provides guidance for husbands, wives, and children on fulfilling their God-given roles in order to strengthen marriages and bring them closer to God's design. It encourages following Biblical principles of mutual submission, the husband loving and cherishing his wife as Christ loves the church, and the wife respecting her husband. Fulfilling these roles will transform marriages from being unhappy to joyful unions as God intended.

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From Dread-Lock to Wed-Lock!
Gen 2:24 Therefore a man shall
leave his father and mother and
be joined to his wife, and they
shall become one flesh.

4. **0 Truly marriage is a wonderful & beautiful gift, but
not all marriages are what they should & could be!
Heb 13:4 Marriage is honorable among all,
and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and
adulterers God will judge.
●Marriage has been around as long as man
(Gen. 2:18-25) “They were both naked, the man
and & wife!” (Vs.25)
−Adam & Eva were created to be “husband &
wife!”
−This was God’s plan from the very beginning!

5. **0 Unfortunately not all marriages are as
honorable and fulfilling as they were
created to be!
●When there are two imperfect people in a marriage
there will be problems.
−The success or failure of a marriage doesn’t hang
on the fact that there is never a problem, but rather
on how husband & wife deal with the problems!
●I have given this lesson this title for good reason!
−I am sure every married couple in this room
understand what I am talking about!

6. **0 I have known many people that are married,
yet they are far from happily married!
●They may live in the same house, eat at the
same table and file their taxes jointly, but the joy
they once shared has all but gone out!
●The good news is that things can & must get
better!
−God has given us a plan to strengthen our
marriages!
−There are guildlines in His Word that can bring
one’s marriage from dread-lock to wed-lock once
more!

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I. God’s Plan for the Home!
Eph. 5:21-24
●God has always given a structured plan for man!
(Cf. Gen. 4:1-6; 6:9-22)
−There is a right way & wrong way to worship!
–“In spirit” (Jn. 4:23-24)
−There is a right kind & wrong kind of worship!
–“In truth” (Jn. 4:23-24)
●First & foremost husband & wife must be “subject”
to one another! (Eph. 5:21 cf. 1 Cor. 7:1-5)

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The husband is not the
dictator, neither is the wife!
●Now God does tell us how we are to function in the
home!
−Eph 5:22 Wives, submit to your own husbands,
as to the Lord.
–When a wife has failed to submit to her
husband, she has failed to submit to the Lord!
●This does not mean that the wife is inferior, but that
God has set things up in a way that is best for all of
us in the home!
−God’s plan is always better than man’s!

9. **0 Anytime we take it upon ourselves to try and
improve on what God has given we only end up
making a mess!
Pr 14:12 There is a way that seems right to
a man, But its end is the way of death.
●It is foolish to think that we some how are better
qualfied to direct our lives than God!
−Jer 10:23 O LORD, I know the way of man is not in
himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own
steps!
−Jer 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,
declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil,
to give you a future and a hope!

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II. God’s Plan for the Husband!
Eph. 5:23-31
●Being a husband is a great opportunity and I thank
God every day for my wife & my family, but as the
saying goes “with every opportunity, comes great
responsibility!”
●The husband is to be “head of the house” meanings
he is responsible for everyone in the house!
−1Ti 5:8 But if anyone does not provide for his own,
and especially for those of his household, he has
denied the faith and is worse than an unbelieve

11. **0 I would like to ask all the women a question?
If your husband loved you like this would you
submit to him?
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as
Christ also loved the church and gave Himself
for her,
●Husbands are to nourish & cherish her!
−Nourish = provide for her every need, spiritual,
physical and emotional
−Cherish = to protect, greatly love and care for
●Eph 5:29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but
nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the
church.

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III. God’s Plan for the Help-mate!
Eph. 5:21-24
●There is indeed a great deal we can learn from the
first man & first woman!
−Adam was first created and then after noting there
wasn’t anyone for him, God created out of man a
woman to help him! (Gen. 2:18-25)
●I am assure you that God knew what He was doing
when He created a woman to be there to help a man!
−Let us never forget that God knows what is best for
His creation!

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Anytime husband, wife or even child
oversteps their place in the home there will
be trouble!
See. Eph. 6:1-4
●I have seen homes where the children run the
house, I have seen homes where the wife runs the
house and this should not be!
●We must never forget that God knows what is
best for our homes & families!
●The one that designed the home, understand
how it is best suited to function!

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Conclusion:
●Our marriages can be all that God has
designed them to be, when we do things His
way, then we experience His glory!
●If you are here and you are living in dread-
lock, then we hope you will seek to once more
be wed-locked to your wife/husband!
●Have you come to be a part of the Bride of
Christ? Are you looking forward to the
weeding feast of heaven? If not, then why not
come to Jesus tonight?

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