Ephesians 5:30

"Because we are members (parts) of His body." Ephesians 5:30

We've got to stay in this thought of one body for a while with Paul, as he brings all this together, in a beautiful picture. These references to being one body are about Christians more than they are about wedding vows. Ideally, if you are married, I hope you were both Christians when you married... chances are, you already knew of this oneness. Not only in marriage but before... when you both were just Christians, you were you already one "in Christ". I believed in God, when I married, but my wife and I were neither one "trusting in, nor relied upon" Christ, so we were not Christians. When one or the other surrenders to the Lord's way, and turns from their way to live and accepts His way, it will either separate you from your spouse, or bring the other person into a saving faith also... but "you" immediately become part of a new family... a member or part of His body. Until your spouse is saved... I don't mean "prayed the prayer", but truly repentant and surrendering to Christ, like you... you are not one.

I don't know how the Holy ceremony of being married ever left the responsibility of the church, because it is a "holy" ceremony... but it did. So, you can be sure that no matter where you get married, that if you are not both Christians, you have not become one. "What is bound on earth is bound in heaven" is a promise to Christians and has nothing to do with a certificate. It is however more closely associated with the first time a male and female Christian have sex. Scientists to this day, cannot agree why a woman bleeds the first time she has sex, but a Christian understands the relationship of "Blood Covenant". When you lay down together in sexual relations with one another, the bible says it is suppose to be inside the marriage and God MEANS IT! For two Christians, the blood of the woman is suppose to be a sign of the covenant just made between the husband and his Creator over the new relationship. There are rare occasions when something prevents this strange event, however, it is meant as a "seal" in other-words! It's been many years since I sat in a church that rightly teaches this, but that doesn't mean it no longer is true! Keeping along this same thought of being one in the body of Christ, we move into another consideration between the family ties in marriage... the bridge between Mom and Dad to Husband and Wife.

Let's pick up with Ephesians verse 5:31 next time.

I love you.