Purpose of Marriage

1) The husband-wife relation represents the bond between you & God: Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 2:24 a) HUSBANDS (symbolic of the role of God) -Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; Ephesians 5:25 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life;... 1 Peter 3:7 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. Colossian 3:19 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. Ephesians 5:28 b) WIFE (symbolic of YOU)- Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Ephesians 5:22,24

2) Parent-child relation represents the one between you and God: a) As a father - Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. Psalm 103:19 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. Proverbs 3:12 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. 2 John 1:4 b) As a mother - As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; Isaiah 66:13

3) Procreation-you have a small hand in the Creation through choosing who to marry and reproduce offspring with: a) Not even the angels get to participate in the Creation to this degree - For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. Matthew 22:30 b) Your choice in who to mate with and how many children to bring into the world is part of the blooming rose of the creation as it encircles the globe - And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. Genesis 9:7